This Jazz Age-inspired supper club is about much more than just great soul food and cocktails.

Through a nondescript door on a bustling Third Street corner, down a hallway lined with framed photos and news clippings, unfolds a modern-day speakeasy. Through the darkened room roam the notes of live music, a young pianist on the wraparound balcony and a percussionist downstairs keeping perfect time across the lofted space. On the lower floor, red velveteen banquettes curve alluringly around large wooden tables. The heavy red drapery, the gilded mirrors, the crystal pendants that hang from candelabras and chandeliers glinting in the glow of their (electric) flames—it all makes the Jazz Age-inspired supper club feel lost somewhere in time.But first impressions only scratch the surface. Old Skool Cafe is not a relic of the past; it is a vision of the future. (Courtesy of Old Skool Cafe)Everything at the nonprofit restaurant, from the kitchen to the bar, is run by at-risk youth ages 16 to 22, including those who’ve been caught up in the systems of foster