On Saturday night, December 28, Graceland booker Frankie Chan was handed an unsigned flier that called him a rapist and demanded that he "agree to any and all conditions" from the alleged victim. (No complaints or formal charges have been filed with the SPD or any law enforcement agency.) The flier also endorsed boycotting the Eastlake Avenue rock club unless Chan resigned. If Chan didn't comply, the flier said, he would face "the most serious of consequences."

"I look at it and go, 'Man, that's bullshit,'" Chan, 24, says. "I had no idea what the allegations pertained to." He knew a few people who were handing out the anonymous fliers, and tracked them down at a party that night.

There, a few women pulled him into a room with the alleged victim. The group met for over an hour. He denied their accusations, which stemmed from a December 26 party at Double Trouble on Capitol Hill, where Chan says he and the woman got drunk and made out.

Chan says the women demanded that he publicly apologize. "I told [the woman] I was very sorry that she felt violated, or felt that I did anything to her in any way," Chan says. The women at the party--it's not certain they wrote the flier--couldn't be reached by press time.

The flier also accused The Stranger and its music writer Kathleen Wilson of complacency about alleged rapes in Seattle's music scene. For the record, The Stranger broke the story of a rape allegation made against the lead singer of a prominent local band (no charges were ever filed), and I personally helped nab the infamous "penis man" in September, after The Stranger broke the story and wrote about him for months. And Wilson wrote a story in February ["Community?" Feb 21] that pointedly said the local music community shouldn't sweep sexual violence under the rug. AMY JENNIGES

Spy Story

The Seattle Times broke a big story on Sunday, December 29, reporting that the city was considering loosening a local law that limits the police's ability to gather intelligence. The law was imposed in 1979 in the wake of revelations that Seattle cops had spied on prominent activists and journalists for years.

Now, however, city officials worry the law as currently written may interfere with their ability to receive terrorism-related intelligence from federal agencies. The feds apparently mistrust the '79 law's requirement that a civilian auditor make sure cops only collect information on people linked to criminal activities rather than, say, info on antiwar activists. SANDEEP KAUSHIK