Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Groups Come Forward About Saturday Beach Party, Insist Most People Were Masked One Burning Man camp responsible for DJing from their burner bus that night has taken some responsibility, but they say that SFPD officers and park rangers didn't tell them to cut the music until 1 a.m.
SF News Mayor Breed Lambasts 'Reckless' Burning Man Celebration at Ocean Beach, Closes Parking Lots A vibrant group of at least a thousand people descended on Ocean Beach Saturday night for an impromptu Burning Man celebration, ignoring all social distancing orders and drawing a lot of attention in the neighborhood — illegal bonfires included.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man To Fire Up Online Shows and Apps, But Nevada Preparing for Crashers Anyway Burners are madly coding away to create a suite of “Multiverse” experiences in lieu of their annual bacchanalia, but the feds are keeping an eye on whether some of them will just show up at the Black Rock Desert anyway.
SF News Saturday Links: Burning Man Will Go Completely Virtual Amid COVID-19 Concerns Organizers of this year's Burning Man have canceled the event and will now host a "virtual Burning Man,” a woman died Friday night on State Route 242 after being struck by an object that came through the car's windshield, and crime rates are dropping around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Ticket Sales Put On Hold As Event Remains In Limbo Still unsure whether Burning Man will even happen in 2020, given everything, organizers announced Tuesday that the original scheduled dates for registration and ticket-buying are being postponed to an as-yet-undetermined future date.
Arts & Entertainment What Will Happen With Burning Man? Organizers Still Can't Be Sure Burning Man's theme camp symposium is going forward on March 28 as a virtual event, and in a statement, organizers say they are watching and waiting and hoping that Black Rock City can be built again come August.
Arts & Entertainment Christians Are Increasingly Wandering the Desert of Burning Man, in Search of Truth While known as one of the most pagan, hallucinogen-friendly, and hedonistic events in the country, Burning Man has come to serve a pseudo-spiritual purpose for many Burners, and an actual place for ministry for some people of faith.
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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Diplo Pimps Popeyes Chicken Sandwich At Burning Man, Via Instagram It happens every year that people publicly do things that are in violation of Burning Man's basic rules around commercial promotion. And this year, it was DJ/producer Diplo who proudly enabled Popeyes to advertise their new chicken sandwich from the playa.
SF News New Zealand Man Died Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning at Burning Man The man was burned Saturday night and many Burners are packing up and heading out of the desert today. But for one Burning Man camp, Sunday night's Temple burn will take on even more somber significance than usual.
SF News Death at Burning Man Being Investigated As Suspicious A man was found dead at Burning Man on Thursday, and was declared dead by event medical staff before the local county coroner arrived on the scene.
Arts & Entertainment Some Companies Are Letting Employees Expense Trips To Burning Man Some Bay Area companies have "chief culture officers," and some of these party mavens think that Burning Man is the perfect place for coworkers to bond and unwind over a few hallucinogens.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Supposedly Will Have Fewer Turnkey Camps And Insta-Tourists This Year Complaints have gone on for years about luxe, "plug-and-play" camps built for douchebags who ruin everything. Will anything really change?
SF News Small Plane Crashes In Reno On Way To/From Burning Man, Injuring Three A small prop plane registered in Colorado crashed near Reno-Stead Airport Monday evening, injuring three people, one of them seriously. According to reports, the plane was either picking people up to head to Burning Man, or was returning from a quick flight to the playa.
Arts & Entertainment First Look At Burning Man 2019's Art and Installations The exodus began in earnest over the weekend and will continue all week, and for those who aren't going — or those who are but don't mind spoilers — here's the art we know of so far.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Artist Had Elephant Sculptures and Truck Stolen In West Oakland Well known local artist and Burner Jack Champion says he's devastated to have lost a pair of elephant installations he's been working on for the past 10 months, which he intended to bring to Burning Man on Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Black Rock Census Shows Typical Burner Is White, Rich, Male Burning Man has kicked off a “Diversity & Radical Inclusion” effort as their census data again confirms that the majority of Burners are white dudes.
SF News Burning Man Could Be Hit With New Drug Screening Requirements A federal agency has ruled that Burning Man should have third-party, private security screening for drugs at every entrance of Burning Man.
SF News Burning Man's Federal Permit Still Hinges on Final Environmental Impact Statement Drama between the Burning Man organization and the Bureau of Land Management is nothing new. But as the festival has ballooned in size over the last decade, tensions are running high around the latest approval process for Burning Man's 10-year permit.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Tinkers With Ticketing to Crack Down on Luxury “Turnkey” Camps Ticket registration begins this week, and luxury campers like Paris Hilton and Leo DiCaprio will have to wait in the online queue like everybody else.
SF News Burning Man Group Lends Shipping Container Dorms To House Fire Victims In Santa Rosa The group Burners Without Borders, along with the Burning Man camp called Camp Epic, are launching something in Santa Rosa called Oasis Village, on land that's being offered by a local businessman. The
SF News Yet Again, Burners Leave Behind Thousands Of Bikes Remember in 2014 how it was a scandalous headline that upwards of 2,000 people abandoned their bikes on the playa and, in total disregard of the "leave no trace" ethos, went on
Arts & Entertainment See A Few Branches From The Tree of Ténéré, Off Playa For This Weekend One of the highlights, art-wise, of this year's Burning Man was the three-story, LED-filled, climbable man-made tree called the Tree of Ténéré, which provided shade during the dust-filled days and glowing, colorful light
SF News Family Of Man Who Ran Into Flames At Burning Man Confused, Says He Was 'A Happy Guy' The parents of the man who willfully ran into the flames of the towering effigy at Burning Man Saturday night say they are in shock and can not understand why he would have