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By Travis Irby
Staff writer
F ood and family are often inter
twined, but the Cerones have
taken the concept a bit further.
After graduating from Texas A&M two
and a half years ago, Rami Cerone
opened up Cafe Capri in downtown
Bryan, specializing in Italian cuisine,
hoping to create some of the same
success his father Giovanni enjoyed in
cities such as Dallas and Waco.
Rami Cerone said he was unsure if
he wanted to follow in his father’s
footsteps.
“I had worked in restaurants since I
was a kid,” Cerone said, “so I wasn’t sure
I wanted to have a restaurant, even
though I wanted my own business.”
He also said Cafe Capri has be
come a success since its inception,
drawing crowds ranging form stu
dents to professionals.
“I was real unsure if it would work
out,” Cerone said, “but the response
has been incredible.”
He said Cafe Capri has received
a mixture of the date and profes
sional crowds.
"On the weekdays we’ll get the
business people and weekends will
draw the college crowd,” Cerone said.
His father Giovanni, owner of sever
al restaurants, decided to follow his son
into downtown Bryan.
The elder Cerone started Mr. G’s
Pizzeria just a few blocks from his
son’s restaurant.
Cerone said he was impressed by
the success of his son.
“I saw he was doing quite well, and
I thought the family could be closer,”
he said.
Cerone said Mr. G’s specializes in
bringing authentic pizza to customers.
“I always use fresh ingredients;
nothing is ever frozen,” he said.
“Many pizza places freeze some part
of the pizza and that affects the over
all taste.”
Cerone said his philosophy of fresh
ness is paying off.
“Once I have a customer,” Cerone
said, “I have them for life.”
Family is important to Giovanni
Cerone. A native of Italy, he came
to America in 1980 with his wife
Houda, a native of Lebanon, and
their children.
Cerone is truly a global citizen; he
has been all over the world and speaks
several languages. He said he feels he
can never leave America.
“I have come to see this country as
home, I have family and business in
terests here,” Cerone said. “We’ll vaca
tion in Europe, but this is our home.”
The Cerones said they feel com
fortable enough in the Bryan-College
Station area to add a third eatery to
their edible empire.
In July of 1997, the family bought
C^nare and re-created the restaurant.
Houda Cerone, who runs Cenare, said
the goal of this restaurant was to bring
classical dining to the area.
“We wanted a nice place, where
people could conduct business or
have a romantic meal,” she said.
She said the restaurant has been
praised by its diners.
“1 have people come up to me all
the time and say this is the best meal
they have ever had,” Cerone said.
Surprisingly, Giovanni Cerone said
he had not planned to get into the
restaurant business.
He was a lawyer, but when he came
to this country he noticed a lack of
quality Italian food.
"I saw the Italian chain restau
rants and thought ‘that is not Ital
ian food,”’ he said. “I was not a
chef, but I loved to cook, so I
opened my first restaurant.”
Cerone said he did not realize that
when he opened the first restaurant,
he was opening a future for his first
born. He said he did not think Rami
would go into the restaurant business,
but is pleased at the results.
Giovanni Cerone also has two
daughters, but he is not sure if they
will go into the gourmet game.
“I don’t know if they will go into the
restaurant business, but I said the
same thing about Rami,” Cerone said.
Entertainment Briefs
Daytime-soap star released on bail
after his arrest for drug possession
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP)
— Police stopped Jordan
Clarke of “Guiding Light”
for driving at night with his
headlights off and arrest
ed him and his wife on
drug possession charges.
Police said they found
crack cocaine, powdered
cocaine and free-basing
equipment in Clarke’s car
early Thursday.
Clarke, 48, was re
leased on $5,000 bail.
His wife, Valerie Clarke,
55, was freed on
$3,000 bail.
Clarke plays alco
holic Billy Lewis on the
soap opera.
Famed rock musician turned actor
displays talent in two new films
NEW
YORK
(AP) —
Jon Bon
Jovi’s al
ready
had the
scream
ing fans.
He
turned Bon Jovi
to act
ing, he says, because he
needed a hobby.
Bon Jovi, the front man
of the band bearing his
name, made his movie de
but three years ago and
appears in The Leading
Man, which opened last Fri
day and No Looking Back,
which opens this Friday.
“I’m no Daniel Day-
Lewis or Sean Penn,” Bon
Jovi told The New York
Times in Sunday’s edi
tions. “I’m a studying actor.
That’s all I can attest to.”
In The Leading Man,
Bon Jovi plays an American
movie star who seduces
the wife of a British play
wright. In No Looking Back,
he plays a small-town blue-
collar guy whose girlfriend
doesn’t want to marry him.
“Unlike a lot of rock
stars who’ve tried to act,
it’s not an affected perfor
mance,” said Edward
Burns, the director of No
Looking Back, “Jon doesn’t
feel the need to try and act.
It’s very still and internal.”
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April
Towery
W staff writer
R eturning from Spring
Break vacation does not
necessarily mean return
ing to responsibilities.
As the holidays wind down,
students, as always, filter into
Bryan-College Station one by
one on Sunday afternoon.
Some even wait until Monday
morning. And conversations in
classes this week will no doubt
go something like this:
Question: “How was your
Spring Break?”
Answer: “Not long enough.”
Grow up. Never again will we be given the op
portunity to take this much time away from the
daily grind of school and work. In the real world,
no one gets a month off for Christmas or a week
off for Spring Break.
And instead of using this time productively,
students went to the beach in order to get a tan
or they got drunk. Why do students not use this
time wisely and actually get something done?
This week, many students will be complaining
that they have “so much to do.” Maybe they
should have thought of that before they took off
for a week of useless pursuits.
This past week could have been used to get in
some extra hours at work or get ahead on a pro
ject that is coming up.
And it’s not just Spring Break when time is
wasted. Students constantly complain about hav
ing so much to do, but constantly spend their
time in bars or watching television. And there will
come a time when getting wasted on a Tuesday
night is just not an option.
The decisions we make during our college
years will affect the rest of our lives. We can de
cide now to be mature and responsible, or we can
decide to party.
It may determine our character in the future. If
we waste time now and get used to partying con
stantly, it prevents us from learning more, which
is what we’re here to do.
I’ve heard plenty of students sit in class and
say, “I just need a D for a diploma.” Far be it from
me to expect a 4.0 from anyone, but those who
are not even trying have no place at Texas A&M.
My older sister is a recreation, parks and tourism
sciences major.
Please see Break on Page 4.
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Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America
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Scpiimu Cfarfi
An Evening with Sonia Sanchez
Professor and activist.
Temple University
Wednesday, March 25, 1998
Rudder Theater at 7 p.m.
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Lecture and Booksigning
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strides and has made a significant impaa in the lives of
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tion. Tie MSC Blade Awareness Committee is proud
to invite two of those women featured in the exhibit,
Sonia Sanchez and Gloria Randle Scott Sonia
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Temple University. She has written several poetic and
literary works such as We a BaddDDD People (1970)
and I’ve been a Woman: New and Selected Poems (1981).
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