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The Ottobar will rock out - girl-style, that is - Saturday at the 2003 EstroFest. The show, a benefit for the local House of Ruth women's shelter, will feature five mostly female bands from the Baltimore-Washington area, including the garage punk duo Mongoloidian Glow. Event co-organizer Kate Tallent said the evening will start off "fairly low-key" with a 30-minute feminist puppet show titled "The Miss America." Then, the music starts with an emo-folk set from The Rare Animal Zoo. But don't expect any Sarah McLachlan covers or tributes to Jewel.

Restaurateur Donna Crivello on long-term vacation? Forget it.Crivello, the entrepreneur who has studded Baltimore with her Donna's restaurants and coffee bars, has no intention of abandoning her empire. In fact, Crivello and partner Alan Hirsch are deep in plans for three more Donna's locations -- bringing to 15 the total of restaurants, coffee bar-cafes and kiosks opened around the area since 1992.The notion that Crivello might be retiring resulted from a joking exchange with WWMX-FM deejays JoJo Girard and Kenny Campbell yesterday morning.

It seems like we've been talking about it for months. But there's a changing of the guard finally about to take place on late, late night CBS.Tom Snyder leaves "The Later Late Show with Tom Snyder" at the end of the week. And, then, on Tuesday starting at 12: 35 a.m., it becomes "The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn."Kilborn, the former host of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, is going from the network of "South Park" to the network of "Diagnosis Murder." Will he have to adjust?"Well, I think of it as more as I'm following David Letterman, which to me is the greatest," Kilborn said.

Summer is traditionally a music season. Thanks to the popularity of outdoor amphitheaters like Pier Six, the Merriweather Post Pavilion and the Nissan Pavilion at Stone Ridge, from late May through early September is when the biggest pop acts hit the road, and when most of the year's concert business is done.This summer, though, may already seem something of a wash. Not only are relatively few megastars on the road, but the season's biggest band event -- U2's Popmart Tour -- has already come and gone.

Leave it to Russell Edgington to liven things up. Finally. Captured by Eric and Bill (finally) at the Asylum of High School Student Horror House and brought back to the Authority, Russell seemed done for. He's outfitted with one of those helpful iStakes and brought before Roman for execution that night. Because Roman wants to play golf. Sidenote: Earlier, Roman celebrates Russell's capture with a bottle of 18th century Austrian hemophiliac blood. For the record, I enjoy 19th century Austrian hemophiliac.

Los Angeles--The taps pour real beer. But the stuff in the glass on the bar in front of where Norm sits and drinks and drinks and drinks is the non-alcoholic kind.The yellow-and-red Wurlitzer jukebox plays real tunes: "The In Crowd" by Dobie Gray, "Heartbreak Hotel" by Elvis Presley, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" by the Platters and "I Fall to Pieces" by Patsy Cline. But the stairs behind it are fake and go nowhere. There is no Melville's fine seafood restaurant upstairs, as the sign promises.

NBC flashes viewers back to sitcom memories in a pair of its strong Tuesday comedies, while a new character makes an appearance on ABC's hit police show.* "Wings" (8 p.m.-8:30 p.m., WBAL, Channel 11) -- Viewers need to be up to speed if Joe and Helen (Timothy Daly and Crystal Bernard) are going to consummate this season's engagement with a wedding during the May sweeps. Thus this episode of flashbacks reprises their courtship, as videotaped by Brian (Steven Weber) for a wedding present. NBC.* "Frontline: Divided Memories" (9 p.m.-11 p.m., MPT, Channels 22, 67)

Events, past and future, color many of the repeats offered by TV tonight.* "Mad About You" (8-8:30 p.m., WMAR, Channel 2) -- A minor TV mystery solved: When this clever "virtual reality" episode of "Mad About You" ran in February, it was somewhat puzzling why guest star Christie Brinkley so enthusiastically threw herself into the role of Paul's fantasy female. Now we know her marriage to Billy Joel was, by that time, several months in the unmaking, and her prime-time guest shot can be seen in retrospect as a high-profile return to (and display of)

A repeat of February's crossover between "Homicide" and "Law & Order" is tonight's highlight. Bonus: You get to watch the shows back-to-back, not spread over two nights as originally aired."

FAIR HILL -- It wasn't Ladies Day at the Fair Hill races yesterday, but the ladies had a field day, anyway.Female trainers captured the first five races -- two each by Lilith Boucher and Janet Elliot and one by Katherine Neilson, who also rode the winner in the second race.But Sanna Neilson supplied the big finish for the women, sending out Chilean-bred Dictador to victory in the $25,000 Miles Valentine Novice Stakes, the feature of an eight-race card."I had to get a little taste myself," said Sanna Neilson in reference to her sister Katherine's success after Craig Thornton steered Dictador to a four-length score over Right Stuff.