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Burning Man

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    FOX 11 Interviews L.A. Weekly Photographer CuriousJosh

    Looks like the local news is starting to care about Burning Man. Our ace L.A. Weekly photographer Josh "CuriousJosh" Reis chatted about the event on FOX 11 last night. Check out the video after the jump.

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    9 Alternatives For Burning Man Lottery Losers

    John Halcyon Styn​So you couldn't get a ticket. Join the club. Burning Man has been a rich man's game for a while now, and since BMORG, the group behind it, can't seem to figure out any way to prevent scalpers (like by, say, printing your name on your ticket), prices will surely be jacked up e ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    February 2, 2012

    Cacophony Society Prankster Group Gets New Exhibit and Documentary

    John Halcyon Styn​So you couldn't get a ticket. Join the club. Burning Man has been a rich man's game for a while now, and since BMORG, the group behind it, can't seem to figure out any way to prevent scalpers (like by, say, printing your name on your ticket), prices will surely be jacked up e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    Burning Man's New Lottery Ticketing System Provokes Outrage

    See also: Burning Man 2011 Sold Out, Literally and Figuratively; Tickets Go for $5,000 on eBay Earlier this month, Burning Man's newsletter announced a new lottery system for buying tickets to the 2012 edition of the the seven-day experimental arts and music festival. It works like this: During a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    Video: Burning Man Time-Lapse Imagery Fails to Capture Hippie Smells

    CuriousJosh​You thought Burning Man as seen from space was a trip. Some YouTuber recently posted a time-lapse video of the hippy dippy action at the Playa near Black Rock, Nevada, and from the looks of it you wouldn't know this was the dirty, debaucherous, bacchanalian rave it has come to be. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2011

    Best Macabre Display

    CuriousJosh​You thought Burning Man as seen from space was a trip. Some YouTuber recently posted a time-lapse video of the hippy dippy action at the Playa near Black Rock, Nevada, and from the looks of it you wouldn't know this was the dirty, debaucherous, bacchanalian rave it has come to be. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    Burning Man as Seen From Space (Photo)

    CuriousJoshFeel the burn.​If we were to imagine what the weekend's annual Burning Man festival looked like from space, we'd think chaos, anarchy and a vision of 50,000 ants madly shrooming in every direction. But no, the hippy-trance fest looks organized, almost like an sacrificial Mayan rite ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    Raving For The Rich: Burning Man Can be Done in Relative Comfort if You're Elon Musk

    avramcYou can almost smell this photo.​We've never been tempted to feel the burn, frankly, because Burning Man is such a hippy affair, what with the pungent, sobriety challenged people and unpaved conditions. Not our idea of fun. However, it turns out that the annual Black Rock psychedelic sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Burning Man 2011 Sold Out, Literally and Figuratively; Tickets Go for $5,000 on eBay

    PHOTO BY JOSH "CURIOUSJOSH" REISS​We didn't even know this was possible: Burning Man, great Black Rock Desert gathering of all people freaky and junk funky, sold out of tickets today for the first time since tickets started selling in 1995. Burning Man spokeswoman Andie Grace says the festiv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Burning Man Festival a Source of STDs, 'Whore Women' And 'Semen Demons,' Says Christian Website

    Robert ScalesFeel the burn.​[Spoiler at the bottom]. Despite the iconic figure set afire each year in Nevada to celebrate L.A.'s favorite countercultural event, Burning Man, the event didn't get its name from the conflagration. Rather, it appears to come from the many cyber hippies there who ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2011

    Good Vibrations

    Robert ScalesFeel the burn.​[Spoiler at the bottom]. Despite the iconic figure set afire each year in Nevada to celebrate L.A.'s favorite countercultural event, Burning Man, the event didn't get its name from the conflagration. Rather, it appears to come from the many cyber hippies there who ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2011

    Where Desperate Men Go to Fry

    Robert ScalesFeel the burn.​[Spoiler at the bottom]. Despite the iconic figure set afire each year in Nevada to celebrate L.A.'s favorite countercultural event, Burning Man, the event didn't get its name from the conflagration. Rather, it appears to come from the many cyber hippies there who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    Dr. Dre vs. The Hippies: Did Dre Try to Make Money Out of Burning Man?

