All Sports are Political!

Posted July 29th, 2010 by Busboys and Poets

Our favorite sports journalist Dave Z was at Busboys last night. There was a crowd in the Langston Room last night who joined in conversation with Dave Zirin about his new book BAD SPORTS.

Dave is one of our favorite activist-journalist-sports commentator-general good guy! If you don’t know him PLEEEEEEEEEZE get to know him! He does a show called Edge of Sports on XM radio and is one of the most down to earth guys you could ever meet.

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Fabulous weekend of events!

Posted July 28th, 2010 by busboys

This past weekend we hosted some great events, the “HOWL” In The City performances were a great success, and the bus trip to the Contemporary American Theater Festival was a wonderful cultural get-away!

The “new” Cullen room at 5th and K was the perfect venue for Anne Waldman to bring Allen Ginsberg’s ground breaking poem HOWL to life! Each of the three performances were sold out and the finale concert pushed the room to well over capacity – allowing over 200 guests to be treated to intimate performances by Kyp Malone (of TV on the radio) and local phenom Matthew Hemerlein. –check out the review at http://www.scene4.com/karrenlalondealenier/2010/07/howling_in_the_nations_capital.html

In case you didn’t know…this weekend’s bus trip to West Virginia was the 4th bus trip sponsored by Busboys! The bus left from the 14th Street location and transported 17 theater enthusiasts to one of the premier theater festivals in the country – The Contemporary American Theater Festival — where we were recognized as special guests by the festival director, at two of the festivals’ 5 plays: Lidless (by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig ) and White People (by J.T. Rogers). Each of the performances was followed by provocative discussions with the playwright and director. It was a great way to spend a Saturday!

Find video footage of “Howl” in City on the Busboys and Poets YouTube Channel!|

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Happy Birthday Malcolm X

Posted May 19th, 2010 by Busboys and Poets

Busboys and Poets commemorates the life of Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) Civil Rights Activist, orator, author, father, revolutionary. Had Malcolm X (also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) lived he would have turned 85 years today.

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