In recent weeks, the city has been cracking down on Capitol Hill's nightlife. Club owners and bartenders say they've repeatedly been

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This Sunday, the 26th Annual Nordstrom Beat the Bridge to Beat Diabetes run takes place in the general vicinity of Husky Stadium and Montlake. The race starts at 8:30, but street closures begin as early as 7:30. I’ll be running the race with my husband, and last year we saw some pretty irate drivers yelling at the police officers who were preventing them from mowing down the runners. No parking signs and street closure signs ...

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I have the honor of presenting at a Law Firm Public Relations Conference in Chicago next Tuesday, May 20. I would love to see some of you there or perhaps we could meet up on Monday afternoon, Tuesday evening, or early Wednesday. I always enjoy meeting some of my readers who may have in interest in legal blogging or social networking. The conference, presented by the Ark Group, is on 'Optimizing Your Firm’s Business Development Initiatives ...

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The opening sequence from Ridley Scott's first feature film, The Duellists (1977). In this scene, the psychotic Feraud (Harvey Keitel), a hussar in Napoleon's army, clashes with a local functionary's son in Strasbourg, played by the son of Alec Guinness, no less!

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Yesterday the NPD sales numbers for April came out. It had pretty good news for Microsoft, OK news for Sony and freaking totally awesome news for Nintendo. NPD tracks videogame sales and new system sales in the US for April were: 1. Wii - 714,200 2. Nintendo DS - 414,800 3. PSP - 192,000 4. Xbox 360 - 188,000 5. PlayStation 3 - 187,100 6. PlayStation 2 - 124,400 Nintendo ...

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