All posts tagged: Closing

Why trailblazing DTLA Cheese is closing in downtown Los Angeles

Why trailblazing DTLA Cheese is closing in downtown Los Angeles

Published by Sam Flores

When Lydia Clarke and Reed Herrick opened their cheese shop in 2013, it was the realization of a years-long dream and part of an early wave of restaurants and stores underpinning what many called downtown’s renaissance. But after more than 12 years in business, Clarke and Herrick are shuttering DTLA Cheese Superette. Friday will be its last day. Their next-door wine bar, Kippered, remains open. “It was a tidal wave of factors that bear down on you,” Herrick said earlier this week about the closure. “This is a process that has been happening for years. Nobody is spending, there are protests, strikes, war, all of it comes to bear here.” A selection of cheeses in the central refrigerated case at DTLA Cheese Superette, which first opened more than 12 years ago in Grand Central Market downtown. (Jennelle Fong) Clarke and her sister, Marnie, who is also a partner, are third-generation dairy purveyors whose family founded Alta Dena Dairy. Cheese was more than a calling; it seemed like a birthright. They opened DTLA Cheese in Grand …

Major Dubai tourist attraction closing as statement issued – in business since 1999 | World | News

Major Dubai tourist attraction closing as statement issued – in business since 1999 | World | News

Published by Sam Flores

A Dubai hotel has announced a temporary 18-month closure as they plan a “carefully phased” refurbishment. The Jumeirah Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai published a statement on its website that read: “Jumeirah Burj Al Arab is currently undergoing a carefully phased restoration programme designed to refresh and upgrade the hotel’s iconic décor while preserving its distinctive character. “The programme has been developed through long-term planning, following more than 25 years of continuous operation. We would be pleased to assist with an alternative reservation in one of our Jumeirah properties in town.” Jumeirah did not mention the war on Iran in its statement, but Middle East Eye (MEE) said in an article that “it is thought that Iran’s strikes on the UAE and other Gulf states that host US bases has sparked an exodus of foreign expats and tourists from the region”. The same publication said that since the beginning of the conflict, more than $120bn was reportedly wiped from market capitalisation on the Dubai and Abu Dhabi stock exchanges, while over 18,400 flights were …

Huge UK fashion chain closing website in hours with 80% off everything | UK | News

Huge UK fashion chain closing website in hours with 80% off everything | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

An iconic UK fashion retailer is closing its website in a matter of hours, offering customers huge last-minute discounts in its “biggest ever sale”. LK Bennett announced the closure of its website, which is taking place tonight (April 13) and added it wil cut the price of its products by at least 80%. The retailer also said they have an online exclusive sale of up to 90% for its high-end dresses, shoes, accessories, and customers can grab last minute bargains today. The retailer began the closure of its shops in January. The company, founded by Linda Bennett in London in 1990, collapsed in January, with John Noon and Mark Firmin of Alvarez & Marsal Europe LLP appointed as joint administrators later that month. The brand has since been sold to US firm Gordon Brothers, but nine stand-alone stores and 13 concession stores, located across the UK, were not included in the deal. Last month they launched sales with up to 75% off. On the sales, a spokesperson added: “There are some truly exceptional offers available …

Many private colleges at risk of closing : NPR

Many private colleges at risk of closing : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Izzy Johnson, left, and Jack Beatson are first-year students at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, Vt. The college has announced that it will close at the end of this semester. Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report hide caption toggle caption Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report CRAFTSBURY COMMON, Vt. — More than a dozen newborn lambs cavorted around a fenced-in yard beneath the scrutiny of their mothers and a few watchful students taking turns attending to them. The lambs’ successful births have been a needed bright spot at tiny Sterling College, which uses a 130-acre farm to teach agriculture and other disciplines in a part of northeastern Vermont so isolated there’s no cell service and it’s rare to see a passing car. LillyAnne Keeley, a senior, likes that remoteness. “We have a beautiful view,” said Keeley, in the barn where she’s come for her turn checking on the lambs. “There are beautiful sunsets here. I kind of take it for granted every day.” She and her classmates have started taking such experiences less for granted …

