Robert Miraldi is an author and journalist who has taught at SUNY New Paltz for 25 years. His 2003 biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Charles Edward Russell was named the best book in the country in journalism and mass communication. Robert was a reporter for 10 years in New York City, where his reporting earned numerous awards. For eight years he wrote a newspaper column on freedom of speech, which also won numerous national and state awards. In 1992, he was a Fulbright Scholar lecturing in the Netherlands. Robert has a PhD in American Studies. His review of Jeff Cohen's Cable News Confidential appears on here.

Becca Friedman lives in Woodstock with her husband and two children. She's Luminary Publishing's part-time accounts receivable enforcer. She spends the rest of her time boxing with her trainer, Livingston Bramble; hanging with fantastic people at the Executive Success Program in Albany; reading Bukowski; and writing articles for Chronogram in the middle of the night. Becca's tandem preview of the FilmColumbia festival and the Hudson Valley Film and Video Festival appears on here.

Eric Steinman is a Los Angeles native who moved to the Mid Hudson Valley in November 2005. After surviving his first upstate winter, he bought an all-wheel drive vehicle and embraced the region for all of its seasonal wonders and climatic challenges. A former editor at CNet and www.Music.com, Steinman is currently a freelance writer who has contributed to Chow, Bon Appetit, the Los Angeles Times, and Slate, among others. He has also been seen hosting a semi-regular DJ set at Passerby on West 15th Street in New York City. Eric's chronicle of his experiment in locavorism appears here.

Robert Burke Warren is a writer, sometime actor, preschool teacher, musician, and erstwhile Mr. Mom. He has become widely known in the Hudson Valley and beyond as Uncle Rock, and has two CDs available via www.unclerock.com. In the '80s, Robert toured the world as bassist with garage rock titans The Fleshtones; in the '90s, he played the lead role in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story in London's West End. He has written for the Woodstock Times, Texas Music Magazine, and the Da Capo Press anthology The Concert That Changed My Life. Robert's preview of Orchestral Jethro Tull appears here.