The Austin Tadarida
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A new website for Austin. Collectively run.
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io
The 2026 Austin Asian American Film Festival recently wrapped another season of trailblazing storytelling at the Austin Film Society We spoke with artistic director Neha Aziz about her programming and filmmaker experience. ️
#AAAFF2026
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The 2026 Austin Asian American Film Festival: Trailblazing Storytelling in the Year of the Fire Horse
Following the Chinese zodiac calendar by the numbers, the “Horse” cycles through every 12 years, while another rarer breed only comes forth every 60 years. Enter the Year of the Fire Horse, with its s...
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/the-2026-austin-asian-american-film-festival-trailblazing-storytelling-in-the-year-of-the-fire-horse/
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New post on higher education at UT Austin:
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about 2 months ago
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I was happy to be featured on the What Makes Austin Weird podcast:
www.whatmakesaustinweird.com/episodes
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Episodes — Your Site Title
https://www.whatmakesaustinweird.com/episodes
5 months ago
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piece about sleep apnea:
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couldn't do much of an Austin angle with this one
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Hereditary Surprise Part Infinity: Sleep Apnea
Gauging what is or isn’t a valid medical concern as someone who experiences health anxiety is an unhappy exercise with no cooldown. Can any reassurance stick, or would hearing bad news be better — if ...
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/hereditary-surprise-part-infinity-sleep-apnea/
5 months ago
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Remembering Glenn Scott:
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"A Force of Nature" - Remembering Glenn Scott
Neither the loudest nor bossiest person in a room, Glenn Scott (1948-2018) did manage to buzz with the most energy. I met her in 2017 when she was already undergoing chemotherapy for the cancer that w...
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/a-force-of-nature-remembering-glenn-scott/
6 months ago
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It's roundup time, and I'd like to share some posts we've published since March. The first is this piece on estate sales:
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"A Little Museum of Someone's Life" — Estate Sales in Austin, North Texas, and Beyond
Visiting an estate sale is one of the most indirect but intimate ways of trying to understand a person you have never met. Instead of through their work, their personality, or their physical features,...
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/a-little-museum-of-someones-life-estate-sales-in-austin-north-texas-and-beyond/
7 months ago
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Chatting with chiptune artist Layna Bergstedt about open mics, Mega Man 3 and much more:
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A "Merchant of Novelty" — Speaking with Chiptune Artist and Vocalist Layna Bergstedt
Open mics have a deserved reputation of primarily hosting guitar-plucking, folkster singer-songwriters — a classic pairing which I expect to continue even as the folkies and/or guitars become half-rob...
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/a-merchant-of-novelty-speaking-with-chiptune-artist-and-vocalist-layna-bergstedt/
8 months ago
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we have a chiptune-related interview taking place this weekend, and a piece about sleep apnea materializing. stay tuned.
8 months ago
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Shadow Play
As of today, the government has been shut down for twenty-two days. Who shut down the government? We are told, twice on the same page, that “democrats have shut down the government.” Who are the dem...
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/shadow-play/
9 months ago
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Talking about sound with mentions of
@lizpelly.bsky.social
, The Equipment Room and Terry's Kissa.
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Great World of Sound
"Don’t bother — it’s not worth it." A grinning but clearly agitated British man softly stormed out of the Equipment Room, "an intimate space that houses one of Austin’s most special record collections...
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/great-world-of-sound/
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Keeping Austin Paranormal: An Interview With The Austin SĂ©ance
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Keeping Austin Paranormal: An Interview With The Austin SĂ©ance
The human desire to explore the unseen tends to swell when reality itself grows more dismal. Case in point: The American Spiritualist movement of the Victorian Era, which posited that spirits exist an...
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/keeping-austin-paranormal-an-interview-with-the-austin-seance/
9 months ago
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Inside the Austin ConcertDome:
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In the Round at the Austin ConcertDome
On March 8th, Lady Gaga will play the Moody Center. Tickets start as “low” as almost 300 dollars, and go up exponentially from there — row 5 tickets are almost 9,600 dollars. While the experience of s...
