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Fanning the Flame: A forum on the future of Burning Man culture

Is Burning Man still cool? How is the 27-year-old event's skyrocketing mainstream appeal changing burner culture? Can Black Rock City, that temporary desert city, really double in size to 100,000 citizens, as its founder envisions? Or is the future of this culture to be found off the playa, in cities around the world? And who will be calling the shots?
Join Steven T. Jones – the Bay Guardian city editor and author of The Tribes of Burning Man: How an Experimental City in the Desert is Shaping the New American Counterculture – for a lively discussion of how this culture evolved and where it's headed. As one of the few journalists regularly working the Burning Man beat, he offers an inside yet independent perspective on this country's preeminent countercultural institution and its role in modern American life.