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Get ready to say goodbye to all of your glooms because the 101st Burning of Zozobra is set to take place Friday evening in Santa Fe. Thousands are expected to pack into Fort Marcy Park. This year’s event has a lot to live up to following last year’s 100th burning celebration. Old Man Gloom is dressed up in his own funky style again, but with a twist. This year’s theme is steam punk – think a combination of Victorian, old-timey style meets futuristic mechanics. He has a clock, red bow tie, a top hat and blue hair. KOB 4 has...

The crowd will be back at Ft. Marcy Park in Santa Fe for the 97th annual Burning of Zozobra. Ray Sandoval, Zozobra event chairman with the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe, said the Sept. 3 event will be back to normal this year. In 2020, the Burning of Zozbra was done for a virtual audience. "We are inviting everybody to go and purchase your ticket and come together and celebrate the end of COVID restrictions, and the end of summer with the biggest 1980's dance party that you can possibly imagine-- that culminates with all of us burning away our...

Ten thousand more people are expected to be on hand in the Nevada desert for this year's Burning Man festival after federal officials increased the event's attendance cap. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management issued a special recreation permit to the nonprofit behind Burning Man, San Francisco-based Black Rock City LLC, that allows 60,900 people to attend the arts festival, up from 50,000 last year. Officials announced the increase on Tuesday.