Arts & Entertainment Huzzah! Burning Man Gates Reopen As Of 6 AM The road in and the gates to Black Rock City reopened earlier than expected this morning, at 6 a.m., following Monday's freak rain storm that destroyed a legion of Burners' early camp-set-up
SF News How To Get A Last-Minute Burning Man Ticket You may think it's impossible this late in the game, but it's never completely impossible. Between your friends on the Faceplace and random Craigslist serendipity, there are still some Burning Man tickets floating
SF News Not Content To Ruin Just San Francisco, Rich Techies Are Gentrifying Burning Man Too This will come as news only to people who have not attended Burning Man in the last couple of years, but the New York Times has just caught on to the fact that
SF News Photos: First Look At The Man, The Temple, And A Wet Black Rock City It's been rainy out on the playa as the setup crews for Burning Man 2014 have been slaving away to construct the essential pieces of Black Rock City for the 70,000 or
SF News Slain Man Found Near Duboce Park, Now ID'd, To Be Removed From Life Support Today; Suspect Sought In Homicide The unidentified man found early Sunday, who was unconscious and badly beaten near the corner of Church and Duboce Streets, was publicly identified late yesterday as 31-year-old Bryan Higgins, a.k.a. Feather
Arts & Entertainment The 6 Coolest Installations You'll See At Burning Man 2014 For those of you getting psyched and doing your Muppet-fur boot shopping for the playa, we have a preview of a few of the cool large-scale sculptures you'll be seeing out there at
SF News Day Around the Bay: Grover Norquist Is Going to Burning Man If you thought Burning Man had jumped the shark when the Winklevosses showed up, you were wrong. Because now Republican talking head Grover Norquist is going with his wife. [Twitter via Slate] The
Arts & Entertainment New Burning Man Art Comes To Pier 14 On July 21, just after sunset, a new interactive, LED sculpture will light up Pier 14. The 28 x 40 foot stainless steel installation is a modified version of piece that premiered at
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man 2014 Extended To 10 Days Big news, Burners! This year's Burning Man opens a day earlier to the public and closes one day later than ever before, allowing for for an extra day of setting up camp, and
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Turns Non-Profit, Will Expand Beyond A Single Playa The organization that produces Burning Man has now fully transitioned to non-profit status, with the corporation Black Rock City LLC becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the non-profit Burning Man Project, established in
SF News Burning Man Agrees To Pay Up For Johnny Law Black Rock City LLC, the San Francisco company that puts on Nevada's most popular summer retreat every year, has just agreed to shell out at least $605,000 a year over the next
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Drone's Eye View Of Burning Man Just over a week since the titular man burned and the drone footage that caused a mild hubbub is starting to hit the Internet. While this isn't the first time we've seen airborne
Arts & Entertainment Winklevoss And His Khakis Ruin Burning Man Aggressive dom-top daydreams notwithstanding, this Instagrammed Tyler Winklevoss pic from Burning Man 2013 shows that, alas, the party in the desert is officially done. "If you can't beat Mark Zuckerberg, you can at
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man 2013 'Man' Burns Bright The titular man at Burning Man on the Black Rock Desert went up in a glorious blaze Saturday. According to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, more than 61,000 people attended
Arts & Entertainment Look What You're Missing At Burning Man! Here in San Francisco, we're a couple of days into the Burning Man rapture, but that doesn't mean we're not occasionally the tiniest bit Burning Man-curious. Here now: a few shots from the
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
