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BundyFest! After-party With Guns
One of the biggest news stories of the year has been the Nevada stand-off between rancher Cliven Bundy and the BLM. The Bundy family have been grazing cattle on the land for almost 140 years (although...
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The Stand of No Stand
As we enter the 5th month of the year, BMOrg are managing to be strangely silent, while at the same time being all over the news. The “Burning Man Organizer Throws Bundy Fest” story has been picked up...
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The Natives Are Restless
“Proposed arts and fire event stirs controversy”, reads the front page headline in the Lovelock Review-Miner. This story served to awaken and aflame locals, before a city council meeting to consider...
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Front Page News in Reno
We brought you news yesterday of Burning Man’s recent presence on the front page of the Lovelock Review-Miner. Well, it seems like the Reno Gazette Journal wants to get in on the action too, showing...
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Cool Hunting Interviews Leo Villareal
Leo Villareal is one of the founders of the Disorient major theme camp. He is also the first Burning Man artist to have an exhibition of their works at a major museum – in 2010, at the San Jose Museum...
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Desert Spirits Get Naked
The Guardian brings us an amazing shot, taken at Burning Man 2013. Usually, photographer Spencer Tunick’s subjects are naked en masse. Last year, for the clothing-optional festival Burning Man, he...
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2014: Year of the Silk Road
American Museum of National History’s Camel Caravan creation This year’s theme is “Caravansary“. It’s meant to evoke traditions of the Middle East, silk pillows and teeming marketplaces in caravan...
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Burning Man Project Exports Culture to…San Mateo
As we just mentioned in our earlier Amber Lyon post, if you’re looking to the official Burning Man site for news, good luck to you. They’re running on Burning Man time, not Twitter time. They told you...
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Jim Carrey, the Queen of Diamonds and the Maharishi
Funnyman and Hollywood A-lister Jim Carrey has named Burning Man in a recent Commencement Address to MUM: The Maharishi University of Management (who honored him with a doctorate) The context is after...
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Midburn: Beyond Sold Out
Last weekend, Israeli Burners threw a party billed as “the first Burning Man Regional Event in the Middle East”. Prior to the event, it seemed to be sold out at 2000 tickets, but there wasn’t enough...
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Master Chef: Burning Man
The Huffington Post has published a story from Saveur about The Epic Food Scene at Burning Man: photo from Saveur …food was at the heart of this French Quarter: The Santopalato Supper Club featured a...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Flower Crowns Light Before Kanye Flop
The St Regis is a great place to live in the city 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...
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