    ​Fader magazine and a mysterious Tumblr misleadingly called drdrestartedburningman.tumblr.com are currently pimping a pseudo meme called "Dr. Dre Started Burning Man." Of course Dr. Dre did not start Burning Man--a bunch of hippies did. But Fader and the Tumblr site have posted a 1995 letter a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    L.A. Techno Hippies Rejoice: Burning Man Attendance At, Er, New High

    ​As we loaf in the June-like dreariness of rare, early September gloom, let us not forget the blazing sun and whipping sand that is Burning Man -- the Labor Day weekend techno-hippie festival that is one part Angeleno, two parts San Francisco. This year's event appears to have set an attendanc ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    June 24, 2010

    Baby Ain't Got Back (Yet)

    Mike Kelley and Baby Ikki wander the desert of the real

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Day 3: Infected Mushroom Brings Head-Banging Trance To Coachella

    Dennis RomeroInfected Mushroom performs at Coachella.​Confession: Trance (spikey-haired douches bouncing to 135 beats-per-minute music) is not our thing. Burning Man (sweaty, 40-year-old shaved-head guys perving on 18-year-old, pigtailed girls with lollipops) -- also not our thing. Put the two ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    February 18, 2010

    The Longest Day: L.A. Street Food Fest

    Was it worth all the waiting?

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    Star of Alleged Burning Man Inspiration "The Wicker Man" Dies

    ​UK's Uncut magazine reports the death of Edward Woodward, star of cult TV shows The Equalizer (US) and Callan (UK), and, more crucially, the 1973 film version of The Wicker Man. The film was remade in 2006 by Neil LaBute (starring Nicolas Cage) as a hysterically misogynistic flop, but the or ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Kabinet Theatre: The Wandering Marionettes Usher In LA's Burner Wave

    Shannon CottrellThe Wandering Marionettes Present Kabinet Theatre​ Out on the courtyard of Hollywood nightclub Boardner's, a crowd circled the central pond, chatting as wax from the large, white candles slowly dripped and hardened to form organic designs. Scattered between the party-goers were ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 11, 2009

    Circus of the Bizarre

    Shannon CottrellThe Wandering Marionettes Present Kabinet Theatre​ Out on the courtyard of Hollywood nightclub Boardner's, a crowd circled the central pond, chatting as wax from the large, white candles slowly dripped and hardened to form organic designs. Scattered between the party-goers were ... More >>

  • Music

    January 29, 2009

    Nightranger has a ball with The Mutaytor, the Kibitz Room's Jammers and MyHouse's Hot-to-Trot Homies

    Shannon CottrellThe Wandering Marionettes Present Kabinet Theatre​ Out on the courtyard of Hollywood nightclub Boardner's, a crowd circled the central pond, chatting as wax from the large, white candles slowly dripped and hardened to form organic designs. Scattered between the party-goers were ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 2, 2008

    Mythical Mystery Tour

    Shannon CottrellThe Wandering Marionettes Present Kabinet Theatre​ Out on the courtyard of Hollywood nightclub Boardner's, a crowd circled the central pond, chatting as wax from the large, white candles slowly dripped and hardened to form organic designs. Scattered between the party-goers were ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2008

    Burning Man: Tips from the Playa, pt. 1

    We missed Burning Man this year, sad to say, but photographer Charles Evans, Jr. captured some absolutely stunning images out on the playa. We'll be setting up a slideshow of these images (and many others) in coming days, but for now feel free to borrow fashion tips, transportation ideas and miscel ... More >>

  • Music

    June 26, 2008

    Martin Landsky Lands in L.A.

    We missed Burning Man this year, sad to say, but photographer Charles Evans, Jr. captured some absolutely stunning images out on the playa. We'll be setting up a slideshow of these images (and many others) in coming days, but for now feel free to borrow fashion tips, transportation ideas and miscel ... More >>

  • Music

    September 13, 2007

    Breaking the Trance

    The unexpected Burning Man soundtrack

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2007

    The Burning Man Returns

    By Randall Roberts The Burning Man, which was prematurely torched by burner-assassin Paul Addis on Tuesday morning, has returned. This morning at about 11:30, a crane lifted what is now known as the Spawn of Burning Man into its rightful place at the center of Black Rock City. The soundtrack to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2007

