Seattle Post Intelligencer - Gordon — who oversaw the company’s investments in Seattle-area companies such as Consera Software, Melodeo and Speakeasy — said he was part of a 20 percent cutback. He said there are no plans to replace him with a new investment professional in Rest of Article

Arlington Heights Daily Herald - The brocade drapes and exposed brick walls, black-and-white photographs of Hollywood stars, brass accents, linen-covered tables and leather-covered chairs resemble a cross between a 1920s speakeasy and a 1940s supper club. Hours: 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m Rest of Article

Inside Bay Area - somewhat confused young man (Tony Panighetti) leading a double life as Golo, an American-style gangster running a soda-pop speakeasy in Dresden, and Michael Bramleigh, an English master spy. His persona changes every time he gets bopped on the head Rest of Article

Daily Mississippian - Thursday, DJ Starlite spins vinyl down and dirty in the dark at L&M’s Speakeasy, loading up the turntables with plenty of hot wax hits. Larry’s has a good line-up of locals this weekend with Tate Moore on Friday night and Pithecanfunkus Erectus on Rest of Article

Spiked - The function of pubs and the equivalent all over the world is that of speakeasy: formal identification and official roles are put aside, and people can engage in direct communication with some shield of anonymity. Being drunk is a permitted excuse Rest of Article

Bucyrus Telegraph Forum - I have lived here my entire life, yet when I attended a presentation of the Speakeasy with the Class of 1961, I learned things about our town that were just amazing,” Love said as she ate dinner catered by Michelle and Henry Teeters of Katering Rest of Article

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