Query against yelp academic dataset causes exception - improve error message

I was following along the tutorial for "Analyzing the Yelp Academic Dataset."
I tried the first query "Querying Yelp Business Data" WITHOUT the limit clause:
select * from
dfs.`/users/nrentachintala/Downloads/yelp/yelp_academic_dataset_business.json`;

(Adjust for your own download path).

A bunch of data comes out, followed by an exception:
"Dietary Restrictions":{}} | business | null |
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.sql.SQLException: Failure while executing query.
at sqlline.SqlLine$IncrementalRows.hasNext(SqlLine.java:2514)
at sqlline.SqlLine$TableOutputFormat.print(SqlLine.java:2148)
at sqlline.SqlLine.print(SqlLine.java:1809)
at sqlline.SqlLine$Commands.execute(SqlLine.java:3766)
at sqlline.SqlLine$Commands.sql(SqlLine.java:3663)
at sqlline.SqlLine.dispatch(SqlLine.java:889)
at sqlline.SqlLine.begin(SqlLine.java:763)
at sqlline.SqlLine.start(SqlLine.java:498)
at sqlline.SqlLine.main(SqlLine.java:460)
0: jdbc:drill:zk=local>

Note that this was tried against the 0.9.0 tarball referred to in the tutorials and download links.