Get up and get down to the H.Y.P.E. Festival at the Detroit Public Library on Woodward Avenue today. The festival will celebrate the opening of the library's high-tech, 3,394-square-foot Teen Center. Designed for youths 13 to 18, the center includes wire

Looking for art blogs in Ohio, Michigan, upstate New York, Toronto, Wisconsin and western Pennsylvania. (Yes, it's a bad geographical construct. I'll change it if there are enough blogs in any particular place.) Please leave them in the comments.

Buzznet, , the Web's leading social media community for music, today announced the addition of Absolute Punk . Founded in 2000, Absolute Punk is the premier destination for alternative music, industry news, reviews, interviews and community, and has beco

How important were YouTube, Facebook, blogs, wikis and Web sites in this election? Allan Louden, associate professor of communication at Wake Forest University, can explain how new advertising methods, mobilization, debates and the Internet contributed to

From today, I'll be contributing a new weekly column to the site every Tuesday afternoon about digital music. We're calling it Noise Gate - which refers to an electronic device that cuts through the noise and crackle of an analog signal and delivers you