Jonas Brothers

Oh, the screaming! Nothing can prepare you for the screaming: Nearly 5,000 teenage girls shrieking, screeching, squealing, and squeaking in unison. No, we're not in a war zone. This is a Jonas Brothers zone. The boy-band trio - Nick, 17, Joe, 21, and Kevin, 22 - took over Campbell's Field in Camden on Friday afternoon to play a free softball game with the Road Dogs, their home-brewed team of roadies and pals, in support of Allstate's "X the TXT" campaign, a national effort encouraging kids not to text while driving.

From a distance, it sounded as if the Susquehanna Bank Center had been transformed into a giant roller coaster. The screaming rose and fell, mixing ecstasy, anticipation, and a touch of disbelief. OMG - the Jonas Brothers! Easily the biggest thing to happen to tween pop since their onetime tour mate Hannah Montana, the Wyckoff, N.J.-raised trio of Nick, 15, Joe, 19, and Kevin, 20, play caffeinated power-pop with squeaky-clean lyrics and a delivery that's less so. The homeschooled preacher's sons may wear rings on their fingers to symbolize a commitment to premarital abstinence, but the way they groaned the lyrics of "Burnin' Up" suggested they had at least given the matter some thought.

Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas have built their career on seeming like the boys next door, but their show at the Wachovia Center on Thursday night made it clear that they've moved to a fancier neighborhood. Performing on a round stage lit by an overhead video array that looked like an upside-down wedding cake, and backed by as many as 10 musicians, the brothers seemed more like alpha dogs than eager pups, determined to mark every inch of their territory. Musically, at least, the concert was more coherent than their new album, Lines, Vines and Trying Times, whose calculated attempts to touch on every genre of popular music give it a distinctly Frankenstnian air. With a few exceptions, their 90-minute set focused on the upbeat, lyrically lightweight power pop that is their stock in trade.

CAMP ROCK 2: THE FINAL JAM. 8 tonight, Disney Channel. LOS ANGELES - Demi Lovato didn't have her own TV show, "Sonny With a Chance," when she starred in the 2008 cable film "Camp Rock. " Her co-stars, the Jonas Brothers, were established musicians but had little acting experience. That changed with "Camp Rock," a summer-and-sun answer to "High School Musical. " The Disney Channel movie was the top-rated cable program in 2008 with more than 10 million total viewers. It was an even bigger hit with teens, tweens and kids.

Age: 40. Neighborhood: Divides his time between Center City and Los Angeles. "I'm on the road 250 days a year. " What he does: Partner in the Different Drummer marketing agency, specializing in online and traditional publicity. Clients include writer Mitch Albom, the Jonas Brothers, Chris Rock's "Good Hair," Disney, Universal Films and Lionsgate. Side gig: Owns a tech company that's building an online community network platform. Schooling: Howard University and Union Theological Seminary.

WITH PATRICIA Clarkson joining us today on the Tattle page, it's all Tattbits. Madame Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of Miley Cyrus yesterday. And girls wept. The Hollywood Reporter says Disney Channel has OK'd a series with the Jonas Brothers so-far titled "Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream. " It's about their family and their tour. And girls wept some more. As for that Jonas Brothers tour, billboard.com says it will be "Burning Up" and begin July 4 in Toronto.

How do you distinguish the new solo music of Nick Jonas from his body of work with his older siblings as the Jonas Brothers? It was hard to tell above the insane, incessant caterwauling of his young female fans at the first of two sold-out shows at the Tower Theater this weekend. The girls started screeching as soon as the prefatory theme from Rocky began blaring from the sound system. They did not let up until two minutes after Jonas' second encore, the title track from his debut solo album, Who I Am, scheduled for release Feb. 2. He delivered the entire album Saturday night, plus a sprinkling of Jonas Brothers songs and a few covers.

According to Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, JonasWorld is a place where glowsticks wave to the beat of homogenized pop for milk-fed tween and teenage girls. The pop princes, successors to the Monkees and Boyz II Men - if less musically inventive - are ear candy for females of a certain age and demographic. Here's how to tell them apart: "Joe is the one with the caterpillar eyebrows and shiny dark hair," explains my daughter Cora, 12. "Kevin is the oldest one. He has curly hair and doesn't do much.

YES, THE YOUNG girls (ages 6 to 16) will be out in force, screaming their lungs out, when the Jonas Brothers land at the Wachovia Center Thursday for the first of two sold-out shows. One reviewer who caught their Chicago concert this week likened the din to airplane engines revving at O'Hare International Airport. Attending parents? Have your earplugs ready. But the Jonas Brothers are not the typical boy band they'd like us to believe. Their new, fourth album, "Lines, Vines and Trying Times," and their World Tour 2009, feature sophisticated horn charts and violins "adding things that haven't been heard in pop music," said middle brother, Joe Jonas, in a pre-tour interview.

