Jocelyn Gonzales

In the summer of 1942, Aaron Copland accepted a commission to write the score for a new dance by modernist innovator Martha Graham. Their now-legendary ballet, Appalachian Spring, looks at the tension between community and individualism through the story of a bride and groom in a straitlaced frontier town -- ...

Writing love letters takes courage, but it's a little gutsier to write and perform songs about the object of your affection. Steve Nelson and Jocelyn Gonzales have their own personal takes on rock and roll's long love affair with that one special girl.

The best heroes and villains are often reflections of each other, like Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty. Jocelyn Gonzales has observed this theme playing out in the martial arts films of China and Hong Kong. Besides making American action movies more exciting again, Hong Kong cinema has somehow combined Eastern ...

Songs don't take up any physical space, but musicians and their producers have to make a lot of decisions about scale, like the number of instruments used or even the size of the studio. Los Angeles-based musician Mark Stewart — a.k.a. Stew — and his writing partner Heidi ...

The dark and sleek but dangerously sexy world of film noir conjures a very modern vision of the underworld. Jocelyn Gonzales talked to two film critics who see Orpheus in Jimmy Stewart, and a robot.

Our culture practically makes a fetish of the beautiful woman — but who decides what is beautiful, or for that matter sexy or feminine? Jocelyn Gonzales asked two photographers why they prefer to depict female bodybuilders.

Most of the robots you know from the movies are male. There’s Robbie the Robot, C-3PO, Data the sensitive android on Star Trek, and the violent cyborgs of Terminator and Robocop. But what about the female robots? Writer Susie Bright has some thoughts on the ways ...

Our pop culture is obsessed with beautiful people. But the notions of beauty, sexuality and what’s supposed to be attractive may be changing. Jocelyn Gonzales talked to two photographers about their images of female bodybuilders. 

Songs don’t take up any physical space, but musicians and their producers have to make a lot of choices about scale, like the number of instruments used and even the size of the studio. Los Angeles-based musician Mark Stewart records under the name Stew. He writes elegant pop ...

Studio 360 excerpts a play that floored audiences in 1848. Benjamin Baker, a young volunteer fireman and theater gadabout, wrote A Glance at New York to capture the tone and swagger of this teeming city. The play depicted Mose the Fireman — a rowdy, irreverent Bowery boy character.

Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley are a married couple, and the nucleus of the indie rock band Yo La Tengo. The band’s third member is bassist James McNew. The trio gathered in Studio 360 to talk about how to make gorgeous music as a couple plus one. Produced ...

In the Philippines, seashells are more than souvenirs — they're a serious art. Jocelyn Gonzales explains the history and craft of Capiz, a traditional method of transforming clamshells into something much more.

Hollywood has explored every kind of monster — including the monster child. There are more movies about kids turning into monsters than you might think. And two film critics, Julian Cornell, a professor of cinema studies at NYU film school, and Owen Gleiberman, a film critic for Entertainment Weekly, tell ...

In the spring of 2001, an Iranian film-maker flew from Hong Kong to Buenos Aires for a film festival. Along the way, he needed to transfer through New York's John F Kennedy airport. But as an Iranian, he needed a special transit visa to pass through the United States. He ...

Graphic designer Ken Carbone finds elegance and history in the green felt field of battle. Produced by Jocelyn Gonzales.

The typical Irish wake is a celebration of the way a person joked and ate and drank and lived. A pair of Irish-American singers, Austin Hughes and his father, Austin Sr., sing Finnegan's Wake — a traditional tune that came long before the book by the same name by ...

MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli explains the perfect form and use of the ice cream cone. Produced by Jarrod Alexander and Jocelyn Gonzales.

In New York a DJ forms a community around "bhangra" music — traditional Punjabi folk music with western hip-hop beats. Produced by Jocelyn Gonzales.

In the Philippines, seashells are more than souvenirs — they're a serious art. Jocelyn Gonzales explains the history and craft of Capiz, a traditional method of transforming clamshells into something much more.