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• San Francisco Brewing Co. Dries Up; Hayes Valley Ramen Splashes

  
  Grub Street San Francisco — Authority: 542
  The lame-duck San Francisco Brewing Co has finally shut its doors to make way for Comstock, the new project from the Absinthe people. As Eater notes, the brewery had previously said they would continue to serve beer til they ran out. It took some time, but it finally happened. In happier news, SFoodie notes ...
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• Ghosts of Soho Restaurants Past: Tailor, Lola, and the Mott

  
  Grub Street New York — Authority: 155
  Lola went shopping at Home Depot? Eater notices that Tailor ’s bar room has been closed of late, and a call to the restaurant reveals that the phone has been disconnected. The line has been dead before owing to payment snafus (the restaurant has filed for Chapter 11, after all), so this may not necessarily be ...
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• Hub Restaurant and Lounge

  
  UrbanDiner.ca | Vancouver Restaurant Scene Magazine — Authority: 424
  In a rather bold move, Bill Marsh, owner of the Yaletown Browns Social House franchise, recently declared independence from the restaurant chain by shutting the doors for a few days and re-opening as Hub Restaurant and Lounge . Citing irreconcilable differences and wanting to get away from the franchise concept, ...
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• Heres the Plan: GM reveals how it will deal with shuttered dealers complaints

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 756
  Filed under: Government/Legal , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , GM Back in May, General Motors announced plans to close down a large portion of its dealership network. Since then, a number of those franchisees have lodged complaints to both the automaker itself and appropriate policymakers, leading to possible ...
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• Daily Candy Cancels Atlanta Edition – and 6 Other City Editions

  
  Decatur Metro — Authority: 482
  As pointed out by EldredgeATL (via Twitter), Daily Candy announced in an internal memo yesterday that it is canceling its city-specific editions in seven of twelve cities…and Atlanta is among them.From Valleywag…DailyCandy will now stop publishing city-specific editions in all but five of those 12 cities: New ...
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• Kavala’s in Oak Cliff is Changing Gears: Kelly Hightower Heads to the Kitchen at Kindal’s

  
  Dallas Food and Wine Blog, Restaurant News, Foodie News, Dallas Chefs, Wine and Spirits SideDish Blog D Magazine — Authority: 431
  Kavala’s Mediterranean Grill on West Davis in the OC will be shutting down soon for a remodel. Currently owned by Kelly Hightower and his wife, a new incarnation of the space will reopen with Hightower as one of a group of investors. The new spot which will be more of a bar than a restaurant and Hightower will ...
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• Bid on Café des Artistes

  
  Grub Street New York — Authority: 155
  When Café des Artistes closed its doors last summer, there were a lot of restaurant owners, including Graydon Carter and Drew Nieporent , rumored to be eyeing the fabled space. This week, the trustees are auctioning off everything but the Howard Chandler Christy murals. Representatives of interested parties were ...
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• DOE to close four more schools, including Jamaica HS

  
  GothamSchools Newsroom — Authority: 582
  Jamaica High School, a long-beleaguered school in central Queens, is among four more schools the Department of Education today said it would phase out beginning at the end of the school year. The other schools are the School for Community Research and Learning, a Bronx high school; the Academy for Collaborative ...
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• Diner 437 closed today

  
  Mouth of Tampa Bay — Authority: 134
  Downtown St. Petersburg has lost another well-regarded restaurant. Greg and Kelly Pughs Diner 437 (437 Central Ave.) has closed. No word on what is to become of that space, but the Pughs other restaurant, Ringside Cafe, is going strong.
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• I Love New York

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 604
  New York City (followed closely by New Orleans) is my favorite city for education reform. I’ve praised Joel Klein and his team before for their remarkably advanced thinking and doing on changing the meaning of “school district.” This NYT article on the chancellor’s decision to close four more schools is ...
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• Tillman’s Roadhouse in Fort Worth is Open

  
  Dallas Food and Wine Blog, Restaurant News, Foodie News, Dallas Chefs, Wine and Spirits SideDish Blog D Magazine — Authority: 431
  Yes it is : 2933 Crockett Street. 817-850-y’all.
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• Follow-up to The Garden closing

  
  Mouth of Tampa Bay — Authority: 134
  In response to this story yesterday, I got a very eloquent e-mail from Christopher Carten and I thought Id share: I think you missed a major aspect of the Garden and its impact on downtown St. Petersburg. They not only served as a bistro but they also served as a venue for musicians and poets. The Garden has ...
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• Reforming the reformers in N.Y.

  
  SmallTalk — Authority: 517
  The closing of FDAIII Bloomberg/Klein continue their Big Apple school-closing madness. Reading this mornings Times about the closing of four more city schools on top of the 91 already closed. The four include Frederick Douglass Academy III, a middle school within a larger school founded by education reform ...
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• City announces plans to shut four “failing” public schools

  
  GothamSchools Newsroom — Authority: 582
  The city’s Department of Education announced plans today to close four public schools that the department believes are “failing” to educate students. Citing the schools’ low graduation rates and poor scores on state standardized tests, the DOE said it would phase out two high schools and two middle schools ...
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• Skinny Rooster crows no more

  
  Mouth of Tampa Bay — Authority: 134
  Looks like Skinny Rooster (552 Clearwater-Largo Road, Largo, (727) 581-7993) has closed, all furniture cleared and the door locked tight. More info when I get it.
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• Scary Map: Unemployment by County

  
  Counter Culture — Authority: 457
  The map below (courtesy of current) is a sobering, time-elapsed look at how counties were impacted by the unemployment picture. We wonder if the largest number of store closings are in the black areas on the map. Click below and see what you think.c
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• Acme Chophouse to Split in Two

  
  Grub Street San Francisco — Authority: 542
  The future of Acme Chophouse became a little more clear today when Trace Des Jardins and co. announced plans to split the under-performing restaurant into two casual entities: An outpost of Mijita and a new joint called Public House. We can glean the basics of Mijita by looking to the Ferry Building location, but ...
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• Tax Man Seizes (Not-So-)Permanent Brunch

  
  Grub Street New York — Authority: 155
  Permanent Brunch ’s opening was as rocky as they come. Originally slated for the fall of last year, it lost chef Colin Alevras to DBGB , and owing to construction snafus didn’t open until this July. Now four months later it has apparently been seized by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance for ...
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• Bagels Will Replace Hot Dogs on Former Papaya King Corner

  
  Grub Street New York — Authority: 155
  Dan Horan, the president and chief executive of PK Enterprises, tells us that he closed Papaya King’s 14th Street location because a bagel store and deli gave him an offer on the lease. “We’re sorry to go,” says Horan. “We really liked that spot, but we’re finding real estate in New York City to be very ...
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• Goodbye Seaport Bar & Grille, Hello Whiskey Priest

  
  Grub Street Boston — Authority: 542
  A restaurant called The Whiskey Priest is set to open at the current home of the Seaport Bar & Grille , notes Boston Restaurant Talk. Intrigued, we dug deeper. Seaport will close at the end of the month, when its lease expires, manager Tom Palmer tells us. As for The Whiskey Priest, its a restaurant from the ...
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