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Ashleigh Heaton was the online entertainment 2010 summer intern. She is currently a guest blogger for the TV blog.

A former journalism instructor and freelance writer, Betsy is the copy editor and page designer for the Community Opinions pages and the Letters. She is married to Metro reporter Joe Simnacher. They have two sons.

Bridgette Williams is the Senior Editor of GuideLive.com. She came to The Dallas Morning News in 2004.

Chris Vognar writes about entertainment for The Dallas Morning News and is the paper's movie critic.

Christopher Wynn is the home and dining editor for FD Luxe. He was previously assistant editor at PaperCity Magazine. Covering sexy restaurants and snooping through the city's most tricked-out homes has been a full-time obsession for more than five years. He loves Eero Saarinen, lobster shooters and long walks on the beach.

News assistant for Metro West, Irving columnist for Neighbors and writer of Metro's Asian Culture and Community Column.

Dianne is a writer with more than 20 years of experience, covering such varied assignments as drug cartels at the border, oil cartels in Vienna, oligopolies in Mexico, and micro-business in Texas. And she frequently writes about immigration and small government challenged by the recession. The California native attended California State University, Fresno, Northwestern University and Harvard.

Erika Nuñez is GuideLive.com and Dallasnews.com's movies, arts and restaurants editor/producer.

Jeffrey Weiss is a senior writer for the Dallas Morning News assigned to cover the Richardson school district. He's also a longtime foodie who makes waffles and spaghetti sauce from scratch. You can find him blogging on dallasnews.com on the Richardson community blog and Eats.

Jennifer Okamoto manages the Lifestyles and Communities areas of dallasnews.com. She has covered health, families, pets, fashion, personal finance and technology.

Joy Tipping is an arts writer and copy editor for The Dallas Morning News' Guide section who frequently reviews books and covers local author appearances. She also occasionally reviews music, theater and movies.

Kasey Pipes regularly reviews books for The Dallas Morning News.

Leslie Garcia can't quite believe she has worked at The Dallas Morning News more than 25 years. During that time, she has ridden high above earth in a paraplane with a broken communication system; interviewed Morris the Cat and followed an elderly homeless man through a predawn aluminum-can search in a rather (OK, a very!) dangerous part of town.

Her favorite downtime activities include working out, calling a sister or a friend or her mom, and checking her son's mom-tolerance mood.

Michael Granberry grew up in the Pleasant Grove section of Dallas, where he graduated from Samuell High School. He moved on to Southern Methodist University, where he became editor of The SMU Daily Campus. He served his journalistic internship at the Washington Post during "the Watergate summer" of 1973 and graduated from SMU in 1974. He then became sports editor of the Anchorage Times, which he left in 1976 to return to Dallas, where he became a Sunday magazine feature writer for The Dallas Morning News. He left in 1978 to join the Los Angeles Times, where he worked for 19 years before returning to his hometown and to The News in 1997.

Michael Merschel edits books coverage for The Dallas Morning News.

Nancy Churnin writes about healthy living, kids health, kids entertainment and family issues for the Dallas Morning News. She also administers the Dallas Moms Blog on dallasnews.com and on Facebook and twitters about it at @nchurnin. A former television writer, magazine writer and award-wining theater critic with the Los Angeles Times, she graduated cum laude from Harvard University and has a master's in journalism from Columbia University. The mom of four boys, she is married to Dallas Morning News staff writer Michael Granberry.

Oscar is the managing editor of neighborsgo, the weekly user-generated community newspaper published by The Dallas Morning News. He's been at The News for 16 years - 8 as a print editor at The News and 8 as an online editor at dallasnews.com and neighborsgo.com. And he can't wait to see what the next 8 years bring.

Sam Hodges worked for several newspapers before joining The Dallas Morning News as a religion reporter in 2005. He's the author of the novel "B-Four" (St. Martin's Press, 1992) and co-editor of the nonfiction book "Letters to Amanda: the Civil War letters of Marion Hill Fitzpatrick" (Mercer University Press, 1998).

Samantha Urban has worked for The Dallas Morning News since January 2009. She is the online editor/producer for the TV, Music and Books sections.