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Where Does Your Ticket Money Go?
The Reno-Gazette Journal pretends to answer this question, by point 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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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: Filed under: General Tagged: 2014, beacon, Black Rock City, brb, city, news, press, stories
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Black Rock Beacon – Swamp Edition
From blackrockbeacon.org Filed under: General Tagged: 2014, beacon, black rock, broadsheet, city, news, newspaper, newssheet, press
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Cosmo: Burning Man Erection Contests Are Really Hard
Tom Anderson at Cosmopolitan brings us a “deep behind the scenes” look at what goes on at Burning Man’s Slut Garden camp. From Cosmopolitan: “The first boner to rise gets the prize,” says Brad McCray...
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BRB: A History of Deaths
The Black Rock Beacon has published this history: Compiled by Mitch, Rockstar and Brandon Before this year, there were at least six deaths in Black Rock City. An additional number of Burners passed...
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“Brigadoon, the Louvre, Petra”
It seems Grover Norquist had an eye-opening Burning Man experience. He penned an op-ed for the Guardian about it: It is a larger version of … what? Woodstock? That was a bunch of teenagers coming to...
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OUTBREAK! Burners Warned of Virus Risk
They say bad luck comes in threes. This year Burning Man faced an unprecedented closure on Monday and Tuesday, followed by an unfortunately fatal art car accident on Thursday. It seemed like Burning...
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Life Lessons From Burning Man
Maya Zuckerman, “cultural hacker”, has shared 13 Life Lessons from 13 Years at Burning Man. From Huffington Post: The dust has finally settled after my thirteenth year at TTITD, “That Thing In the...
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Burning Man Spawns New Age Festivals
The New York Times has a story by Julia Allison on The Progeny of Burning Man. There are other ways to get a transformational experience than going to Black Rock City, and not every EDM festival is...
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First We Take Manhattan
“Die Religion … ist das Opium des Volkes” – Karl Marx If there’s one thing Burning Man founder Larry Harvey can do, it’s wax lyrical. The New Yorker brings us a tale of how he went there and did...
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Creating God In The Digital Age [Updates]
We’re building an artificial god. A digitally constructed consciousness simulator, with sensors absorbing all the world’s data, monitoring and tracking our every move, connected to hundreds of acres of...
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Ello is AfrikaBurn, Twitter is Burning Man
Afrika Burn 2014. Photo: Jonx Pillemer The UK’s Telegraph has an article comparing Burning Man with the rise of the social media network Ello (I’m @zos). It seems social media has become full of...
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