Following up on her story from last week, Erica C. Barnett has a nice scoop today on Mayor Nickels’s ongoing clampdown on Seattle’s club scene.

She got her hands on a draft of Mayor Nickels’s new nightlife legislation. It reads like a Teen Dance Ordinance for Adults. That is: a bureaucratic affront that makes it impossible for clubs to flourish.

The exciting part about Erica’s latest story is this: the very Nightlife Task Force Nickels created to co-opt the music community is so fed up, they’ve joined forces with an ad hoc group that’s going to challenge Nickels’s clampdown. (They had their first meeting yesterday when they saw Nickels’s proposal.)

P.s. Welcome back from vacation, ECB!