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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, August 27, 1997
Desert gathering to feature celebration of off-the-wall
"Theme camps" to attract thousands
The Associated Press
RENO, Nev. — In the blank expanse of the northern Nevada desert, a temporary city has arisen that will be home to artists, performers and free spirits drawn to what may be the ultimate anarchist party.
Burning Man, a festival that began 11 years ago on a San Francisco beach as a woeful tribute to scorned love, starts today and peaks Labor Day weekend with the torching of a 40-foot-tall wooden man in a barren desert basin.
"Events like this are kind of needed to go someplace and be really goofy," said Janico Reese, festival participant from Los Angeles. "It brings creative people together."
Thousands are expected to attend the esoteric mix of pagan fire ritual and sci-if Dada circus where participants paint their bodies, bang drums, dance naked and wear costumes that would draw stares in a Mardi Gras parade. Last year, one woman wore oil funnels on her breasts Madonna-style, with more funnels extending from her ears.
Festival founder Larry Harvey said, "We are, in terms of art jargon, outsider art."
Harvey is a Bay-area artist.
A mile-long esplanade will be lined with large-scale works, such as Jim Mason's "Temporal Decomposition," a large ice sandial with clocks and watches frozen inside. The melting sculpt-
ture will be covered with 50 gallons of cherry syrup and offered for communal licking.
Mason, a sculptor, said the event intrigued and inspired artists.
"The project has captured the imagination of a lot of people," he said. "Something is happening here."
What that something is — and the prospect of more than 15,000 people sprawled across the remote desert 150 miles north of Reno — worries Washell County officials.
The county imposed a list of conditions, including an $11 million insurance policy and advance money to pay for law enforcement and fire protection. Most of the conditions have been met.
The makeshift Black Rock City is a conglomeration of "theme camps."
"It will be a disaster if we let 10,000 to 15,000 people out there with no restrictions," sheriff Dick Kirkland said. "Whatever is going to happen out there is going to happen, so maybe we should figure the best way to manage it, to salvage it."
Themes include the "Alien Abduction Camp" and "Womb with a View," where, according to the program, "you walk through a 74-foot-long pregnant female body, complete with orifice entrance, torso and breasts." "Blowin' in the Wind" will attempt to create the world's largest wind chime.
Many of the creative works, along with the wooden man himself, are burned during the festival's finale after sunset on Sunday. Because of the burning, the
county demanded on-site firefighters.
The festival began in 1986 when Harvey built a man representing his girlfriend's new love and burned it on San Francisco's Baker Beach. The event was moved to Nevada's Black Rock Desert as the annual bonfire drew increasingly large numbers of people.
When 10,000 people showed up last year at a site on public land in northwest Arizona, commissioners worried that the festival was getting out of control.
Three people were injured, one critically, by a drunken driver who slammed into their tent. Another man was killed when his motorcycle ran into a van.
By holding the festival on a private ranch this year, organizers said they would be better able to control vehicles, which will be banned in camping areas.
Participants are warned to bring their own food, shelter and most importantly, lots of water. In late August, the desert is unforgiving, with daytime temperatures near 100 under a scorching sun and overnight lows in the 40s.
NEW YORK — Tupac Shakur, incarcerated before his birth and murdered before his 26th birthday, spent much of his life outside the side law. His tattoos proclaimed his philosophy: "Outlaw" on his left forearm and "Thug Life" across his torso.
The Associated Press
His death has changed that.
The gangsta rapper's unlikeliest legacy, forged in the year since his still-unsolved slaying, is legal, not musical — a litany of coast-to-coast litigation that could drag on for years.
Shakur lives on in lawsuits
Shakur lives on in the staid world of courtrooms and countersuits, law offices and legal papers. His posthumous alter ego is a white Manhattan attorney — Richard Fischbein, coexecutor of the Shakur estate.
Even Shakur's unreleased music — more than 150 songs, valued at $100 million — is tied up in a court battle. Fischbein said he expected more vultures to come out of the woodwork.
"Tupac has an estate," Fischbein explained bluntly. "He's dead. People see a pavday."
Fischbein and Afeni Shakur, who gave birth to the slain rapper one month after her acquittal in a 1971 conspiracy trial, became co-executors on Oct. 23, 1996. Since then, the flow of lawsuits has been as hard and relentless as Tumac's lyrics:
A $7.1 million suit by Death Row Records, suit demanding reimbursement for cash advances that Shakur allegedly used for cars, houses, jewelry and other expenses.
The estate filed a 41-page counter suit, accusing Dear Row of looting $50 million from Shakur to maintain the extravagant life-
"Tupac has an estate. He's dead. People see a payday."
Richard Fischbein
co-executor of the Shakur estate
styles of label head Marion "Suge" Knight and other executives.
More important than cash is control of at least two unreleased Shakur CDs and 152 additional unreleased songs. Death Row has custody of the master tapes. A Death Row spokesman and label attorney David Kenner both declined to comment on the legal fight. Knight is serving a nine-year jail term for a probation violation.
A $10 million lawsuit by C. DeLores Tucker, a virulent opponent of gangsta rap. Tucker, who once labeled Shakur's music pornographic smut, claimed lyrics on Tupac's 5 million-selling album "All Eyes on Me" so demeaning that it affected her sex life.
Two songs derisively mentioned Tucker by name. On one, "How Do U Want It," Shakur rapped: "DeLores Tucker, you'e a (expletive)/Instead of trying to help a nigga, you destroy a brother."
Tucker did not returns calls to her Washington office. But in her lawsuit, she alleged Shakur had caused her great humiliation, mental pain and suffering — and damaged her sexual relationship with her husband, William.
A contentious lawsuit by the rapper's father, William Garland, seeks 50 percent of Tupac's
estate. Afeni Shakur angrily charged that Garland was a gold digger who ignored his son for 18 years; Garland blamed her nomadic lifestyle for making it impossible to find Tupac.
"I'm the only person in here who lost somebody," Ms.Shakur said in early August. "He don't even know my son's birthday."
Garland's lawyer, Leonard Birdson, said Ms. Shakur was an egomaniac upset by publicity for Tupac's father. He also mentioned her past crack addiction and alcohol problems; Tupac had said those woes forced him to leave his mother's house at age 17.
Fischbein dismissed Garland as a deadbeat dad who gave his son "$500 and a bag of peanuts over the course of his life." Bird-song indignantly charged Fischbein with rewriting history. Garland filed suit only after Ms. Shakur twice submitted legal papers saying Tupac's father was dead, Garland says.
This parental struggle could give birth to another lawsuit. If he wins, Garland wants to be named the estate's co-executor.
A November 1996 court award of $16.1 million to Jacquelyn McNeale, who was shot and partially paralyzed at a 1993 Shakur concert in Pine Bluff, Ark. Fischbein is vigorously trying to set aside this judgment; the estate's Arkansas court papers carried the names of 17 attorneys and asserted that Shakur never was notified of this lawsuit.
A successful lawsuit by the estate to gain merchandising rights to Shakur's image. Previously, the estate received nothing from the lucrative sales of Shakur T-shirts, hats and other memorabilia.
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