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Burning Man in the Klamath Falls, OR Herald & News
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Burning Man in the Klamath Falls, OR Herald & News
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You know, that might just be the most perfect, concise description of the event that I have ever heard."...the whole shindig culminates in Saturday night's burning of a huge wooden structure in the shape of a man.
Nobody can quite explain what it means. Which might be the whole point."
"All the great villainies of history have been perpetrated by sober men, and chiefly by teetotalers"
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What do you expect from a news paper in a small town full of small minds that is stuck in a time warp. Nothing has changed there in since I lived there as a kid. I hate even admitting to the fact that I have ever set foot there let alone lived there. But after reading their main sorce of information on the world one has no reason to wonder as to why the vast majority of the population is stuck in the stone age! Unfortunately the only thing that I have noticed that has changed in the last 20 years is the buildings on sixth street.
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Letter to the Editor
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 22:08:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Mea D Catterren"
Subject: Dust, drug rumors swirl over Burning Man festival - Steve Kadel
To: [email protected]
This arctile was the most disappointing view on
Burning Man I have ever had the displeasure of
reading. Steve Kadel should learn to check his facts
before publishing such trash that he is obviously
passing off as his research on the event.
The following, from Steve Kadels article is not "NEWS"
but pure rumor. Steve should have researched his
storey better before publishing the following
statement:
"Rumors of a Burning Man drug death on Tuesday were
racing through the conservative ranching community by
mid-week, although calls by the Herald and News to the
Pershing County Sheriff's Office in Lovelock, Nev.,
couldn't confirm the gossip as truth. Still, it points
to the Achilles heel of the event - its perception as
a haven for drug use."
Heres the true storey about the young man who died out
there as published by a New York paper called The
Villager:
"East Village D.J. dies at Burning Man festival
By Lincoln Anderson
Adam Goldstone, a well-known East Village D.J., was
getting ready to do what he loved best, spin records,
when he fainted in his RV at the Burning Man festival
in the Nevada desert last Tuesday and died shortly
afterwards. He was 37.
According to his father, Jerry Goldstone, the cause of
death was heart arrhythmia stemming from a delayed
effect of a congenital condition that had been fixed
when he was a child.
His father said the coroner found no immediate
apparent cause of death, so it had to have been his
heart.
Anu Kalyanam, 30, a friend from the New York Burning
Man community who didn’t attend this year’s festival,
said she got a call from a mutual friend Tuesday night
telling her Goldstone had died.
Goldstone had arrived the day before on the first day
of the festival and had set up camp.
“I believe he was camped with the New York people,”
Kalyanam said. “They said he had been working on the
playa [the alkalki dust-covered basin Burning Man
takes place on] and hit his head on some rebar, then
slipped again and started convulsing.” She said she
was told medics arrived and treated Goldstone, but
couldn’t save him.
His father said he was told Goldstone refused to put
on a pair of normal pants he was offered in his final
moments, saying, “Oh that will never do,” which may
have been his last words. Goldstone always wore pants
with narrow legs.
Goldstone came to New York City from San Francisco in
1987 to attend film school at New York University and
never left. Instead of film, though, after a try at
promoting club parties, he got into D.J.’ing.
Cultivating a progressive, edgy style, he played a
wide range of music with equal flair, from house and
electronic to Latin and jazz. He spun at any venue —
he didn’t care which, as long as he was at the
turntables — from East Village hole in the walls to
major music festivals with crowds of tens of thousands
like the Detroit Electronic Music Festival in 2003. He
frequently played in Europe and had a regular gig
D.J.’ing every other month in London.
Locally, he D.J.’d early on at Save the Robots and
Destination Lounge. Most recently, he was performing
regularly at Speakeasy, a small, second-floor club
with an unmarked door on Avenue C at Ninth St.; Love
at W. Eighth and MacDougal Sts.; Sapphire Lounge on
Eldridge St. and Cafeteria in Chelsea, among others.
Known for his cutting wit, Goldstone was also a
writer. He was an assistant editor at Dance Music
Review until it folded in 1993, then club editor for
Time Out New York magazine from 1993 to 1998. He left
Time Out to focus on making an album of eclectic dance
music, “Lower East Side Stories,” released in October
2001 on Nuphonic, a now-defunct English label. In an
interview after the album’s release, Goldstone
described it as “all over the map musically, from
salsa to hip-hop to house to ambient nonsense.”
His earlier single “The Sky Is not Crying” is
considered a house-music classic.
Being a sharp dresser is a key part of the dance
scene, and Goldstone was known for a stylish,
tailored, mod look. But — in keeping with his strict
vegetarianism — he shunned leather shoes. His mother,
Linda, noted that he even refused to eat her yams with
melted marshmallows at Thanksgiving after he
discovered marshmallows contain gelatin.
