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How Burning Man Has Evolved Over Three Decades

#Burners #BurningMan #BlackRockCity #BurningManCulture A dust storm overwhelmed the road to Burning Man this week. Clouds of  billowing white dust  obscured the caravan of cars snaking through the barren Nevada desert, according to  recent news reports . Travelers parked in ditches and covered their faces with kerchiefs until the squall passed. The drive is an August ritual for more than 70,000 attendees who have descended upon Black Rock City for nearly three decades and are gathered this week to build colossal art installations and dance nude in the scorching summer heat. (You can  watch it live  here.) First came  the artist hippies  in the 1990s. Insanely rich tech moguls  arrived on their private jets  two decades later. Models and celebrities followed. Last year,  politics seeped into  the parade of whirligigs and hat-festooned cyclists when a group of President Trump impersonators arrived, and booths were set up fo...