BUSINESS The Standard hotel in West Hollywood shutting down indefinitely after 22 years City News ServiceSaturday, January 23, 2021 The Standard, Hollywood will close indefinitely because a significant increase to its lease makes operating the property impossible, the boutique hotel announced this week.WEST HOLLYWOOD (CNS) — The Standard, Hollywood will close indefinitely because a significant increase to its lease makes operating the property impossible, the boutique hotel announced this week. The hotel on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, founded 22 years ago, was the first in the Standard International chain which also consists of hotels in downtown Los Angeles, New York City, Miami Beach, Florida, London and Maldives in South Asia. The Standard was known for its celebrity clientele — Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Benicio del Toro were early financial backers — its design, the scene around its pool, surrounded by blue artificial turf, night clubs and musical performances. A Standard International representative told the Los Angeles Times the hotel tried to renegotiate the terms of the lease. The Standard’s lease is held by the Ferrado Group, a real estate investment firm based in Spain with a location in Newport Beach, The Times reported. “While there are and will be more Standard hotels, there will never be another Standard, Hollywood,” the hotel said in a statement. “And though it is painful to say goodbye, we know that the community we inspired will live on. Thank you for everything. We are eternally grateful.” FULL SOURCE via ABC7
Hundreds of tourist-trade businesses DEFY Covid lockdown rules and say they will reopen in Poland because lockdown they ‘won’t survive another month’
Ski slopes, restaurants and hotels in Poland’s tourist-reliant mountainous south have announced they will defy anti-virus restrictions and reopen Monday, as small business owners nationwide grow increasingly weary of lockdown. Around 200 entrepreneurs have joined the so-called ‘Highlanders’ Veto’ movement, whose leader Sebastian Piton announced the disobedience campaign while clad in the traditional outfit of the Tatra mountains. But the Polish government said opening businesses now would ‘radically increase’ the number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the country. ‘The entrepreneurs are this determined because they realise they won’t survive another month – so they have no choice,’ said Piton, who has described coronavirus as a ‘minor, pleasant illness’. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9142789/Hundreds-tourist-trade-businesses-DEFY-Covid-lockdown-rules-say-reopen-Poland.html?fbclid=IwAR3ca0EPs59KW62Et5xIzfd6bv5jQC0ElgakslzwvDKgLFJZSPgz8sxbhAY
COVID-19: The excuses people have been giving for breaking lockdown
Climbing a mountain in the dark in trainers and a road trip to visit all 92 football league grounds are just two of the excuses people have given to police after being recently caught flouting lockdown rules. Though the rules on the government website state “stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live”, one minister has conceded the term is “open to interpretation, but people broadly know what local means”. Two women who were fined £200 after travelling to a reservoir for a walk around five miles from their homes have had their penalties cancelled. Here is a look at some of the reasons people have given for leaving their homes and breaching current COVID-19 regulations. https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-the-excuses-people-have-been-giving-for-breaking-lockdown-12185693
Azealia Banks Shares Crazy Sacrificial Videos
She is something of a controversial figure, having recently been embroiled in a hotel room scuffle with Russell Crowe after a social media tirade at Zayn Malik. watch the video below: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4076642/Azealia-Banks-shares-bizarre-video-cleaning-feathers-blood-closet-THREE-YEARS-sacrificing-chickens.html#v-2581884754519310216 But Azaelia Banks still managed to shock fans with a bizarre Instagram video showing herself cleaning out a cupboard after three years of apparently sacrificing chickens. The video starts with Azaelia looking ready to do some DIY, telling fans: ‘The amount of c**p that’s about to come off my floor right now guys. Oh My God.’ However, it soon emerges that this is no ordinary cleaning job with the camera panning to a small closet covered with the remains of feathers and blood. ‘Guys, you know, I’ve got to scrape all this ‘shit’ up,’ she declares, as blood is shown all over the walls. The star can then be seen brandishing her sandblaster to scrape an array of feathers off the closet floor. Azealia claimed to be a ‘witch’ last year, revealing that her interest in magic came from her mother. ‘My mother practised white table magic. Prayers to the ancestors and praying to saints and praying for all kind of protection’ she told Broadly Vice. She went into further explanation with a typically controversial tweet where she wrote: ‘Black people are naturally born SEERS, DIVINERS, WITCHES AND WIZARDS. we have REAL supernatural powers, and the sooner we ALL learn to cultivate them and access them, the sooner we can REALLY fix shit. ARTICLE SOURCE BELOW https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4076642/Azealia-Banks-shares-bizarre-video-cleaning-feathers-blood-closet-THREE-YEARS-sacrificing-chickens.html