Calling All Artists! Display Your Artwork on Consignment!

With the holiday season fast approaching, the General Store Café would like to sell unique, locally made, specialty gift items. If you make soaps, candles, pottery, greeting cards, jewelry, glass blown items, etc---we want to talk to you! We have already set up our "cozy nook" in the back that is ready and waiting to sell retail items. Our mantle and new hutch are ready to display your artwork! In addition, we would like to show off the talent of our creative Chatham county artists by exhibiting artwork on our walls. Please drop in and talk to Joyce or Vance about selling your artwork on consignment or you can email them at joyce@thegeneralstorecafe.com or vance@thegeneralstorecafe.com

Halloween Contest Winner!

The Winner of our first Annual Halloween Costume Contest was Janet, dressed in her ghoulish Halloween garb. She wins a dinner for two and two minutes of fame! We're looking forward to a fierce competition next year!

Chatham Artist Burrito Bash! - Wednesday, November 13!

It'll be a lot of fun, and besides do you really feel like cooking dinner on Wednesday night, when we'll be open??!!! Come on out and support your local Chatham County Art Council!

Coming Soon - Saturday Brunches!!!

We will soon be having regular Saturday Brunches from 10am-3pm featuring signature omelets, breakfast burritos, Belgium waffles, quiches, salads, and fresh fruit. Just to give you a taste - doesn't just the thought of a wild mushroom Gruyere cheese omelet make your mouth water?

Outdoor seating Available!

Better late than Never! Enjoy the fresh autumn air while munching on your lunch at our new umbrella tables!

This week's music selection!

What a treat! We have some phenomenal musicians at the store this week!

Thursday November 7, Mahlon's Jazz series presents: Frank Gratkowski, solo and duos with Ian Davis

As a result of the hard work of Walter Davis of the Alliance for Improvised Music, Frank Gratkowski, a widely respected reedman and composer is visiting the General Store Café from Cologne, Germany. Frank, an esteemed composer, plays alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, and flute. He will perform both solo and duo.

Beginning the saxophone at age 16, studying at the Cologne Conservatory of Music, Frank has been giving solo performance since 1990 throughout Europe, Canada, and the USA. Currently he gives workshops and teaches saxophone and ensembles in Cologne, Hannover, and at the Berlin Conservatories of Music.

Ian Davis began his music career as an R&B drummer in the Beaufort, SC group, The Barons and Blood. He played fusion in the 70's, alt-pop in the mid 80's, improvisational music in the late 80's, and in the 90's he played with Blue Chair, Mind Sirens, Bicentennial Quarters, Trailer Bride, Chris Stamey/Kirk Ross, and the North Carolina Jazz Ensemble. In 1995, he moved to the Bay Area, where he played with the Scott Rosenberg/Matt Ingalls large improvising ensemble Micro Collective Orchestra, forming Micro-East Collective when he returned to the Triangle.

Friday November 8, Bill and Libby Hicks

"Combining their passion for traditional music with their love for each other, Bill and Libby Hicks might be the best husband/wife duo in the entire genre. Bill's nimble fiddling perfectly complements his wife's guitar strums, and their voices meld to create haunting harmonies." ...MSN Citysearch 3/15/01

Bill and Libby have been mainstays of the NC traditional music scene since the 1970s. Bill Hicks is a founding member of the Red Clay Ramblers, fiddling, singing, writing, and recording with them through their first decade. Performing with his wife Libby since 1982, the two have had plenty of time to merge minds and styles and have developed a simpatico duet style on fiddle, guitar and keyboard that often makes people check to see if it really is only two people playing. In the past 10 years, along with performing and playing for dances, they have turned their attention to passing along the fun of old-time music. On several occasions they been on the staff of the Augusta Heritage Workshops on the campus of Davis and Elkins College in WVA, teaching musicians from all over the world about the distinguishing points of southern Appalachian fiddle and guitar styles and old-time string band singing. Last year they were the staff musicians at the National Storytelling Conference in Kingsport, Tennessee.