DeChambeau misses Masters cut after closing triple-bogey

DeChambeau misses Masters cut after closing triple-bogey

Published by Sam Flores

AUGUSTA, Georgia, April 10 : LIV Golf’s Bryson DeChambeau headlined the list of players who missed the cut at the Masters on Friday after the two-times U.S. Open champion carded a costly triple-bogey on the final hole at Augusta National. DeChambeau reached the par-four 18th one shot inside the four-over par cut line but needed two shots to get out of a greenside bunker before carding a seven that ended his week. DeChambeau, who briefly held the lead early in the final round of last year’s Masters, had arrived at the year’s first major fresh off two consecutive wins on the LIV Golf circuit but was unable to transfer that form to Augusta National. Other notables to miss the cut were 2025 U.S. Open winner J.J. Spaun, former British Open champion Cameron Smith of LIV, and a pack of former Masters champions including Danny Willett Bubba Watson, Zach Johnson, Fred Couples, Jose Maria Olazabal, Mike Weir, Vijay Singh, and Angel Cabrera. According to Augusta National, 54 players, including competitors from 15 different countries, made the …

Apple is Closing a Unionized Store in the U.S. and the Union is ‘Outraged’

Apple is Closing a Unionized Store in the U.S. and the Union is ‘Outraged’

Published by skeptic

Apple on Thursday announced that it will be permanently closing three of its retail stores in the U.S. in June, and one of them was unionized. Apple Towson Town Center in Maryland Apple Towson Town Center in Towson, Maryland is one of the three stores being shuttered, with no replacement store planned. The staff at this location became Apple’s first retail employees in the U.S. to unionize in 2022. They belong to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers‘ Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (IAM CORE), and they signed a collective bargaining agreement with Apple in 2024. The other two locations that are permanently closing are Apple Trumbull in Trumbull, Connecticut and Apple North County in Escondido, California. Apple said employees at the Trumbull and North County stores will “continue their roles” at the company’s nearby stores in each area, so transfer eligibility is guaranteed. Meanwhile, Apple said employees at the Towson store will be eligible to apply for open roles at Apple in accordance with their collective bargaining agreement, and it is unclear …

Closing the data security maturity gap: Embedding protection into enterprise workflows

Closing the data security maturity gap: Embedding protection into enterprise workflows

Published by skeptic

Presented by Capital One Data security remains one of the least mature domains in enterprise cybersecurity. According to IBM, 35% of breaches in 2025 involved unmanaged data source or “shadow data.” This reveals a systemic lack of basic data awareness. It’s not because of a lack of tooling or investment. It’s because many organizations still struggle with the most fundamental questions: What data do we have? Where does it live? How does it move? And who is responsible for it? In an increasingly complex ecosystem of data sources, cloud platforms, SaaS applications, APIs, and AI models, those questions are only becoming more difficult to answer. Closing the maturity gap in data security demands a cultural shift where security is no longer treated as an afterthought. Instead, protection is embedded throughout the full data lifecycle, grounded in a robust inventory, clear classification, and scalable mechanisms that translate policy into automated guardrails. Visibility as the foundation The most persistent barrier to data security maturity is basic visibility. Organizations often focus on how much data they hold, but …

Beloved ITV channel closing down for good after 42 years

Beloved ITV channel closing down for good after 42 years

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter After 42 years of introducing the world to some of the most memorable kids’ TV shows, CITV is reportedly ending for good. Since 1980, the ITV programming block, aimed at younger generations, was the home of series including Tots TV, Fraggle Rock, Art Attack and My Parents Are Aliens and made stars of presenters Holly Willoughby, Cat Deeley and Stephen Mulhern. CITV began life as Watch IT, before being rebranded as Children’s ITV, commonly shortened to CITV. It aired on ITV late afternoons, timed for children arriving home from school. After its late-afternoon slot was axed in 2006, CITV was given its own channel on Freeview and was also aired by ITV on weekend mornings. The CITV Freeview channel was eventually closed down and replaced by an ITVX Kids hub on ITV’s streaming service in 2023, with the ITV weekend morning …

With Sam Altman’s OpenAI Closing Sora, Will AI Still Change Hollywood?

With Sam Altman’s OpenAI Closing Sora, Will AI Still Change Hollywood?

Published by Daniella Wilson

[Some spoilers follow for the current seasons of The Comeback and Paradise] The new season of The Comeback, in addition to heralding the return of one of the great annoying-watchable characters in premium cable television, also introduces an element we’ve yet to see dramatized in comedies: AI as plot device. Kudrow’s Valerie Cherish returns after many years away to find that television, or at least a certain kind of commoditized fast-streaming television, can now be written largely by machine. The show’s cringe-comedy dystopia dances on satire’s edge; are we to laugh at the replacement of human slop or fear what else could be taken over? Either way, Kudrow and her fellow executive producer Michael Patrick King leave one truth unchallenged: computers can already do plenty of creative jobs. As the season progresses this sends human writers into a tailspin (“I am just trying to get me and my kids out of this town before it explodes,” Abbi Jacobson’s showrunner character says in an epic rant) and a whole industry into a precarious state. Of course whether said industry actually faces …