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The Temple Dog: A Bali Rice-Terrace Psytrance Festival Story
The canang sari sat on the temple steps like small green boats, and Maud stepped around every one of them. Read more...
Five Stars, Would Camp Again: A Single Dad's Family Festival Story
The fireflies started at 9:06 on Friday, rising out of the hayfield below our tent one green spark at a time, until the whole valley blinked like a town seen... Read more...
The Lava Dance: A Golden Anniversary Love Story at a Hawaii Beach Party
The sun slid into the Pacific, and the black sand below the bluff turned to copper. Read more...
Boot Height: A Lost-and-Found Mystery at a Summer Disco and House Festival
At six o'clock the river was throwing the sun back at the city, and Billie was rating the grass. Read more...
The Last Campsite: A Rainforest Camping Festival Love Story
The rain came down warm, straight and silver, and it had been coming down that way since the airport. Read more...
Two Knocks on Cedar: A Utah Desert Yoga Retreat Story About Building a Sacred Geometry Temple
Every morning at 5:40, a canyon wren sings down the scale from the top of the red wall, and every morning my grandfather whistles it back up. Read more...
The Fifth Envelope: A Sand Dunes Rave Story About a Ten-Year Time Capsule and a Sandstorm
The dunes were silver at 2:40 in the morning, and the wind hadn't come yet. Read more...
Seven Bells for a Sunken Town: A Lakeside Festival Story
The water has walked a mile away from its own shore. Between you and the blue, standing up out of the dry silt plain as a map, is a town. Read more...
One Barn, One Generator: A Kentucky Drum and Bass Rave Story
The copper dragon on the barn roof swung round to face the creek, and the wind was blowing the other way. Read more...
First Contact: A Shuffle Dance Battle Story From a Texas Bass Festival
The plywood circle smelled like sawdust and sunscreen, and somebody was chalking the bracket on a whiteboard propped against a pecan tree. Read more...
Pickathon Outfits 2027: What to Wear to Oregon's Farm, Forest and Barn Festival
Douglas firs, a century-old barn and a meadow that fills at dusk. Here's what to wear to Pickathon 2027, from the shady Woods stage to the cool nights on Pendarvis... Read more...
Breakaway Music Festival Outfits 2027: What to Wear to the Touring EDM Weekend
Stadium light towers, a silent disco and one gate you only walk through once. Here's what to wear to Breakaway Music Festival in 2027, from Tampa in April to the... Read more...
Day Trip Festival Outfits 2027: What to Wear Beside the Queen Mary
A historic ocean liner, a silver marine sky and house music rolling across the harbor. Here's what to wear to Day Trip in Long Beach, from the first set to... Read more...
Elements Festival Outfits 2027: What to Wear to the Pocono Forest Gathering
Lasers through the treetops, a sunshine playground called Water and a forge of a main stage. Here's what to wear to Elements Festival 2027, one element at a time. Read more...
Forward for the Teacher: A Bristol Sound Clash Story
Rain ticked on the warehouse roof, and under the one leak nobody had fixed since the barges stopped coming, a bucket sat half full beside the amp that had taught... Read more...
The Salt Pact: A Marriage Pact Love Story at a Salt Flats Techno Rave
The salt began where the asphalt gave up, and after that there was nothing but white. Read more...
The Dawn Haul Wager: A Nova Scotia Harbor Festival Techno Love Story
At 4:50 a.m. the harbor was gone. Fog had swallowed the breakwater, the church steeple and the far shore of the Strait. Read more...
Left or Right: A Split-Timeline Love Story at a Scottish Highlands Trance Festival
The path splits at midnight, and so do you. One arm of the signpost points down to the loch, one points up over the hill, and both say STANDING STONE. Read more...
The Name Before Sunrise: A UK Farm Festival Story at the Stone Circle
The old woman was sitting on the tallest stone as if she had grown there. Read more...
Find the River: A Murray River Bush Doof Story
The wind takes your hat at 3:52 p.m., and the Murray takes it from there. Read more...
Let Go at Sunset: An Acro Yoga Story From a Lakeside Festival
"Hips over my feet," Hollis said. "Not on them. Over them." Read more...
Side B Is Sunrise: A Road Trip to a House Music Beach Rave
The tape started with her voice. "This one's for the cove. Side A is sunset. Side B is sunrise. Nobody flips it early." Read more...
The Oracle and the Last Ferry: A Psytrance Festival Story
The ferry horn goes off so close and so low that it hums in your back teeth, and the island lifts out of the fog like something surfacing. Read more...
Before the Lights Come Up: A Museum After-Dark House Party Story
At 12:14 a.m. the Egyptian wing smelled of floor wax, warm limestone and stage fog, and deep house was rolling through the granite like a slow tide coming in. Read more...