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Toshio Hirano between sets at the Amnesia Bar in San Francisco. (photo by Lenny Gonzalez)

Not many people can point to the exact moment when they met their destiny. Toshio Hirano can. It was when he heard the high lonesome yodel of cowboy singer, Jimmie Rodgers, coming out of his radio in Tokyo, Japan. It changed his life forever.

I had a great time producing this profile about Japanese country singer, Toshio Hirano, for PRI’s The World.

Music photographer Lenny Gonzalez and I made a cool audio slideshow for this story, too.

Listen: Toshio Hirano

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The joke is that the MFA is the new MBA.  But it seems counter-intuitive, somehow, to mingle the worlds of business and art.  I mean, should you really mix the sublime with the bottom line?

This is a piece about the intersection between business and art that I produced for Marketplace.

Listen: The Thing

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Square dancing is alive and well in the San Francisco Bay Area. I reported on this re-emerging scene for Artery, the arts magazine at KALW Public Radio in San Francisco.

Listen: Hip to be Square

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Who would have thought that rubber duckies could contribute so significantly to the study of the world’s oceans?

In this piece for the Alaska Public Radio Network, I went on a scientific treasure hunt in the waters around Sitka, an island fishing community in Southeast Alaska.

Listen: Flotsam

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