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Next month, the 23-rd annual Burning Man event takes place in the Nevada desert. People attend to celebrate self-expression in one of the harshest environment's imaginable. What brings them back year after year?

Zimbabwe sees political unrest, as President Robert Mugabe attempts to postpone the country's presidential election. Meanwhile, thousands of protesters take to the streets after Mugabe refuses to let an opposition party host a public rally. Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks with Farai Chideya.

Every year, Palestinians from towns and villages across the West Bank bring their ladders and tarps to local olive groves. Olive oil season is the center of local history and culture — and at the heart of the economy.

How far have we come in terms of accepting and understanding mental illness as a society? It is estimated that self-stigma keeps 50 to 60 percent of individuals with mental health challenges from getting treatment. We'll discuss a new initiative launched by San Diego County's department of Mental Health Services that aims to educate San Diegans about mental illness.

Utah has welcomed New Orleans hurricane evacuees, placing them in apartments and generally putting out the welcome mat. Despite dramatic differences between the two locales, many evacuees say they will stay in Utah.

Bolivia's government has made one of the country's largest tin mines a state-run enterprise. Some workers in the mining town of Huanuni say their lives have improved, but many decry the loss of free-market opportunities.

Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility is the only State-run prison in San Diego County. It was built in 1989 and was designed to accommodate 2,208 medium to high-custody inmates -- today more than double that number, 4,680 inmates, call the facility home. What are conditions like for the prison population?

Our monthly food hour explores the variety of ethnic markets to be found around San Diego and tips for cooking ethnically-inspired dishes.

After Angela Merkel became Germany's chancellor, she invited President Bush to visit the former East Germany. Merkel grew up in the region, which was once an independent communist nation. The two will have dinner in the small farming town of Trinwillershagen.

Max Miller was a hard-bitten San Diego reporter in the 1930s who wrote a much praised account of S.D.'s port community titled "I Cover the Waterfront." Culture Lust contributor Randy Dotinga decided to find out if the book holds up.