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/in-the-round-at-the-austin-concertdome/
10 months ago
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I am looking for contributors to this, my Austin-based website. More here:
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Contribute to The Austin Tadarida
On Bluesky earlier this month, cartoonist and illustrator Mattie Lubchansky wrote: a thing i simply cannot get over, as The Media collapses for i think the 5th time in my adult life, is what the fuck...
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/contribute-to-the-austin-tadarida/
11 months ago
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mattie lubchansky
11 months ago
a thing i simply cannot get over, as The Media collapses for i think the 5th time in my adult life, is what the fuck business the people who own these publications think they are in. shouldn’t the point be to just make enough money making the articles to make more articles
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Curling? In Austin? Yes.
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I Wanted to Avoid the Texas Heat, So I Joined a Curling League
As my 19th summer in Texas approached, I started dreading the inevitable heat earlier than usual. Each year, I considered options such as visiting my family in New York City during peak tourist season...
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/i-wanted-to-avoid-the-texas-heat-so-i-joined-a-curling-league/
11 months ago
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reposted by
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about 1 year ago
it begins, buckle up Austin!
add a skeleton here at some point
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Remembering Brian Wilson:
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Remembering Brian Wilson
With every big, booming song gifted to us from The Beach Boys — from “California Girls” to “Sail On, Sailor” — you’ll find a leafy cousin, a condensed, sleepier mini-symphony like the hula ballad “Lit...
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/remembering-brian-wilson/
about 1 year ago
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A update on what the national news is saying about our hometown, and a guide to how to understand the University of Austin:
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Bad News and a Fake College
Complaining about the New York Times is an unvanquishable media pastime, but ultimately as useful as slingshotting rocks at a zeppelin. The volley might annoy the crew and result in a few light direct...
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/bad-news-and-a-fake-college/
about 1 year ago
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I did interviews with people who enjoy going to or working at estate sales:
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"A Little Museum of Someone's Life" — Estate Sales in Austin, North Texas, and Beyond
Visiting an estate sale is one of the most indirect but intimate ways of trying to understand a person you have never met. Instead of through their work, their personality, or their physical features,...
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/a-little-museum-of-someones-life-estate-sales-in-austin-north-texas-and-beyond/
about 1 year ago
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Estate sale article incoming soon. For now, last weekend's Dungeon Synth festival in Austin:
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Drawn to the Dungeon
It begins with a quest. A marauder, simple traveler or possibly a knave takes to the road or a barely visible forest path in search of some knowledge, treasure. In this case, the trail winds east on C...
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/drawn-to-the-dungeon/
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Since I'm here and social media-ing, I also want to share this piece about Austin I (Adam) wrote:
endofaustin.com/2024/01/11/o...
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Only Onward: Lawrence Wright’s Austin and the Politics of Nostalgia
In February of last year the New Yorker published an article by Lawrence Wright entitled “The Astonishing Transformation of Austin.” Wright is the author of several books about al-Qaeda, one about …
https://endofaustin.com/2024/01/11/only-onward/
about 1 year ago
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Working on a piece about Austin estate sales.
about 1 year ago
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“It Has To Be True” — A Conversation with Maria Bustillos of Flaming Hydra
I don’t know how I first heard about Flaming Hydra, a website that posts (usually) two pieces by authors or illustrators each weekday — usually nonfiction writing, but not exclusively — but it probabl...
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/it-has-to-be-true-a-conversation-with-maria-bustillos-of-flaming-hydra/
over 1 year ago
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a post about what you treasures you may find at the Austin History Center:
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Tempered Joy at the Austin History Center
Three cheers for the not-so-distant past of tactile media, when newspapers explained the everyday, books contextualized the past, and DVDs and VHS cassettes made these discoveries audible and extra-vi...
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/tempered-joy-at-the-austin-history-center-2/
over 1 year ago
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Our first post, about attending
@sxsw.com
Interactive.
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SXSW Interactive: Interesting Times
At the opening keynote of SXSW Interactive in Ballroom D at the Austin Convention Center, Hugh Forrest, the easygoing President & Chief Programming Officer of SXSW, walked us through the usual round o...
https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/sxsw-interactive-interesting-times/
over 1 year ago
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