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Summer is a great time for cooking outdoors. In our monthly food segment, we'll explore all aspects of barbequing, from charcoal and gas, to peaches and pork.

Airs Monday, July 13 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Joan Baez's new album was produced by Steve Earle and nominated for a Grammy. It's her 24th studio album and last year marked Baez's 50th year as a performer.

The annual summit of the Group of 8 industrialized countries opens Wednesday in Italy. But the agenda risks being overshadowed by sex scandals swirling around the host, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

For the second time this year a European weather girl is the fulcrum of an odd romantic triangle. First we had Claude Chabrol's "A Girl Cut in Two" and now we have Anne Fontaine's "The Girl From Monaco" (opening July 3 at Landmark's Hillcrest Cinemas). Both films have a vivacious blond weather girl placed between an older and a younger man, and both comment on class and involve a murder.

Newly Restored 35mm Print Now at the Ken

Pema Tseden is the first director in China ever to film movies entirely in the Tibetan language. His latest film, The Search, won the Grand Jury Prize at Shanghai's recent International Film Festival. He says Tibet has always been depicted by outsiders who pander to their own imagination.

The San Diego City Council today endorsed legislation that would repeal the federal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy regarding gays in the military. The council voted unanimously for a resolution in support of HR 1283, the Military Readiness Enhancement Act, which would allow gays to openly serve in the armed forces without fear of discrimination.

The killings of an abortion provider, an Army recruiter and a guard at the Holocaust Museum provide sobering reminders of extremist sentiments in the nation's dark corners. Some blame vitriolic speech for helping stoke those sentiments; others warn that suppressing it would be worse.

Analysts say the speech Friday by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could be an effort to divide the opposition and defuse any future confrontations. But they also warned that a major showdown between government forces and protesters in the streets of Tehran could be inevitable..