For more than a century, artists and musicians of all kinds lived and worked in the 170 studios built on top of Carnegie Hall. Today, it's all gone. The film "Lost Bohemia" by former resident Josef Astor, documents the lives of some of these artists, and their fight to save the historic towers. 

Gideon Egger enjoys taming feral cats, feeding elephants, chasing tigers, and occasionally writing. His article "Maxwell's Mansion," was recently published in the journal Telicom. He is also a partner in Notes on the Road's parent company, Notes Media Inc.

Amanda von Goetz is the Co-Founder of NotesOnTheRoad.com, and the author and developer behind the site's core publishing platform. When not wholly consumed with strategic development and running the engine of Notes, AvG also enjoys brainstorming over at GvG STUDIOS, a boutique web design and development agency she co-founded in 2008.

Dorothy Wu co-founded Notes On The Road in January 2010. Flutist, teacher, writer and creative polymath, Dot Wu is committed to unearthing inspiration through her interviews with creative professionals from varying backgrounds. She currently resides in breathtaking Santa Cruz, California.

Kimball Gallagher is a New York-based classical pianist reviving the salon culture around the world, a rock guitarist and songwriter, and an entrepreneur. His contributions to Notes On The Road are at the intersection of his appetite for inspiration and his fascination with personalities who are dedicated to inspiring others. His website is www.kimballgallagher.com.

Nicole Warner hails from the Midwest, a mezzo-soprano who grew up in the singer-actor tradition and maintains a firm belief in collaboration, as well as possibilities for the extraordinary (if egos are checked at the door). Since all art informs art, Nicole regularly informs her musical practice with the varied arts of word crafting, violin plucking, and origami. www.nicolewarner.net

Ying Zhu is the creative and editorial lead for NotesOnTheRoad.com. A classical pianist, a mother, a teacher, an avid lover of food, travel, nature and learning, Ying joined the Notes cast in March 2011. She is a partner in the site's newly-formed parent company, Notes Media Incorporated.

Visit Spokeo.com for 30 seconds, if you haven't already. Type in your name and state of residence or those of a loved one. (Go ahead, we'll wait...)

Yep, we agree. Very scary stuff.

April 29th, 2010. Los Angeles, CA. Smoldering, unpretentious, refreshingly quick-witted and down-to-earth - actress Lynn Chen will be back to grace the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival on May 1st in Quentin Lee's romantic comedy "The People I've Slept With," which has sold out theaters in screenings across the country.

Over the last few years, terabytes of tech buzz all over the net have hailed the iPhone as the "Porsche" of all mobile computing devices. More recently, smartphone manufacturers whose units feature the open-source Android OS have hit the ground running with some pretty aggressive marketing campaigns -- online and off.