Burning Man

"Burn Wall Street": Otto von Danger Politicizes His Art

No Tickets? Nine Ways You Can Still Get Into Burning Man 2012

Whatever else history might say of the Burning Man Ticket Fiasco of 2012, it offers the community that puts on the festival one more brute lesson in market economics. For attendees at the longtime countercultural arts festival held annually in the desert near Reno, news that four-fifths of the ticke ... More >>

Burning Man Bummer: Ticket Lottery Won't Fill Demand

Whatever else history might say of the Burning Man Ticket Fiasco of 2012, it offers the community that puts on the festival one more brute lesson in market economics. For attendees at the longtime countercultural arts festival held annually in the desert near Reno, news that four-fifths of the ticke ... More >>

Burning Man: What If They Run Out of Tickets?

Curious Josh ​Burning Man's first-ever ticket lottery has had far more requests for tickets than the 40,000 that have been made available.  What does this mean?The Internet will be very, very, angryNo one will ever get to go to Burning Man againSan Franciscans finally have something other tha ... More >>

Sea of Dreams: Show Preview

Curious Josh ​Burning Man's first-ever ticket lottery has had far more requests for tickets than the 40,000 that have been made available.  What does this mean?The Internet will be very, very, angryNo one will ever get to go to Burning Man againSan Franciscans finally have something other tha ... More >>

List: Why Burning Man Sold Out Early This Year

Curious Josh ​Burning Man's first-ever ticket lottery has had far more requests for tickets than the 40,000 that have been made available.  What does this mean?The Internet will be very, very, angryNo one will ever get to go to Burning Man againSan Franciscans finally have something other tha ... More >>

Get High With Mutaytor Today, Even if Burning Man Is Months Away

​Listen to this while high: Mutaytor's Unconditional Love (The Westerfield Sessions). ​Behind the buzz: Though born in Nevada's Black Rock desert at Burning Man and world-HQ'd in an obscure Los Angeles warehouse, Mutaytor is San Franciscan almost by default. L.A.'s Burning Man scene is sexy ... More >>

Listen To This While High: Acid-House Forefather 'Raga Bhairav,' by Charanjit Singh

​Hear this while high: "Raga Bhairav" by Charanjit Singh. Behind the buzz: This sliver off a 1982 EMI-India album Synthesizing - Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat was hailed earlier this year as the accidental invention of acid house, some months shy and several thousand miles away from its accepted prov ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

​Hear this while high: "Raga Bhairav" by Charanjit Singh. Behind the buzz: This sliver off a 1982 EMI-India album Synthesizing - Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat was hailed earlier this year as the accidental invention of acid house, some months shy and several thousand miles away from its accepted prov ... More >>

Burning Man Ends, and S.F. Supervisor Eric Mar Returns Home

Eric Mar isn't the first S.F. supe to go to Burning Man. But he was the first to go to Mars. ​The smoke is rising from Burning Man, and its participants are straggling back into town. Hardware store workers, lawyers, and architects are heading back to so-called "real life." And, if you live in the ... More >>

The On Land Experimental Music Festival: What's Burning Man, Anyway?

​From this evening through the weekend, Café du Nord and its upstairs annex the Swedish American Hall are hosting the On Land festival, a dazzling array of ambient, psychedelic, improvisational, and straight-up noise performances. Much of the lineup testifies to the Bay Area's vibrant experimenta ... More >>

List: What do people do at Burning Man?

​From this evening through the weekend, Café du Nord and its upstairs annex the Swedish American Hall are hosting the On Land festival, a dazzling array of ambient, psychedelic, improvisational, and straight-up noise performances. Much of the lineup testifies to the Bay Area's vibrant experimenta ... More >>

What Does it Take To Get Sued By Burning Man?

