Project Connect: Phases and Stages

Advisory group gets closer to official Council recommendation

"...advocate is happy about the choices. Mike Dahmus of AURA commented, "We've gotten to the point now where it's..."

April 4, 2014 News Feature by Mac McCann

The Austin Chronicle's Hair of the 3-Legged Dog Day Party, Vol. IX

"...Aura photography from Aura Nomad!..."

March 16, 2024 Photo Gallery

Cactus Lee, Nemegata, Font, Grace Sorensen Set for the Chronicle’s Hair of the 3-Legged Dog Party

Freebie springtime standby returns to Hotel Vegas March 15

"...gummies. Eldorado Cafe will be slinging free tacos, MOOD Aura Nomad will be snapping aura portraits, and, of course,..."

Feb. 29, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

All Quiet on the Western Front

Shocking, graphic, and mournful adaption of the World War I epic

"...the journey of a dead soldier’s uniform. A threatening aura permeates the tone of the film. With its thick..."

Dec. 30, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

How the Filibuster Has Already Undermined Democracy

The recent attacks on reproductive rights reveal another reason to let the filibuster burn

"...majority from taking action, while anointing themselves with an aura of wounded innocence (famously reinforced by the 1939 Jimmy..."

May 6, 2022 News Feature by Michael King

Swan Song

Mahershala Ali faces himself in a melancholic clone drama

"...is a complicated and poignant one, though the muted aura that maintains a rigid hush over scenes keeps the..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Freeland

Moving stoner drama finds the downside of going legit

"...greenery, California’s Humboldt County can still take on the aura of things primeval. It’s a picture-postcard perfect snapshot of..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lamb

Icelandic oddity finds unexpected heart in a strange fable of parenthood

"...presented in a cold blue-gray color palette and detached aura. It seems to suggest a greater unspoken emotional turmoil..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Chaos Walking

Interstellar YA adaptation brings a new gender twist to the formula

"...heard and seen, (the physical manifestation itself a lingering aura with a shifting, mood-ring color palette), the cognitive life..."

March 5, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Heartworn Highways

Restored documentary brings back the founding voices of outlaw country

"...Zandt, and Daniels exude a hunger and unpolished, pre-success aura. Coe’s uncomfortableness onstage in front of inmates, telling his..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Doug Freeman

Will the Third Time Be a Charm for an Austin Rail System?

Project Connect looks to help make connections

"...demolishing the properties that currently house retailers, apartments, and restaurants to make room for a bigger road...."

Sept. 25, 2020 News Feature by Jack Craver

The King of Staten Island

Pete Davidson grows up a bit in this semi-autobiographical dramedy

"...Peter Davidson. Saturday Night Live's resident stoner-slacker exudes an aura of lazy smugness. Even if you like his schtick,..."

June 12, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

How To Build a Girl

Booksmart's Beanie Feldstein keeps this rock critic biopic rolling

"...a sad-eyed singer-songwriter (Allen), sometimes materializes with a golden aura to pitch imaginary woo, or when her heroes –..."

May 8, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

Something something family something. The unkillable franchise lumbers on.

"...deliver a blow, an inspired subversion of both characters’ aura of invulnerability that still could have been played to..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Bad Times at the El Royale

Neo-noir hijinks gets away with being style over substance

"...dead ends, often serving only to create an artificial aura of mystery around the whole affair...."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Mandy

Nicolas Cage is stunning in this hallucinogenic revenger

"...is to die for, commencing with a tender, near-mystical aura of serene, true love, and then jaggedly, heartbreakingly escalating..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

"The Indigo Show" at Recspec Gallery

This group show is appealing for the ways in which it showcases this most intense, moody, serene, and opulent of all the blues

"...and melancholy, with hints of otherworldliness. As rare in auras as it is in the natural world, an important..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Public Notice: Peace on Earth, Good Will to Most

A final look forward at the start of the end of the CodeNEXT process

"...housing stock than are currently in place. To the AURA member trying to live a car-free lifestyle who currently..."

Dec. 22, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Cap Metro Hangs Hopes on “Connections 2025”

High frequency bus lines attempt to increase commuter freedom

"...who analyzes transit policy for the urbanist advocacy group AURA, "as long as you have free parking immediately next..."

Nov. 3, 2017 News Feature by Jack Craver

Why Does Everyone Hate CodeNEXT?

Can a polarized Austin reach consensus on land use by next spring?

"...judgments have been much harsher. The land-use activists at AURA quickly denounced the draft and maps as utterly inadequate..."

June 9, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: The Mayor’s Tightrope

Tip-toeing our way toward a consensus on housing supply

"...those 170,000 units in 10 years. Urbanist groups like AURA – not a direct party to the mayor's grand..."

March 31, 2017 News Column by Michael King

"textscape: Susan Scafati and Sean Ripple"

Using text interface as a visual environment, this show is messy and clean, consistent and surprising, philosophical and entertaining

"...leaf has grown from the soil. Ripple combines the aura of nature with the aura of script – an..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Election Notes: Notes at the End of the Road

Just a few more days of this deluge

"..."front groups for developers" Friends of Austin Neighborhoods and AURA (Austin­ites for Urban Rail Action). In response to the..."

Nov. 4, 2016 News Feature

The Magnificent Seven

Revisionist remake stars a diverse rainbow coalition

"...Coburn, and Robert Vaughn lent the film a desert-dry aura of unruffled cool. Fuqua’s film has the right actors..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Where There’s a Roof There’s a Way

City Council agenda heavy with housing matters

"...The land-use advocates at AURA are calling on Council to approve the ordinance, in..."

Nov. 17, 2015 News Post by Michael King

Keep Austin Affordable

"...Is Doing," News, June 12]. Specifically, the misrepresentation of AURA and other proponents of ADUs. I’m one of those..."

June 15, 2015 Postmarks

Lost River

Ryan Gosling's controversial debut as a writer/director finally arrives

"...and sexual kink from David Lynch, some ethereal narrative aura from Terrence Malick, grim human interactions from Gaspar Noé..."

April 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Advocacy, Ethics, and Opposition

"...Writing on July 11 to Capital Metro board members, AURA's Project Connect Central Cor­ri­dor Working Group co-chairs Brad Absalom..."

Aug. 8, 2014 News Feature by Mac McCann

Point Austin: More Connected Than Thou

Multimodal objections to a multimodal project

"...don't know, but neither do the opponents. Folks from AURA, Our Rail, Austin Rail Now, etc., not only argue..."

Aug. 8, 2014 News Column by Michael King

Where the Sidewalks End

Austin's patchwork sidewalk system has a history – and just maybe a better future

"...view of the local Target and a stack of restaurants, but with only dirt tracks and unreliable crossing lights..."

July 11, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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