Politically left of center, he never shopped at chain
stores or bought his coffee at Starbucks, his friends
said, though adding he never forced his strongly held
beliefs on others.
Fluent in Japanese, he made three trips there during
his college years, once staying for six months.
On Labor Day, Goldstone’s parents stopped by his E.
Ninth St. apartment, where they were joined by several
friends of his. Standing on the sidewalk across from
the Ninth and C Garden with its willow trees rustling
lightly in the afternoon breeze, they shared their
memories of him.
“He came to New York University as a freshman and fell
in love with New York,” said his mother, a potter. “He
said New York never closed — unlike San Francisco.”
“He’d come home and say San Francisco was very
boring,” added his father, a vascular surgeon. “He
took to fast-moving, competitive New York.”
A friend, Vanessa Watters, 23, said Goldstone had a
massive collection of records.
“He had the most amazing knowledge of music,” she
said. “He had like two rooms of records. And if you
named a song, he’d go and find it.”
Watters said during the last year, police raided Love
several times on Saturday nights when Goldstone was
D.J.’ing his regular 10 p.m.-to-10 a.m. party,
including an after-hours segment. The club was a
target of noise complaints. She said sometimes
Goldstone would just keep playing music as police
turned on the lights and searched for violations with
their flashlights.
“Adam was my favorite D.J. — ever,” said Andy
Reynolds, a music publicist. “He could do everything —
from a whole night of Brazilian to techie house. He
was really all over the board. Technically, he was
very good. He could do flawless mixes.” Known for his
charm, Goldstone was popular in the local nightlife
scene, Watters and Reynolds said, noting he was pals
with Lady Bunny and other high-profile drag queens.
“If I wanted to go out, I’d go with him,” Reynolds
said of Goldstone.
Lamenting how churches are being replaced by
university dormitories, Reynolds added, “He was
horrified about what was happening in the East
Village.”
His father said Goldstone has been cremated, and they
haven’t decided what will be done with his ashes. He
leaves a younger sister, Lara, of Los Angeles, and
brother, Stefan, of San Francisco.
“He lived a full life,” his father said, “and he died
doing what he loved doing.”
Watters said his friends already had one party in the
East Village over the weekend in memory of him. There
will be a bigger one.
“He believed in party to the end,” she said. “He would
want to go out with a bang.”
I would think that being a news paper and not a gossip
colum that someone would have looked into the
information Steve Kadel wrote and find out the truth.
But it seems to this reader that you didn't care to
dig very far because the impression you would prefer
to make on your readers about Burning Man is that of
a bunch of drug crazed hippies partying in the desert
for a week. I just happen to be one of the many many
people that attended this event clean and sober and
stayed that way the entire time. In my opinion Steve
should look into getting a job working for a gossip
paper like The Sun or Weekly World News or maybe the
Herald and News should put them selves in the same
catigorey as such "fine" gossip rags.
Please check your facts first!
From: "Mea D Catterren"
Subject: Dust, drug rumors swirl over Burning Man festival - Steve Kadel
To: [email protected]
This arctile was the most disappointing view on
Burning Man I have ever had the displeasure of
reading. Steve Kadel should learn to check his facts
before publishing such trash that he is obviously
passing off as his research on the event.
The following, from Steve Kadels article is not "NEWS"
but pure rumor. Steve should have researched his
storey better before publishing the following
statement:
"Rumors of a Burning Man drug death on Tuesday were
racing through the conservative ranching community by
mid-week, although calls by the Herald and News to the
Pershing County Sheriff's Office in Lovelock, Nev.,
couldn't confirm the gossip as truth. Still, it points
to the Achilles heel of the event - its perception as
a haven for drug use."
Heres the true storey about the young man who died out
there as published by a New York paper called The
Villager:
"East Village D.J. dies at Burning Man festival
By Lincoln Anderson
Adam Goldstone, a well-known East Village D.J., was
getting ready to do what he loved best, spin records,
when he fainted in his RV at the Burning Man festival
in the Nevada desert last Tuesday and died shortly
afterwards. He was 37.
According to his father, Jerry Goldstone, the cause of
death was heart arrhythmia stemming from a delayed
effect of a congenital condition that had been fixed
when he was a child.
His father said the coroner found no immediate
apparent cause of death, so it had to have been his
heart.
Anu Kalyanam, 30, a friend from the New York Burning
Man community who didn’t attend this year’s festival,
said she got a call from a mutual friend Tuesday night
telling her Goldstone had died.
Goldstone had arrived the day before on the first day
of the festival and had set up camp.
“I believe he was camped with the New York people,”
Kalyanam said. “They said he had been working on the
playa [the alkalki dust-covered basin Burning Man
takes place on] and hit his head on some rebar, then
slipped again and started convulsing.” She said she
was told medics arrived and treated Goldstone, but
couldn’t save him.