Ellen and Portia to tie the knot The long-awaited Ellen DeGeneres-Portia de Rossi wedding will go down sometime this weekend. Perhaps even today! So says Usmagazine.com, which reports that the couple, who began dating in December 2004, plan a "small, intimate ceremony with only a few close friends and family. " After the California Supreme Court's ruling in May that same-sex couples have the "right to marry," DeGeneres, 50, announced on her show she would wed her 35-year-old partner.

Well, that sets that to rest, don't it? Don't it? Oprah Winfrey has informed Barbara Walters that she, O, is not a lesbian. Put that in your smoke and pipe it. See, Oprah has a best bud, and business partner, and camping sidekick, Gayle King , and the nasty, catty celeb world, with all sorts of wink-wink-nudge-nudge talk, thinks they're a couple. They figure you could never have someone around that much and not be, well, you know. Stedman Graham , a man, is also around O a lot, but folks think he's just a front, a mask, a beard.

HERE'S AN Election Day surprise we weren't expecting: Demi Lovato , one of Disney's biggest names and the star of the "Camp Rock" movies, checked into a treatment center to deal with "emotional and physical issues," her rep said in a statement Monday night. The statement did not specify the 18-year-old's problems. A person familiar with the situation previously told the Associated Press that Demi entered treatment for problems including an eating disorder and cutting herself.

CAMP ROCK 2: THE FINAL JAM. 8 tonight, Disney Channel. LOS ANGELES - Demi Lovato didn't have her own TV show, "Sonny With a Chance," when she starred in the 2008 cable film "Camp Rock. " Her co-stars, the Jonas Brothers, were established musicians but had little acting experience. That changed with "Camp Rock," a summer-and-sun answer to "High School Musical. " The Disney Channel movie was the top-rated cable program in 2008 with more than 10 million total viewers. It was an even bigger hit with teens, tweens and kids.

Oh, the screaming! Nothing can prepare you for the screaming: Nearly 5,000 teenage girls shrieking, screeching, squealing, and squeaking in unison. No, we're not in a war zone. This is a Jonas Brothers zone. The boy-band trio - Nick, 17, Joe, 21, and Kevin, 22 - took over Campbell's Field in Camden on Friday afternoon to play a free softball game with the Road Dogs, their home-brewed team of roadies and pals, in support of Allstate's "X the TXT" campaign, a national effort encouraging kids not to text while driving.

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Age: 40. Neighborhood: Divides his time between Center City and Los Angeles. "I'm on the road 250 days a year. " What he does: Partner in the Different Drummer marketing agency, specializing in online and traditional publicity. Clients include writer Mitch Albom, the Jonas Brothers, Chris Rock's "Good Hair," Disney, Universal Films and Lionsgate. Side gig: Owns a tech company that's building an online community network platform. Schooling: Howard University and Union Theological Seminary.

A recent report revealed yet another perk of political office in New Jersey: reserved concert seating. The state Sports and Exposition Authority held hundreds of seats at its venues last year for distribution by politicians, according to Bloomberg News. The offices of then-Gov. Jon S. Corzine and 21 other elected officials got special access to sellout performances by, among others, boy band the Jonas Brothers and hard-rock has-beens AC/DC. The problem here isn't just that New Jersey politicians have bad taste in music.

It smelled like clean teen spirit as Taylor Swift launched her show on Thursday at the Wachovia Center with "You Belong With Me. " Her dancers cavorted in cheerleader outfits and Taylor appeared in a dazzling drum majorette uniform. That breezy opening salvo was the first of the concert's big production numbers, the other being the Victorian costume epic staged for "Love Story. " Gamboling and skipping across the stage, the coltish star delivered a performance rife with spectacle, one punctuated by her young fans' siren-volume screaming.

How do you distinguish the new solo music of Nick Jonas from his body of work with his older siblings as the Jonas Brothers? It was hard to tell above the insane, incessant caterwauling of his young female fans at the first of two sold-out shows at the Tower Theater this weekend. The girls started screeching as soon as the prefatory theme from Rocky began blaring from the sound system. They did not let up until two minutes after Jonas' second encore, the title track from his debut solo album, Who I Am, scheduled for release Feb. 2. He delivered the entire album Saturday night, plus a sprinkling of Jonas Brothers songs and a few covers.

Suri in heels, nearly as tall as Dad Supermom Katie Holmes wows SideShow again with her exceptional parenting skills and do-or-die fashion - this time parading 3-year-old Suri Cruise (by husband Tom Cruise) around in open-toed high heels. Fox News did its homework and found podiatrist Oliver Zong, who is concerned that the killer kicks might cause Suri to take a tumble, or damage the growth plates in her itty-bitty feet. "A child's proper growth could face serious problems if a growth plate is crushed," Zong says.