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Published: August 9, 2007

Many awkward topics of conversation might spring up at your family’s Labor Day get-together, but a murder cover-up probably isn’t one of them. That’s not the case for the family in The Barbeque People. The 2003 drama, screening today as part of the Jewish Community Center’s Israeli Film Series, depicts a family of Jewish-Iraqi immigrants firing up the grill to celebrate the founding of their adopted homeland. Secret shames -- career failure, doubt about the future, infidelity and, at the extreme end, murder -- start to bubble up to the surface. You don’t have to be Jewish to thank Elohim they’re not your family.

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It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator

Texas is the only state in the country where peyote is sold legally. Really.

For days after the storm, inmates in Beaumont lived without A/C, electricity or hot meals. Press releases kept saying everything inside was fine. Guards and prisoners agree — that was nothing but B.S.

"It's okay to be little bitty in the big city" is an apt slogan for this new burger joint, where sliders rule

Step back in time — to a spooky old carriage barn with a monster chicken-fried steak

It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator

Why? Because he's big and intimidating and because one family complained about him over and over again

For days after the storm, inmates in Beaumont lived without A/C, electricity or hot meals. Press releases kept saying everything inside was fine. Guards and prisoners agree — that was nothing but B.S.

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