The T-Squad, Disney's popular 'tween band, and two stars from "High School Musical" will be visiting the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium on Friday night to entertain families while teaching them about helping the environment.

Don't miss Radio Disney's Annual Sandcastle Building Contest coming to Stewart Beach Saturday, August 18th. Sponsored by the Park Board of Trustees and Radio Disney, the annual sand castle contest is for ages 4 thru15 years and themes should be Disney related. This may include a Disney themed park castle, a celebrity such as the Cheetah Girls, or characters such as Cinderella.

So long, Disney-MGM Studios. In a widely anticipated move, Walt Disney World is renaming its movies-oriented theme park, dropping the "MGM" name from the brand. But unlike much of what has been anticipated in Disney-gossip circles, the new name will contain neither Pixar nor ABC.

Confession is good for the soul, no? Well, here goes: I have lied to Mickey Mouse.

Disney Publishing Worldwide released today High School Musical 2 Junior Novel and High School Musical: East High Yearbook in conjunction with Disney Channel's highly anticipated August 17, 2007 premiere of High School Musical 2, with over 1 million copies of the junior novel being shipped to U.S. retailers. To date, worldwide sales of High School Musical books are well over 4.5 million copies and an additional 18.5 million stickers/packets sold throughout Europe and Latin America. There are over 60 High School Musical related titles currently published worldwide and are sold in over 30 countries around the world. Titles have appeared on the best-seller lists in the US, UK and Spain.

The award-winning Disney musical Aida, which features a score by Elton John and Tim Rice, will be presented at Artpark in Lewiston, NY, Aug. 9-19.

Walt Disney World moved from the millennial "2000 Celebration" to Walt Disney's birthday "100 Years of Magic" celebration to Disneyland's 50th anniversary "Happiest Celebration on Earth" to this year's "Year of a Million Dreams," it seems the celebrations almost never end.

Off Broadway Kids theater troupe is performing at the National Performing Arts Festival at Walt Disney World on February 16-18. The festival features some of the nation's top high school and middle school acting troupes performing selections for a panel of professional adjudicators. A special awards ceremony will follow the performances and the highest scoring troupe will perform live on the Future World West stage at Epcot.

Marty Sklar has had some mighty impressive influences in his life. As a journalism major at the University of California at Los Angeles, he spent two years watching and talking with college basketball coaching legend John Wooden. And it gets better. While in college, he started working for the Disney company, where he eventually wrote directly for master showman Walt Disney.

Walt Disney and the producers of Pirates of the Caribbean are being sued by a stuntman who claims he was injured working on the movie franchise.