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After McIntyre performed, Crystal Johnson, a published poet from the Black Out Arts Collective, took the stage, half-singing, half-reading two poems with such striking, dramatic lines as, “are we Feng Shui or Sinn Fein?” and “I don’t ever want to be Barbie, and brother you can never be Ken.” An obvious crowd favorite, Johnson, a Cambridge grade school teacher by day, nonchalantly shrugged off the effort it took for her to come out and perform gratis, saying, “I like...
...When they finally let him do it, he went wild and painted the whole place red,” says Nils Johnson, who now manages the bar. The establishment was transformed into a place of counterculture for which leaving means “exile”—as a sign above the door suggests...
...There’s a guy who drinks in here who just arrived with that bomb one day,” Johnson says, gesturing proudly toward the scale model of a missile (or is it a torpedo?) balanced on a ledge over the window. “There’s not too many people who show up with a bomb replica at a bar for aesthetic amusement,” Johnson says. The bomb is long and gray and more than enough to frighten away the uncertain customer...
...Some people sit down and don’t really know what’s going on and say, ‘What’s up with all the propaganda and stuff?’” Johnson says. “You can kind of play with them.” He says some Eastern European visitors have remarked the place reminds them of home...
...There are just some things you can’t put up,” Johnson explains...