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Burning Man on the Virgo New Moon

Black Rock City emerges out of the landscape of an ancient plateau left by the extinct Lake Lahontan. It is a living work of creative community. For its weeklong existence each year, it becomes the third largest city in Nevada.

At this writing, final preparations are being made for the burning of the man festival, and it won’t be long before a sizable crowd has gathered. What has, for a week, been a kind of Bedouhin tribal outpost with deisel generators, an airport and satellite hookups, is about to transform into a kind of Fire Bowl celebration as the central icon of the festival, anticipating the moment when a wood statue of a man about 60 feet high is torched.