“Art”

For more than a decade, tickets to Burning Man have sold out almost immediately – sometimes in a matter of minutes.

But this year, less than two weeks before the festival kicks off, tickets are still available – raising questions about the future of the annual desert revelry in the face of the climate crisis and economic instability.

Burning Man takes place each year in Nevada’s remote Black Rock desert and began on a San Francisco beach in 1986. It has has sold out each year since 2011, said Alysia Dynamik, executive director of the Generator, a maker space in Reno, Nevada, who has attended the festival since 2010.

A three-year battle over a towering Marilyn Monroe statue in the California resort town of Palm Springs appears to have been resolved through a plan which will see it moved to a different section of a small park.

The 26-foot Forever Marilyn sculpture depicting Monroe’s famous skirt scene in the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch has stood in front of the Palm Springs Art Museum, within Downtown Park, since 2021.

I declined an audition recently. The audition call was for an actor to play a senior gay man, a closeted gay man married to a lesbian who had children and grandchildren. They enthusiastically come out late in life, embracing their “queerness” in all its grotesque flamboyance. The role is a lead for a series of ten episodes. I am okay with playing a gay man on screen, provided I can play him straight. By that, I mean playing a man who is gay. I am uncomfortable playing a gay man as a caricature, even in jest.

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The Sex Pistols played their first gig on 6 November 1975 and their last on 14 January 1978, not long after the release of their first and only album. No major rock band has had a shorter career. The phenomenon occurred in a particular place at a particular time — and then it stopped.