The 48th Annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast February 8th from the Los Angeles’ Staples Center on CBS. Leading the pack with eight nominations each are Mariah Carey, Kanye West, and newcomer John Legend. 50 Cent, Beyonce Knowles, Black Eyed Peas’ Will.I.Am and Stevie Wonder are all swaggering around with …

Lynne Rae Perkins wins the Newberry, Chris Raschka and Norton Juster the Caldecott.

Park City anti-spam company prognosticates via the arcane magic of statistical analysis.

More mind-bloggling numbers for the Potter juggernaut.

A Hot Designer, the Bikini Image Awards, and Dorismar Deported.

I loved his spare, angular, kinetic techno workouts in the ’90s as Plastikman, which I slapped on many a perplexed club turntable at the time; but Canadian producer, DJ, remixer, electronic music innovator Richie Hawtin has come a long way since then, all the way to Torino, Italy, in fact, …

Signs new multiyear deal for The Jerry Springer Show.

How long does it take to evaluate a website? As little as 50 milliseconds, or one-twentieth of a second, according to a new study by Canadian researchers published in the journal Behaviour and Information Technology. And not only is a judgment made about the appeal of a site with amazing …

Now that blogs are ubiquitous — the effort to keep track of their vast and ever-expanding numbers reminds me of when McDonald’s gave up trying to keep public count of their burger sales and just went with “billions and billions served” on their marquees — the competiton for eyeballs is …

The 78th Academy Awards trailer, produced by Los Angeles-based media firm The Ant Farm, featuring memorable moments from Hollywood’s annual night of monumental self-congratulation, will be shown in more than 20,000 movie theaters throughout the United States through March 5. The 30-second trailer flashes through numerous relatively recent Oscar-winning epiphanies …