The Huffington Post has published a story from Saveur about The Epic Food Scene at Burning Man: …food was at the heart of this French Quarter: The Santopalato Supper Club featured a different chef’s cooking each night. I traveled there, and … Continue reading
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Master Chef: Burning Man
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DMT-LALEO-K9-ER
Dennis Romero at the LA Weekly brings us this story, of a police rescue that turned psychedelic. Metin Sanli/Flickr It’s not everyday that Los Angeles police officers get a whiff of a rare psychedelic drug like DMT. But that’s what reportedly happened last … Continue reading
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Burner Community Processes Its Greatest Tragedy
As Utah Burners return from Element11, more information is coming out about Saturday night’s horrific public suicide. If you’ve had enough of this story, and would like to move on, it’s as easy as not reading this article and reading … Continue reading
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So Ridiculous It’s Cool
The Atlantic has a story about a giant brain made out of steel, that will be hooked up to a Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine. Parts of the brain will light up, to “teach us” how brains work. Now if it … Continue reading
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Susan Sarandon Talks Burning Man, Bowie and Brownies
Last year my Burgin sister and I watched the Cargo Cult burn from on top of BalanceVille, an art car sleigh that raises 52 feet in the air with a scissor lift. Next to us, with a small blinky light in her … Continue reading
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Political Influx Has Press All A Twitter
Last year we had the celebrity invasion, with a big deal made about big names like P.Diddy, Susan Sarandon, and General Wesley Clark attending Burning Man. Will this be the year of the Political Invasion? Politician Grover Norquist, a prolific tweeter … Continue reading
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VICE On Grover
Republican party politician mover and shaker Grover Norquist announced in a tweet last week that he was one of the celebrities going to Burning Man this year. The response has been surprising, with coverage in Bloomberg, Reason, Slate, the National Journal, the … Continue reading
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Satanists With Guns
Satanists? Maybe Burners are Satanists? Before you jump to the comments to say “I’m sick of all the negativity, why is this blog hating on Burning Man, etc. etc.”…please understand that it’s not me saying that, dear readers – it’s … Continue reading
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Fun For All The Family?
At NPR, Audie Cornish and Will Stone from Reno Public Radio have a segment on parents who bring their kids to Burning Man. I am posting the transcript on my non-commercial blog so I can personally discuss it. You can listen here, … Continue reading
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Flower Crowns Light Before Kanye Flop
Beyonce and Jay-Z have been in town, chilling at the St Regis in the Presidential Suite. Definitely a Burner friendly hotel, for those who can afford it – $30,000 per night for J, B, and their child who was born … Continue reading
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Where Does Your Ticket Money Go?
The Reno-Gazette Journal pretends to answer this question, by pointing to a “new announcement today” from BMOrg analyzing this very topic. How was this announced, and to whom? It seems it only made it to their Facebook page. I can’t see it … Continue reading
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Weird-o-nomics [Updates]
The Atlantic has a long story “The Wonderful, Weird Economy of Burning Man”. They highlight the annual event’s impact on the surrounding area. In recent years, the airport has taken to displaying Burning Man-style art and offering a welcome table … Continue reading
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Burning Man Jumps the Shark
Today’s headline in the SF Bay Guardian: Burning Man jumps the shark How a high-minded countercultural experiment ended up on everyone’s bucket list 08.19.14 | Steven T. Jones Steven Jones (Scribe) wrote an excellent book in 2011 called the Tribes … Continue reading
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How To Save the World
Caveat Magister has written a long piece at SF Weekly entitled “Out of the Wilderness. The future of Burning Man isn’t in the desert. It’s everywhere else”. You’ll have to read through more than 5500 words to find his disclaimer that … Continue reading
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$2 million camps: Gentrification of Burning Man (NYT)
The New York Times published a story by Nick Bilton today (it will be in the print edition Thursday) about Burning Man. They referenced our story about Private Concierge services. A few different perspectives are presented in this story – … Continue reading
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HuffPo vs NYT – Mainstream Media Battles Over Burners
The Huffington Post has responded to the New York Times article about Burning Man yesterday. It’s amusing to see Huffington Post pretending that they are on the side of the “counter culture”. They must think they’re still a blogger site, … Continue reading
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Burners.Me interview on KGO Radio
San Francisco’s KGO news radio interviewed me today about the anti-rich, anti-tech, and dare we say, anti-Burning Man sentiment that seems to be sweeping the media this week. I should have recorded the interview myself, because I said more than … Continue reading
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Poppycock! It’s Punks, not Hippies
Chris Taylor at Mashable has responded to this week’s press that Burning Man has jumped the shark and rich people are one-upping each other with $25,000/head camps and sherpas. In Chris’s opinion, Burning Man is run by punks, and always has been. … Continue reading
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2014 BRC Weekly
Black Rock City’s daily paper used to be called Piss Clear, with new editions coming out daily on Playa (you could pick them up at Center Camp). It’s now known as the BRC Weekly. The 2014 issue is now out. … Continue reading
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2014 Black Rock Beacon
Piss Clear BRC Weekly is not the only news-sheet on the Playa. There’s also the Black Rock Bacon Beacon:
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