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
Arts & Entertainment One Of The GlamCocks Talks About Bringing Burning Man Energy (And Costumes) To Gay Nightlife As SFist noted in this roundup of gay parties last month, one of the most noticeable trends in SF gay nightlife the last year or so has been the infiltration of Burning Man
Arts & Entertainment Scenes And Sounds From The First Weekend Of 'Flower Piano' In Golden Gate Park Duke Ellington's "Take the A-Train." Pianist David Owen. A bit of Burning Man-style delight and randomness came to the SF Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park this past weekend via the first few
Arts & Entertainment Stern Advice To The Woman Too Injured To Work But Crowdfunding Her Way To Burning Man Hello. My name is Kate. I purchased a LOW INCOME ticket to go to burning man this year. Finances for me have dropped to just enough to feed my cats and pay my
Arts & Entertainment Pay To Playa: The Weirdest And Worst Crowdfunded Burning Man Projects You gotta have money to burn. Increasing costs have been the major complaint among the Burning Man faithful even before news broke that the festival would be taxed for the first time starting
SF News Feds Want Million-Dollar Accommodations At Burning Man Burning Man organizers say federal officials are being "excessive" in their request for accommodations at the festival, including flushing toilets and 24-hour access to ice cream. Documents acquired by the Reno Gazette-Journal show
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Temple Takes Shape Again, Gets Its 37-Foot Spire Today In Hayes Valley New temple being constructed in Patricia's Green #BurningMan #HayesValley pic.twitter.com/HOnxuRTLmX— Dave Lester (@davelester) June 22, 2015 As we mentioned the other week, artist David Best is building a brand new
SF News Nevada Will Now Tax Burning Man Despite Non-Profit Status Setting aside Nevada's general aversion to taxation and Burning Man's newly minted non-profit status, a 9 percent tax on admissions to large-scale live entertainment events has now been approved by state lawmakers. As
Arts & Entertainment Burner Air Will Airlift The Burner Bourgeoisie To The Playa For Just $2200 If Burning Man were not already a pretty expensive endeavor for the common folk, a new airline that is actually named Burner Air is offering quick flights for all those who can afford
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Temple Returning To Hayes Valley What do Hayes Valley and the Playa have in common? Very little. But one piece of public art is coming back to change that. The San Francisco Arts Commission in partnership with Burning
Arts & Entertainment Look Out For This Enormous, Functioning Typewriter At Burning Man Boston-based artist Jason Turgeon, along with a team that includes contractors, a mechanical engineer, and an architect, are at work constructing a giant replica of a 1927 Underwood Portable Typewriter that they plan
Arts & Entertainment 40-Foot Burning Man Sculpture Getting Removed From Treasure Island According to a Facebook event to bid farewell to the 40-foot tall dancing woman sculpture that's graced Treasure Island since 2011, a previous de-rusting didn't fully protect the piece from sea breezes, and
SF News Burning Man Is Over Part 247: Burning Man Facebook Page Hilariously Trolled It's been quite a year for the social experiment/desert party known as Burning Man. As hackers jumped their way to the front of the digital line to score their $390 passes, this
Arts & Entertainment Groupon Hawks Burning Man Tickets at 490% Above Face Value, Burners Get Inflamed Remember when Groupon was a source for bargains offered at below face value? Not so for Burning Man fans this week. An apparent Groupon deal offered $390 Burning Man tickets at the generous
Arts & Entertainment Some Joker Has Put Up A Burning Man Ticket On StubHub For $1 Million The increasingly tragi-comic ridiculousness of Burning Man continues today with someone posting a pair of tickets to Burning Man on StubHub for $1 million apiece. Perhaps this is some kind of political statement
SF News 200 Jerks Hacked To The Front Of The Burning Man Ticket Line When 40,000 passes to Burning Man went on sale last Wednesday, selling out in under an hour, some technically gifted and morally unburdened Burners had already disrupted their way to the front
