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Magnolia Bakery shut down due to cockroaches

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    CHICAGO (WBBM) — The Magnolia Bakery location in downtown Chicago was shut down this week due to a cockroach infestation.

City data shows the bakery in the Block 37 mall, at 108 N. State St., failed a health inspection on Monday.

An inspector noted that they saw more than a dozen live roaches crawling between cracks and crevices near the food preparation area.

City data said inspectors came in after someone filed a complaint.

The health violations were characterized as “high-risk.”

A sign near the door at Magnolia Bakery said it has temporarily closed and will reopen soon. A lime-green “License Suspended” sign from the Chicago Department of Public Health is also affixed to the doors.

The Magnolia Bakery in Block 37 opened in 2011 as the first and only Chicago location for the New York-based operation. The bakery is known for cakes, pies, and banana pudding, among other delights.

Magnolia Bakery was founded in New York City in 1996. The bakery grew in fame when it was named in the TV show “Sex and the City.”

The bakery was also featured in the movie “Prime,” which features a character hurling Magnolia Bakery pies at his ex-girlfriends, as well as the movie “The Devil Wears Prada,” and the 2005 “Saturday Night Live” digital short “Lazy Sunday.”

Magnolia Bakery was credited with starting the cupcake craze that began in the late 1990s.

However, the original Magnolia Bakery location on Bleecker Street in New York City’s West Village also made headlines in February 2013 for being shut down for a couple of days by that city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene due to mice.

Magnolia Bakery also has numerous locations around Manhattan, as well as one each in Los Angeles and in Holiday Hills, Utah. The bakery also has six international locations.

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Man who is homeless turns hardship into art on a street corner

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Click here for updates on this story    LEXINGTON, Kentucky (WLEX) -- Joseph Curtis has been homeless for almost four years. Instead of just panhandling, he picks up a brush.Every day, Curtis sets up at the corner of Russell Cave Road and West New Circle Road in Lexington, his 9-month-old dog Bobby by his side, and paints whatever he envisions that day."Panhandling out here like this, it breaks a man's spirit," Curtis said."I started doing this because it don't make me feel like I'm bumming, you know. I do what I can for, you know, for my dog, for my girlfriend," Curtis said.State data shows more than 900 people are experiencing homelessness in Fayette County. Behind the numbers are real people with real stories.Curtis says he is no fine art master, but he finds meaning in every piece he creates."I'm nowhere near Bob Ross, nowhere. That man to me is a God when it comes to paintings," Curtis said.He describes one of his paintings as carrying a deeper message."It's more of — there's a light at the end of the darkness," Curtis said.Curtis believes most people who buy his work are motivated by more than just wanting the art itself."I think people's more or less, uh, buying my paintings just to help me out, you know, not because they actually want them," Curtis said.When asked about available resources, Curtis expressed frustration."They say they got resources. Well, all right, prove it. Quit tearing down buildings that they can get to, you know. Let the homeless use to sleep in," Curtis said.He also spoke about how he feels society views people experiencing homelessness."The way society looks at homeless people. They look at us like we're a piece of trash," Curtis said.What Curtis says he wants most isn't sympathy — it's a chance."Give us a helping hand up, not a helping hand out," Curtis said.Through every painting he sells, Curtis hopes people see more than his circumstances — they see the person behind them.Curtis says if anyone wants to purchase his art, you can stop by at the corner of Russell Cave Road and W. New Circle Road, every day.Please note: This story was provided to CNN Wire by an affiliate and does not contain original CNN reporting. This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform.
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