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.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Playa Cleanser: Moments With Marco, Creator of 'Bliss Dance' Installation Welcome to Burning Man Playa Cleanser. A sure to be short-lived series that's kind of like a palate cleanser, but is better suited for brushing the dust off of your playa goggles and
SF News Burning Man Architect Rod Garrett Dies at Age 76 Rod Garrett, the man responsible for laying out Black Rock City's iconic horseshoe of whacky art and self-expression, died last week at the age of 76. Although the original burn on Baker Beach
SF News This Is Why People Hate San Francisco: Volume 10 We return again for an installment of this ofttimes confusing feature, in which we ask those of you ensconced too cozily in your SF bubbles to take a step back, summon your inner
Arts & Entertainment Red Tricycle's Guide To Bringing Kids To Burning Man If dragging your child to a drug-fueled party in the desert is your bag, you're in luck. Parenting newsletter Red Tricycle recently published this jarring Insider’s Guide to Burning Man with Kids
SF News S.F. Supervisors Chiu, Kim, and Mar Heading to Burning Man Supervisors David Chiu and Jane Kim will voyage to the annual art and drug festival in the Nevada desert known as Burning Man. For whatever reason, they plan on spending only 24 hours
SF News We Read the Weeklies: August 3, 2011 Gather round kids. Grandpa's got a story about three Bay Area alt-weeklies and what they decided to report on this week, at the height of this long, misty, fog-gray summer. Don't worry, it
Arts & Entertainment No Burning Man For You! (Unless You Already Bought Your Ticket) We suppose that only the most JV, flaky, and virginal among you Burners would wait until late July to buy your Burning Man tickets, but if you did, sucks for you! For the
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup The firefighter who was taken to the hospital during last night's blaze on Mission Street is recovering fine and no other injuries were reported, but SFFD still doesn't know the cause. [BCN/Appeal]
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Tickets Go On Sale Today At 10 am today, tickets for Burning Man, the popular gala in the desert, will go on sale. While ticket prices can seem, well, price - they run anywhere from $210 to $320
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man 2010: Scenes from the Playa SFist opted out of Burning Man this year, but we're certain a fair number of you out there are currently sleeping it off/sweating out your drugs/picking dust out of your ears
