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Vox presents an article about restaurant noise levels and why they've risen over the years.
When the Line Hotel opened in Washington, DC, last December, the cocktail bars, gourmet coffee shops, and restaurants that fill its cavernous lobby drew a lot of buzz. Housed in a century-old church, the space was also reputedly beautiful.
My first visit in February confirmed that the Line was indeed as sleek as my friends and restaurant critics had suggested. There was just one problem: I wanted to leave almost as soon as I walked in. My ears were invaded by a deafening din.
[...] In reckoning with this underappreciated health threat, I’ve been wondering how we got here and why any well-meaning restaurateur would inflict this pain on his or her patrons and staff. I learned that there are a number of reasons — and they mostly have to do with restaurant design trends. In exposing them, I hope restaurateurs will take note: You may be deafening your staff and patrons.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Friday April 20 2018, @01:58PM
That's an excellent movie. The poetry is rare in film. I can still hear the children's song [youtube.com], "Warum bin ich ich, and warum nicht Du? Warum bin ich hier, und warum nicht dort?" ("Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there?")
But as somebody else in the thread pointed out, the sort of noise matters. There's a big difference between brash cacophony and the burbling of the water mills [vimeo.com] in the final scene of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams.
Washington DC delenda est.