His father said he was told Goldstone refused to put
on a pair of normal pants he was offered in his final
moments, saying, “Oh that will never do,” which may
have been his last words. Goldstone always wore pants
with narrow legs.
Goldstone came to New York City from San Francisco in
1987 to attend film school at New York University and
never left. Instead of film, though, after a try at
promoting club parties, he got into D.J.’ing.
Cultivating a progressive, edgy style, he played a
wide range of music with equal flair, from house and
electronic to Latin and jazz. He spun at any venue —
he didn’t care which, as long as he was at the
turntables — from East Village hole in the walls to
major music festivals with crowds of tens of thousands
like the Detroit Electronic Music Festival in 2003. He
frequently played in Europe and had a regular gig
D.J.’ing every other month in London.
Locally, he D.J.’d early on at Save the Robots and
Destination Lounge. Most recently, he was performing
regularly at Speakeasy, a small, second-floor club
with an unmarked door on Avenue C at Ninth St.; Love
at W. Eighth and MacDougal Sts.; Sapphire Lounge on
Eldridge St. and Cafeteria in Chelsea, among others.
Known for his cutting wit, Goldstone was also a
writer. He was an assistant editor at Dance Music
Review until it folded in 1993, then club editor for
Time Out New York magazine from 1993 to 1998. He left
Time Out to focus on making an album of eclectic dance
music, “Lower East Side Stories,” released in October
2001 on Nuphonic, a now-defunct English label. In an
interview after the album’s release, Goldstone
described it as “all over the map musically, from
salsa to hip-hop to house to ambient nonsense.”
His earlier single “The Sky Is not Crying” is
considered a house-music classic.
Being a sharp dresser is a key part of the dance
scene, and Goldstone was known for a stylish,
tailored, mod look. But — in keeping with his strict
vegetarianism — he shunned leather shoes. His mother,
Linda, noted that he even refused to eat her yams with
melted marshmallows at Thanksgiving after he
discovered marshmallows contain gelatin.
Politically left of center, he never shopped at chain
stores or bought his coffee at Starbucks, his friends
said, though adding he never forced his strongly held
beliefs on others.
Fluent in Japanese, he made three trips there during
his college years, once staying for six months.
On Labor Day, Goldstone’s parents stopped by his E.
Ninth St. apartment, where they were joined by several
friends of his. Standing on the sidewalk across from
the Ninth and C Garden with its willow trees rustling
lightly in the afternoon breeze, they shared their
memories of him.
“He came to New York University as a freshman and fell
in love with New York,” said his mother, a potter. “He
said New York never closed — unlike San Francisco.”
“He’d come home and say San Francisco was very
boring,” added his father, a vascular surgeon. “He
took to fast-moving, competitive New York.”
A friend, Vanessa Watters, 23, said Goldstone had a
massive collection of records.
“He had the most amazing knowledge of music,” she
said. “He had like two rooms of records. And if you
named a song, he’d go and find it.”
Watters said during the last year, police raided Love
several times on Saturday nights when Goldstone was
D.J.’ing his regular 10 p.m.-to-10 a.m. party,
including an after-hours segment. The club was a
target of noise complaints. She said sometimes
Goldstone would just keep playing music as police
turned on the lights and searched for violations with
their flashlights.
“Adam was my favorite D.J. — ever,” said Andy
Reynolds, a music publicist. “He could do everything —
from a whole night of Brazilian to techie house. He
was really all over the board. Technically, he was
very good. He could do flawless mixes.” Known for his
charm, Goldstone was popular in the local nightlife
scene, Watters and Reynolds said, noting he was pals
with Lady Bunny and other high-profile drag queens.
“If I wanted to go out, I’d go with him,” Reynolds
said of Goldstone.
Lamenting how churches are being replaced by
university dormitories, Reynolds added, “He was
horrified about what was happening in the East
Village.”
His father said Goldstone has been cremated, and they
haven’t decided what will be done with his ashes. He
leaves a younger sister, Lara, of Los Angeles, and
brother, Stefan, of San Francisco.
“He lived a full life,” his father said, “and he died
doing what he loved doing.”
Watters said his friends already had one party in the
East Village over the weekend in memory of him. There
will be a bigger one.
“He believed in party to the end,” she said. “He would
want to go out with a bang.”
I would think that being a news paper and not a gossip
colum that someone would have looked into the
information Steve Kadel wrote and find out the truth.
But it seems to this reader that you didn't care to
dig very far because the impression you would prefer
to make on your readers about Burning Man is that of
a bunch of drug crazed hippies partying in the desert
for a week. I just happen to be one of the many many
people that attended this event clean and sober and
stayed that way the entire time. In my opinion Steve
should look into getting a job working for a gossip
paper like The Sun or Weekly World News or maybe the
Herald and News should put them selves in the same
catigorey as such "fine" gossip rags.
Please check your facts first!