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Events on Jul 15, 2008 (Seattle Weekly)
Glistening Pleasure, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head's newest album, is an electronica party tucked in your best ass-hugging leather pants. Disco balls, copious amounts of neon spandex and your best David Bowie impersonation are required for this CD release performance. Get ready to shake it all...

Review: Jonas Brothers fire up fans, Ford Center (The Oklahoman)
The Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato rocked The Ford Center in Oklahoma City Tuesday night on the fourth stop of their summer-long "Burnin' Up" tour. The three brothers stirred up a frenzy of shrieking teens, tweens and pretweens with their mere presence, my own 14-year-old daughter, Amber Gillmore included. She is usually too-cool-for-school, emo-ing out to Fall Out Boy and Panic At The Disco ...

Has global warming stopped? (The New Statesman)
'The fact is that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 and every year since 2001'. Plus read Mark Lynas's response

More than just a pony ride | By Marisa Beahm Loveland Reporter-Herald (Loveland Reporter-Herald)
The competition was as stiff as the riders? posture during the Pony of the Americas Club?s Western Classic show at The Ranch. Sunday was the sixth and final day of the event that brought about 70 young riders from eight states to Loveland. Competitors spent Sunday morning vying in Western competitions, such as the Western Pleasure event.

EXCLUSIVE: Coming home to Birkdale is what I need after my mum died, says Nick Dougherty (Daily Mail)
What should have been the summer of Nick Dougherty's life has become the season of unbearable sadness.

By Gee, who can that Bee now? (Southern Highland News)
NIGHT FEVER: Everybody was Jive Talkin? at the Mittagong RSL on Saturday night, when Bee Gees tribute band, The Australian Bee Gees, revived the sounds of the 70s for more than 200 disco fans.

Edgartown Parade Marches On With Flags, Fireworks and Fog (Vineyard Gazette)
The National Basketball Association champion stood tall on an old red fire truck and gripped his golden trophy in the air. Screams and cheers erupted from the crowds lining the road as the fire truck slowly rolled along the parade route in downtown Edgartown.

Disparate worlds connect through taverns tap (Sheboygan Press)
By the time a springtime Saturday night was over, the number of lives confluent in the Bud Light contained inside a keg at one bar would expand to include not only the farmers who grew the grain but also a man reliving his childhood with a new skateboard and a woman at a crossroads, contemplating what to do with her life.

Seven good reasons for an ABBA love fest (USA Today)
Why ABBA? Why not ABBA? Without those distracting glitter balls and tacky disco fashions that defined the '70s, Sweden's greatest musical export exhibits an endurance that didn't become apparent until a decade after the quartet broke up in 1982.

Various Artists: Nigeria Disco Funk Special / Nigeria Rock Special (Pitchfork)
Covering two sides of the multifaceted Nigerian pop landscape of the 1970s, these two first-rate compilations from Britain's Soundway touch on disco-tinged club music and heavy riff-rock, with a strong undercurrent of funk being the thread through it all. read more