EXCLUSIVE: DC’s Cuba Activists Celebrate Regime-Backed Art Project While Cubans Suffer
WASHINGTON — Activists on Thursday recounted painting a “solidarity” art mural in Cuba with the communist government’s assistance. Leftist group Code Pink hosted speakers at K Street’s Busboys and Poets restaurant to…
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About Busboys and Poets
Busboys and Poets is a full-service restaurant, bar, bookstore, coffee shop, and events venue in the Washington, D.C. area, founded in 2005 by Andy Shallal. The original Busboys and Poets is located at 14th & V streets in the U Street Corridor of Washington, D.C. There are now eight locations in the DMV: a second location opened in Shirlington, Virginia, in 2007; a third location opened in DC's Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood in 2008; a fourth in Hyattsville, Maryland, opened in July 2011; a fifth opened in the Takoma neighborhood on Valentine's Day in 2015; a sixth at D.C.'s Brookland neighborhood opened on New Year's Eve in 2016; a seventh location opened in D.C.'s Anacostia neighborhood in early 2019; and an eighth location opened in Columbia, Maryland, in late 2021. A further location is planned for Reagan National Airport.
Everything about Busboys and Poets →- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- Washington, D.C.
- Inception
- 2005
- Website
- https://www.busboysandpoets.com/