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...beginning, there was fire. Then somebody tossed a hunk of antelope into the embers, and, lo, there was barbecue. Then a million and a half or so years later, there was the $12,000 Frontgate Deluxe Outdoor Kitchen, with a 48-in. built-in grill, 15,000-BTU dual range-top burner, warming drawer, granite tiles, outlets for an outdoor fridge and barbecue light and the phone number of an on-call barbecue expert, in case you feel you're overdoing the scallops--all shipped to your door with a box of dry, aged steaks from a New York City...
...system, a table that slides out to reveal two side burners, and what Vieluxe is calling "a concierge"--on call 24 hours a day to answer any questions, including what wine to drink with your char-broiled lobster. Built-in rotisseries and refrigerators are becoming more common, as are dual systems, barbecues that use both gas and charcoal, or even infrared heat. Grease-management devices, to prevent flare-ups and make cleaning easy, are standard...
...family members, he said, were neighborhood leaders of the movement. When the crackdown began, the boy arrived home from school one day to find police surrounding his house. Three weeks later, the authorities broke in to discover his grandmother and aunt hanging side by side in a dual suicide. The boy and his mother were incarcerated at the kindergarten where she taught, but refused to renounce Falun Gong. So last December, when a labor-camp sentence seemed certain, his mother gave her son to other practitioners, kissed him goodbye and fled. "We talked on the phone last month for about...
...dual narrative strands, beautifully woven by director Daisy Prince, add a layer of irony and melancholy to what otherwise might have seemed a pretty routine story. Jamie (Norbert Leo Butz) is a Jewish writer on the rise; Kathleen (Lauren Kennedy) is an Irish-Catholic actress whose career never takes off. There are clever interludes--an audition in which we hear Kathleen's inner turmoil, set to the melody of the song she's performing--and unabashedly romantic ones, like a mock Russian folktale that Jamie sings to his beloved on her birthday. The show is too sketchy in spots, particularly...
...crackdown's wreckage. His family members were neighborhood leaders, lieutenants in the group's structure. When the crackdown began, the boy returned from school to find police surrounding his home. Twenty days later, the authorities broke in to discover his granny and aunt hanging side by side in a dual suicide, presumably to avoid persecution. They incarcerated the boy's mother in the kindergarten where she taught. She slept on a cot in the storeroom. The boy slept beside her. They refused to renounce Falun Gong. Last December, when a labor-camp sentence seemed certain, the mother entrusted...