Saturday November 9, ESP

"ESP defies categorization. An acoustic trio with an exceptionally historic quality." -- Guy L'Hoste, Manager, Lamb's Coffeehouse, Durham
ESP takes its name from its members: Emerson, Smith & Phelps. Natives of North Carolina, the three met 10 years ago playing at public jam sessions held at local guitar shops and bookstores. Each with his own love of acoustic traditional music, come together to create a rich mixture of old time music. Emerson's music is rooted in country and bluegrass, Smith's in traditional American folk, and Phelps' in Delta/Southern blues and Appalachian fiddle tunes. Influenced by different tastes, they meld together an unforgettable acoustic sound, attempting to perform in the same uncluttered style as the great string music artists of an earlier time.

Come in and Experience Our NEW Local Specialty Food Items for Sale!

• "Breadshop" bread loaves
• Counter culture coffee (regular and decaf)
• Fresh honey
• General Store Café Salsa

We are now featuring daily lunch and dinner specials. Please stop by see what is available as the menu will be changing day-to-day while we try out new and exciting flavors.

In additions to the lunch specials, we also offer three different kinds of quiches, and our daily soup. Every day we will be offering a selection of 3-4 specials. The following list provides a guide to the southwestern inspired dishes that make up some of our specials this month :

• Cheese & Jalapeno Tamale
• Chicken Tamale
• Brunch Burrito (herb roasted pototoes, red peppers, scrambled eggs, cheese, and green chili sauce)
• Eggplant Parmesan Sandwich (yummy!)
• Catfish Sandwich with homemade tarter
• Palak Paneer (currried spinich and fried tofu w/basmati rice, pita and tzatiki sauce)
• Potato Taquitos
• Chicken Taquitos
• Guacomole Tostada
• Veggie Quesadillas (mushrooms, tomatores, onions,jalapenos)
• Chicken Quesadillas
• Sopes (handmade corn tortillas) with queso fresco, onions, and jalapeno salsa
• Portabello Mushroom Sandwich (with roasted red peppers, red onions, smoked mozzeralla and dijion on fresh poppy kaiser)
• Spinach Quesadilla
• Southwestern corn medley Quesadilla
• Chili Roasted Chicken with baked pasta
• Chile Rellenos (stuffed with queso fresco)
• Chicken Lasagna with house salad
• Zucchini and Corn Medley with sour cream and cheese served with black beans, basmati rice, and tortillas
• Beef Taquitos

How are we doing?

The General Store Café appreciates any feedback, suggestions or comments you may have as to how we can fulfill your expectations. Suggestion cards will be available at the counter within a week, or you can send them via email to info@thegeneralstorecafe.com . Your comments are important, please allow 24-48 hours to receive a response.

Share your literary talents with your fellow "Pittsburians"! - All Ages Welcome!

In keeping with the characteristics of a General Store, it is our hope that this newsletter can expand to showcase the literary talents of our local community. Perhaps you have a poem, or a thanksgiving prayer that we can share? Please submit any poems, comic strips, short stories, commentaries, etc. that you would like to share to info@thegeneralstorecafe.com . We plan to include literary pieces will be included on the newsletter and the website.

Coming Soon - www.GeneralStoreCafe.com !

With eager anticipation, we are proud to announce that within a few weeks, we will be launching our website! Soon you will be able to login to see our daily specials, musical guests, and upcoming events and updates at the click of a button.

Traditionally, a general store has been a local meeting place or a trading post, providing both necessities and information for its' patrons. In keeping with the spirit of a general store, it is our hope that this website can enhance these characteristics that make the café so unique in today's impersonal business world. The website will include a community forum to allow a space for thoughts, reflection, and conversation, as well as act as an old fashion trading post, where users will be able to post things for sale, wanted, or lost/found, etc. In addition to this forum, we would like to include any literary talents of our fellow neighbors, all ages welcomed. Please submit any poems, comic strips, short stories, political commentaries, etc. that you would like to share to info@thegeneralstorecafe.com . Literary Pieces will be included on both newsletter and website

The final word!

The General Store Café appreciates all feedback, suggestions, or comments. Send your suggestions and comments via email to info@thegeneralstorecafe.com

The café is open Mon-Friday 7:30am-3pm, serving lunch 11:30-2:30. Saturday 8am-2:30 pm. We reopen Thurs.-Sat. nights serving dinner from 6:30-9pm, with live music from 9pm-10:30pm. Sunday we rest.

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