SF News Burning Man Just Bought A 3,800-Acre Chunk Of Desert To Establish A Year-Round Community The non-profit behind Burning Man just purchased a $6.5 million, 3,800-acre piece of land 21 miles north of Gerlach, Nevada. Located near the site of the annual temporary Black Rock City,
Arts & Entertainment Jumbo 747 Definitely Going to Burning Man This Year Bay Area Burners and loyal SFist readers will recall the saga of last year’s 747 jumbo jet being taken to Burning Man that ended up not being taken to Burning Man. Rejoice,
SF News Two Earthquakes Strike Area Of Burning Man Site In Three Days In three days, the "playa," a remote portion of the Nevada desert that becomes a makeshift city of 70,000 during the annual Burning Man festival, has experienced two earthquakes. The AP reported
Arts & Entertainment Missing Burning Man? Watch This Feature-Length Film From BM 2015 It took eight months, but Scottish dude Mark Day has just finished and released this 100-minute video documenting Burning Man 2015, in all its dust-stormy glory. He calls it "an intentionally-overlong exercise in
SF News Day Around The Bay: Burning Man For Oligarchs Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The Guardian took a tour of the tech-centered, deluxe
Arts & Entertainment [Update] 30,000 Burning Man Tickets Sell Out In 30 Minutes It's going to take more than radical self reliance to get tickets to Burning Man this year, as, like last year, the sale promised to be a minor technical disaster crapshoot. We'll update
Arts & Entertainment 40-Foot Burning Man Sculpture Formerly On Treasure Island Arrives On Las Vegas Strip Admirers of the female form in Las Vegas, Nevada will have something new to ogle in "Bliss Dance," a 40-foot tall sculpture wrought from 3,000 feet of stainless steel cable by Marco
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 Burner Dream Job? Work For The Man At Burning Man Burning Man's stated goal: Create a temporary city ungoverned by the hierarchies, mores, and laws that elsewhere repress us. But with its nearly 66,000 attendees last year, the event does need to
SF News Burning Man Delays Ticket Pricing, Fights $3 Million New Tax What is Burning Man? A festival? A temporary community? A lifestyle choice? Burners themselves are known to dodge the question: You know, it needs to be, like, experienced to be understood. Nevertheless, an
Arts & Entertainment Video: Burners Welcome Fallen Drone As New Dance Party God When a drone carrying a camera in the sky high above the playa crash-landed — like a space probe on a new, dusty planet — the locals welcomed their newcomer as a new totem or
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Fun Video From The Gay Side Of Burning Man (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
Arts & Entertainment Watch Susan Sarandon's Very Trippy (And NSFW) Tribute To Timothy Leary At Burning Man As you all heard, Susan Sarandon was one of the celebrities at Burning Man this was her second time there in three years and as she told Jimmy Kimmel this week, she stayed
SF News Corporate Ad Mocking Burning Man's Corporate Influence Is So Accurate That Burning Man Might Sue A new advertisement that mocks Burning Man's corporate influences and was itself produced by sandwich company Quizno's (as a faux-installment of The Maze Runner movie franchise) is so meta and self-aware as to
Arts & Entertainment Dust, Wind, More Dust, And Katy Perry: Photos From Burning Man 2015 Burning Man 2015 wrapped up on Sunday, and while we don't yet have a tally of how many dust-caked bicycles got left behind this year (last year it was 2,000), we have
Arts & Entertainment Craigslister Who Wants A Burning Man Ticket For His Treadmill Probably Isn't Going Anywhere Eager to hop off life's treadmill and go play on the playa, one Craigslister has been hoping to trade in his literal treadmill — an expensive one! — for a ticket to Burning Man. Bartering,
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Opens With Traffic, Dust Storms, Susan Sarandon We'll keep the negativity to a minimum because obviously we're not there and can't speak to its glories and wonders, but Burning Man officially began Sunday with the first arrivals of RVs and
SF News New Sheriff Overseeing Burning Man Playa Might Be More Hardassed About Drugs There's a new sheriff in town at Black Rock City well, Pershing County, Nevada to be precise. Former sheriff's deputy Jerry Allen was elected to replace former sheriff Richard Machado, and he took
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Burning Man' The Musical It seems inevitable, given that the internet is the internet, that someone would do a satirical take on Burning Man in the form of musical theater. And that very thing has arrived! It's
SF News Stung By Negative Press, Burning Man Blogger Insists Bug Infestation Is Over, Was Overblown The totally non-metaphorical plague of biting green bugs that descended on the Black Rock Desert last week — bringing with it a rash of negative press — has mostly disappeared. Those pests, the Burning Man
SF News [Update] Plague Of Biting Green Bugs To Ruin Burning Man Are dead bugs MOOP? Burning questions for @BurningMan 2015 pic.twitter.com/4oSpG7fQAo— Champagne Lounge (@CLoungebrc) August 18, 2015 File under great schadenfreude material for all Burning Man haters: Some kind of as-yet-unidentified
Arts & Entertainment Burner Dad Writes First Burning Man Children's Book Yes, it's true. People bring children to Burning Man. Lots of people. And lest you assume as I did when I wrote this diatribe against parents who subject their children to the annual
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: No, Someone is Not Bringing a 747 Jumbo Jet to Burning Man This Year You may have read it on Reddit, and SFist has tracked down the organizers and confirmed that the rumors are true. The 747 jumbo jet that was promised to appear at Burning Man
SF News 'Starving Students' Allegedly Dump Furniture Instead Of Moving It According to their motto, the LA-based Starving Students moving company in Oakland puts their heart into every move. But last Saturday, workers driving a company van were caught on tape dumping furniture along
Arts & Entertainment Housing Crisis Solution: Lock Out All The Burners With A 300-Mile Wall San Francisco is a city in crisis. No no, not the housing crisis, although sure, yeah, that too. But more importantly, even at this very moment, everyday Bay Area residents are being forced
