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From Budweiser to kimchi, a new book tells the stories behind immigrant and community recipes A new cookbook honors the overlooked home chefs who nourish their communities, including a south Minneapolis artist carrying on their grandfather’s immigrant legacy by grilling his beloved “Drunk Chic...

A new cookbook honors the overlooked home chefs who nourish their communities, including a south Minneapolis artist carrying on their grandfather’s immigrant legacy by grilling his beloved “Drunk Chicken” and reflecting on heritage, activism and belonging.

From Budweiser to kimchi, a new book tells the stories behind immigrant and community recipes A new cookbook honors the overlooked home chefs who nourish their communities, including a south Minneapolis artist carrying on their grandfather’s immigrant legacy by grilling his beloved “Drunk Chic...

Ryan & Diana talk about “Back of House” with @mprnews.org & showcases a recipe for Drunk Chicken, which is in the book! Check it out here: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

“Back of House” by @ryanstopera.bsky.social & Diana Albrecht is available to order now: www.ryanstopera.com/shop/p/back-...

New Cookbook ‘Back of House’ Illuminates the Recipes—and Stories—of Minnesotan Immigrant Chefs Local artists Diana Albrecht and Ryan Stopera collaborated on the project, one of Minnesota's standout cookbooks of the year.

“Back of House” for @mspmag.bsky.social (cc: @ryanstopera.bsky.social): mspmag.com/eat-and-drin...

“Back of House” by Ryan Stopera & Diana Albrecht is available to order now (I wrote the foreword): www.ryanstopera.com/shop/p/back-...

In MN Cookbook 'Back of House,' Immigrants and Community Caretakers Share Family Recipes, Traditions - Racket A new collection of ancestral recipes celebrates working and at-home chefs—the folks who 'don’t get their flowers,' as one co-author explains.

this interview made me feel nice

Same needed that. Thank you, Em.

In MN Cookbook 'Back of House,' Immigrants and Community Caretakers Share Family Recipes, Traditions - Racket A new collection of ancestral recipes celebrates working and at-home chefs—the folks who 'don’t get their flowers,' as one co-author explains.

Alongside co-author Ryan, we talked about “Back of House” with @biketrouble.bsky.social for @racketmn.com today: racketmn.com/back-of-hous...

“Back of House” by @ryanstopera.bsky.social & Diana Albrecht is available to preorder now (I wrote the foreword): www.ryanstopera.com/shop/p/back-...

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Appreciate you Ali!

Spent part of the summer penning a foreword for Back of House, a cookbook written by @ryanstopera.bsky.social & Diana Albrecht, featuring recipes from those who aren’t necessarily deemed chefs, but caretakers of their community.

Available for preorder today: www.ryanstopera.com/shop/p/back-...

Come celebrate our official book release November 8 at Bar Brava! It's going to be a great party with delicious food from Jook Sing, an amazing list of natural wines, a DJ and we'll be signing books all night. You can pre-order Back of House from the link below
www.ryanstopera.com/shop/p/back-...

Ghouls already using this tragedy—our city’s 4th shooting in 24 hours—to stoke hate and violence against our trans loves. Please minimize your social media use for the rest of today . . . go outside, love on as many people as you can, and come to Lynnhurst for the 8 pm vigil if you’re able

Tens of thousands seen on the Victoria Bridge in Brisbane. A banner at the front reads “March for Palestine”. Photo credit to Getty images.

Tens of thousands are seen filling the streets of Melbourne. Photo credit to Getty images.

1000s are seen filling the streets of Perth in Western Australia. Photo taken on a balcony looking down to the street. Photo credit to Getty images.

NEW: In 40 cities across Australia, an estimated one million people have been on the streets calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza.

These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.

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Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

“Comics were the first ones to punch Nazis before movies. They are inherently political. One thing they want to do is erase the past, but that’s one thing that this museum celebrates.” Guillermo del Toro at San Diego Comi-con on the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

Reading this powerful book in front of half dome is giving me life
@rlmartstudio.bsky.social

Most people haven’t seen The Strange Thing About the Johnsons, but if they have it makes sense why Ari Aster is so bad at writing anything about race or creating characters of color with any depth

Thank you for blessing the book, Ali. Appreciate you!

The big news in three photos: I wrote the foreword for @ryanstopera.bsky.social & Diana Albrecht’s cookbook “Back of House” coming out in November 2025.

A community meal & celebration is taking place as they send the book off to print. Details below.

Thank you for an essential conversation as we approach what’s going to be an intense summer
@bullycreative.bsky.social
Nadia Shaawari
Lorenzo Suerna
Sadie Luetmer

If you were curious about how Ryan Coogler and his team constructed that musical sequence in Sinners, here’s a clip of him explaining it.

(Via The NY Times 😒)

Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway. This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.

Update!

Over 1750 people have signed up for the Resistance Summer School pilot course!

This is the seed to a new movement and parallel education structure.

It won't put participants in lifelong student debt. Or be subject to attacks on diversity.

karenattiah.substack.com/p/columbia-c...

Nice seats homie

Open Screen: The Forum — Public Functionary Open Screen: The Forum is a three-week gathering of filmmakers, photographers, and artists who see image-making as a means for connection, resistance, and cultural storytelling at Public Functionary ...

Timeline cleanse

Public Functionary and Cinefilmu are hosting Open Screen: The Forum, a three-week gathering of filmmakers, photographers, and artists who see image-making as a means for connection and resistance. All screenings, workshops and panels are FREE

publicfunctionary.org/openscreenfo...

Thank you so much, Allegra. Appreciate you

MPLS/STP pals! If you are in a spot to support a project:
I'd appreciate it if you could lend a few dollars to support @ryanstopera.bsky.social and Diana Albrecht's Back of House book project:

The Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival kicks off tonight with a screening of Free Leonard Peltier. Next Wednesday The People’s Way premieres. There are so many great films this year @mspiff.bsky.social

No idea it’s the most obscure campaign messaging I’ve seen in awhile

“No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear: In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.” by Toni Morrison; excerpt reads: “Dictators and tyrants routinely begin their reigns and sustain their power with the deliberate and calculated destruction of art: the censorship and book-burning of unpoliced prose, the harassment and detention of painters, journalists, poets, playwrights, novelists, essayists. This is the first step of a despot whose instinctive acts of malevolence are not simply mindless or evil; they are also perceptive. Such despots know very well that their strategy of repression will allow the real tools of oppressive power to flourish. Their plan is simple: 1. Select a useful enemy—an “Other”—to convert rage into conflict, even war. 2. Limit or erase the imagination that art provides, as well as the critical thinking of scholars and journalists. 3. Distract with toys, dreams of loot, and themes of superior religion or defiant national pride that enshrine past hurts and humiliations.”

Toni Morrison: