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Looking for a DIY project this Labor Day weekend? Wrap up your summer by cooking with this mini charcoal grill, made from a repurposed Altoids tin. The micro-grill uses a tiny Altoids Sours tin, which Instructables user vmspionage built after seeing a similar device made from a full-sized Altoids box.  

"Fed and Faded," a new online series that's putting bytes into the best bites of locally owned restaurants in northeast Kansas. The brainchild of Joey Little, aka Joey Bagzz of Topeka radio fame, "Fed and Faded" is a low-budget — make that virtually no budget — video series that follows a group of hungry guys and gals to area mom and pop joints, where we — the viewer — get to watch them wolf down an assortment of locally prepared, one-of-a-kind food items. The idea isn't just to watch other folks wolf  

Place Smoked Tri-Tip on grill fat side down. Grill 2-3 minutes or until fat is bubbling. Flip. Grill for additional 2-3 minutes.  

A limited number of tasting kits will be sold from 3 to 6:30 p.m. The winners will be announced at 8 p.m. Added this year will be the Best Cheesesteak Award. Cheesesteaks cut into five portions will be available at $1 a portion to taste or the entire sandwich can be purchased. Live entertainment will be provided by In High Gear performing country music, and The Philly George Project performing blues, rhythm and blues, and Motown.  

Well, Peter Rauch has created a DIY smoker that enables BBQ hosts to provide an emphatic and gratifying, "yes" to that question, and without draining the bank. Rauch hooked up a power modulator, a heating element, a touch-screen control panel and two temperature sensors to create a self-cooking, SMS-ing smoker . Users simply specify the preferred temperature for their cut of meat, and then wait for a text telling them it's ready.  

4 p.m. -- BBQ Awards Ceremony, Main Street Cultural District, Downtown Ames.  

Leroy Wilson is starting all over.After five years of running successful Wilson's BBQ on the west side of Fort Worth, he moved east and opened a tiny takeout stand on Brentwood Stair Road off Loop 820."The east side needed a barbecue place," he said, checking the spareribs.He doesn't have many signs. The air-conditioner is struggling.But Wilson's is open for takeout lunch and dinner six days a week, serving the same barbecue fr  

The Triunfo YMCA will host an Indian Family Porgram registration barbecue from 4 to 7 p.m. Sun., Sept. 12 at Willow Elementary School, 29026 Laro Drive, Agoura Hills. Children and their parents will learn about Indian Guides and Princesses, Trailblazers and Papoose programs. YMCA staff and Y-Guide volunteers will be on hand to answer questions, demonstrate activities and sign up program members.  

I am walking among the work sites of the 25 competing teams in the third annual Midwest Barbecue Throwdown when pitmaster Troy Conner waves me over. The head of the Extreme Roasters team from Ionia points to four rib bones on the table and tells me to help myself. I don't need to be asked twice.