Jocelyn Gonzales appears in the following:
Merita Halili
Saturday, June 28, 2003
Albania's national folk-singing treasure adjusts to a new life in America. Produced by Eric Copage and Jocelyn Gonzales.
Shirin Neshat
Saturday, June 28, 2003
The Iranian-born filmmaker who now lives in the U.S. describes her art as a bridge between two worlds. Produced by Kerrie Hillman.
Quang Bao
Saturday, June 28, 2003
Twenty-four years after arriving in the U.S., a young Vietnamese-American poet returned to Saigon with his father. Quang Bao reflects on how the visit forced him to redefine his notion of home. Produced by Jocelyn Gonzales.
Interior Harmony
Saturday, May 17, 2003
George Beylerian is a former furniture designer who now heads Material Connexion, a resource center for designers and architects. Beylarian brings us through his house-ful of dissonant objects — and shows how they can all work together. Produced by Jocelyn Gonzales.
Hong Kong Cinema
Saturday, April 26, 2003
The best heroes and villains are often reflections of each other. Think of Sherlock Holmes versus Professor Moriarty or even Luke versus Darth in Star Wars. There's something of each in the other. This theme has been playing out for years in the martial arts and gangster films of ...
Pre-Set
Saturday, April 05, 2003
In theater, the stage and its proscenium are the obvious frame and container of the action. But often the sound and the lighting begin their work even the before play begins. Director Lawrence Axsmith talks about how a "pre-set" draws an audience into the world of a play. Produced by ...
Design for the Real World: Zipper
Saturday, January 25, 2003
MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli has these thoughts on an elegant little machine that helps us hold it all together — the zipper. Produced by Jocelyn Gonzales.
The Fembot Factor
Saturday, January 18, 2003
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 they’ve been ...
Interior Harmony
Saturday, December 21, 2002
George Beylerian is a former furniture designer who now heads Material Connexion, a resource center for designers and architects. Beylarian brings us through his houseful of dissonant objects — and shows how they can all work together.
Pre-Set
Saturday, October 26, 2002
In theater, the stage and its proscenium are the obvious frame and container of the action. But often the sound and the lighting begin their work even the before play begins. Director Lawrence Axsmith talks about how a "pre-set" draws an audience into the world of a play.
Design for the Real World: Ink Pen
Saturday, October 19, 2002
Designer Ken Carbone has a soft spot for a very simple tool — the ink pen.
Design for the Real World: Backpacks
Saturday, September 14, 2002
Finnegan's Wake
Saturday, September 07, 2002
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., talk about this non-mournful memorial. And they sing Finnegan's Wake — a traditional tune that came long before the ...
Basement Bhangra
Saturday, August 17, 2002
In New York a deejay forms a community around "bhangra" music — traditional Punjabi folk music with western hip-hop beats.
House of Spies
Saturday, July 27, 2002
Last weekend the International Spy Museum opened in Washington, DC. The museum displays real spy stuff from real spies, and some not-so-real spy stuff from the movies.
Flipside
Saturday, July 20, 2002
In 1973 a TV show called Flipside lasted for just one season on CBS and then slipped into obscurity. Andrew Marks's father produced Flipside, and Roseanne Shelnut was its associate producer. They talk about why they want this forgotten program rediscovered.
Sci-Fi Genome
Saturday, June 29, 2002
Kurt Andersen surveys the rich supply of alien characters in the movies.
(Originally aired: January 10, 2002)
Design for the Real World: Bicycle
Saturday, June 15, 2002
Machine designer Chalo Colina explains how his true inspiration came from a gift he got when he was a teenager: a bicycle.
Kate and Lucy on Kurt
Saturday, June 15, 2002
Kurt Andersen’s daughters weigh-in on their radio host dad.