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Uptown restaurant Chino Latino closes after 20 years Chino Latino, the global street-food restaurant near the corner of Lake and Hennepin for 20 years, closed Sunday. "The decline was in place three to four years ago," said Phil Roberts, co-founder of Parasole Restaurant Holdings in Edina, which owns and operates Manny's Steakhouse, Pittsburgh Blue, Field Day, Good Earth and Burger Jones. "It began gradually and then COVID and the protests and rioting hit." Parasole believes the concept remains strong, and that it could be transported to another neighborhood. No specifics were given, but Roberts said, "It will live again." About 40 employees are affected by the closing. Some will be transferred to other Parasole restaurants. Roberts got the idea for the restaurant when he and his wife traveled to Thailand in 1998 and observed vendors setting up shop on the street after sundown selling chicken feet, octopus, eel and cotton candy on little plates. "...

A Teacher, His Killer and the Failure of French Integration For generations, public schools assimilated immigrant children into French society by instilling the nation’s ideals. The beheading of a teacher has raised doubts about whether that model still works. A memorial to Samuel Paty outside the school where he used to teach in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France. Credit... Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times ÉVREUX, France — They could have easily shared the same classroom — the immigrant teenager and the veteran teacher known for his commitment to instilling the nation’s ideals, in a relationship that had turned waves of newcomers into French citizens. But Abdoullakh Anzorov, 18, who grew up in France from age 6 and was the product of its public schools, rejected those principles in a horrific crime that shocked and enraged France. Offended by cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad shown in a class on free speech given by the teacher, Samuel Paty, 47,  the teenager beheaded him a we...