Natalia Ciolko

At The Warehouse

January 27th, 2012

There’s been silence on the blog for the last few months, so let me bring you up to date. I’m now living in Park City, UT, working for Sundance Film Festival, which will be wrapping up tomorrow. It’s hard to believe I’ve already been here for three months! What an incredible time. This is officially the longest I’ve ever been away from Texas, and honestly, I’m loving it. I’ll be back with more updates, but in the meantime, enjoy these photos from behind the scenes.

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TRAVEL: Eisenhower Flea Market, San Antonio, Texas

November 21st, 2011

Eisenhower Flea Market. November 2011.

Items for healing, decoration, and self-defense are the bestsellers. Even on a Saturday, many booths are closed and only the diehards remain. In the far back, personal goods are displayed by amateurs on foldout tables. Their wares are dusty or destroyed but their optimism is intact.

Eisenhower Flea Market. November 2011.

Eisenhower Flea Market. November 2011.

Eisenhower Flea Market. November 2011.

Hoop earrings. Eisenhower Flea Market. November 2011.

Quincenera stand, closed. Eisenhower Flea Market. November 2011.

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LIVE: Das Racist at San Antonio’s notorious White Rabbit

October 31st, 2011

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Last night one of my all-time favorite groups, Das Racist, played a local dive. The attendance was pretty slim but after the show many a fanboys dream was fulfilled when the band posed for pictures and signed autographs with everyone. My nightlife report in the SA Current later this week.

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I <3 Radio

August 15th, 2011

After my first year of hosting a weekly radio show, I’m obsessed. Radio is lying on your bed with the lights off, listening to a voice in the dark. Radio is walking downtown and hearing conjunto, malembe and tejano ranchero escaping car windows. Radio is tuning in and wondering who else out there is listening.

East Village Radio, my favorite Internet station of the moment, operates in a glass-front booth facing street traffic in New York City. The hosts, DJs and artists broadcast via loudspeaker to the street. Pedestrians are face to face with the DJs while online listeners can instant message their feedback in real time.

When working at The FADER I helped host The Let Out on EVR a few times, and the excitement was magic. Everything’s live, anything can happen, anyone could show up. The background of laughter and drop in guests make the atmosphere.

For anyone who enjoys music or banter or swagger or all of those things you have to check out the EVRDas Racist “residency” called Chillin Island. It’s literally some of the best radio I’ve heard–off-the-cuff delivery, unreleased album cuts and pure gold musical selections. You can listen to all the back episodes and tune in live every Friday from 12-2pm EST.

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TRAVEL: San Angelo, Texas

July 16th, 2011

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Jive Refried, San Antonio, Texas

July 1st, 2011

Jive Refried. July 2011.

Jive Refried. July 2011.

Jive Refried. July 2011.

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L.A. READS!

May 8th, 2011

“…twenty times as many titles are published each year than were in 1980, and we have one twentieth of the serious book reviews.”

Just discovered the brand new Los Angeles Review of Books online!

Such hopes… Dare to dream? PAY WRITERS… to REVIEW BOOKS. In addition to reviews, ESSAYS! Just read one by David Shields (‘Life is Short; Art is Shorter’) about writing, death and calling bullshit on Jonathan Franzen.

It got me all stirred up, like a new bit of Five Dials or Thought Catalog (‘Why France is Making Me Hate Wine’, for instance).

Will I donate? Sounds like they’re pretty tight on cash but I’m waiting to check out some of the pieces from their forthcoming articles list:

•Lisa Jane Persky on the spread of literary tattoos.
•Grace Krilanovich on the kids of suburban California.
•Emily Green on the fine art of the euphemism.
•Janet Fitch on Facebook, Michael Cunningham, and private life.

And if all that were not enough… the staff also maintains their own blog.

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COOL THINGS ABOUT SAN ANTONIO

May 1st, 2011


Pizza guy at Delivery Market who gives me discounts
Goth/metal kids
Woodlawn Lake
The gay bars
$1 drinks

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Brownsville, Texas

May 1st, 2011


We left town before dawn, and arrived at respectable morning business hours. Wandering downtown, in our high tops and short skirts, we hit a few ropasados, ate hamburgers & jalapenos from a shotgun-alley cafe and made it to the beach before 3 p.m.

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TRAVEL: Rockport, Texas

April 13th, 2011

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TRAVEL: London, England

April 1st, 2011

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TRAVEL: Warsaw, Poland

March 25th, 2011

Just an afternoon at the cafe with my favorite relative Anna.

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TRAVEL: Rzeszow, Poland

March 20th, 2011

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Just spending time with family.

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LIVE: Das Racist, Ghe2o G0th1k, OFWGKTA SXSW 2011 Converse x Thrasher

March 20th, 2011

Converse Thrasher SXSW 2011: Ghe2o Goth1k

Converse Thrasher SXSW 2011: Ghe2o Goth1k

Converse Thrasher SXSW 2011: Ghe2o Goth1k and Syd the Kyd

Converse Thrasher SXSW 2011: Ghe2o Goth1k, Das Racist, OFWGKTA

Converse Thrasher SXSW 2011: Ghe2o Goth1k, Das Racist, OFWGKTA

Converse Thrasher SXSW 2011: Viktor Vazquez (Das Racist)

Converse Thrasher SXSW 2011: Das Racist

Converse Thrasher SXSW 2011: Ghe2o Goth1k, Das Racist, OFWGKTA

Converse Thrasher SXSW 2011: OFWGKTA

Converse Thrasher SXSW 2011: Tyler the Creator, OFWGKTA

Converse Thrasher SXSW 2011: OFWGKTA

Converse Thrasher SXSW 2011: OFWGKTA

Converse Thrasher SXSW 2011: OFWGKTA

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LIVE: Nina Garza at Havana Sessions

March 4th, 2011

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Getting ready for the show at Hotel Havana tonight…

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