News via Snarkyteen

So, If you've seen the New York Times interview with Nick Cannon (see it on Nick Cannon's site here,) you might have noticed he's got a briefcase (no word on if it was stolen from Deal or No Deal) with a logo for the Halo Awards - reportedly a special that awards teens that make a difference in their communities/world. The award event ha been rumored to be scheduled for December - perhaps it's the big announcement being made during tonight's new episode of Degrassi?

+ Though that announcement could also be for the TV show "Gigantic," that's been in the works for The-N/Teen Nick for years, but seems to have gotten rolling only recently. Seeing as they had a casting call for it earlier this month.

+ New movie inspired by the music of "School Gyrls" the girl group signed to Nick Cannon's record label.  He talks about it to Access Holloywood here.

There's more info on the band's myspace page. They don't have any songs up, but there are plenty of Youtube videos that have snippits various songs. (I'll leave music critiques to you.)

+ The Glee Cast got bumped from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade - but their music sales on iTunes have been doing pretty awesome.

+ Disney plans to revamp their stores in to mini-theme park like experiences - and they're getting Steve Jobs & crew to help with it. While I occasionally despise Disney for some of their crappy programming, their interest in building tweeny empires out of their stars/shows, and the whole your-princess-movies-give-girls-unrealistic-expectations-about-love/boys/hair/relationships/animals/the functions of common household objects - these stores do sound pretty cool.