HOPE TO SEE PHISH FEST? LAST CONCERT IS SOLD OUT

Hope to see Phish fest?Last concert is sold out
COVENTRY, Vt. -- Tickets for Phish's "Coventry" festival -- the popular jam band's last concert -- are sold out.
Event spokesman Adam Lewis could not say exactly how many tickets were sold when the limit was reached Friday, but the two-day festival in August was expected to sell 70,000 tickets.
Interest intensified when Phish announced in May that the Vermont-based band was splitting up.
Phish, which formed in Burlington 20 years ago, has held six weekend festivals that drew crowds of 50,000 to 70,000 in states including New York and Maine. According to the concert industry publication Pollstar, Phish was one of the top-grossing concert acts for 2003, with ticket sales earning $35.8 million.
This year, fans will descend on the Newport State Airport and surrounding fields in Coventry on Aug. 14-15. No tickets will be sold at the gates, and anyone without a ticket will not be allowed to enter, Lewis said.
It will be the largest concert in Vermont since the Grateful Dead played in Highgate, another rural northern town, in 1995.
Dallas officials honor Leewith award, key to city
DALLAS -- Filmmaker Spike Lee received a lifetime achievement award and a key to the city at the Fourth Annual Lyrical Underground, an event celebrating Black Music Month.
"He is an inspiration and an innovative filmmaker who is not afraid to think out of the box," city councilman Leo V. Chaney said.
The Privilege Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes "individuals who have provided hope, inspiration, joy and motivation to people around the world," said Noel Hankin, a spokesman for Schieffelin & amp; Somerset, parent company of Hennessy, which sponsored the award presented Friday.
Past recipients include Earvin "Magic" Johnson and the Rev. Al Sharpton.
"Spike Lee is the most remarkable African-American filmmaker in the last 18 years," Hankin said. "Through his movies, he has challenged his audiences to think as well as question the status quo."
Lee's films include "Malcolm X," "Do the Right Thing," "Bamboozled" and "He Got Game."
Friday's reception featured clips from his upcoming movie "She Hate Me," about a biotech executive who turns whistleblower. It is scheduled for release July 30.
Today's birthdays
Actress Olympia Dukakis is 73. Actor James Tolkan is 73. Actor Danny Aiello is 71. Actor John Mahoney is 64. Movie director Stephen Frears is 63. Singer-songwriter Brian Wilson is 62. Actor John McCook is 59. Singer Anne Murray is 59. TV personality Bob Vila is 58. Musician Andre Watts is 58. Actress Candy Clark is 57. Tina Sinatra is 56. Singer Lionel Richie is 55. Actor John Goodman is 52. Singer Cyndi Lauper is 51. Rock musician Michael Anthony (Van Halen) is 50. Musician John Taylor is 44. Rock musician Mark DeGliantoni is 42. Rock musician Murphy Karges (Sugar Ray) is 37. Actress Nicole Kidman is 37. Movie director Robert Rodriguez is 36. Actor Peter Paige ("Queer As Folk") is 30.
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