Downtown
Dining
Chelsee's Coffee Shop
533 N. Trade Street
Phone: 703-1503
Hours: M-W 7 a.m.-8 p.m.
Thurs. and Fri. 7 a.m.-10 p.m.
Sat. 9 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Features gourmet coffees,
pastries.
Twin City Coffee
8 W. 3rd Street, Main Street
Entrance
Phone: 703-9850
Hours: M-F 7 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Features European desserts,
quiche, croissants, coffees, choco
lafp rnnHtes
Auction House Bar &
Grill
(In the Sawtooth Building)
226 N. Marshall Street
Phone: 722-9005
Hours: M-Th. 10 a.m.-lO p.m.,
F-Sat. 10 a.m.-2 a.m.
Sunday brunch: 10 a.m.- 3 p.m.
Features gourmet deli lunches
and fine evening dining.
Ollie's Bakery
300 S. Marshall Street
Phone: 727.0404
Hours: Tu.-Fri. 7 a.m.- 5:30
p.m., Sat. 8 a.m.- 5 p.m.. Sun. 8
a.m.- 4 p.m.
Features artisan breads,
fine pastries, coffee.
Tokyo Shapiro
215 W. 4th Street
? *. H Phone:7725-4444
Hours: M-Sat. 10:30 a.m.-6:30
p.m.
Features Asian foods.
Bon Appetite
101 W. 4th Street
Phone: 722-4222
Hours: M-F 7 a.m.-8 p.m.
Features breakfast, lunch
buffet, dinner.
The Bayberry at The
Hawthorne Inn
420 High Street
Phone: 777-3000
Hours: M-S 6:30 a.m.
10 p.m.
Features breakfast
standards/lunch buffet/fine dining
in evenings, Sunday brunch.
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Jazz is the official language at Speakeasy
BYT. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE 1
Speakeasy Jazz won't turn
one-year-old until October, but it
has already won over a loyal fan
base that not only wants - but has
come to expect - some of the best
music offered in these parts.
The club has settled in nicely
along a stretch of Fourth Street
that quirky eateries and the
Stevens Center also call home.
Hypnotic notes from Speakeasy
have charmed those who come
downtown to watch movies fea
tured in the Films on Fourth series
or to enjoy the popular Friday out
door concerts.
Co-owners Connie Graham
and Heidi Andrew have been life
long fans of jazz. They have been
frequent guests at jazz clubs in
larger cities.
"We used to go to jazz clubs
all the time in California, and we
knew there was nothing like that
Ph<t??> by Kevin Walker
Speakeasy owners Connie Graham and Heidi Andrew pose in their Fourth Street club.
here, and we really did not want to
go back to a desk job, so we
thought, 'What the heck, let's try
to open one,"' Andrew said.
There is no mistake that
Speakeasy is a place where jazz is
played. The space has all the jazz
club trimmings, from the small
stage tucked into a corner, to the
rows of tiny black and steel tables
and chairs that expand the length
of the room, to the retro-looking
bar that's centered among it all.
Intimacy was a must, Graham
said.
"All the big names in jazz per
formed in small, intimate spots,
and that is what we wanted to
?shave," she said.
Popular local jazz artists such
as Joe Robinsqn, Cle Thompson
and Charles Greene have all called
the Speakeasy stage home. The
club welcomes the many styles
that fall under the jazz label, and
often a bit of blues is thrown into
the mix.
"I think the variety of the style
of jazz is refreshing to people....Ft
is hard to wear it out." Graham
said.
The two women also credit
jazz for the eclectic crowds that
come to Speakeasf;eacfti ight.
"(Jazz) bridges all age groups,
ethnicities, and financial groups,"
Andrew said. "That is one of the
neat things about this club: We get
such a cross of people in all of
those categories."
Speakeasy's instant success
has allowed the women to hire a
small staff. They are planning to
bring on some extra help during
the National Black Theatre Festi
val. The club also plans to expand
its food menu a bit during the fes
tival. .^1
Speakeasy is open every night,
so owners hope that night owls
will stumble in after plays end.
"We want to provide some
thing for folks who are looking for
stuff to do in the late H.burs," Gra
ham said.
O
On Aug. 8. Speakeasy will
host an all-night jazz open mike
Jam session. The all night session
will begin after a Joe Robinson
concert that night. Everyone is
invited to bring instruments to
take part in the jam session.
Family disagreement is focus of actress
Joyce Sylvester's play 'Faith on the Line'
C HRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Joyce Sylvester wore her acting hat the
last time she came to the^National Black
Theatre Festival. She waVfhe lady in red.
Annie Talhert. in the 2001 Samm-Art
Williams play "The Dance on Widow's
Row."
This time around. Sylvester comes to the
NBTF as director and playwright of "Faith
on the Line." The play focuses on an
African-American family struggling over
issues that arise when the family inherits a
Harlem Ijrownstone. Disagreements about
what to do with the building arise between
four siblings over whether or not to sell the
property or hold onto it as a symbol of the
family's heritage. Gentrification of black
communities is an underlying theme in
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t t
"Faith on the Line."
The dramatie com
edy is being billed as a
"battle cry" that will
touch the hearts of
audience members and
enlighten them. The
v Ensemble east of "Faith
on the Line" includes
both veterans and new
comer*. The play had a
successful l()-weekrun
at the Billie Holiday
Sylvester
Theatre in Brooklyn. The play is produced
by Marjoric Moon, who received the Larry
Leon Hamlin Producer Award at the 1999
NBTF. Moon also has produced Sylvester's
other plays. "Mercedes" and "Grace in the
Light." both of which were read at the NBTF.