SF News Burning Man Doused by Rare Desert Rains, Turning Festival Into Muddy Nightmare for 70,000+ Festival-Goers Trapped in Playa Organizers shut down the festival's entrance gate and airport on Friday night amid stormy weather, effectively isolating everyone within the playa, who they urged to "shelter in place" and ration resources.
SF News New Nevada Tax Means Burning Man Tickets Just Got Even More Expensive Bad news for broke Burners: Due to a change in the Nevada tax code by state lawmakers seemingly targeting the massive annual desert event, the price of Burning Man tickets just went up.
SF News Nevada Will Now Tax Burning Man Despite Non-Profit Status Setting aside Nevada's general aversion to taxation and Burning Man's newly minted non-profit status, a 9 percent tax on admissions to large-scale live entertainment events has now been approved by state lawmakers. As
Arts & Entertainment Groupon Hawks Burning Man Tickets at 490% Above Face Value, Burners Get Inflamed Remember when Groupon was a source for bargains offered at below face value? Not so for Burning Man fans this week. An apparent Groupon deal offered $390 Burning Man tickets at the generous
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Attn Burners: Drop Off Your Food On Your Way Home As hordes of revelers prepare to head to Burning Man (starting this Sunday!), we'd like to remind them that there's a choice way to donate leftover non-perishable camp food. It goes to the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Burning Man's First Year In The Desert (1990) Burning Man first started out as an indie festival at Baker Beach in 1986. Years later, in 1990, before many of you were born, the festival moved to the desert. The following footage
Arts & Entertainment Divisadero Car Wash Charges Double For Playa Dust At the Touchless Car Wash on Divisadero & Oak Streets, the attendants will gladly pump your fuel free of charge, but it will cost you to have them scrub all that post-Burning Man
SF News This Year, Properly Memorialize Your Christmas Tree's Sacrifice SFist would like to remind you that it is unsightly to keep a rotting evergreen corpse in your living room past January 1st, but exceptions will be made in order to properly dispose
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man 2010: Scenes from the Playa SFist opted out of Burning Man this year, but we're certain a fair number of you out there are currently sleeping it off/sweating out your drugs/picking dust out of your ears
SF News Sales of Burning Man Supplies, Silly Outfits Way Up Over Last Year (A photo from 2009's fest - AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) Another sure apparent sign of economic recovery: Sales of Burning Man-related supplies at places like REI and Haight-based costume shop Piedmont Boutique are
Arts & Entertainment Gay Burning Man 2010 Camps Queer folks attending this year's Burning Man, listen up: Gay Cities has a short list of gay resources you should check out. A few gay camps are: Moonbow Camp (3:00 & Athens)
