Burning Man recently marked its 29th year as a counterculture festival. Amid growing concerns that the event has been co-opted by the rich and powerful, Desert Companion was leaked the program for 2016’s event.

The Day of the Dead’s brightly colored sugar skulls (calaveras) have gone mainstream. Here are some modern riffs on the iconic face of this Mexican holiday.

We're not saying the proposed Supreme Court building Downtown looks old-fashioned, but...

The Mojave Desert is large, and it contains multitudes: It’s a landscape, of course, and an ecosystem, obviously (several, in fact), yet it’s also a resonant emptiness, a zone of conflict, a culturescape, a headspace and much more. If you task yourself with documenting and interpreting it, no single piece of writing, no film, photo series or art project could possibly be adequate.

I have purchased hundreds of books in thrift stores. Fiction, nonfiction. Hardbacks, paperbacks. Academic doorstops, 150-page pocketbooks. It’s all there if you look closely. You can build an impressive library on the cheap — typically $1 to $3 per book.

These players get around — musically speaking, that is, with a classical guitar repertoire whose influences stretch from Greece to Mexico.

New Black Mountain Institute Executive Director Joshua Wolf Shenk plots the future of the literary center.

Aging and dying are facts of life, but they can be made less difficult with a little preparation.

Expert answers to common questions about end-of-life issues.

"You have to see this!” gushed my friend Doug, a Harrah’s employee who’s not the gushing type.