• Ballard, beware! There's a bold thief making his rounds at local businesses, despite being caught red-handed and confronted by a number of his victims.
• It's time for year-end reviews from everyone, about everything! The Southlake has chronicled the big events of its first year of neighborhood blogging.
• Wah-ha-ha (evil blog laugh), "Snowmageddon" spread! Beacon Hill Blog has a fascinating (albeit slow-loading) set of hour-by-hour time-lapsed video from the great snow siege of 2008. As BHB said, it all started out so innocently...but we all know what came next.

Rudolph Valentino. Ray Charles. Jerry Lee Lewis dancing on pianos, for God's sake! Dance in Seattle had anything but a boring 20th century. We were prowling around the internet this morning and discovered that today is the anniversary of the date the city banned a really bizarre but popular 1920s and '30s fad called "dance marathons" within its city limits. That was enough to pique our interest, and we've spent the day researching what was happening in the world of dance during the 20th century. Here are some of the highlights, thanks in large part to our favorite local history website: HistoryLink.org. more ›