Where the Wild Things Are
on September 6, 1996in Los Angeles TimesWhat began 11 years ago with San Francisco conceptualist artist Larry Harvey and a few friends torching an effigy on a beach to purge the pain of his doomed romance has blossomed, this year clustering an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 souls in this godforsaken desert 90 miles northeast of Reno for a five-day cultural brawl that culminated in the wee hours of Monday morning...