Meps 'n' BarryCease and desist, comrades!​Yesterday we reported on how Orchard Supply Hardware's radio ads anointed the store the place to pick up supplies for your eclectic Burning Man projects -- and Burners were none too pleased. OSH won't be getting a call from Black Rock City's legal departme ... More >>

Orchard Supply Hardware Anoints Self Burning Man Central

Pick one of these babies up at OSH! ​Your ears did not deceive you. Orchard Supply Hardware, the place best known for its ads about "bringing you timeless value since 1931," has now labeled itself Burning Man Central. A series of radio spots for the San Jose-based chain advertise OSH as just the p ... More >>

Bed Skirts

Pick one of these babies up at OSH! ​Your ears did not deceive you. Orchard Supply Hardware, the place best known for its ads about "bringing you timeless value since 1931," has now labeled itself Burning Man Central. A series of radio spots for the San Jose-based chain advertise OSH as just the p ... More >>

SXSW Interactive Is Dead

Image of a VIP fence via Flickr/Adrants​No annual festival, conference, or party will ever be as good as the first year you went. That's not what I'm talking about when I say that South by Southwest Interactive died this year. Earlier this week, Jolie O'Dell wrote the usual "Why SXSW Sucks" post. ... More >>

Desert Lights

Image of a VIP fence via Flickr/Adrants​No annual festival, conference, or party will ever be as good as the first year you went. That's not what I'm talking about when I say that South by Southwest Interactive died this year. Earlier this week, Jolie O'Dell wrote the usual "Why SXSW Sucks" post. ... More >>

Burning Man Missed Connections: Even Better Than the Real Thing

​Burning man is over. But some people just can't let go. Enter Craigslist Missed Connections, where Burners who bumped up against each other during a fleeting moment on the Playa reach out to one another. This girl, in a Yellow Hat, is seeking a man in a Black Hat: I met you at the Hug Deli on Fri ... More >>

Black Rock Flock: A Burning Man preparation guide

​Burning man is over. But some people just can't let go. Enter Craigslist Missed Connections, where Burners who bumped up against each other during a fleeting moment on the Playa reach out to one another. This girl, in a Yellow Hat, is seeking a man in a Black Hat: I met you at the Hug Deli on Fri ... More >>

No Toilet Paper, No Peace

The Porta Potti Arsonist speaks.

Burning Man Missed Connections: Better than Regular MCs.

The Porta Potti Arsonist speaks.

Sunday: Burning Man ParticiParade on Haight Street

The Porta Potti Arsonist speaks.

Yet Another Reason to Be Scared Of Ritual Roasters: Toilet Camera (Hoax!)

The Porta Potti Arsonist speaks.

Au Revoir, Addis

The Porta Potti Arsonist speaks.

Burning Books

Two new art books about Burning Man remind you how nice things are in S.F. when all the Burners go away

Drom Beats

Two new art books about Burning Man remind you how nice things are in S.F. when all the Burners go away

Letters to the Editor

Week of 2-7-07

Burnt Man

One of the founders of Burning Man is suing and makes a case for opening up the cultish event to more subversive fun

Pull the Plug

Bright lights in the big city don't make a show

Left Behind

Bright lights in the big city don't make a show

The Honeymooners

Bright lights in the big city don't make a show

Stupid White Tricks

It's often embarrassing to be a middle-class Caucasian in San Francisco. Last week it was excruciating.

Altered Mindstates

Dog Bites trips out over the Mindstates global psychedelic convention

Large and Lovely

A film about a tent city on a dusty plain. No, it's not Burning Man.

Just Shut Up

When your friends won't stop talking about Burning Man

No Bedtime Story

Playwright Mary Zimmerman's next splash

This Is Burning Man

Arguably the best prose ever written about the 18-year-old festival

The Politics of Burning Man

Burning Man and the Republican convention coincide. Where's a good progressive to go?

Where There's Smoke

It takes a special kind of aficionado to love art that can kill you

Best Burning Man-Esque Bar

Sublounge

Culture Klatsch

When the Burning Man folks met the Air Force guys, the desert camping tips flew

Letters to the Editor

Week of September 18, 2002

Letters to the Editor

Week of September 11, 2002

Burning Spin

Organizers of the Burning Man festival pull out all the stops to control the press -- and it's a good thing they do

Pop Philosophy

I went to Burning Man and all I got was this new lease on life

Letters to the Editor

God and Science; Potshot or Put-on? You Decide.; Dancing Around the Issue

Through the Hayes

God and Science; Potshot or Put-on? You Decide.; Dancing Around the Issue

Burning Desire

God and Science; Potshot or Put-on? You Decide.; Dancing Around the Issue

Night Crawler

God and Science; Potshot or Put-on? You Decide.; Dancing Around the Issue

Hunka Hunka Burning Wood

A spark-by-spark description of this year's Burning Man