SF News Burners Beware: Federal Agents Will Be In Costume As they have in previous years, undercover federal agents are currently roaming Black Rock City, in proper playa garb, trying to bust unsuspecting souls for drugs. The place is not, in fact, the
Arts & Entertainment Watch Burning Man 2013 Live! [Update] Live streaming video by Ustream Behold the Burning Man Webcast, care of 94.5 BMIR. We strongly recommend giving it a look and listen throughout the festival. Also, for those of you heading
Arts & Entertainment Photos: En Route To Burning Man While the Bay Area enjoys a week of shorter lines and fewer people clogging Dolores Park, festive folks took to the road today to partake in the annual dance-a-thon in the desert. We
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man: White-Hot Spot For Tech Schmoozing The boy-centric tech industry has taken a shine to the annual Burning Man gala in the desert, which starts this weekend. Once known as a free-spirited event free from the shackles of corporate
Arts & Entertainment Be Careful With Your Drone At Burning Man For the first time this year, organizers at Black Rock City convened a Drone Summit to discuss the growing proliferation of drone-mounted video cameras swarming about the playa. And now, there are guidelines.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Attn Burners: Drop Off Your Food On Your Way Home As hordes of revelers prepare to head to Burning Man (starting this Sunday!), we'd like to remind them that there's a choice way to donate leftover non-perishable camp food. It goes to the
Arts & Entertainment 25 Reasons You're Glad You're Not Going To Burning Man It's that time of year when many of your friends are making daily runs to hardware stores and ill-advised clothing stores and REI in preparation for their annual pilgrimage to the playa. Whether
Arts & Entertainment Video: Burning Man's First Year In The Desert (1990) Burning Man first started out as an indie festival at Baker Beach in 1986. Years later, in 1990, before many of you were born, the festival moved to the desert. The following footage
Arts & Entertainment Video: Burning Man Has a Kiki Just to prove that Scissor Sisters do, in fact, have crossover appeal with the straights, here's a video shot by some Burners of a bunch of (mostly) heterosexual Burners lip syching to the
Arts & Entertainment Divisadero Car Wash Charges Double For Playa Dust At the Touchless Car Wash on Divisadero & Oak Streets, the attendants will gladly pump your fuel free of charge, but it will cost you to have them scrub all that post-Burning Man
SF News Rare Blue Moon Will Grace The Sky Tonight A rare blue moon will be visible in the sky tonight (provided that said sky isn't in San Francisco). A blue moon, contrary to its cool-hue title, isn't about color but instead when
Arts & Entertainment Snapshots of Burning Man 2012 Although the Burning Man photo policy is a bit odd and borders on draconian -- the reasons, according to the Burning Man Organization are twofold: "To protect our participants so that images that
Arts & Entertainment Watch It Live: Burning Man 2012! Video streaming by Ustream Check out the Burning Man Webcast, which, while entertaining you with aural niceties care of 94.5 BMIR, will broadcast the entire festival live 24/7 from the Playa.
Arts & Entertainment Burner Scribes Bestow Burning Man Tips For Rookies And just like that, the annual pilgrimage to the Playa begins. Scores of Burners head to the desert this week to partake in and create Burning Man. However, if you plan on smashing
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Let's Put Black Rock City On Mars Imagining Burning Man's Black Rock City on Mars. [io9] McCovey Chronicles pens some pure poetry about Barry Zito. [McCoveyChron] The Guardian asks: can City College be saved? [SFBG] No surprise here: panhandlers are
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Gets Bigger An estimated 10,000 more people are expected to grace Burning Man this year after officials increased the attendance cap. Associated Press reports: "The U.S. Bureau of Land Management issued a special
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Krug Champagne's Publicity Stunt At Burning Man Backfires Krug Champagne summoned the wrath of many Burners (almost one year later!) after they staged a crass publicity stunt involving "society bloggers" at Burning Man 2011. As many of you know, Burning Man
SF News Feds Slap Burning Man Organizers With Probation, Threaten Event's Future Uh oh! The federal Bureau of Land Management has just put Black Rock City LLC on probation, citing a violation of the 50,000-person attendance cap placed on the event last year. The
SF News Burning Man Lottery Clusterf**k Makes National News As most of you have likely heard by now, a lot of hardcore Burners got screwed out of Burning Man tickets this year because of that whole lottery kerfuffle. Despite all the good
SF News Burners Freak Out Over Another Possible Ticket Shortage The new lottery system in which hopeful Burners register for pairs of tickets ahead of them going on sale, is already causing much chaos and heartache among the furry-boot set. As the Guardian
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Burning Man Tickets While They're Still Expensive Burning Man presale tickets went on sale today. Or rather: the opportunity to volunteer to possibly pay a premium on $420 early bird tickets opened up today. As in previous years, presale tickets
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Switching to Lottery System for Ticket Sales After tickets to Burning Man's weeklong fur boots and utility belts gala sold out for the first time this year, organizers have devised a new ticketing-by-lottery scheme they hope will eliminate the first-come,
Arts & Entertainment Watch Burning Man 2011 Gala Live Broadcasting live with Ustream Too poor or too interesting to attend this year's Burning Man festivities in the Black Rock Desert? Have no worries. Here's some live streaming to whet your appetite. Arid-looking,
Arts & Entertainment How's Burning Man Rapture Treating You? Whether cultural touchstone or long-belated Sophomore year, there's no denying that Burning Man arouses imagination and ire like little else. We're game for the conceit of spending hours creating that which will be
SF News The NYT Profiles a Couple of Bougie Burners from L.A. True to form, when the New York Times decides to devote column space to Burning Man, it has to be a style piece focusing on a pair of well-off designers from L.A.
