If you read today's GO section you know the first part of my column is about a concert Hell's Kitchen will host Saturday to help raise funds for installing a costly new sprinkler system, as required by state law by the end of next year. In my column, booking agent Flash Connel argues that the expense ($30,000 to $50,000 by some estimates) will shut down a bunch of local music venues. But I thought I'd also post a link that deputy fire marshal Phil Ferrell sent me explaining the sprinkler law and it's implications.

Once you read that, surf back over here and tell me what you think. Is this law, first passed in 2005 and revised in '07, necessary? Is it fair? Should we start the countdown to several clubs shutting down, or is that "sky is falling" talk?