Disco Inferno

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Every year at summer’s end, a ragtag community of free spirits gathers in the Nevada desert for Burning Man, a massive art project with a fiery finish. Intrepid correspondent “Fiona Chutney” (a character played by actress and writer Iris Bahr) hopped a ride to the festival in an RV full of creative anarchists, and found herself in an epic dust storm.

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