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Mon, Aug 03
|Busboys and Poets
Lectures on Tap is coming to DC!
Time & Location
Aug 03, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20009, USA
About the event
Professors, experts, and storytellers giving thought-provoking lectures in DC bars.
📍 Location: Exact address given in confirmation email
🧠 Lecture: "The Joker’s Guide to How to Be a Man"
🎤 Speaker: Dr. Luxx Mishou
Join us for a wickedly smart evening as Dr. Luxx Mishou asks: Batman’s Joker is a bad guy, but is he truly a bad guy? For 86 years, the Joker has evolved from his 1940 debut in Batman No. 1 into a global media icon—shifting from Cesar Romero’s campy clown to Jack Nicholson’s gangster, Heath Ledger’s anarchist, and Joaquin Phoenix’s damaged loner. Each version reflects changing ideas about what it means to be a man.