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Food critic Ozersky found dead in hotel

CHICAGO

Food critic Josh Ozersky, whose witty and snarky writing generally focused on his obsession with all things meat, has died in Chicago. He was 47.

Ozersky, who was in the city for the James Beard Foundation Awards, was found dead in his room at the Conrad Chicago Hotel on Monday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Authorities said a Tuesday autopsy was inconclusive and the final determination on the cause and manner of Ozersky’s death requires further testing.

Ozersky was a food writer for Esquire magazine and frequent contributor to other publications including Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal and Food & Wine. He also was an author and founding editor of New York Magazine’s Grub Street food blog.

He was on the awards committee for this year’s Beard Foundation awards. Ozersky was in Chicago to attend the ceremony, which took place Monday night.

Fans push to preserve Jim Morrison home

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.

Fans of Jim Morrison, the late singer for The Doors, are in a push to preserve his childhood home in New Mexico.

KOAT-TV reports that a group of fans wants his northeast Albuquerque home designated a historical site.

The 1960s singer of hits such as “Light My Fire” and “Riders on the Storm” lived in Albuquerque from age 12 to 14 while his father worked at Kirtland Air Force Base.

Morrison died in July 1971 at age 27 in a Paris bathtub.

Associated Press