SF News Apparent Murder Weapon Found in Burning Man Homicide, But Still No Suspects Identified The Pershing County, Nevada’s Sheriff’s Office says they’ve recovered a large knife they suspect is the murder weapon used to kill a 37-year-old Russian national at Burning Man, and that it was used to stab him in the neck.
SF News Burning Man Attendee Got Hit and Mangled by Cybertruck While on Playa, Faces Months-Long Recovery A man who came to Burning Man from Minnesota found himself run over by a Tesla Cybertruck on the playa and had to be airlifted to a hospital, and he was left with some very injured feet.
SF News Burning Man Homicide Victim Identified as Russian National Who Helped Build Artwork We now have more information about the mysterious death that occurred on the playa over the weekend, during the burning of The Man, and the victim has finally been identified.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, Someone Actually Gave Birth to a Baby at Burning Man This Year, and She Didn't Know She Was Pregnant It’s a good thing that a couple traveling to Burning Man from Utah came in a comfy RV, because the wife did not know she was pregnant, and had a baby during the event in a freak medical occurrence.
SF News Man Found Dead In Possible Homicide During the Burning of the Man Saturday Night In Black Rock City A death at Burning Man on Saturday night is being investigated as a homicide after a man was found in a pool of blood at a camp in Black Rock City, during the ritual burning of the Man.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: The Sun Finally Came Out on the Playa The weather finally improved at Burning Man on Thursday; Trump is revoking Kamala Harris's Secret Service detail; and Governor Gavin Newsom's national approval rating has come up significantly since June.
SF News Burning Man Attendee Gets Electrocuted and Airlifted Out, as Flooding Remains a Problem This Year Someone was electrocuted at Burning Man Tuesday night and had to be airlifted out, as recurring thunderstorms are creating flooded conditions that are very risky for generators and electrical gear.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Battens Down the Hatches as Another Storm Approaches, and Oh, Channing Tatum Is There If you’re going to Burning Man, understand the going is about to get a lot tougher again, as another thunderstorm with 50 MPH winds is approaching Black Rock City. But hey, you might see “Magic Mike” Channing Tatum there!
Arts & Entertainment ‘Wall of Dust,’ 50 MPH Winds Hit Burning Man, Potential Flash Floods Expected This Week Early arrivals to the Burning Man festival were met with 50 mph winds and a “wall of blowing dust” Saturday as the storm tore through campsites, destroying art and causing four minor injuries. A potential monsoon and flash floods are on this week’s forecast.
Arts & Entertainment Illuminated, 100-Foot-Long Sea Creature Installation Coming to Golden Gate Park What's being billed as the largest piece of public art ever to be installed in the history of Golden Gate Park is going to debut later this month along JFK Promenade.
Arts & Entertainment A Sneak Peek at the Burning Man 2025 Art Projects (Which Are Not Even at Burning Man Yet) It’s still nearly two months until Burning Man even starts, but we can already get a look at the biggest art projects heading out to the desert. And some Burning Man tickets are still available, if you want to head out there with them.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, Elon Musk’s Brother Is on the Burning Man Board of Directors Burning Man has added Elon Musk’s younger brother Kimbal Musk to its board of directors, stoking concern among Burners about connections between the annual desert event and the new Republican tech oligarchy overhauling the US government.
Arts & Entertainment Facing Eviction, the Birthplace of ‘Entwined’ and Other Burning Man Art Has Found a New Home The Hunters Point industrial arts space that gave birth to ‘Entwined’ and the Flaming Lotus Girls’ projects, known as the Box Shop, was just weeks from eviction. But the space has found a new home just about a mile away, and will remain here in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Like It or Not, 45-Foot Statue of Nude Woman Coming to Union Square Shortly Union Square retailers and tourism officials are hoping that a Burning Man statue of a 45-foot-tall nude woman is going to rev up the beleaguered district’s shopping scene, and we’ll see if they’re right when it goes up in early February.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Admits to $14 Million Deficit, Says Ticket Price Hikes May Be in the Works The Burning Man Project sent out their latest urgent fundraising email detailing a budget shortfall as high as $14 million, and longtime attendees are fuming that the organization keeps burning through so much money.
Arts & Entertainment Gigantic Dust Storms Led to Reported Ten-Hour Wait to Leave Burning Man on Monday Extreme weather caused massive backups in the line out of Burning Man for the second consecutive year on Monday, and car rental companies are vowing to charge hundreds of dollars if they find a speck of that incriminating desert dust on their vehicles.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, There’s an SF Burning Man at Ocean Beach Saturday, Co-Organized by… Former SF Supervisor Eric Mar? There are actually several contingents of Burners heading to Ocean Beach Saturday to put on their own miniature versions of Burning Man, but one of them appears to be co-organized by former District 1 Supervisor Eric Mar.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Continues to Get More Queer, Wealthier, Majority Female The Burning Man Census for 2023 is now out, just as Burners are arriving on the playa for another late-August week of revelry in the Black Rock Desert. And many of the demographic trends seen in the 2022 census are continuing.
SF News Woman Dies on Playa on Day One of Burning Man 2024 There was a death reported Sunday in Black Rock City, on the first full day of this year's Burning Man festival, and so far the only detail released is that the victim was female.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Tickets Still Haven’t Sold Out, Just Ten Days Before Event It’s the first time in 14 years that Burning Man hasn’t sold out before the event, and tickets are still available with T-minus ten days until the gates open, after last year’s mucked-up nightmare where people couldn't leave.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Passed Its Cleanup Inspection — Barely — and Can Return to Black Rock Desert Next Year After downpours and mud floods led to a fair amount of abandoned matter on the playa after Burning Man 2023, the clean-up effort just barely managed to pass its federal inspection, and the event has the go-ahead to return to the Black Rock Desert next year.
SF News Burners Leave Behind 'Shoe Cemetery,' Plenty of Muddy 'Moop' to Clean Up Burning Man staff are not rushing anyone off the playa this year, as a massive cleanup still needs to take place amid some quickly hardening, alkali mud.
SF News People Finally Leave Burning Man, But Reportedly Also Leave Behind Trash and Even Their Vehicles The gray seas finally parted for the 70,000 revelers to leave Burning Man Monday afternoon, though the traffic jam to get out lasted up to eight hours, and law enforcement officials complain that people abandoned their possessions and even vehicles in the desert.
SF News Burning Man Exodus Set to Begin Monday Amid Still Muddy Conditions; Man Burn Set for Monday Night The traditional burning of the man at Burning Man was delayed by two days due to an unusual rainstorm and extremely mucky conditions on the playa Saturday. And organizers said they would open the exit gates Monday and begin letting people leave.
SF News Death at Burning Man Under Investigation As Thousands of Festival Attendees Still Trapped in Muddy Desert Amid the chaos at Burning Man, the Pershing County Sheriff's Office confirmed that a person has died and their family has been notified, but details about the victim and the circumstances haven't been released.
