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Community building on All Hallows' Eve. By Sonya Sobieski , published on October 30, 2009 - last reviewed on October 31, 2009 Halloween harkens back to ancient bacchanalias.

The idea that one can do drugs, barter for goods and live out fantasies in a controlled environment for a short time before rejoining society makes Burning Man appealing to all kinds of folks.

Spider Ball is an annual fundraising Halloween extravaganza hosted in tandem by The Bently Reserve and Playa Love , a Burning Man camp dedicated to promoting local organizations and communities both on the playa and at home.

The Electric Auto Association of Northern Nevada is scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Truckee Meadows Water Reclamation Facility, 8500 Clean Water Way.

A toddler is lost in Long Island City. His name is Baby Ikki, an alter ego of Michael Smith, the New York performance artist who first wobbled out the pre-verbal, diaper-clad character in 1975.

In Burning Man , the playa is the dry, ancient lake bed where the event is held in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.

By Molly Freedenberg. Photos by Michael Rauner . Time is running out on the beloved Burning Opera: How to Survive the Apocalypse, the Mark Nichols/Erik Davis vehicle that attempts to both explain and capture the ethos of SF's favorite festival: Burning Man.

If Burning Man is the self-described "annual art event and temporary community based on radical self expression and self-reliance in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada," And while the opera may quite not offer the transformative experience for audience members that it claims is to be had by attendees of the festival, it certainly provides an evening ...

Burning Life is open! Second Life 's version of Nevada 's Burning Man will be open through October 25.

Just a few months ago, everything seemed to be coming up roses for NIMBY despite a fire that forced the arts collective out of its longtime space on 28th Street in West Oakland.

Burning Man 2009 is the latest iteration of "an annual art event and temporary community based on radical self expression and self-reliance in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada." Basically Burning Man is the ultimate in odd, the Mecca for the creative, and THE PLACE for freaks to come out and play.

Nimby industrial art performance space in Oakland, Calif., photographed on Tuesday, Oct.

Fire dancers at the 2008 Reno Decompression. This year's event is Oct. 17 at the Underground.

Wandering through the Baldwin Photographic Gallery might give you the impression that you are stepping into horror writer Clive Barker's Skins of the Father .

All the psychedelic fun without all the travel! Updated: Sunday, 11 Oct 2009, 10:09 PM PDT Published : Sunday, 11 Oct 2009, 10:06 PM PDT Los Angeles fans of Burning Man... the Nevada desert celebration of art, music and freedom... say it's so much fun that they have a hard time coming home.

Dave King makes braces and artificial limbs by day and makes fire dance at night.

CuriousJosh brings you scenes from the L.A. underground including The 7th Annual L.A. Burning Man Decompression and the sexy Space Island "After Party." 1 of 42 Josh "CuriousJosh" Reiss The 7th Annual L.A. Burning Man Decompression featured over 50 art and interactive installations combined with 7 entertainment stages, organized by the Los Angeles ...

So, that's a wrap: BarCamp Vancouver 2009 is "in the can". I really enjoyed this year's event -- I even went to and gave some sessions! I attended a great talk by Dustin Sacks on the 10 principles of Burning Man and how they compare / contrast with BarCamp.

Landing spot for the body of my big V2 on a sparky N2801 motor. The nosecone landed about a mile further down range.

The Burning Man Decompression parties are this weekend in LA and around the country, exactly one month from the ending of BM which is usually the first weekend free from unpacking and cleaning out the playa dust from all permeable fabrics and crannies.