A Colorado BBQ joint called Rubbin’ Buttz has scheduled its “White Appreciation Day” for June 11. Although owner Edgar Antillon is Latino, he wants to give white customers 10 percent off for a day because “all Americans should be celebrated.”

For nearly a month, San Antonio has been plagued by a mysterious string of robberies a BBQ restaurants. Thousands of dollars worth of pork and beef have been stolen from at least three smokehouses, leading some to believe a "brisket bandit" may be on the loose.

An off-season meeting of the Colorado legislature's Economic Opportunity Poverty Reduction Task Force erupted in "audible gasps" yesterday after Republican state senator Vicki Marble stunned her colleagues by tying the increased rate of poverty among blacks to their penchant for fried chicken and BBQ.

CBS Early Show reporter Dave Price had the audacity to travel into America's heartland to attend the American Royal Barbeque Contest. He brought a kosher brisket and quickly found out what a local man thought of it. And him.

Attention Mark Bittman: Your list of 101 recipes for grilling has been floating around the New York Times's "most e-mailed" list for a while. Many suggestions seem just the ticket for a 4th of July cookout. But some are gross.

A slew of BBQ joints are opening up presently and, within this trend is a smaller trendlet. That trendlet is "Guys who look like Justin Timberlake opening BBQ joints, at least one of whom is Justin Timberlake." Look for it in the Sunday Styles soon enough. The most visible example of this trend is Justin Timberlake, former Spear and Diaz flame who is opening Southern Hospitality BBQ tomorrow night (friends and family tonight). But the second instance that really cements the veracity of the trend is Alan Natkiel, a New England-born Georgia-raised grill master who will open Georgia's Eastside BBQ at 192 Orchard Street tomorrow as well. The two are blatantly in competition with each other and the only way to settle it, that we can see anyway, is a nude grill-off. Ooh, hot, steamy, singed nubbins!