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Local
· A guide to new reality TV show The City [NYM]
· American Apparel window displays work their magic [NYC the Tumblr]
National
· Vultures swarm around plummeting retail stocks [NYP]
· Screw you, $830 Goyard laptop sleeve [Gizmodo]
· Pretty much, this was the worst Christmas ever [HolidaySales Blog]
· More gloom and doom: 73,000 stores might close in the first half of 2009 [Bloomberg]
· Tracey Ross on the closure of her Hollywood boutique: duh, it's the economy [NYP]