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Have you ever wanted to burn a man? In June 1986, the founders of the Burning Man project and nonprofit, Larry Harvey and Jerry James, built a wooden human effigy and set it on fire on San Francisco’s ...

Burning Man is a counterculture community event held the last week of August each year in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada that draws upwards of 70,000 people. Photo credit: MIKE NELSON/AFP Last week ...

Maureen Maples, 49, has been a regular at the annual Burning Man event in the Nevada desert for the past 20 years. Attending Burning Man has impacted her life in many positive ways, she shared with ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Going into my 26th Burning Man, I admit I was crestfallen at the news that “Midnight Poutine” was not returning. The Canadian dish is a funny mix of fries, ...

Burning Man — the festival that eschews materialism, commodification, and capitalism — has paradoxically become associated with some of the wealthiest men on the planet. In the early 2010s, news ...

Iconic arts festival Burning Man is facing backlash after a video of its signature ritual—the burning of a massive wooden effigy known as “The Man”—went viral, drawing criticism from social media ...