SF News Burning Man Exodus Set to Begin Monday Amid Still Muddy Conditions; Man Burn Set for Monday Night The traditional burning of the man at Burning Man was delayed by two days due to an unusual rainstorm and extremely mucky conditions on the playa Saturday. And organizers said they would open the exit gates Monday and begin letting people leave.
SF News Death at Burning Man Under Investigation As Thousands of Festival Attendees Still Trapped in Muddy Desert Amid the chaos at Burning Man, the Pershing County Sheriff's Office confirmed that a person has died and their family has been notified, but details about the victim and the circumstances haven't been released.
SF News Burning Man Doused by Rare Desert Rains, Turning Festival Into Muddy Nightmare for 70,000+ Festival-Goers Trapped in Playa Organizers shut down the festival's entrance gate and airport on Friday night amid stormy weather, effectively isolating everyone within the playa, who they urged to "shelter in place" and ration resources.
Arts & Entertainment The Burning Man Webcast is Now Live, Will Broadcast Saturday Night’s Burn This year’s scaled-back, three-day Burning Man webcast is now live and running, and you can tune in to watch the spectacular Burn happen live on Saturday night, should you so desire.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Has Gotten Richer, Queerer, Slightly Less White The annual Black Rock City Census data is out for 2022, and it paints a picture of the desert festival getting marginally more diverse than it was a decade ago, and a fair bit less traditionally heterosexual.
SF News Environmental Activists Blockade Road Leading Into Burning Man, Enraging Burners; Violent Response From Nevada Tribal Rangers Ensues A group of activists representing the groups Extinction Rebellion, Rave Revolution, and Scientist Rebellion decided to stage a protest that caused an hourlong backup of traffic on the two-lane highway leading to the Black Rock Desert, and drew the wrath of frustrated Burners and local rangers alike.
SF News Tropical Storm Hilary Hits Burning Man, Gates Closed Until at Least Noon on Tuesday Don’t bother leaving for Burning Man today if you have an early-arrival pass, because Black Rock City is largely underwater, and the flooding has forced the temporary closure of the event’s front gate until 12 noon Tuesday at the earliest.
Arts & Entertainment People Selling Off Their Burning Man Tickets Like Mad This Year, Market Flooded With Extra Tickets It’s blazingly easy to find extra Burning Man tickets this year, as countless tickets are being offered up for sale, a “radical” change from years past when Burning Man was the hottest ticket of the summer.
Arts & Entertainment 10 Best Burning Man 2022 Art Projects and Curiosities (So Far), as the Event is Now Underway It’s already Day Two of Burning Man 2022, and thanks to a bunch of Burners taking their beloved Starlink satellite internet kits with them, they’re online and we can see what’s been built in Black Rock City this year.
Arts & Entertainment Nevada County May Add an ‘Impact Fee’ Onto Burning Man Ticket Prices, To Keep Their Roads Maintained Washoe County commissioners are in discussions to add an extra fee onto Burning Man tickets to maintain a stretch of road that 70,000 Burners tromp across every Labor Day weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Infamous Burning Man 747 Bought by Las Vegas Investors, to Become ‘Immersive Experience’ Tourist Trap on the Strip One of Burning Man’s grandest art projects, which turned into one of its grandest embarrassments, is off to the Las Vegas strip to live out its life as a new tourist attraction.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Tickets Sell Out in 29 Minutes, Technical Glitches Burn Some Would-Be Buyers Burning Man tickets went on sale at noon Wednesday, and despite (or because of?) some technical glitches, Burners with pent-up demand snatched up all the tickets in a mere 29 minutes.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Announces 2022 Ticket Sales, Price Increase to $575 Per Ticket Burning Man says it’s happening again in 2022, but with Main Sale tickets $100 more expensive than last time around, and a “COVID-19 health check process” purportedly in place.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Renegade’ Burning Man Angers Sheriffs, But Draws 20,000, Including Paris Hilton and Diplo Post-Burning Man photos are flooding social media as they do after every Labor Day, and this year’s ‘Rogue’ burn drew larger crowds than expected — but also appears to have pissed off a number of Nevada locals.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Unsanctioned Burning Man Has First Serious Accident A man was injured in a roll-over dune buggy incident at the "renegade" Burning Man that began Sunday, some evacuation warnings and orders have been lifted in the Dixie Fire, and demand for monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID are surging in the Bay Area.
SF News A ‘Renegade’ Burning Man is Planned, Despite Cancellation, COVID, and Lack of Waste Services A few large Facebook and Reddit groups are ignoring the cancellation of Burning Man and slapping together a large, unsanctioned event, but the Delta variant and lack of porta-potty service could turn this into Woodstock ‘99 on COVID.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man 2021 Is Cancelled The Burning Man Project just announced “We have decided to set our sights on Black Rock City 2022,” which is another way of saying that they are canceling their 2021 event.
Arts & Entertainment Sorry, Anti-Vaxx Burners: Burning Man May Require COVID Vaccine For Entry Very soon there are going to be a lot of disadvantages to not having a COVID-19 vaccine, besides the danger of getting and/or dying from COVID-19. The latest potential downside: You won't be allowed into Burning Man.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Offers $2,500 ‘Reservations’ to Buy Tickets, Tickets Not Included with Purchase Still not knowing whether they can even have an event this summer, the Burning Man Project announces a $2,500 “opportunity” to buy tickets (tickets not included) — and most of these reservations have already sold out.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Tells Camps To Start Planning for Possible 2021 Event It’s not an announcement or confirmation, but the Burning Man Project has sent a “gentle nudge” to the biggest camps to start planning, and giving deadlines for those wanting prime placement.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Announces They Still Have No Announcement on Fate of 2021 Event The promised mid-February update has been issued, but the Burning Man Project cannot say whether the 2021 event can happen in person, and the new announcement timeline is “no later than the end of May.”
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Camps Already Backing Out of 2021 Over COVID-19 Concerns, Despite No Official Call Well-known Burning Man camps are already chiming in with a big old “Nope” on attending the 2021 event, even as Black Rock City organizers have not officially decided whether to proceed this year.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Groups Come Forward About Saturday Beach Party, Insist Most People Were Masked One Burning Man camp responsible for DJing from their burner bus that night has taken some responsibility, but they say that SFPD officers and park rangers didn't tell them to cut the music until 1 a.m.
SF News Mayor Breed Lambasts 'Reckless' Burning Man Celebration at Ocean Beach, Closes Parking Lots A vibrant group of at least a thousand people descended on Ocean Beach Saturday night for an impromptu Burning Man celebration, ignoring all social distancing orders and drawing a lot of attention in the neighborhood — illegal bonfires included.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man To Fire Up Online Shows and Apps, But Nevada Preparing for Crashers Anyway Burners are madly coding away to create a suite of “Multiverse” experiences in lieu of their annual bacchanalia, but the feds are keeping an eye on whether some of them will just show up at the Black Rock Desert anyway.
