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WHEN LESLIE'S AWAY, DAN'S A CAD! On Tues 7/27, Trace and his pals went to 2218 to enjoy the smooth tunes of H.B. Radke -- they arrived early to snag front-row seats, as did two lovely ladies nearby. But what happened next, Trace couldn't believe! "I noticed this guy in a fancy suit raking the waiter over the coals. Mr. Suit Man kept pointing to the two girls at the front-row table. The next thing I know, the waiter asks the girls to move to a smaller table, right in front of a speaker!" Apparently, all bowed to Q13's Devone, who was partying with fancy Mr. Suit Man, and (get THIS!!) "five giggly young women"!! (Ooh-la-la!!) The besieged waiter dropped everything when the bigwigs started ordering champagne -- Trace sputters, "He couldn't even serve us the drinks we ordered before the 'stars' sat down!" Trace was so livid, he and his pals walked out! Hope you're happy, big shot!
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GET A ROOM! Fri 7/30 Mark & friends went to Gasworks Park to see The Day the Earth Stood Still -- but they claim the real show was Q13 news diva Kerri Kazarba and a certain Mr. Tall Dark and Handsome, "engaged in a total public display of affection"! The lovebirds discreetly sat far from the festivities -- but not far enough!
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STARS OF YESTERYEAR HIT THE CLUBS! Ol' "Disasterblaster" went to see King's X Sat 7/31 at the Fenix, and felt like he was in the Grunge Bass Players' Hall of Fame. First he sees Mr. Krist Novoselic dressed head to toe in black... then over by the merch booth, there's Jeff Ament & date, wearing his 'n' hers "weak-looking fisherman's hats." The other guys in Ament's new-agey side project, Three Fish, were also in the house, fresh from playing WOMAD. 路路路 Aged Sunset Boulevard star Petula Clark was "dooowwn-tooown" at the Croc, taking in John Wesley Harding's acoustic set Thurs 8/5. I hear Pet was peeved, however -- between the club's acoustics and the clubgoers' yakking, she couldn't hear a thing! 路路路 And it sounded like Eddie Spaghetti hit the jackpot at the Wallingford QFC -- but that was just the happy sound of him dumping an entire Pringles can of change into the Coinstar machine! Ka-CHING!!
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NOT TO BE DENIED! You could put a weak-looking fisherman's hat on his head and bathe him in hippie sweat, and still the merest brush with super-hot Jared Leto pulls in the ladies like a pheromone cocktail! Rob S., age 20, says that Sat 8/7 at EndFest, hotty-hot Jared, dressed in motorcycle leathers, walked right past him -- oddly, Mr. Hotpants' best gal, Ms. Diaz, was nowhere in sight! Even though Leto's still sporting "that ugly mohawk jobby that looks like something died on his head" (from A Leonard Cohen Afterworld), he's still irresistibly SEXY!! Rob crows: "Needless to say, the ladies were on my jock after I told them about my brush with a real life TV heartthrob!" You GO, boy!
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By the way, Q13ies: How are you enjoying your Stranger boxer shorts? shirley@thestranger.com
