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You have been granted access, use your keyboard to continue reading. What You Miss When You’re Always Wearing Headphones Loud racket in public is obnoxious, but so is our way of dealing with it. Credit...Illustration by Leon Edler Feb. 24, 2026, 5:01 a.m. ET A few months ago, I sat in a half-empty Q train on my way downtown. The car was scattered with a handful of people, most of whom looked down at their phones with a pair of headphones around or inside their ears.

Lu Yang, DOKU The Flow, 2024. Photography by Joshua White. Image courtesy of the Julia Stoschek Foundation. In 1924, the Playhouse debuted its stage in Downtown Los Angeles. Dreamed up by the Friday Morning Club, then California’s largest women's civic-social group, the Italian Renaissance-Revival theater was established to accommodate the organization’s exponential growth.

Lu Yang, DOKU The Flow, 2024. Photography by Joshua White. Image courtesy of the Julia Stoschek Foundation. In 1924, the Playhouse debuted its stage in Downtown Los Angeles. Dreamed up by the Friday Morning Club, then California’s largest women's civic-social group, the Italian Renaissance-Revival theater was established to accommodate the organization’s exponential growth.