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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maria Bilotte. It has been edited for length and clarity.

Combine one of New York’s top bars, an adventurous distillery and a famous troupe of three men painted in blue and you wind up with the bedlam of Mindcluck II — an interactive cocktail + theater experience where the drinks are part of the story.

Qantas Airways downgraded a man from business class so that an off-duty pilot could take his seat, the man told Melbourne radio station 3AW.

A man says he was seriously injured when he found a piece of a broken dish in his in-flight meal.

Easdale Island is the smallest permanently inhabited island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, according to its website.

A tourist climbed up the famous Fountain of Neptune in Florence, Italy, this weekend, damaging it by breaking off a piece of marble in the process, the city's mayor said.

Festivalgoers could finally depart Burning Man on Monday after being trapped for days by heavy rains that swamped event's makeshift desert town in thick mud.

Nearly 75,000 attendees at this year's Burning Man event were trapped in a major storm in the Nevada desert. With severe flooding, organizers were forced to restrict all traffic in and out of the event, and attendees were urged to shelter in place and conserve food, water, and other supplies.

TikTokers are documenting chaos at Burning Man festival after flooding left thousands of attendees stranded on-site. 

Thousands of Burning Man attendees are stranded after bad weather halted the annual festival. 

The year's Burning Man is off to a rocky start. 

The passenger who this week went overboard from the largest cruise ship in the world — Royal Caribbean's Wonder of the Seas — is a 19-year-old college student who was vacationing with his friends, his sister told Insider. 

A TikToker who said they were making a return visit to Burning Man festival this summer warned viewers and new attendees about the downsides and potential pitfalls to watch out for.

Each year around this time, more than 80,000 people from all corners of the world make their way to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to temporarily populate Black Rock City. There, they enthusiastically participate in the eccentric, art, music and offbeat desert camping event that is Burning Man.

This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Lawrence Phillips, who founded Green Book Global, a Black travel review site, in 2018. The essay has been edited for length and clarity.

Torbjørn Pedersen has always dreamed of being a famous adventurer. He spent his childhood building dens in the woods, pretending to be his hero, Indiana Jones. Even as an adult, he couldn’t shake the sense that he was destined for greatness.

A man who managed to evade guards on his quest to jump off the Eiffel Tower with a parachute was arrested by French police and is now facing the consequences of his daring antics. 

Ryanair trolled a man on social media after he proposed to his girlfriend on one of the European low-cost carrier's flights. 

A man who said a person sitting next to him on a flight accused him of having an affair after reading texts on his phone before takeoff shared the story in a viral TikTok, sparking privacy concerns and discussions about holding strangers accountable. 

An Austrian climber who filmed the mountaineer Kristin Harila and her team as they appeared to step over a dying man during their pursuit of a world record said the Norwegian climber missed the opportunity to be a hero.

An Israeli journalist said she was yelled at by a United Airlines crew member who blamed her for flight delays after she refused to move seats on her plane.