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Burning Man attendees face raging dust storm as they wait hours to leave festival

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Burning Man survived a muddy quagmire. Will the experiment last 30 more years?

RENO, Nev. — The blank canvas of desert wilderness in northern Nevada seemed the perfect place in 1992 for artistic anarchists to relocate their annual burning of a towering, anonymous effigy. Katherine Chen, a sociology professor in New York City who wrote a 2009 book about the event’s “creative chaos,” was among those who wondered whether Burning Man “would be …

Commentary: How dancing through rain and mud helped relight the lost fire of Burning Man

There are many grandiose, outlandish and incomprehensible things one may witness at Burning Man. But there was one thing at this year’s Burning Man that many veteran attendees and I never expected to see: miles of viscous mud. Writer Morena Duwe with friends Gabbi Hafalia and right Felisha Rossi at Frothin’ Village “The Gallery” stage during Thomas Jack’s set at …

The Burning Man mud memes just hit different.

Burning Man traditionally ends with the titular incineration of a massive human sculpture in the middle of the Black Rock Desert. “I don’t like Burning Man art, I don’t like tech companies and tech culture. Festival organizers and many attendees talk a big game about social justice and responsibility, but between the event’s gigantic carbon footprint, the ostentatious burning of …

No longer stranded, tens of thousands clean up and head home after Burning Man floods

RENO, Nev. — The traffic jam leaving the Burning Man festival eased up considerably Tuesday as the exodus from the mud-caked Nevada desert entered another day following massive rain that left tens of thousands of partygoers stranded for days. “It was a perfect, typical Burning Man weather until Friday — then the rain started coming down hard,” said Phillip Martin, …

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Muddy misery at Burning Man? Not quite, campers say: The party went on

As Michael Conti packed up and left his 25-person Burning Man camp Tuesday morning, he wondered what the outside world thought of what had happened at the remote festival in recent days after rainfall turned the ancient lakebed into sticky sludge. Mark Stern, leader of a camp in the Friendly Society village led by Conti, said the Burning Man organization …