    Sub Pop One Hummer

    By Randall Roberts He’s out there somewhere. I know it. He apparently comes every year. At least that’s what they tell me up in Seattle, where Bruce Pavitt, co-founder of Sub Pop Records, is some sort of minor legend. You know, Bruce Pavitt, the dude with the vision to uncover a few of the gr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2007

    Dance Into the Fire

    By Randall Roberts If it's true, as many haggard hipsters have dismissively opined, that 'Nobody goes to Burning Man anymore,' then who the hell are all these people? The unofficial verdict among many regular burners is that this year is going to be huge, and although population estimates are n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2007

    Burning Man Burns Early

    News Flash from the Playa: The Man Upstaged the Moon By Judith Lewis Here's the news. While the full eclipsed moon still floated above the Playa like a smooth orange balloon, the man went up in flames. In case you haven't been here, this typically happens on Saturday, at the end of the event. Not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2007

    Burning Man, Day One

    he ring of the bell is the first thing you hear once in range of the Burning Man Festival in bumfuck Nevada. Two of them, the size of logs, hang from poles at the front gate. The cars, RVs, trucks and buses crawl along the highway toward the entrance like ants to a watermelon. As you roll onto the d ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    May 3, 2007

    VC Filmfest 2007

    he ring of the bell is the first thing you hear once in range of the Burning Man Festival in bumfuck Nevada. Two of them, the size of logs, hang from poles at the front gate. The cars, RVs, trucks and buses crawl along the highway toward the entrance like ants to a watermelon. As you roll onto the d ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 14, 2006

    Raw Hides

    he ring of the bell is the first thing you hear once in range of the Burning Man Festival in bumfuck Nevada. Two of them, the size of logs, hang from poles at the front gate. The cars, RVs, trucks and buses crawl along the highway toward the entrance like ants to a watermelon. As you roll onto the d ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 7, 2006

    In With the Red Nosers

    he ring of the bell is the first thing you hear once in range of the Burning Man Festival in bumfuck Nevada. Two of them, the size of logs, hang from poles at the front gate. The cars, RVs, trucks and buses crawl along the highway toward the entrance like ants to a watermelon. As you roll onto the d ... More >>

  • News

    April 27, 2006

    5 Wonderful Things

    he ring of the bell is the first thing you hear once in range of the Burning Man Festival in bumfuck Nevada. Two of them, the size of logs, hang from poles at the front gate. The cars, RVs, trucks and buses crawl along the highway toward the entrance like ants to a watermelon. As you roll onto the d ... More >>

  • News

    April 20, 2006

    Suspended Storyteller

    Eric Newton

  • LA Life

    February 23, 2006

    Green and Bare It

    Biodiesel can be sexy

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2006

    5 Wonderful Things

    Biodiesel can be sexy

  • Music

    October 20, 2005

    Nightranger

    Biodiesel can be sexy

  • Columns

    September 29, 2005

    Übie and the Man

    Biodiesel can be sexy

  • News

    September 8, 2005

    Waiting for the End of the World

    Biodiesel can be sexy

  • LA Life

    June 16, 2005

    That Burning Man Feeling, Chitty Chitty, Mariachis and Tut’s Guts

    Biodiesel can be sexy

  • Music

    May 5, 2005

    Live at Coachella ’05

    After this, we promise we won’t even mention Coachella for a year

  • Columns

    September 9, 2004

    The Taming of the Burn

    After this, we promise we won’t even mention Coachella for a year

  • Music

    September 4, 2003

    Dandyland

    Polaroids from Silver Lake

  • Music

    May 8, 2003

    I Am So Sure

    Polaroids from Silver Lake

  • Art+Books

    March 27, 2003

    The Fourth World

    Frenetic leisure, acid archaeology and the new breed of travel writers

  • Columns

    September 19, 2002

    Good Samaritan: Clean It Forward

    Frenetic leisure, acid archaeology and the new breed of travel writers

  • News

    December 6, 2001

    Letters

    Frenetic leisure, acid archaeology and the new breed of travel writers

  • Columns

    September 13, 2001

    An Actor's Life: Send Out the Clowns

    Frenetic leisure, acid archaeology and the new breed of travel writers

  • Calendar

    July 12, 2001

    Cycling With Foxy

    Things I learned on high

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