Article in Cambridge Day on MAN RAY, CANTAB (Club Bohemia)

 

 

Demolition in 2005 at ManRay on Brookline Street in Central Square. The photographer is unknown.

Returns of Cambridge institutions are in the works: The Cantab Lounge is on the License Commission’s agenda Wednesday with proposed new management, and there’s chatter online that the People’s Republik bar will reopen – possibly as soon as July, if licensing issues can be worked out – as New Republik, taking over the Inman Square space that once held The Rising sports bar. Its Mid-Cambridge site closed permanently in February, ending a run begun in the 1990s; the Cantab looked dead in July after 82 years of beer, music and poetry.

But perhaps the biggest news is that Don Holland is seeking to resurrect his legendary ManRay nightclub at 40 Prospect St., Central Square, a space the ImprovBoston comedy club vacated in November under financial pressure from the extended coronavirus lockdown.

 https://www.cambridgeday.com/2021/06/07/possible-revival-of-manray-club-after-16-years-leads-signs-of-hope-from-wreckage-of-covid-19/