Editor's Note
There's no way I can start this column about this week's bite department.
"Get your Grill On." on page four, without telling you the saddest story
you will have heard in the past few weeks. Last fall, after my classes, I returned to my apartment on a sunny, 70-degree weather day. I put the finishing touches on my marinating-sirloins and my husband went outside to start the grill. A few seconds later the sliding glass doors in my kitchen opened and he reappeared looking horrified. "Someone stole our barbecue grill," he gasped.
This episode was particularly traumatic for my husband, who endures my cooking during winter in anticipation of the first decent grilling day of the year. He and my father, who even grills during snowy weather, have deep discussions on the best grilling methods, why charcoal is better than gas and if it really hurts you to grill and eat a medium-rare burger. I was not happy because it meant I was to be the lone cook until we could afford a new grill. What made the experience especially upsetting was that our neighbor 20 feet away had a much nicer grill that wasn't much heavier to lift.
To make a long story short, we're both feeling a little sentimental with such great grilling weather approaching, and I have chosen to live vicariously through you all. The mesquite-scented air, the grocery store displays and the signs hanging for end-of-the year barbecues all devour a little at my soul. And if you are the one hosting one of these get-togethers, please remember to invite your grill-lacking friends and acquaintances.
mhuber@kansan.com
Inside
3 Weekly choice
4 Bite Grilling Bobby Flay about the barbecue
6 Manual Get off your duff and volunteer
8 Contact Can you have too close a relationship with a professor?
10 Profile The Princess Bride's Mandy Patinkin
12 Feature Bewitching students on campus
14 Venue How to keep a sober evening in Lawrence anything but
16 Bitch + Moan Threesomes and a "get-laid" plan
18 Movies, Music, Games Sin City, Beck & Iron Phoenix
23 Speak Chewing over life
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CLERK GETS AROUND TOWN Meredith Desmond
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BITE ALWAYS MAS THE MUSCLES
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CONTACT WILL HELP YOU WITH YOUR PROBLEMS
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MANUAL IS ACTIVATELY USEFUL
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NOTICE TAKES NOTE OF FIRM
Robert Perkins
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VENUE HAS THE BOOZE AND THE BATT
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CREATIVE CONSULTANT KNOWS A LOT Carol Holstead
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