Anxiety of Influence

Teenagers Georgia and Wyatt Pierson on their family's filmic mission to Fiji

"...the everyday influences exerted by a functional and candidly high-decibel family upon their surroundings ... and vice versa. While..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Texican Cafe

Recognizing a long-overlooked far-South gem

"...marred by adjacent families that choose to ignore their high-decibel children. Note to the parents: Your kids are not..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Food Review by Mick Vann

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

OK in Ukraine, Negative decibels in Hawaii, Walt Whitman in Manhattan, and people in Yemen

"...Negative decibel readings have been taken at Volcano National Park in..."

July 23, 2004 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"..."Bomb City," as they would say), Fantasy's Core hawks high-decibel blues-punk peppered with liberal doses of slightly surreal schtick..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

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"...Texas, the live, unplugged, nonsmoking, not over a certain decibel, music capital of the world."..."

May 16, 2003 Column

Primal Scream

Record Review

"...release, 2000's XTRMNTR, birthed a politicized scream of increasing decibel intensities, often resulting in a synaptic meringue fusing slatternly..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Curieosity

Curieosity, writer-director-choreographer Sharon Sparlin's original work about Marie Curie and her physicist husband Pierre is an energetic collage of performance styles, with actors on the go like atoms smashing inside a supercollider and spraying their sub-atomic anatomies in every direction, in all manner of presentational genres.

"...(for the Curies) chase for funding, to the frequent techno-decibel breakout dance numbers, Sparlin's actors are on the go..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Naked City

Breaking news from Austin, Central Texas, and the world

"...draft. City Hall calls the draft, which sets an 85-decibel limit downtown (75 dB in residential areas), "the result..."

Dec. 6, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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"...the ocean with a noise level of over 230 decibels. This device has killed whales, dolphins, and other species..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Column

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"...the ocean with a noise level of over 230 decibels. This device has killed whales, dolphins, and other species..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Column

'ACL' Live Shots

"...own Arc Angels." That the festival-headlining foursome sounded every decibel like a band that now one-offs reunion gigs for..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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"...a doubling of loudness as about a 12- to 14-decibel increase in sound pressure. Other ears may differ.)..."

May 31, 2002 Column

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"...but "how many people's rights are being violated?" Any decibel level can be exceeded by any sound if you're..."

May 17, 2002 Column

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The city of Austin claims to support live music and film, but its actions speak louder than its slogans.Chronicle AISD Endorsements, 2002Endorsements in Austin Community College Board Election. The Chronicle Endorsements for the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District

"...concerts as we know them. Given the already low decibel levels allowed, it is hard enough to hear at..."

April 26, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Dancing About Architecture

The city's noise ordinance proposes to drown out live music in Austin.

"...-- that if accepted as written, would drop acceptable decibel levels for amplified music almost in half. On Monday,..."

April 26, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

The rain couldn't stop the flood of Austin's outdoor music shows last weekend.

"...For instance, she notes that the distance from which decibel levels should be checked might be different as far..."

April 12, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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"...Black Lines have lost nary a step nor a decibel. What they lost in Paul Newman's bass they gained..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Mogwai Rock Action (Matador)

"...rock nihilist circles, there are those who dismiss the decibel tsunamis of Mogwai as sonic posturing. They cite any..."

June 8, 2001 Music Review by Jeff Mccord

Disengage

Acts Playing South by Southwest

"...Phobias (Man's Ruin) With their in-your-face delivery and delicious decibel jockeying, Cleveland's Disengage has rightfully earned a spot on..."

March 16, 2001 Music Review by David Lynch

In Person

Who's dumber: Republicans or Democrats? The official results are in.

"...Republicans are the dumbest. By a fraction of a decibel, the Grand Old Party won the "dumbest election" staged..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Books Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Goudie, Stubb's, July 11

"...Dave Grohl mode, but he was up to the high-decibel task on "Valentine," recalling Verbena with a dash of..."

July 21, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

A Clockwork Orange: Re-Sexing the Orange

It's a pretty cool choice to produce a stage version of such a popular filmed story as A Clockwork Orange, and while there's plenty of enthusiasm in the performance of this Fabulous and Ridiculous Theatre production, director AnnaCatherine Rutledge's transgendered take on the tale doesn't quite pull this raskazz into belief-suspending terrorism.

"...but nails lacking a certain depth if not a decibel-level, and not quite as tough as even the cuticles..."

May 5, 2000 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

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"...I wanna send out a 150-decibel "Hell, yeah!" to Greg Beets and Kevin Fullerton for..."

March 3, 2000 Column

Dancing About Architecture

Austin Jazz & Arts Festival doesn't need saving after all; the strange sounds coming from Austin's backyards; barbecue to replace Austin Blues; Honky attacked by lesbians in Chicago!; and more news from the Live Music Capital of the World.

"...police and the neighbors, with the cops checking the decibel levels and giving the Fly the okay. Stubbs' Charles..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Where's the Party?

"...neighbors really is your only hope, as the city's decibel limits are no longer the key to enforcing the..."

May 21, 1999 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Record Reviews

Ani Difranco

"...fans dear and true, from Babe's many modest, yet decibel-blaring van tours across the USA. And Loyalty begets loyalty,..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Music Review

Live Shots

Beastie Boys, Rancid, Asiandubfoundation

"...and an over-reliance on the submissive effect of the decibel. It was a loud show. Perhaps the Swine Lakers..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Music Feature

Coach's Corner

"...a popular fellow, especially since I was buying. The decibel level of all nine of them inside the small,..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

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El Flaco No Mas?

"...may be issued, and the other allowing a five decibel leeway in measurements of noise, were essential victories in..."

June 12, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Live Shots

"...slipped into the background and ended up on a decibel par with the incidental fallout of the patrons' yakking...."

April 24, 1998 Music Feature

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