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

Then There's This: Split Views on ADUs

'Granny flats' measure breaks from the CodeNext pack

"...9 rival Kathie Tovo, mayoral candidate Sheryl Cole, and Laura Morrison (a Tovo supporter) opposed. The opponents' preference is..."

June 20, 2014 News Column by Amy Smith

Point Austin: Solid State

Leffingwell takes pride in his hometown ... and looks toward one final vote

"..."prioritize" in his speech the East Riverside Corridor (as AURA had demanded), they instantly tweeted their denunciations...."

Feb. 28, 2014 News Column by Michael King

Project Connect Draws a Line

Group makes official recommendation to Mayor Leffingwell

"...AURA executive committee member Dan Keshet called the Highland recommendation..."

Nov. 22, 2013 News Feature by Mac McCann

The Three Stooges

"...adequate, but the simple attempt to re-create the madcap aura of the original Stooges’ brotherly sadomasochism is doomed from..."

April 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Arthur Christmas

The folks at Aardman Animation, who gave us Wallace & Gromit, seve up an instant – and funny – holiday classic.

"...from the mother ship, ninjalike and with a definite aura of Mission: Impossible meets Special Air Service-styled derring-do. Arthur..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Martha Marcy May Marlene

A psychological thriller that's stripped of the usual Hollywood trappings, this film maintains a sense of oppressive threat throughout.

"...Lee Lipes and editor Zachary Stuart-Pontier, masterfully sustains an aura of oppressive threat throughout. Like its scared, damaged, and..."

Nov. 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Luv Doc Recommends: Central Texas Paranormal Conference

Norris Conference Centers, Saturday, October 8, 2011

"...There will also be a vendor area with an aura photographer, palmists, a Reiki practitioner, crystal readers, entity clearers,..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc

FF2011: 'Two Eyes Staring' ('Zwart Water')

Kids doing the craziest things (like murder, haunting etc)

"...However, TV veteran van Strien maintains an undeniably European aura. Guido van Gennep's shadow-draped cinematography gives a mordant aura..."

Sept. 26, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Of Gods and Men

This Cannes Grand Prix winner is a spellbinding tale of Trappist monks amid Algerian civil chaos and finding purpose in faith.

"...or any faith at all, to appreciate the all-enveloping aura that director Beauvois conjures from the daily rituals of..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ramona and Beezus

Beverly Cleary's beloved Ramona Quimby makes a pleasing leap to the big screen with this adaptation.

"...plays the sudden househusband Robert Quimby, and his amaranthine aura of dorky benignancy is put to good use; he..."

July 30, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Harmony and Me

This Austin-made gem by Bob Byington is a sharply written and acted observational piece about a heartsick guy played by Justin Rice.

"...that’s part of the intent, helping to create an aura of Anytown, USA, a place where words can carry..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tickled Pink

Pink moves to Dripping Springs

"...last week and announced she was moving to Salon Aura, I knew Pink was not for long. Sure enough,..."

July 6, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Fast & Furious

This third franchise sequel doesn't have as much smarts as speed, but it's still an uncomplicated, undemanding lark.

"...abused younger brother, and to contrast Walker's pretty, blank aura of bro-dom with Diesel's essential badassness. (The bald pate,..."

April 3, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Living With 'Monstrosities'

Jen Hirt and Scott Webel and their Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata

"...worthy of displaying, that gives it a sort of aura of enchantment? Even assuming the provenance is authentic, why..."

June 27, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Water

Don't come to this movie expecting a doom-and-gloom forecast about ecological catastrophe. It's instead an encounter with "voodoo chemistry" that aims to show why we all should start imbibing "structurized water."

"...taken for granted. Like a Kirlian photograph, there's an aura that surrounds this movie too: It's the shape water..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Next

Nicolas Cage plays a man who can see into the future – a talent the FBI wants to put to use capturing terrorists.

"...surround her gratefully, as if intoxicated by her blond aura and heaving Caucasian décolletage) and jumps into a car..."

May 4, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Grudge 2

Japanese director Shimizu may be the only director in history to have helmed a pair of Hollywood remakes of his two biggest hit films and managed to screw up both of them.

"...that may have added to the original Japanese version's aura of fractured reality, here it only serves to point..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

The literal and figurative institutionalization of Austin music and art legend Daniel Johnston is analyzed from many angles in this perceptive film profile.

"...piano, lending the first part of Daniel Johnston the aura of a 1920s silent. The black-and-white end-credit roll with..."

May 5, 2006 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Brown Bunny

Vincent Gallo's notorious film turns out to be an anti-action road trip that has the feeling of a fever dream.

"...strange angles that lend the whole proceeding a surreal aura. It all plays like a low-level fever dream, minus..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wrong Turn

"...but if the past is any indication, the current aura of global dread should be a boon to horror..."

June 6, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Big Trouble

"...a Fritos-hoovering vagrant (Lee) whose long hair and beatific aura recall a certain major Western religious figure. With the..."

April 12, 2002 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Master Class

In the Zachary Scott Theatre Center production of Terence McNally's Master Class, Lisa Bansavage is exceptional as Maria Callas. Whether bantering with the audience or berating her students, Bansavage is charming, funny, and imposing -- but then, she's La Divina.

"...Master Class: Small Handbag, Huge Aura..."

June 1, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Where the Money is

"...Henry along for the ride and expertise. There's an aura of Bonnie and Clyde in the way Carol equates..."

April 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Entrapment

"...Apart from her riveting good looks, she projects an aura of capability and intelligence, qualities that also make her..."

April 30, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Permanent Visitors?

Unique View

"...we understand that role so well, there is an aura of communication."..."

Jan. 1, 1999 News Feature by Traci Terrill

The Man Who Loved Little Girls

"...As a result, Lewis Carroll has a vaguely icky aura about him in some people's minds, leading to pop-culture..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Hands on a Hard Body

Unpretentious insight into the nature of human aspiration can be found in Bindler's documentary about the yearly contest in which Jack Long Nissan of Longview, Texas, gives a new hard body pickup to whomever can keep his or her hands on it the longest.

"...about picayune-seeming phenomena and pursuits that gain an improbable aura of significance from the passion people pour into them...."

July 10, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Telling Lies in America

"...pay, short hours, and opportunities to bask in Magic's aura of mega-coolness. There's a hitch, though: It turns out..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

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