Ritz and Wolf are closing (same company, different stores).
From Petapixel: “We hear that the stores may only be around for another 7 weeks or so, so get ready to go on a shopping spree once the liquidation sales start, and use your gift cards today!”
Google maps shows them in Oakland, SF, and points beyond.
Two recent incidents reflect changing standards about what kinds of images the mainstream media publish.
Online publishing means that people have access to images from individuals and the media that would not necessarily be published or in their home mass media, pushing mainstream media to consider changing their policies.
US media has a long-standing reluctance to publish pictures of dead people, especially Americans (e.g., in war reporting). But pictures of the victim and perpetrator in the recent Empire State Building shooting are surfacing, even in the NY Times: see the “Multimedia” links. The sequence of images labeled Shooting in Midtown Manhattan shows the dead. The article links to a police video showing the actual police shooting of the perpetrator. Expect a lot of discussion about the appropriateness of these images. See also Reuters. Expect lots of discussion about these images.
An Instagram image has caused controversy. Note that Petapixel obscured the image, and the link to original no longer works.
And the British press, against the request of the palace, published nude pictures of Prince Harry, arguing that the images were already online for anyone to see.