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MPR News @mprnews.org · 08/11/2025

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.

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From Budweiser to kimchi, a new book tells the stories behind immigrant and community recipes

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Ali Elabbady @egyptoknuckles.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

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-...

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From Budweiser to kimchi, a new book tells the stories behind immigrant and community recipes

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Ali Elabbady @egyptoknuckles.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

“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-...

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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.

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Ali Elabbady @egyptoknuckles.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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-...

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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.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

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.

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Ali Elabbady @egyptoknuckles.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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-...

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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-...

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ms. maas @msmaas.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

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.

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.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

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

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

“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

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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

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Ali Elabbady @egyptoknuckles.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

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.

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

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

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Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · 03/05/2025

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 😒)

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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...

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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.

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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...

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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 ...

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Allegra Lockstadt (she/her) @alockstadt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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:

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Back of House — Diana Albrecht

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 09/03/2025

Toni Morrison:

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Please see Mickey 17 in a theater. For some reason Warner Bros is doing a terrible job at promoting this film. We need more political satire in all forms of art right now. Anti capitalist/colonialist sentiments while still maintaining some levity is how we just might get through the next four years.

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The poorest families receive an average of $26,000 a year from the government whereas the top richest families get $36,000 a year from the government. Collecting unpaid federal income taxes from the top 1% would bring in some $175 billion a year. - Matthew Desmond youtu.be/KoLN0YoErK0?...

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Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap | The Daily Show

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary. It can't get a distributor in the US. Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.

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Jaida Grey Eagle @jaidagreyeagle.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

On February 14th, 2025, hundreds of community members marched to raise awareness on missing and murdered Indigenous relatives. This yearly event has been happening for 10 years in the Twin Cities Indigenous community. For @mprnews

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Protesters outside the Tesla service center near Minneapolis. “Unplug Mad King Musk,” “This Car Runs on Fascism,” “Who Buys Cars from a Nazi?” “Say No to Doge,” and “Don’t Buy Swasticars – BAD DOGE!” ( 📷 @daviss.bsky.social ) #3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover #TeslaProtests

Protesters holding signs against Tesla trucks outside a Tesla dealership in snowy weather, with a Tesla Cybertruck in the foreground.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 15/02/2025

Need a white guy to walk confidently into a federal building and delete all the student loans files

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

it really doesn't get any more disgusting than this. sick

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS Public Functionary invites emerging visual artists to submit a body of work for an exhibition responding to the theme of “return.” Public Functionary will exhibit two selected projects concurrently in the main gallery in 2025 publicfunctionary.org/open-call-ex...

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JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Stop using Amazon!!! The ease is not worth it!

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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Join us for the opening day of the Weisman Art Museum's spring exhibition, SEEN - the work of artists inside the carceral system, in partnership with artists on the outside. All events and activities are free and open to the public. wam.umn.edu/seen-opening...

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SEEN: Opening Day | Weisman Art Museum

Join us for the opening day of the Weisman Art Museum's spring exhibition, SEEN, presented in collaboration with We Are All Criminals. This exhibition highlights the work of artists inside the carcera...

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

So, the National Endowment for the Arts announced today that they are reworking the guidelines for all 2026 grants and will be prioritizing projects that center the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It's now just a propaganda fund. www.arts.gov/news/press-r...

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Updates on National Endowment for the Arts FY 2026 Grant Opportunities

The National Endowment for the Arts is updating its FY 2026 grant guidelines, with deadlines in March and July 2025. These changes impact organizations applying in the Grants for Arts Projects or Chal...

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Printing photo books is expensive but I just keep doing it. Feels good to share these memories in something you can hold

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 28/01/2025

How might we promote our projects, events, campaigns, art, values, etc *beyond* social media? There's no one magic key, but some friends and I did some brainstorming and skill-sharing. Hope it can useful to artists, musicians, organizers, small business owners, and beyond:

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Promoting Our Projects, Events, and Values BEYOND Social Media

A guiding question for artists, activists, and community-builders: If social media did not exist, how would you share your art, promote your work, and/or communicate your values?

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Ali Elabbady @egyptoknuckles.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

With certain chain grocers owned by conglomerates doing rollbacks of DEI initiatives, now is as good a time as any to remind you of the many international grocers we have in the Twin Cities that I keyed up for @racketmn.bsky.social: racketmn.com/guide-intern...

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A Guide to the International Grocers of the Twin Cities - Racket

The Twin Cities is home to over 40 international grocers, and they deserve your dollars, too.

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Being intentional about where we spend our money is the first thing we can do to have any impact right now. We knew target and every other performative company only made temporary changes as a marketing tactic and never really cared about equity.

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Jade Dynasty is my new favorite Chinese spot. Weekend dim sum, lazy susans for proper family style feasts and a vibe in each room

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The more I question how to navigate the issues with social media and find ways to connect I’m reminded that we need to create more physical spaces for us to be together. No panels, no keynote speaker, just space for us to process and talk about how we are moving through this together.

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