K-Zone Blog
In between deadlines, piles of proofs, articles, and pages to lay-out, the K-Zone team managed to squeeze in a little time to…
CHANAN!!!! Manga-fy ourselves. Don’t we all look so peachy with our toothy grins and totally freaky backgrounds?!
Can you tell who’s who?
Yooo!! Who’s ready for Camp Rock? Who wants to see (or shall I say hear) more of Demi Lovato?! Well, you don’t have to wait much longer because Demi has just released her first single, “Get Back”.
Watch her perform the song in this video clip.
Woot! I gotta say, the girl can rock! The single is from her debut album entitled Don’t Forget, which comes out in music stores all over the U.S. on September 23.
And… don’t forget to catch Demi and the Jonas Brothers rockin’ out in Camp Rock on September 7 at 7:30 pm on the Disney Channel!!
Hey everyone! Ramona and I were able to sit down for a nice, long-distance phone chat with Miranda Cosgrove, who plays Carly Shay in the Teenick show iCarly.
She was a blast to talk to. In this edition of K-Zone Radio, we give you a little snippet of our interview, talking about her old role in Drake & Josh…plus, a little tidbit about her weirdest talents.
Remember Daniela, our K-Zone intern?
Here she is with the Guitar Hero Air Guitar Rocker, one of the coolest toys we’ve ever borrowed. In fact, if you read our August issue, we gave it the full two-page treatment in our Toy Chest section. It’s simple: hook the toy amp and buckle to your belt and pocket, then “strum” the buckle with the special pick to rawwwwwwwwwwk!
It’s got ten tunes to play, five of which are famous riffs. My favorite to play (and the hardest) is Boston’s “More Than a Feeling”. (’Cause I’m such a retro freak!) Anyway, if you want to see how it’s done, check out this YouTube video of someone — no, not Daniela — giving this crowd a demo:
You can find the Air Guitar Rocker in most toy stores around the city.
The annual K-Zone Fun Book is here at last! We just got our fresh-off-the-press copies today, which means the Fun Book will be hitting newsstands this week. Hurray! You can click the pic to get a closer look at the cover.
You knew the Fun Book back when it was still called the K-Zone Puzzle Book, but in this brand-smacking-new 2008 edition, we’ve amped the fun factor up to eleven! It’s not just about the puzzles now. We’ve also got:
+ A huge, four-page Holmes mystery as every Holmes ever teams up to take down a nasty supervillain! Can you crack the case and save the multiverse?
+ More than 300 “Did You Know?” facts!
+ A brand-new comic adventure with Stephanie Smee, brought to you by Bakemono High creator Elbert Or!
+ Four pages of Foldabots creator Jomike Tejido’s Director’s Cut!
+ Tons of jokes to LOL over!
+ And let’s not forget…33 mindbending puzzles for you to solve!
Yep, it’s all the good things y’love about K-Zone…packed into one cool mini-mag!
We also teased the Fun Book in previous Ka-Blog posts, and offered prizes to anyone who could answer our questions. Are you one of the winners? Find out after the jump!
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Photo courtesy of Sony BMG
Do you have a question you’re dying to ask Miranda Cosgrove, star of the hit Nickelodeon show iCarly?
Then you’re in luck, because we’re soon going to interview her. (Wish us luck…hope it pulls through!) Just leave your question by posting it as a comment here.
Car: But wait! There’s more…You not only get to ask your question to Ms. Carly Shay, but the four best questions also win an iCarly poster each! Hurry! You’ve got one day left before the interview! (Today’s August 11, 2008, Btw.)
Thanks, all!

It’s that time of the year again! As announced in our August 2008 issue, we’re opening the K-Zone Awards 2008 Nominations! You can go to the site here and get cracking.
Fill in the blanks to see your faves make it into the final nomination list. We’ll be publishing the results in our November 2008 issue. The more nomination forms you pass, the bigger the chance they’ll make it into the Top Five, so start nominating now!
In case you want to refresh your memory about last year’s winners, just click on the image below.
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Originally appeared in the January 2008 issue.
If you noticed, we changed a couple of categories to reflect your changing tastes. Favorite Book is now Favorite Website ’cause we know how much time you guys spend on the web. Plus, Video Game Crush is now Video Game Hero/Heroine of the Year…’cause crushes are just so icky. Haha!

Love Flash games? We do. Loooooooove ’em! And if you do too, then you might want to check out the new online Flash game portal in town, Be There (you can find the site at bethere.ph). See their mascot in the logo? He’s called Funky Munky. (Tip: He likes bananas.)
Funky Munky aside, Be There is the new “online game” from Level Up, the same guys who brought you such MMO hits as Ragnarok Online and Perfect World. Well, it’s not actually a game…like we said, it’s a collection of cool minigames. As of this week, more than 30 are already up, from Sudoku to Chinese Checkers to the usual “match-three-of-a-kind” suspects.
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Pinoy pop stars Julianne and Miguel Escueta will be doing their own version of the Camp Rock single, “This is Me”. They were able to record the song yesterday with MCA Universal, and they’ll appear in the Pinoy edition of the Camp Rock soundtrack. Julianne will, of course, be singing Mitchie Torres’s parts, while Miguel Escueta will swing into the final harmonies, belting out Shane Gray’s lines. (We’d hate to hear the song if it was the other way around — imagine Miguel Escueta singing as Mitchie Torres! :D)
This follows the recent Disney tradition of having local popsters do cover versions of songs from their TV musicals — just like with Nikki Gil, who recorded songs for the Asian version of the High School Musical and High School Musical 2 soundtracks.







