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Big Chair Coffee and Grill has reopened. It has, in fact, been back in business since December when owner Ayehubizu Yimenu and her brother and manager Bantamlak Yimenu revamped the place. Since resuming control over Big Chair from manager Michael Sterling, who had subleased the shop for a year, the siblings have tinkered with the menu. In December, they offered both Jamaican and Ethiopian dishes, the former a nod to Sterling's legacy and the latter a nod to Yimenu's heritage.



Just this week, though, Big Chair dropped the Jamaica accent.

"It is costly," Bantamlak Yimenu said today, sitting at a two-top inside the reborn coffee shop and grill. "The spices and all that stuff [are costly]. Not only that, the cook is expensive."



"Frederick Lamp, curator of African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art, examined similar caches from Charles Carroll House, also in historic Annapolis. He says that their positions in northeast corners and under hearths suggest a consistent, ritual use of the objects. He notes that white stones were used in shrines in West Africa to venerate ancestors" Voodoo holds that spirits like to go up and down chimneys.

"Stones of fire(Ezekiel 28:14,16)...burning fiery furnace...no hurt...the fourth is like the Son of God(Daniel 3:23-26)...lively stones(1 Peter 2:5)...feet like fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace(Revelation 1:15)"

Bochio (and another and another and another and another) versus Poppet dolls, two doll types roughly corresponding to African Voudon versus western Voodoo or a third category of Hoodoo.