Lilith

What do vampires do after massacring a wedding reception? Plan for world domination, of course. After last week's monstrously ridiculous episode, this week was a bit more sedate. For"True Blood"that means a graphic sex scene, double Sams (seriously) and some super-scary sections involving Sookie and Jason's parents' killer. But there wasn't a naked Lilith. So there's that. COMING DOWN: Still high on non-mainstreaming and feeding on wedding party folks, the Chancellors regroup at the Authority to plan their next step.

Lilith lingersSarah McLachlan's packed up Lilith Fair and moved on, but the angel-voiced diva has developed her own catalog to satisfy fans still longing for the hemp and hip products sold at the music festival.Temporary henna tattooes will be a relief for the parents of young Lilith-goers. Many of the semi-psychedelic designs on pendants, rings, earrings, T-shirts, hats and bags are McLachlan's original artwork and evoke the mellow mood of the concert. She even goes so far as to cleverly recruit a new generation with baby clothes sporting the Lilith logo.

The scream of joy came from a woman on the track apron, and then the woman, still whooping it up, burst into the winner's circle. Class Concern had just captured the Humphrey S. Finney Stakes yesterday at Pimlico Race Course, and Lilith Boucher, his trainer, was beside herself. It was about to get worse. Boucher's cell phone rang. She answered and screamed again. It was her assistant, calling from Middleburg, Va., saying the Boucher-trained Class Sprite, in his second race over jumps, had just won a big race and defeated a hurdle champion.

DON'T YOU THINK that Jerry Falwell is a nosy, sour, crabby old goober who ought to be isolated in his fundamentalist cave and left for at least a decade without publicity or attention of any kind?I say this because it seems that nearly every month, Falwell and his troops in Virginia say something so stupid and out of touch with the real world that it makes all of us shake our heads and laugh. However, the media seem to get a big kick out of giving Falwell precious attention and therefore an enhanced image across the nation.

Singer, songwriter and musician Lisa Loeb had her first hit single before she even recorded her first album."It was a mixed blessing," says Loeb, who has just released her second album, "Firecracker." The hit single in question, "Stay," first released on the soundtrack for 1994's "Reality Bites," propelled Loeb into the spotlight. "I had written it without entertainment-industry interference. It was done in a pure way."But with the single's success came tour dates and a slew of marketing responsibilities that did not allow Loeb time to get to work on her first album for nearly a year.

Ricky MartinRicky Martin (C2/Columbia 69891)There has been a lot of hopeful talk in the music business about Latin pop stars moving into the mainstream, with numerous singers -- from Selena to Enrique Iglesias to Jennifer Lopez -- being trumpeted as the next big thing.At the moment, Ricky Martin seems the industry's most likely crossover. After making a big splash performing "Vuelve" during the Grammy Awards broadcast in February, Martin released an English-language single, "La Vida Loca," which quickly climbed to the top of the charts.

As Toni Blackman's band played on stage, Denise Baughman escaped from the music and walked up to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network table and grabbed a business card.Baughman, 25, of Hagerstown was thinking about a co-worker in an abusive relationship. The card promised confidential help 24 hours a day. "Maybe we should put it up in a locker?" she asked a friend.Scores of women visited RAINN's table at the Lilith Fair concert last month at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, and RAINN was scheduled to be present again last night for a performance by one of the group's founders, Tori Amos, an assault victim and musician.

BOSTON -- As a certified member of the Clean Slate Club, I like to end every year confessing the errors of my column ways. This annual event in media (self) bashing is not particularly popular with my crowd. For the most part, journalists adhere to the Bill Gates Theory of Corrections. Once, wrote editor Michael Kinsley, "we asked Bill Gates what should be done when people complain about factual errors in Slate. His advice was, `Have them killed.'" That may be a touch extreme. But if our salaries depended on being right, what would happen to the round-table prophets who pronounced Bill Clinton's imminent death all last year?

As Toni Blackman's band played on stage, Denise Baughman escaped from the music and walked up to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network table and grabbed a business card.Baughman, 25, of Hagerstown was thinking about a co-worker in an abusive relationship. The card promised confidential help 24 hours a day. "Maybe we should put it up in a locker?" she asked a friend.Scores of women visited RAINN's table at the Lilith Fair concert last month at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, and RAINN was scheduled to be present again last night for a performance by one of the group's founders, Tori Amos, an assault victim and musician.