Some of the tracer noise of fireworks that accompanied the burning of the Man reminded me for a brief but disconcerting instant of war. Flares and whips, screams, shrieks and whistles gave a fleeting resemblance to the sounds that accompany mortar shells, especially from my time covering the war in Syria. But unlike the news stories that had been circulating about a so-called humanitarian crisis and false assertions on social media of an Ebola outbreak unfolding at the 35th annual event held in Black Rock City in the Nevada desert, the mood remained festive, even ecstatic. This year and...…Some of the tracer noise of fireworks that accompanied the burning of the Man reminded me for a brief but disconcerting instant of war. Flares and whips, screams, shrieks and whistles gave a fleeting resemblance to the sounds that accompany mortar shells, especially from my time covering the war in Syria. But unlike the news stories that had been circulating about a so-called humanitarian crisis and false assertions on social media of an Ebola outbreak unfolding at the 35th annual event held in Black Rock City in the Nevada desert, the mood remained festive, even ecstatic. This year and...WW…

10 min read Share When Fox Entertainment Group launched a series in 2016 about Lucifer escaping hell, no one could have related to the devil in the way we can now, in our time of pestilence. Maybe the mayhem of the real world has contributed to the show’s growing popularity, making it among the most streamed on Netflix, which acquired it from Fox in 2018.The series is based on Lucifer Samael Morningstar, a fictional character who appears in DC Comics, an American comic book publisher and subsidiary of Warner Brothers. Aside from its dualistic worldview of heaven and hell and a (generally)...…10 min read Share When Fox Entertainment Group launched a series in 2016 about Lucifer escaping hell, no one could have related to the devil in the way we can now, in our time of pestilence. Maybe the mayhem of the real world has contributed to the show’s growing popularity, making it among the most streamed on Netflix, which acquired it from Fox in 2018.The series is based on Lucifer Samael Morningstar, a fictional character who appears in DC Comics, an American comic book publisher and subsidiary of Warner Brothers. Aside from its dualistic worldview of heaven and hell and a (generally)...WW…