To tide you over until Opening Day (33 days and counting), a few books that have recently crossed my desk and are well worth paging through:

* Dan Valenti’s Under a Grapefruit Sun: Red Sox Spring Training a Quarter Century Ago, published by the good people over at Rounder Books, is a beaut: a sun-drunk photo album of afternoon idylls in Winter Haven back in the early 1980s.

Today's developments:

• E!: Salon to sell locks of Britney's hair on eBay
• Britney fans shaving head in solidarity with their star
• Kelly Clarkson: "OK, are y’all kidding? She does not have a shaved head. Are you for real?”
• US Magazine: Inside the Salon
• Access Hollywood: Britney Shaves Her Head

Photo credit: Caitlin Curran.

Full report from the Hasty Pudding's Woman of the Year parade over here. Also, because we've been looking for an excuse to post it, the nine-minute "director's cut" version of "What Goes Around," which has been described as the next best thing to a Justin/Scarlett sex tape:

DOWNLOAD: Mean Creek, "Hands Behind Our Heads" (mp3)

Chis Keene and Aurore Ounjian were kicking around town as an indie-folk duo called, in true Damon & Naomi fashion, Chris & Aurore. But lately they’ve been fleshing out their songs with a full band, and they’ve rechristened themselves MEAN CREEK

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