I suppose there are a few other things in life that challenge our threshold for audial pain more than the buzzzzzz of the vuvuzelas during World Cup matches. A Jeff Van Gundy unfiltered mix tape. A ...

Oh, vuvuzela. We hardly knew ye. It's a word most people in the world had never heard until early June, when people started Googling the word en masse in conjunction with the first days of the 2010 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Three reporters from around the Tribune Co. weigh in on the South ...

I've been trying to figure out my answer to this question: Do you like the vuvuzela? I do. But why? I don't like the sound of it. As in, I don't want to hear its B-flat buzz while I cook, while I ...

The 2010 World Cup kicked off with a bang – or should I say – a curious, cacophonous chorus of South African vuvuzela. Vu-vu-ze-what you might be asking. No, vu-vu-ze-la, as in the Setswana name for a ...

Salvador, Brazil – Maybe more than who won or lost, the 2010 World Cup in South Africa will be remembered for one thing: The vuvuzela. The long, plastic horn became the soundtrack for every game ...

The World Cup debate shows how we tend to place 'cultural rights' above human decency, writes Carol Hunt The brother wished he'd had one of those vuvuzela yokes at Croker last weekend. Whether to put ...

The drone of the vuvuzela, that ear-piercingly annoying plastic horn, has tempered the excitement of this year’s World Cup matches. Here’s a fairly easy fix that just might snip the vuvuzela out of ...