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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
A general view of the atmosphere during Lollapalooza at Grant Park on August 05, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. (Erika Goldring/WireImage/Getty Images)

My first festival ... and panic attack

Gabriella Ferrigine

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

Death at Burning Man

Gabriel Bell
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California April 12, 2015. (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

Music festival boom and bust

Annie Zaleski
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Craig Finn looks back

Dan Mistich
(AP/Nam Y. Huh)

"F*ck Lollapalooza"

Erin Coulehan
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-295834p1.html'>Ivica Drusany</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

"You are not welcome here"

Annie Zaleski
Jim James of My Morning Jacket (AP/Nick Wass)

Jim James and "The Waterfall"

Stephen Deusner
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Kimmel Strikes again

Anna Silman
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-658339p1.html'>Vadim Georgiev</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Henry Grabar
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Beer and loathing at Preakness

Daniel B. Roberts
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