SF News A ‘Renegade’ Burning Man is Planned, Despite Cancellation, COVID, and Lack of Waste Services A few large Facebook and Reddit groups are ignoring the cancellation of Burning Man and slapping together a large, unsanctioned event, but the Delta variant and lack of porta-potty service could turn this into Woodstock ‘99 on COVID.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man 2021 Is Cancelled The Burning Man Project just announced “We have decided to set our sights on Black Rock City 2022,” which is another way of saying that they are canceling their 2021 event.
SF News Burning Man Sues the Feds, Claiming They’ve Been Gouged for Millions of Dollars After years of large and unexplained price increases, Burning Man is sticking it to the man and suing the Bureau of Land Management.
Arts & Entertainment Nobel-Winning Economist Says Burning Man Could Be A Model For Future Modes Of Makeshift Urbanization Paul Romer, the 63-year-old American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2018, visited Burning Man for the first time this year, and he came away more fascinated and inspired than he expected to be.
Arts & Entertainment Black Rock City Pops Up On Google Maps For several years someone has been putting together an "unofficial" map of Burning Man and all the art and theme camps, the newest of which you can see below, using Google Maps. But
Arts & Entertainment As Another Burning Man Kicks Off, The Tiny Town Of Gerlach Remains Half-Angry About It As another Labor Day approaches, so do tens of thousands of Burners to Gerlach, Nevada, the last stop, so to speak, before entering the Black Rock Desert and the temporary, though exponentially larger
SF News Burning Man Just Bought A 3,800-Acre Chunk Of Desert To Establish A Year-Round Community The non-profit behind Burning Man just purchased a $6.5 million, 3,800-acre piece of land 21 miles north of Gerlach, Nevada. Located near the site of the annual temporary Black Rock City,
SF News New Sheriff Overseeing Burning Man Playa Might Be More Hardassed About Drugs There's a new sheriff in town at Black Rock City well, Pershing County, Nevada to be precise. Former sheriff's deputy Jerry Allen was elected to replace former sheriff Richard Machado, and he took
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man 2014 Extended To 10 Days Big news, Burners! This year's Burning Man opens a day earlier to the public and closes one day later than ever before, allowing for for an extra day of setting up camp, and
SF News Burning Man Agrees To Pay Up For Johnny Law Black Rock City LLC, the San Francisco company that puts on Nevada's most popular summer retreat every year, has just agreed to shell out at least $605,000 a year over the next
Arts & Entertainment Look What You're Missing At Burning Man! Here in San Francisco, we're a couple of days into the Burning Man rapture, but that doesn't mean we're not occasionally the tiniest bit Burning Man-curious. Here now: a few shots from the
Arts & Entertainment 25 Reasons You're Glad You're Not Going To Burning Man It's that time of year when many of your friends are making daily runs to hardware stores and ill-advised clothing stores and REI in preparation for their annual pilgrimage to the playa. Whether
Arts & Entertainment No Burning Man For You! (Unless You Already Bought Your Ticket) We suppose that only the most JV, flaky, and virginal among you Burners would wait until late July to buy your Burning Man tickets, but if you did, sucks for you! For the
misc SFist Tonight Festivus: Although we see no mention of the traditional "Airing of Grievances" or the post-dinner "Feats of Strength" battle, we can't imagine any proper Festivus celebration without them. Still, whether or not tonight's
SF News Burning Man Suicide It looks like Black Rock City visitors now have an actual tragedy on their hands. One for them to eventually personalize, of course. Today, sadly, someone hanged himself to death at Burning Man.
SF News Burning Man's Premature Ignition During last night's total lunar eclipse in Black Rock City, Nevada, someone set the Burning Man figure ablaze prematurely. Chortle. Hey, maybe that was their art? Their statement? Their message? Or their coke
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Fil Lorenz & the Collective West Jazz Orchestra: Check out this choice 12-piece jazz band tonight at 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. at Jazz at Pearl's, 256 Columbus; $10-$15.
SF News Word From Black Rock City So how was Burning Man this year? Well, we can tell you that aside from a frightful sandstorm on Wednesday, the weather was absolutely delightful. We can tell you that there was the
Arts & Entertainment La Playa en Fuego Every Labor Day tens of thousands of geeks, nerds, hippies, frat boys and all other sorts of disaffected rejects pile into vehicles and make a pilgrammage to one of the most inhospitable places