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Around Here, It’s Not a Party Without a Bone-Rattling Speaker Truck

October 22, 2025October 22, 2025Hasya Nindita and Ulet IfansastiComments Off on Around Here, It’s Not a Party Without a Bone-Rattling Speaker Truck

A towering wall of speakers on wheels, shaking everything in sight: In many Javanese villages, there’s no big celebration without one.

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Did Weight and Noise Make a Dominican Republic Nightclub Roof Collapse?

April 26, 2025Frances Robles and Hogla Enecia PérezComments Off on Did Weight and Noise Make a Dominican Republic Nightclub Roof Collapse?

The Dominican nightclub where a roof loaded with equipment collapsed, killing 232 people, had repeatedly violated excessive noise rules. Now some wonder if sound vibrations played a role.

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‘Psychological Torture’: London Bans Busking in a Famed Tourist Hub

April 18, 2025April 18, 2025JONATHAN WOLFEComments Off on ‘Psychological Torture’: London Bans Busking in a Famed Tourist Hub

Noise complaints led the authorities to halt street performances in Leicester Square. Some miss the music. Others found the noise “bloody annoying.”

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North Korea Blasts Unbearable Sounds To South Korea

November 16, 2024November 16, 2024CHOE SANG-HUN and CHANG W. LEEComments Off on North Korea Blasts Unbearable Sounds To South Korea

Relations between the neighbors have sunk to the lowest level in years. Now, Pyongyang is blaring eerie sounds across the border that villagers say is making their lives hell.

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Milan Cracks Down on Nightlife After Campaign to Lure Visitors

May 9, 2024May 9, 2024Elisabetta Povoledo and Alessandro GrassaniComments Off on Milan Cracks Down on Nightlife After Campaign to Lure Visitors

City officials worked to make Milan attractive to visitors, but now that some neighborhoods are overwhelmed by rowdy crowds and noise, they’re trying to scale back.

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Celine Dion ‘Siren Battles’ Prompt Complaints in New Zealand City

October 27, 2023October 27, 2023MIKE IVESComments Off on Celine Dion ‘Siren Battles’ Prompt Complaints in New Zealand City

A subculture has developed among Pacific Islander communities based on who can blast music — often Ms. Dion’s songs — the loudest. Some call it too disruptive.

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Paris Makes ‘Summer Terraces’ a Permanent Part of Cafe Culture

August 21, 2023August 21, 2023LIZ ALDERMANComments Off on Paris Makes ‘Summer Terraces’ a Permanent Part of Cafe Culture

The neighbors may complain about the noise, but outdoor spaces that bloomed under a pandemic program are now a permanent and vibrant fixture of city life.

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Amsterdam Has a Message for Male British Tourists: ‘Stay Away’

March 29, 2023March 30, 2023Claire MosesComments Off on Amsterdam Has a Message for Male British Tourists: ‘Stay Away’

In an ad campaign aimed at British men between 18 and 35, the Dutch capital threatens fines for visitors who are looking for a “messy night.”

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Sounds of War Mark Time in Bakhmut, in Eastern Ukraine

December 7, 2022December 7, 2022Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Natalia YermakComments Off on Sounds of War Mark Time in Bakhmut, in Eastern Ukraine

In Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, rumbles and blasts are just background noise, until they aren’t.

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Did Nature Heal During the Pandemic ‘Anthropause’?

July 16, 2022July 18, 2022Emily AnthesComments Off on Did Nature Heal During the Pandemic ‘Anthropause’?

Covid precautions created a global slowdown in human activity — and an opportunity to learn more about the complex ways we affect other species.

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