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Not so Vogue?
French Vogue, 2012 Earlier this year, the San Francisco Bay Guardian brought us a 5-page story about Burning Man, written by Burner Scribe. We covered the story in The Spark of Controversy . We also...
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Chaos in Manhattan: Reverend Billy Free!
Photo by Kim Fraczek New York performance artist Reverend Billy Talen is an institution at Burning Man. He also takes his show on the road, throwing Cacophony Society-style protests all around the US...
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Gift Me Your Project!
Before Burning Man starts telling Burners how to raise funds, they should clean their own act up internally. Burning Man’s transition to a non-profit has sure been raising some eyebrows at Burners.Me...
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The Old Bait-n-Switch
Scribe got the scoop of the year this year, with the news that Burning Man is charging $150,000 for Vogue photo shoots, and profiting from DVD and soundtrack sales from their movie Spark: A Burning Man...
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Judge Backs Off Pershing Roadblock: Deal is Done
Judge Jones in Reno, who said the settlement deal cut between Burning Man and Pershing County was “illegal, unenforceable and absurd“, and suggested the lawyers involved should go back to school – has...
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Larry Harvey in The Independent
Burning Man founder Larry Harvey has given a brief interview to Britain’s The Indpendent newspaper. It’s fairly juicy, managing in a single page to combine tales of child abuse, drug addiction, and...
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Reno Gazette Journal covers Pershing County Cops Settlement
In a 3-page story entitled “Burning Man: As law enforcement moves in, Burners remain in Playa bliss” (a subtle warning, perhaps?), the Reno Gazette-Journal delves deeper into the agreement Burning Man...
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Bye, Bye USB Stick? Vegas Club bans DJs from playing Pre-Mixed sets, Dubstep,...
About. Fucking. Time. Let’s hope this spreads. From White Raver Rafting: http://whiteraverrafting.com/new-las-vegas-club-will-ban-mainstream-records-and-lazy-artists/2014/02/01/ New Las Vegas Club Will...
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Most Boring Image of Burning Man Ever
So says the LA Times, in reviewing Kota Ezawa’s minimalist art show. Wonder if BMOrg gets their cut of this. The gallery describes it as “Burning Man-esque”. The acrylic on wood painting can be yours...
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Liquid Raving in the Casino Moshpit
Topekas News describe themselves as “a progressive voice for the Free Thinker”. What passes for “progressive” in Topeka, Kansas seems to be somewhat different from San Francisco, California, as well...
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Federal Manager of Burning Man – Last Day to Apply!
That’s right kiddies, Burning Man has grown up so much that it needs to have its own full-time, dedicated manager for the Bureau of Land Management. It pays up to $90k a year – could be a dream job for...
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NADAgras at the Burner
Reno’s Morris Hotel is being turned into a Burner hotel – quite literally. They now answer the phone as “Morris Burner Hotel”, and the web site is morrisburnerhotel.com. From the Reno Gazette-Journal:...
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Sheriff Reserves Right to Protect Kids
Guy Farmer of Carson City is a long-time critic of Burning Man. Recently in Nevada Appeal – the Lahontan Valley news – he shared his opinion about Burning Man’s “staring contest” with Pershing County....
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Ticket Chaos: Vehicle Passes now $500+, Tickets $1500+ [Updates]
Want to go to Burning Man 2014, Caravansary? Well, sorry, you’re SOL. Today’s “Individual Sale”, of 38,000 tickets at $380 each, sold out in about 42 minutes (according to the Huffington Post), or...
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Misting Vagina and Penis Slide: Celeb Invasion Continues
Burning Man has become THE place for celebs to show their cool factor. Last year we had first time visits from P.Diddy, Susan Sarandon, and General Wesley Clark…amongst others. Actress Rosario Dawson...
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Elon Musk: “Burning Man IS Silicon Valley”
Mike Judge is one of this country’s comic greats. As well as Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill, he made the classic movie Idiocracy. Now he’s back with a terrific new show on HBO, a sardonic...
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Aurora Palo Alto: BM Tree Comes to City Hall
Aurora is a 3-story high art-ificial tree made up of more than 40,000 LED lights. It was created by Bay Area artist Charles Gadeken. After debuting at Burning Man in 2011, it has been re-constructed as...
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This Is Your Brain On Drugs
In 1995, artist Bryan Lewis Saunders decided he would paint a self-portrait every single day for the rest of his life. He’s up to about 10,000 so far – and more than 50 of them are based on different...
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Escape Velocity: Back Story of Coachella Astronaut
You didn’t have to go to Coachella this year to hear about the #coachellaastronaut. It reminds me of the Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters, which is maybe lost as a reference on most of the born in the...
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“TED meet Burning Man meet SXSW”– Tony Hsieh’s Playboy Vision
Zappo’s founder Tony Hsieh sold his company to Amazon for more than a billion dollars. This wasn’t his first success – he also came up with LinkExchange (and their social networking subsidiary event,...
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