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
SF News [Update] Burning Man Tickets Sold Out In About An Hour As we explained the other day, those who were properly registered were permitted to purchase individual tickets as noon today. Most then had to sit in a virtual line of anywhere from 20
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Registration Starts At Noon, Tickets On Sale Next Week Even though it's goddamn February, it's time to start thinking about Burning Man again, Burners. You don't want to miss seeing/frowning upon that jumbo jet turned into an art-car! Today, Wednesday, at
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Someone Is Bringing A 747 Jumbo Jet To Burning Man This Year The largest art car ever is in the works for Burning Man 2015. Reddit and the message boards began popping this month with the news that an ambitious crew of Burners was taking
SF News Burning Man Employment Opportunity For Salesforce Admin With Wild Side Are you a Salesforce.com certified admin with a yen for experimental living and the "ability to live and work in the harsh physical environment of the Burning Man event location on the
Arts & Entertainment Were You One Of 2,000 Burners Who Left Your Bike On The Playa? In the post-apocalyptic dunescape of the off-season Playa, Black Rock Community Transit tallied 2,000 bicycles abandoned by the Burner class of 2014. Way to leave no trace, Burners! A bit of quick
SF News Here Are The Neighborhoods With The Most Burners Not that you probably needed this, but Fortune has made a map, via data from Square, that illustrates the "Playa Effect" on various S.F. neighborhood during the week of Burning Man this
Arts & Entertainment 'My Vacation Is Your Worst Nightmare': Burning Man 2014 Photos And Videos By Sai Mokhtari I just came back from my seventh year attending Burning Man, surrounded by almost 70,000 others who were crazy and curious enough to make their way out to Black
Arts & Entertainment Grover Norquist's Burning Man, Recounted Grover Norquist made it to Burning Man, as promised. And he's written a brief piece for the UK Guardian about just how marvelous the experience was, and more than he'd hoped. He gets
Arts & Entertainment The Chron Zigs On Burning Man When We Expected It To Zag When you see a headline like "14 ways to enjoy S.F. during Burning Man exodus," it's hard to make yourself click through, and to reward what's likely to be a clueless listicle
SF News Woman Dies In Bus Accident At Burning Man A woman who has not yet been identified died early Thursday morning when she fell under the wheels of a bus at Burning Man. The details of the accident have not yet been
