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It looks like the curtain has closed on This Ain’t the Rosedale Library—for now, at least. In a blog post explaining that a last-ditch proposal to their landlord was rejected late last week, owners Charlie and Jessie Huisken announced, “The store has no future at this [Kensington Market] location.” While there was initial talk of a fundraiser in the days after the bookstore was locked up and branded with a bailiff’s notice, the Huiskens are now saying, “At this point, a fundraiser could only be a Pyrrhic victory.” They assure supporters that they’ve exhausted all their current options but haven’t lost hope that “the store may re-emerge in the long-term.”
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Beleaguered clothing retailer American Apparel is in hot water yet again, this time after part of its hiring policy, which states that job applicants must be approved via a “full-body head-to-toe” photo, made its way to Gawker. AA brass says the body shots aren’t to determine attractiveness, but rather, to determine if a potential employee has the sartorial know-how to pull off, say, a 
