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,
SF News UPDATE: Paul David Addis' Grace Cathedral Arson Attempt Snuffed Out Burning down the birthplace of the holy union between Courteney Cox to David Arquette? Dear God, no. Last night a little before midnight, Paul David Addis was arrested outside of Grace Cathedral, suspected
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Off The Grid: Life On The Mesa</i> SFist Wendy goes off the grid, and then comes back to the land of electricity to tell us all about it! We welcomed the return of DocFest, your local indie documentary festival, last
SF News Burning Man Suicide It looks like Black Rock City visitors now have an actual tragedy on their hands. One for them to eventually personalize, of course. Today, sadly, someone hanged himself to death at Burning Man.
SF News That Smell Yum! Did you smell something nasty in downtown SF yesterday? Some people described it like raw sewage, and others like rotting meat. Turns out it was from the sewage holding system, which was
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next, the SF Weekly. [For some reason, they haven't updated the website at the time we're writing this. We'll try and add the links in when they update their site. Does this have
SF News Gucci Storefront Afternoon Robbery Some very sad news. According to Bay City News, "[t]wo men among the midday shoppers" smashed the storefront window at Gucci (Union Square) and stole an undisclosed amount of jewelry. No one
SF News Burning Man's Premature Ignition During last night's total lunar eclipse in Black Rock City, Nevada, someone set the Burning Man figure ablaze prematurely. Chortle. Hey, maybe that was their art? Their statement? Their message? Or their coke
misc Week Around the -ists With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it's a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-A-Verse. Luckily, even
Arts & Entertainment This Crow's Gotta Fly -- A Plan For Burning Man Hannah Watson's really into crows. In June 2000, surrounded by family, her mother passed away. Hannah tells us that right outside, just after her mom died, "the crows cawed, hollered at one another,
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Large Lake Tahoe fire under control. [Oakland Tribune, via AP] -- Small Presidio fire controlled, injures no one. [Examiner, via BCN] -- Two SF hit-and-runs kill two. [Chron] -- Carlos Cruz, 25,
