Topic: black rock city

Maureen Maples with friends at Burning Man 2025. (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The San Francisco Chronicle / Photos Courtesy of Maureen Maples)

"It could have killed us"

Nicole Karlis
Vadim Kruglov in Times Square. At left, an aerial view of Black Rock City, the temporary desert site of Burning Man. (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Maxar / Courtesy Kruglov Family)

A Burning Man dream ends in tragedy

Nicole Karlis
Walkway to the Man (The Burning Man Project/ Andrew Wyatt)

Burning Man's sordid aftermath

Nicole Karlis
Burning Man festival participants endure a dust storm on the playa at the Black Rock Desert in Gerlach, Nev., on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2007. (AP/Brad Horn)

Burning Man’s sex crime problem exposed

Nicole Karlis
Larry Harvey, co-founder of the Burning Man festival (AP/John Curley)

My dinner with Mr. Burning Man

Keith A. Spencer
'The Man' burns during the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert (AP/Brad Horn)

Death at Burning Man

Gabriel Bell
Burning Man participants walk on the playa at the Black Rock Desert (AP/Brad Horn)

Burning Man's gentrification

Keith A. Spencer