film "Larry: The Burning Man Story" premieres in three time zones over solstice weekend Rusty Blazenhoff

RIP "Girl From Ipanema" singer Astrud Gilberto dies at age 83 Carla Sinclair

boring weirdoes Gentleman shrieks about non-existent "election fraud" in Maricopa County Jennifer Sandlin

sports Skateboarding is in the Olympics. Can it stay weird? Elías Villoro

Positive Deviant I punked the Sotheby's Burning Man auction Rusty Blazenhoff

colonialism There are only two US states where it's legal to own the ocean Thom Dunn

LGBTQ 2020 is seeing an "epidemic" in transgender and gender non-conforming murders Maddie Lee

tabloids Brad Pitt's brush with death, Julia Roberts quitting Hollywood, and Christmas kittens, in this week's dubious ad-packed tabloids Peter Sheridan

travel Overtourism: the plague affecting the world's most interesting places Andrea James

burning man RIP Larry Harvey, Burning Man founder Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants This French baker cruises around delivering fresh-baked goods to boaters Rusty Blazenhoff

burning man This Burning Man documentary traces its history from a bohemian gathering to a global movement Rusty Blazenhoff

appliances There's a 3-month waiting list for this $230 Japanese toaster Mark Frauenfelder

Science 110-year-old message in a bottle gets returned to sender David Pescovitz

cuba A brief visit to Cuba Lars Forseti

Science The Opal's Fire Maggie Koerth

squid The Kraken Awakes: What Architeuthis is Trying to Tell Us Mark Dery