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
SF News Sales of Burning Man Supplies, Silly Outfits Way Up Over Last Year (A photo from 2009's fest - AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) Another sure apparent sign of economic recovery: Sales of Burning Man-related supplies at places like REI and Haight-based costume shop Piedmont Boutique are
misc Enterprise Rent-A-Car Says 'No' to Burning Man Local photographer Troy Holden spotted this sign posted on the window of Enterprise on Folsom and Fourth streets. For obvious reasons.
Arts & Entertainment Gay Burning Man 2010 Camps Queer folks attending this year's Burning Man, listen up: Gay Cities has a short list of gay resources you should check out. A few gay camps are: Moonbow Camp (3:00 & Athens)
SF News Burners Upset Over Orchard Supply Hardware Ad? SF Weekly reports that San Jose-based hardware supply chain Orchard Supply Hardware produced an ad targeted at Burning Man ticket holders. "At Orchard Supply Hardware, we like to help people make the most
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Fire Dancer Practices for Burning Man in Dolores Park While Wearing Cycling Pants The indefatigable Allan Hough of Mission Mission brings our attention to this video, shot by claydiva, showcasing a fire dancer practicing for Burning Man in Dolores Park while wearing the tightest outfit imaginable.
SF News Burning Man '09 to Feature Texting, Cell Phone Service Gone are the days of the technology and currency-free oasis of drugs, dust and art both whimsical and questionable. In a development sure to be heralded by many as the final shark to
SF News <i>SF Bay Guardian</i> Does Drugs The Guardian's Drug Issue is out, and it's laced (that's editor Steven T. Jones' word, not ours) with "good shit" ranging from a piece about women's meth use on the rise in SF;
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Fire Arts Festival at the Crucible Oh man, not some hippie Burning Man-ish art thing," you whine? Yes, another hippie Burning Man-ish art thing! Why? Because: fire. And lots of it. See, this weekend the annual Fire Arts Festival
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight / SFist Cares: Help Hollis Heal Herself. Holler Horribly Here. Local bicycle dancer and Burning Man veteran Hollis Hawthorne fell off a motorcycle while traveling in India. She hit her head and went into a coma. More coverage: * Hollis' friends' blog = http://friendsofhollis.
SF News Oh Yeah, Burning Man is Coming What with all of the not taking synthetic drugs we've been doing as of late, we completely forgot that Labor Day Weekend is almost upon us. Yay! And with that comes that annual
SF News Feel the Burn You'd think that Rob Anderson would be all for Burning Man, as its demographic most certainly overlaps with his despised "bike people" (like burnphile Steve Jones) getting them out of the City, and
SF News Grace Cathedral/Burning Man Arsonist Paul Addis Sentenced Mentally-estranged dreamboat Paul Addis -- you know, the guy who performed last year's premature ignition at Burning Man and most recently tried to burn down Courteney Cox-Arquette and David Arquette's chapel of love?
misc And So It Begins Until they open up a Four Seasons on the Playa, or move the journey to Yerba Buena Park, we won't be going anytime soon. But for those of you rapscallions who are? More
SF News Chronicle Endorses Chain Smoking Muslim for President It's that time of the year for all the big papers to weigh in on their choice for President and yesterday, the Chron weighed in and announced that they are going to support
misc Did We Mention That Burning Man Tickets Are Now On Sale? Because they are. "$210 and $225 tickets are sold out," we're told. But with the income you're pulling in from that tech job, you should be able to afford the pricer admission fee,
