Mil-Town Pride -- The folks up north in Milwaukee are proving adept at throwing one hell of a grand Pride celebration. Milwaukee Pridefest takes place this coming weekend June 6-8 with lots of fun happenings at the Summerfest grounds as well as at the various Mil-Town clubs and bars. The Main Stage at Pridefest features Natasha Bedingfield on Saturday and the Indigo Girls on Sunday while the Dance Pavilion has DJ Tony Moran laying down happy beats on Saturday night. Chicago will be well represented with DJs Ron G and Nate Manic at the Dance Pavilion on Friday night and with Jim Belanger and Psycho Bitch on Sunday night. Outside of Pridefest, the Milwaukee Pumphouse nightclub has an ambitious weekend line-up featuring DJ Susan Morabito on Friday night and Chicago's Mark Picchiotti on Saturday night. Finally, yours truly, DJ Plez, will be spinning the final event of the weekend, PUMP!'s Pridefest Recovery Party, on Sunday night at Decibel Nightclub. For more info: www.Pridefest.com, www.Pumphouse-Nightclub.com , www.MySpace.com/PumpMilwaukee . The Local Clubbing News Front - Wow, while the economy may be down and gas prices are definitely up, there seems to be a nightclub construction boom going on in Chicago. Spin is in the process of a major expansion northward that will lead to a new party space with a dance floor and much needed additional bathrooms. In Uptown, the owners of Crew are finishing up construction on Wilde Pug, a bar and dance club two doors down from their popular sports bar. Finally, the real big deal coming down the pike is the unconfirmed rumor that the West Hollywood, CA-based The Abbey is building a multi-million dollar, multi-story structure on North Halsted across the street from Las Maninitas. The Abbey is quite popular out on the Left Coast and its presence here in Chicago would undoubtedly have a significant impact on Boystown. A Box Of 64? Continuing the string of CD releases from some of the biggest musical divas in history, Donna Summer is back with her first studio album of new material in 17 years: CRAYONS (Burgundy Records / Sony BMG). While many may have predicted that Summer would rest on her laurels and deliver something tried, true, familiar, and dated, she instead proves that talent knows no bounds of time and offers up a spectacular effort. CRAYONS is a fresh and modern 12-track CD with "clubby" tracks that ably captures the pop/hip-hop/r&b vibe that's ever present on radio and video. The first single, "I'm A Fire," proved popular throughout clubland during the spring and the recently released "Stamp Your Feet" will undoubtedly become a summer anthem. All in all, CRAYONS is an impressive achievement and proof positive that Summer is still a force to be reckoned with. The first time I heard Duffy, who hails from Wales in the western part of England, perform on the "Regis and Kelly" TV show, I became instantly intrigued. After her debut CD, ROCKFERRY (Mercury), arrived in my mailbox a few days later and I listened to it, I instantly became a big fan. The U.K. has had an impressive track record of your soulful sirens - Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis, Corrine Bailey Rae - and Duffy holds her own with a deep and powerful voice that has been favorably compared to Dusty Springfield. Thankfully avoiding the pitfalls of too much production, ROCKFERRY's ten tracks first and foremost highlight Duffy's captivating vocal abilities, which is sure to earn her a large global following. She's really that good and so is this album.