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HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY: If you're still looking for ways to show your red, white and blue allegiance, here are some of the more unusual avenues available, from the Baltimore Sun, with contributions from SideShow:

A roaring success
Tickets for The Lion King are stampeding out the door, and Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center officials predict a sellout within a month.

In the news
Ovitz apologizes for 'gay mafia' remark

Playing with heart
CLEARWATER -- Classic rock band Heart proved that it's more than a nostalgia act at Wednesday's sold-out Ruth Eckerd Hall performance. Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson are two of rock music's pioneer female artists; really, how many chicks strapped on an electric Gibson SG and played rock, real rock, before Nancy did in the early 1970s?

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