Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked for an updated proposal for closing the controversial prison holding terrorist suspects in Cuba in case President-elect Barack Obama asks for one soon after taking office.
"Young Frankenstein" is closing after nearly 500 Broadway performances, a much shorter run than Mel Brooks' previous big stage effort, "The Producers."
"13," a tween tale of growing up and trying to fit in, is the latest casualty of the Broadway season.
For 15 years, Cascade College in Portland, Ore., struggled to find the fuels that any college needs: students to pay tuition, and donors to help build an endowment.
It's the worst of times for "A Tale of Two Cities."
Broadway's "Spring Awakening" is succumbing to the chilly winds of January.
The original Carvel shop prepared to serve its last cones Sunday, more than seven decades after becoming the birthplace of an ice cream empire.
Beijing capped its six-week run as the center of world sports, ushering out the Paralympic Games on Wednesday with a lavish closing ceremony.
In a wood-paneled basement filled with boxes of nuts, bolts and screws, a college journalism class is under way.
They cheered, they cried and gave the show a standing ovation even before the first note was sung.
Former faculty at Antioch College, which is temporarily closing amid financial problems, plan to teach in coffee shops, bookstores and parks to keep alive the spirit of the private school known for its pioneering academic programs.
"Passing Strange," the critically acclaimed tale of a young man's journey through sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, will close July 20 on Broadway, its producers announced Thursday, one day after director Spike Lee said he would make a film version of the musical.
A Tony Award-winning Twin Cities theater is closing and will be sold to repay a $1 million debt.
The Broadway wedding celebration known as "A Catered Affair" will end its run next month.
"Cry-Baby" is the first casualty of the 2008 Tony Awards. It will close Sunday after a disappointing run of 68 performances.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation abruptly closed a bridge over the Mississippi River here indefinitely Tuesday after inspectors discovered rust and corrosion at several locations.
Come mid-August, the Broadway revival of "A Chorus Line" will be alive and kicking no more.
"Curtains," Kander and Ebb's whodunit musical, will bring down its own final curtain in June.
Mark Twain's "Is He Dead?" is folding after a three-month run.
"No show runs forever" was one of the more astute observations of Broadway director-choreographer Michael Bennett, the man behind "A Chorus Line," itself a model of longevity.
Finnish phone maker Nokia Corp. said Tuesday it will close a manufacturing plant and automotive supply unit in Bochum, Germany, and was in talks to sell a research and development unit in Bochum to Sasken Technologies.
In a grudge match before next week's presidential caucuses, Republican Mitt Romney played it safe Saturday with a series of quick coffee-shop stops where he delivered a final pitch that was long on Iowa platitudes but short on substance.
Cub Foods based in Stillwater Minn. cited "a difficult economic environment" in announcing the closing of the store which opened just eight years ago in a newly constructed building. The news came a few days after the chain s parent company Supervalu Inc.
President-elect Barack Obama plans to order the closing of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay as early as his first week in office to show a break from the Bush administration's approach to the war on terror, according to two officials close to the transition.
anuary 08, 2009 21:43 EST COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The state agency responsible for juvenile corrections says it plans to close a corrections facility and a residential treatment center to save the state $24 million a year.
It is almost a sadness when theatres or shows close; its as close as we can get to live entertainment....
In a fresh sign of the economic turmoil hitting publishing and the Internet, 8020 Media, the company behind the reader-generated photography journal JPG Magazine, is shutting down.
Several Minnesota nonprofits are feeling the pain in the aftermath of alleged investor fraud case perpetrated by Bernie Madoff.
KEVIN Rudd (PM) has left open the possibility of Australia taking former inmates from the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. But he warned that any US request for an inmate to come would be subject to legal criteria and assessed on a case-by-case basis, The Australian reports.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Office Depot Inc. will close about 9 percent of its North American stores and cut 2,200 jobs over the next three months while planning to open fewer locations next year in an effort to cut costs.
Late-night drinkers are to be given tea and biscuits as part of a taxpayer-funded scheme to cut rowdy behaviour at closing time.
Retailer Mervyns LLC said it will close its remaining stores and wind down its business by selling off inventory at discounts as the holiday season approaches.
The initial distress felt by lovers of homestyle cookies at the news that Archway & Mother's Cookies Co.
NBC executive producer David Neal, who's seen two rehearsals of the closing, says it's an "entertainment spectacular."
Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are closing the case, Portuguese media have reported. Her parents Kate and Gerry McCann are both official suspects in the inquiry, along with a third man, Robert Murat.
The Board of Directors of the Twin Cites-based Theatre de la Jeune Lune voted this week to list the theatre's headquarters for sale and to shut down the arts group as currently organized.
General Motors Corp. will close its Janesville sport utility vehicle plant by 2010, the Detroit-based automaker announced today.
After more than 30 years, Randall Park Mall will close in mid-June.
Clinton is airing this advertisement in Indiana, bemoaning the closure of a defense contractor Magnequench's manufacturing plant in Valparaiso (she is also echoing this line in her stump speeches).
A growing number of bankruptcies among US retailers is set to prompt thousands of store closings, the New York Times will report on the front page of its Tuesday edition.
50 Cent was hit with a breach-of-contract lawsuit by the mother of his 10-year-old boy for trying to evict them from their home in Long Island.
Virgin Mobile has given the okay to begin closing of their Carrollton, Texas call center location.
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"If Dave Thomas knew he would roll over in his grave," Uh, Dave Thomas is already in his grave. What would make him roll over if not this?
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