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Slouching Towards Burning Man: Is The Counterculture Fest Evolving Or Devolving?

ARTINFO | Posted 01.30.2013 | Arts
ARTINFO

About one half hour before it goes up, the 40-foot-tall wooden sculpture at the center of Burning Man raises its hands to salute the sky. Summoned by ...

Burning Man Faces New Legal Challenge

Carly Schwartz | Posted 10.12.2012 | San Francisco

Burning Man ran into a legal snag this week when officials in Pershing County, Nevada, asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by festival organizers...

A Different Kind of Burning Man Story

Vanessa Pinto | Posted 11.20.2012 | San Francisco
Vanessa Pinto

Whenever you hear about Burning Man, you hear about the art, the peace, the spiritual enlightenment, and, most importantly, the freedom. When you hear of Burning Man, you never hear of crime, and you certainly don't hear about a rape.

Burning Manifesto

Tamsin Smith | Posted 11.07.2012 | Arts
Tamsin Smith

Some places must be seen, touched, and tasted live and in person, to be truly known. The Playa of Black Rock City is one of these.

Burning Man Follows The Rules

AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 09.04.2012 | San Francisco

RENO, Nev. -- A year after being placed on probation for drawing too many people, the Burning Man music and arts festival attracted crowds well within...

Carly Schwartz

PHOTOS: What's In Store For Burning Man This Year?

HuffingtonPost.com | Carly Schwartz | Posted 08.28.2012 | San Francisco

San Francisco cleared out considerably over the weekend as tens of thousands of artists, dreamers, hippies, techies, corporate professionals, newcomer...

Even MORE Bad News For Burning Man

Carly Schwartz | Posted 10.20.2012 | San Francisco

Just a week before the counterculture community's most important week is slated to begin, Burning Man filed suit against the remote Nevada desert coun...

Speed Levitch Loves Black Rock City

Love Letters | Posted 10.15.2012 | Travel
Love Letters

A Friday night in BRC is an abstract-expressionistic painterly stroke of technicolor reality splattered across vast landscapes of earth and blank canvas.

Burning Man Faces Even More Bad News

AP | Posted 09.21.2012 | San Francisco

By Martin Griffith, Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A California man is appealing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's decision to increase th...

Burning Man Gets A Boost From The Feds

AP | Posted 08.13.2012 | San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO -- Ten thousand more people are expected to be on hand in the Nevada desert for this year's Burning Man festival after federal officials...

Champagne Company In Big Trouble With Burning Man

Carly Schwartz | Posted 07.22.2012 | San Francisco

As any Burning Man regular knows, those who violate the festival's sacred ten principles face serious consequences. The folks at Krug Champagne rec...

UH OH: Burning Man Placed On Probation

Carly Schwartz | Posted 07.01.2012 | San Francisco

After spending ticket-selling season dealing with swarms of angry festival attendees, Burning Man organizers have again found themselves in the hot se...

Carly Schwartz

When Burning Man Went Viral

HuffingtonPost.com | Carly Schwartz | Posted 02.23.2012 | San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO -- On a recent Friday afternoon, organizers of Burning Man, the arts festival that pops up in the Nevada desert for a week each summer, ...

COME AND GET 'EM: Burning Man Tickets On Sale Now

Carly Schwartz | Posted 11.28.2011 | San Francisco

Calling all Burning Man fans who prefer to plan ahead: The moment you've been waiting for has arrived. Starting Monday, festival organizers will de...

Carly Schwartz

Burning Man Fans Outraged By Festival's New Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Carly Schwartz | Posted 11.21.2011 | San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO -- It all started when the desert sold out. For the first time in its 25-year history, Burning Man -- the all-inclusive music and art...

Are You A Burning Man?

Posted 11.26.2011 | Arts

The first year you go to Burning Man you are called a virgin and the first thing they do to virgins at the entry gate of Burning Man is to make you li...

Burnt Out At Burning Man

Fathom | Posted 11.05.2011 | Travel
Fathom

The Temple acts as a secular place of worship for the community, the festival's spiritual heart.

PHOTOS: Submit Your Best Burning Man Pictures

Carly Schwartz | Posted 11.06.2011 | San Francisco

Another year, another successful stint in the desert. San Francisco became a decidedly quieter city this past week, as more than 50,000 burners fr...

PHOTOS: The Art Of Burning Man

Posted 11.06.2011 | Arts

Each year, Burning Man's particular brand of industrial sculpture, free-form costumes and dusty nudity has made it a hotbed of unusual art. In past ye...

WATCH: Live From Black Rock City, It's Burning Man

Posted 08.25.2012 | Travel

The annual adventure in desert living and self-reliance that is the Burning Man festival starts today in Nevada, as thousands upon thousands drive to ...

The Desert Sells Out

Carly Schwartz | Posted 10.01.2011 | San Francisco
Carly Schwartz

One of Burning Man's Ten Principles is Radical Inclusion. "Anyone may be a part of Burning Man," its official website promises. And this year, even half the DJs planning to perform won't be able to get in.

From Boutique Hotels to Burning Man

Laurent Vernhes | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Laurent Vernhes

When I started telling people of my plan to go to Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, it was a hit. "No, really?" they would say. "Is your wife going with you?"

My First Trip to Burning Man

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Jonathan Kim

I spent years coming up with reasons not to go to the riot of creativity known as Burning Man. I can now say with certainty that every reason I had for not attending Burning Man was wrong. Very wrong.

The Truth About Burning Man

Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Jay Michaelson

Friends of mine have changed their names, their professions, and their entire lives at Burning Man. And not because they were stoned or tripping...

Burning Man 2008 "American Dream"

Jodi Lampert | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Jodi Lampert

Saturday night, the Man burned. Over 49,000 people watched. A windstorm had kept most of us captive during the day. What brings 49,000 people together to put themselves to these tests?