Burning Man

  • What should I say to my husband?

    It turns out the woman he was cavorting with at Burning Man is a Vegas stripper.
  • In your tribe

    Young people are staying single longer because they are so fulfilled by their network of friends, says journalist Ethan Watters in a new book. Has he touched on a generational phenomenon, or did he just write a book about his Burning Man crew?
  • X'ed out

    You're in a love puddle. You're smiling. You're high on Ecstasy. You touch your friend's hair. Wow. You can't stop touching it. Her hair is incredibly soft. You keep smiling. Now it's a few years later. You take E again. You grind your teeth, the hangover lasts a week. It's no fun. What happened?
  • Sneaking peeks at the porn clowns

    Even flaming exhibitionists agree: Digital cameras and the Internet make invading a person's privacy much too easy.
  • Auto exotica or idiotica?

    California's Art Car Fest reminds us to ask questions, race trains, glue things to our vehicles and beware when a 30-foot shark changes lanes on the freeway.
  • Jonesin' for johns

    Everyone knows that the few portable potties at Burning Man are gross. Meet the man who was responsible for keeping them from getting even grosser this year.
  • Time for an orgy?

    The newsweekly's managing editor blesses Burning Man.
  • Greenspan goes to Burning Man?

    Real-time market data comes to the playa this year, with the Stock Market Puppets.
  • Blue Girl's blue period

    The bluest performance artist around has the paint-and-nipple market cornered.
  • Beach bummer blaze-a-thon

    Thais still burning mad over DiCaprio's movie; Robert Downey Jr. has prison revelation: It's not a nice place! Bijou Phillips to Howard Stern: All rumors are true! Katie Couric's inside edition. Plus: Porn star Lolo "58F" Ferrari is called home.
  • Flaming man

    Queer erotics has its place in the sun at Burning Man's utopia. How fitting that the sun got too hot.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Is Paglia wrong about Waco? Plus: R.E.M. on "Automatic" pilot; Luddite gamers should quit moaning and start playing.
  • Millennial Brigadoon

    The annual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert invents a hyper-real space, a republic of drugs, nudity and spectacle.

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