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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Seven Best Places To Stop En Route To Burning Man The mass migration from the Bay Area to the Black Rock Desert begins this weekend, and while it may not be true that SF loses any significant portion of its population to the
Arts & Entertainment Never Forget: 2007, The Year The Man Burned Four Days Early, And Many Burners Were Sad Next week we mark the ten-year anniversary of a night that shall live in infamy for all longtime Burners, when an arsonist set The Man aflame four days early, the night of a
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Temple Being Built From Trees Killed In Drought You’ll notice this year’s Burning Man Temple looks a lot different than previous years’ laser cut jigsaw designs of David Best. Best has handed off the task to his previous lead
Arts & Entertainment Get Excited, Burners: New Video Recaps All The Playa Art From 2016 Preparations for Burning Man 2017 are kicking into high gear this week as time ticks away before the Burn and some organizers are already arriving or on their way to start construction on
SF News Black Rock Desert Still Kind Of A Puddle, Dust Might Be Light This Year The Burner faithful probably heard a few reports over the last month about how the playa had turned into a lake following all that winter rain, in some cases with water as deep
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man 2017 Ticket Registration Just Kicked Off The byzantine and highly complex process of buying officially sanctioned, face-value Burning Man 2017 tickets is now underway, everybody. Registration for the Burning Man ticket Main Sale began at noon today (Wednesday), so
Arts & Entertainment Mr. Brandy's Roaming Piano Van Is A Kooky Cabaret On Wheels I would say that San Francisco pianist Mr. Brandy pops up when and where you least suspect, but if you had to guess, you'd probably expect this art-car van with a piano in
SF News Federal Agent Charged With Abusing Burning Man Party Privileges A Bureau of Land Management Investigative Report on Ethical Violations and Misconduct released early this week charges a BLM law enforcement official with a series of improprieties and federal ethics violations at the
Arts & Entertainment Two New Burning Man Sculptures Arrive At Patricia's Green In Hayes Valley That little Hayes Valley park at Octavia Boulevard has welcomed a few Burning Man art and sculpture pieces over the years, probably none more iconic than David Best’s Temple structures that held
Arts & Entertainment Hayes Valley May Get New Dose Of Burning Man Art Next Month A sort of sliver of Burning Man's Black Rock City in the heart of the far more hospitable Hayes Valley, Patricia's Green has hosted multiple iterations of art inspired by and related to
Arts & Entertainment David Bowie's Ashes Scattered At Burning Man Temple? Plus 'Playa Elvis' And One More Video If you were at Burning Man this year, you're probably still getting your default-world bearings back and crying over your laptop every day looking at photos and video. If you weren't at Burning
Arts & Entertainment Video: Crazed Burner Boyfriend Enraged By Question 'How Was Burning Man?' Most non-Burners with devoted Burner friends should be able to relate to this fun sketch by YouTuberist Kevin Oeser in which he returns home to his girlfriend, fresh from the playa, only to
SF News Luxe Burning Man Camp White Ocean Gets Vandalized In Effort To 'Take Back' Burning Man A story from last week is just reaching us off-playa as news trickles through social media that three-year-old "fancy camp" White Ocean, home to a star-studded lineup of DJs and big dance parties
Arts & Entertainment This Year We Get To See All The Burning Man Art Early Because Instagram We showed you previews and renderings of nine of the bigger pieces of art out on the playa this year, but now, thanks to fully functioning cell signal and wi-fi out in the
SF News Burning Man Structure Collapses Injuring Six A Burning Man theme camp collapsed earlier this week, injuring six and requiring that one festival attendee be airlifted out of the desert for medical treatment. The Reno Gazette-Journal reports that this all
Arts & Entertainment Paris Hilton Is Instagramming From Her First Time At Burning Man, You Guys Excited for my first trip to the #Playa! It's going to be #Magical! ✨✨✨ #BurningMan 🔥 pic.twitter.com/0k9mAryGu5— Paris Hilton (@ParisHilton) August 30, 2016 Paris is burning. Radically self-reliant hotel heiress Paris Hilton
SF News Burning Man Exodus Is Really Not That Many People, Says Chron You've heard it before: San Francisco "empties out" the week of Burning Man, leaving trendy bars and restaurants less crowded and that hot brunch spot free of lines. However, as the Chronicle points
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
Arts & Entertainment Watch Black Rock City Rise On This Burning Man Live Stream You are not, at this moment, in the middle of a desert in Nevada having a life-altering experience. But you're in luck! Among the most genuinely exciting aspects of Burning Man — watching an
SF News Burners Beware: Traffic Cops In Central Nevada Allegedly Doling Out Tickets For Fun Of It This just in via social media and one of my many friends and acquaintances who are playa-bound already: Burners en route to Black Rock City were allegedly being entrapped by cops in tiny
Arts & Entertainment Nine Awesome Pieces Of Burning Man Art To Look For On The Playa Burning Man 2016 is shaping up to be a fun one, art-wise, so long as the dust storms stay at bay. Below we bring you a collection of things Burners can look out
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man 747 To Begin Shutting Down Roads Today En Route To The Playa The jumbo 747 that was originally intended to make it to Burning Man last year, is now, actually, slowly making its way from Mojave in Southern California to the Black Rock desert in
Arts & Entertainment The 20-Year History Of Local DJ Collective The Space Cowboys San Francisco's infamous DJ and dance-a-thon collective the Space Cowboys, the legendary party proprietors of iconic annual Bay Area blowouts like Ghost Ship, Breakfast Of Champions, and the whimsical travels of the celebrated
Arts & Entertainment Behold The Catacomb Of Veils, A Huge, Pyramid-Like Monument Coming To Burning Man 2016 One experienced Burning Man temple construction crew, led by artist Dan Sullivan, is working on a monumental project for the playa this year called Catacomb of Veils. Currently under construction on Pier 70
