Lilith

If it were merely vulgar kitsch, then "Tales from the Crypt presents 'Bordello of Blood'" could be dismissed without much energy. Another bad movie with Dennis Miller? So what else is new?Well, there is something disturbingly new in "Bordello of Blood" perhaps worthy of contempt. In its climactic sequence, private shamus Miller breaks into the title structure and with an atomic squirt gun filled with holy water spritzes away a bunch of vampires in typically overwrought fashion.But decode the scene -- that is, strip away the narrative encryptions and reduce it to its essence, to its source of power, to its level of glee -- and you have something far more meretricious.

Michael CrawfordEnjoy an evening with Michael Crawford beginning at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Baltimore Arena, 201 W. Baltimore St., and at 8 p.m. Saturday at the MCI Center, 601 F St., Washington. Expect to hear medleys from his Tony Award-winning role as the "Phantom of the Opera," the film "Hello Dolly" and songs inspired by his Irish heritage and school-choir days. Tickets are $30-$75 for tomorrow's concert, $40-$75 for Saturday. Call 410-481-SEAT or 410-347-2010.Lilith FairListen to rock, folk, country and jazz tunes this weekend at the Lilith Fair at Merriweather Post Pavilion, off Little Patuxent Parkway in Columbia.

For a while there, the current television season threatened to be one of the best ever. Dramatically speaking, it had everything: stories of love, greed, sex, power, violence, revenge and mystery, all presented in intricate detail.Who can forget the riveting He Said, She Said drama starring Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas?Or the Mr.Smith-goes-to-Palm-Beach-and-has-a-sexual-encounter with-Patricia-Bowman story?And, please, let's not forget the Harry and Leona Helmsley story or the unfolding saga of Hillary and Bill Clinton.

At every summer concert you can find the terminally prepared girl who's ready for anything: rancid bathrooms, sticky seats, alien invasions."You always worship that girl who whips out the bag of Kleenex and hands it to you," says Jimmy Hanrahan, senior wardrobe stylist at MTV. "You can be that girl everyone loves."She's not Einstein in a halter top. She's just experienced. Here are the lightweight concert essentials she wouldn't dare forget:* Waterproof sunscreen. Obvious, yes. So obvious, that you may forget it. Don't, unless you want to be a rock lobster.

It's a night to rally around PBS, which presents two remarkable documentaries tonight: the final installment of the fascinating "Odyssey of Life" on "Nova," and an agonizingly intimate profile about a woman, in a film made by her own daughter, on "Frontline.""Promised Land" (8 p.m.-9 p.m., WJZ, Channel 13) -- Delta Burke guest stars on her husband's show this week, playing Nathaniel's estranged mother. CBS."Nova: Odyssey of Life" (8 p.m.-9 p.m., MPT, Channels 22, 67) -- Lots of times, when watching the previous two installments of this fabulous, ultra-close-up look at nature and people, I asked myself, "How did the photographer get these pictures?"

Rock stars aren't the best role models, especially when it comes to outdoor summer concert wear.At the sticky HFStival in Washington in May, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones wore full, dark zoot suits, and select B52s sported sequins, stockings and spiked heels.They looked cool, but you can be sure they didn't feel that way. Do not take your summer concert fashion cue from the performers. They're getting paid to put on those get-ups.You, on the other hand, paid to watch them in those get-ups and need to be a tad more practical.

Suddenly, on May 5, 2008, ROBERT C. OLIVER. He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Charolene Oliver; son Kenneth Oliver, Keith Oliver, Joseph Greene, and daughter Lisa Hudley; mother Marguerite Oliver; sister Veronica Mandy, Rosalind Dailey, and Lilith Soden; grandson Aaron Johnson, and a host of family and friends. Memorial service will be held on Saturday, May 10, at Union Baptist Church, 105 Main Street, Turner Station, MD. Family hour 12 noon. Service at 12:30 P.M. Repast immediately following at St. Matthew's United Methodist Church.

Like, gag us with a spoon. For its 30th anniversary, Artscape is going all 1980s on us. So we figured that now’s the time to determine once and for all which was the better 10-year period: the ’80s or ’90s. Let the battle begin! FASHION ’80s: Neon; torn sweat shirts and leg warmers; the “Miami Vice” look; shoulder pads; goth ’90s: Grunge; “Blossom” hats; bell-bottom sleeves; cargo shorts/pants; babydoll dresses; that T-shirt-under-a-suit thing Winner : Tough one, but the ’ 80s ekes out a win (mostly thanks to not introducing cargo shorts/pants)

Were you expecting Bill Compton to have a master plan? To be nice Bill all along and not some crazy vampire religious zealot? It could have happened that way. But yeah, it didn't. The opposite happened. When Eric and Sookie track him down in his Massive Master Authority Crazy Person Bedchamber, Bill has just staked Salome (I'd say R.I.P. to Salome, but it wouldn't mean it), having tricked her into drinking "Lilith's blood" that he has spiked with lots of silver. Some major "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" stuff here (before she's staked, Salome even says "she chose wisely)

On February 18, 2005, DONALD ECURTIAN; loving husband of Pauline Curtian (nee Clevenger); beloved father of Carol Steirer and her husband Dale, Mary Wirth and her husband George, Donna Pickens and her late husband David, Brenda Ziegler, Donald Curtian, Jr., and his wife Debra, Daniel Curtian and his wife Sheila and Shari Tourlitis and her husband Antonios; cherished "Pop-Pop" of Jonathan Stierer and his wife Becky, Michaelene Greathouse and her husband Greg,...