from Aberdeen."
Replied Leland Cobain, the rocker's granddad: "This is exactly the reason Kurt left Aberdeen in the first place. They can't accept anything new."
City councilman Jack Micheau said the newly formed Bootstraps Arts Foundation plans to build an amphitheatre in the rocker's name as well as find a permanent place for the statue. "I don't think we need to advertise that he's a drug addict who killed himself," he said. "But his music was popular and he was well-known and something should be done to recognize that."
LOCALLY CONNECTED
* Darren Daulton was spotted repasting with another couple, plus what one witness described as "a gorgeous brunette," Tuesday at Center City's Striped Bass. The Phillies catcher didn't let that broken collarbone keep him from lifting a fork or a pen for several autograph requests.
Steve Carlton, who will enter Baseball's Hall of Fame next month, will first be inducted into the Taj Mahal's Hall of Fame Tuesday at the Atlantic City casino. Donald Trump Himself will preside; Harry Kalas will emcee. The 7:30 p.m. event is an invitation-only deal. On the invite, respondents are asked to dial an 800 number and ask for Hank Aaron. Naaawwww!
RAP SHEET
* A New York police detective, testifying at Tupac Shakur's sexual abuse case Tuesday, said he couldn't explain why endearing messages from the victim to the rapper were missing from Shakur's phone answering machine. Last fall Shakur's lawyer accused police of destroying six or seven messages left by the woman, thanking him for letting her have oral sex with him on a Big Apple dance floor. That was just days before she said he and his three buds sexually attacked her in his Manhattan hotel room.
On another Shakur court front, an L.A. judge has removed the dollar figure
