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by A.D. Amorosi

After an October cluster-fucked by crashing computers and the passing of my dear pooch (thanks to those who sent condolences), it’s time for ìbiggerî concerns. Elliott Smith? He wasn’t already dead? Two million dollars spent on a WorldCom party? No prob, except that they blew a quarter of it on Jimmy Buffett. Doesn’t anyone do blow anymore? Tony Luke’s Walk of Fame stars for George Bochetto and John DeBella? How could I not see those while ordering the pork? And poor Jon Bon Jovi revives his career with a song you’ll hear during every NFL broadcast for the rest of your life as the grand finale to the close of the Vet. What nets a magazine cover? Buying an indoor football team and a fete as dumb as Tico Torres’ sideburns. Jon Bon, along with designer Josh Owen, flacks Peter Breslow and Jeff Jubelirer and more (groupies now know where to find Breslow!) get their Philly mag moment on Nov. 6 at Tiffany’s when they celebrate the mag’s ìItî cover.Ö Forget the woe of weeks before when they couldn’t open, pissing off Project/Object fans and Trenton newspapers: Conduit’s on, opened last weekend. Co-owner Paul Browning’s been embarrassed by license problems (liquor license’ll transfer by Thanksgiving) and a last-minute yanking of insurance (it was never put through fully). ìOur shit was fucked up,î says Browning, now covered, insurance-wise, ìper event.î ìEveryone’s been waiting for us to open for so long, and everything went so smoothly, that to see this happen must’ve given our friends at Standard Tap a good laugh. At least the people in Lambertville are waiting for us to open.î At its opening, Conduit trumped The Khyber’s record by having four, not three, Gallaghers (bar manager Kevin, bartender Brendan, doorman Sean, Shannon doing box office) at work.Ö Is David Simons of Khyber/Troc fame the booking mastermind behind Tokio Ballroom, Philadelphia Fish & Co. and Dock Street’s Sheraton?Ö While Soma vibes with DJ Diabolic’s cut-and-paste oldies on Nov. 7, its Sundays will now feature ìFoundsoundî with Sean, Kate, Cyhl and Andrew (Substitution’s ìFuzed Funkî moved to Fridays at Hot Point).Ö WhoWhatWhere: While M. Night Shyamalan’s Chester-County-stuck Village-ers dressed in costume for Halloween, we have no word yet whether R. Kelly got to Club 720’s post-Powerhouse powwow. (Hey, Kelly wasn’t the guy reported by local papers as the ìsexual predatorî chased and beaten by Goretti high-school girls, was he?) Jill Goodacre, her mom, Glenna, and Harry Connick Jr. ate at Moshulu after the dedication of Glenna’s Irish Memorial sculpture. Andre Harris, Vidal Davis, Darius Rucker, Jill Scott, Floetry and Glenn Lewis joined Hidden Beach’s Jeff Bradshaw for his Bone Deep party at Zanzibar Blue. A TLA-playing Burning Spear stopped at Pontiac, joining Town Hall on stage. Local thespian Scott Martin Brooks not only got the opening ìfindî (a dead, naked girl in Fairmount Park) on Nov. 28’s episode of Hack, the cast, crew and director Chad Lowe had to contend with real police pulling a female from the Schuylkill moments before their shoot. Brooks lunched with Lowe and his wife, Hilary Swank, who had flown in to see Lowe (ìThey’re lovey-dovey,î Brooks says), and overheard Andre Braugher debating Yeats. 50 Cent and Allen Iverson promoted their respective sneakers -- G6, $80.50, Answer 7, $115 -- at Rbk on South Street. Even cops want in on ìlocal celebrity.î Police Athletic League (PAL) hosted ìMake a Celebrity PALî at Denim, where prizes included a round of golf with A.J. Feeley or a chance to hang with Larry Mendte. Does PAL want to kill these kids?Ö Before G-Room’s Amanda sails to Europe, she will host ìG-Roomî at Circa on Nov. 8 along with partner Marion, DJ Lorne (promoting From Philly With Love, Vol. 2 with Cozmic and Gill) and Spiral Q.Ö The late Sara Weaver (Swisher) is celebrated on her birthday, Nov. 7, with a Khyber memorial starring O Mighty Isis, 1929 and Bitter, Bitter Weeks.Ö Jeffrey Gaines needs you. He’s recording a live-at-TLA CD/DVD for January ’04 on Nov. 6 at 7 p.m., and he says, ìI’ll have musicians, but my real band is the audience, the ones that’ve sustained me from the start. Come ready to clap, sing and be proactive. We are making a record.îÖ Albie Wachlin’s been chronicling The Dumpsta’ Players since 1998. Either get him a hobby or check out his exhibit of said snaps at the Table Space, 948 N. Eighth St. on Nov. 8.Ö CP contributor Meredith Broussard will get another, more manly shot at her Dictionary of Failed Relationships: 26 Stories of Love Gone Wrong when Three Rivers Press follows up her femme compilation in 2005, with 26 boy scribes.Ö Happy b-days to Doobies’ Patti ìBowieî Brett, Bar Noir’s Billy Magee and to Beautiful Peoples’ Anwar Jackson and Justin Waller, who, along with Lil' Dave and Tashia Parker, kicked off their birthdays by previewing their Friday jams with Square Biz at Transit. A hungover Jackson is sewing up Philly-Soul matron Dyana Williams’ b-day party at Solefood, Nov. 8.

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