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
Arts & Entertainment Video: Hyperlapse Of Burning Man 2017 It's Labor Day, and for the Bay Area that means it's the traditional day of photos and videos beginning to stream in from Burning Man as Burners suddenly get access to robust wi-fi.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Sights And Scenes From Burning Man 2017 Burning Man 2017 is wrapping up today, following the burning of the Man on Saturday night which ended tragically this time with the death of one man who ran into the flames and
SF News Man Dies After Running Into The Flames Of The Big Burn At Burning Man Burning Man: Guy Runs Into Flames of Burning Statue, Airlifted to Burn Center https://t.co/inKJGMNFkW pic.twitter.com/F1mlF6VKMp— Fashion Woow (@fashionwooow) September 3, 2017 A 41-year-old man who broke through
Arts & Entertainment Photos: First Look At All The Art At Burning Man 2017 It's only Monday of the seven-day affair known as The Burn, and thanks to newly semi-functional cell signal out on the playa, like last year, we're getting some early sneak peeks of the
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
