Burning Man

Five Things EDM Can Learn from Burning Man

EDM festivals continue to expand, with more weekends, bigger acts, and huge crowds. But are they getting better? Ticket prices are more expensive, sound quality isn't always great, and there are way too many bros. Though Burning Man is expanding itself and certainly not immune to these hazards, the ... More >>

The Best of Burning Man 2013

Another gritty and glorious Burning Man came and went last weekend in the lovely-yet-hostile stretch of desert dubbed Black Rock City. Just miles north of Gerlach, Nevada 61,000 attendees from all over the world came together to feel the playa love, get dusty and build a temporary metropolis. Here ... More >>

The Worst of Burning Man 2013

The 27th annual Burning Man came to a close Monday with thousands of camps, art carts and stages broken down and packed away in moving trucks. In just a few days the temporary city of Black Rock, inhabited by more than 60,000 people, disappeared like a mirage in the desert. And while we love Burni ... More >>

New Documentary Captures Burning Man in Time of Crisis

Burning Man is happening at this very moment out in the Black Rock desert of northern Nevada. You can catch our coverage starting next Tuesday, a week from today, and also noteworthy is the just-released documentary Spark, which chronicles Burning Man 2012 and the year leading up to it . It's told ... More >>

Burning Man Expects Nearly 70,000, Gets New Federal Permit

Nevada's Burning Man has had its battles over permits, fees and capacity. So far it seems to be winning. L.A.'s favorite desert party has been approved by federal authorities for four more years contingent on a few terms. Not only that, it has a new, government-approved capacity that organizers onc ... More >>

Circus of Sensuality

Burning Man Fans Not Stinky Hippies But Rather Educated And Even Republican

Burning Man is L.A.'s favorite party. And everyone knows a burner is a stinky hippie who washes with bong water and raves to 1999 break-beat trance. Wait, what? The latest Burning Man "Afterburn Report" of attendee demographics was released this week. And guess what? Burners are surprisingly cosmo ... More >>

Burning Man Decompression Is Just Like Burning Man, Minus the 12-Hour Drive and $390 Fee

Thumping EDM? Check. Lasers? Check. Fishnets and booty shorts? Check. Now that we've got that out of the way, we can get on with what the more ambitious scope of the L.A. Burning Man community's goals, achieved through its big fat Decompression event, which was held at Los Angeles State Historic Pa ... More >>

Burning Man: Guess How Many Times Some Rando Creeper Told Me He 'Loved My Energy' While Rubbing My Hand?

See also: *15 Burning Man GIFs That'll Make You Wanna Go Next Year *Genital Portrait Studio: The Five Silliest Burning Man Camp Names Most local RV rental spots have a "Burning Man clause" in their contracts, which is how I found myself, along with a bag of bike tubes, coconut water and some of the ... More >>

Burning Man Arrests Are Mellow in 2012

Arrests outside this year's Burning Man festival near Black Rock, Nevada were pretty tame considering the psychedelic action within. The party ended last week but the stats are now just trickling in. They include four felony drug arrests for unknown substances, Washoe County Sheriff's Deputy Armand ... More >>

15 Burning Man GIFs That'll Make You Wanna Go Next Year

By Josh "CuriousJosh" Reiss Editor's Note: Maybe you didn't make the trek out to the the playa for Burning Man this year. Maybe you had even vowed that you never, ever would. We got ace photographer CuriousJosh to bring us back these amazing GIFs from Burning Man in hopes of changing your mind. ... More >>

Burning Man Getting Smoked Out by California Wildfires? Reports Overblown ...

Burning Man attendees are used to getting stinky, dirty and even smokey as the eponymous hombre is eventually torched. But this year their lungs might be exposed to a different kind of smoke, and not the good kind either. As the annual festival in Black Rock, Nevada opened this week, two major blaz ... More >>

We're All Going to Die: How to Pack For the Most Intense Burning Man Yet

Illustrations by Jena Ardell See also: *Why I'll Never Go To Burning Man *Genital Portrait Studio: The Five Silliest Burning Man Camp Names Unlike some festivals, you can't just casually roll up to Burning Man with only a bottle of Jack and a spirit hoodie. Prepping for a week in the desert is onl ... More >>

Genital Portrait Studio: The Five Silliest Burning Man Camp Names

See also: Why I'll Never Go To Burning Man Burning Man 2012 kicks off on Monday, and unlike our intrepid colleague Nicholas, we are headed to the Playa and looking forward to it. In fact Jack Rabbit, the festival's official newsletter, has been hitting our inbox since February, informing the nearly ... More >>

Why I'll Never Go To Burning Man

It's about that time of the year again, when IT department heads and quality control experts shake off the shackles of their workaday lives, drop acid and hopefully get busy with multiple, anonymous partners. That's right kids, Monday brings us the Grand Poobah of all summer festivals, Burning Man, ... More >>

L.A. Will Now Treat Scalpers Like Gang Members

That guy with the cardboard sign yelling "Tickets!" is on par with a gangbanger. At least that's the message City Attorney Carmen Trutanich sent with an announcement yesterday that Los Angeles will institute the nation's first-ever scalper injunction. What that means is that "known scalpers" -- 17 o ... More >>

Oksana Marafioti

Burning Man Expands to 60,900 Stinky People

Burning Man can now have 10,000 more stinky, naked hippies than it was allowed to have last year. That means there will be a few more parking spaces in Venice as people head to the the Black Rock Desert Playa north of Gerlach, Nevada for this year's festival Aug. 27 through Sept. 3. But seriously, ... More >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Good Vibrations

Where Desperate Men Go to Fry

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 >>

Baby Ain't Got Back (Yet)

Mike Kelley and Baby Ikki wander the desert of the real

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 >>

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 >>

Circus of the Bizarre

Martin Landsky Lands in L.A.

Breaking the Trance

The unexpected Burning Man soundtrack

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Raw Hides

In With the Red Nosers

Green and Bare It

Biodiesel can be sexy

5 Wonderful Things

Übie and the Man

Waiting for the End of the World

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

The Taming of the Burn

Good Samaritan: Clean It Forward

Letters

An Actor's Life: Send Out the Clowns

Cycling With Foxy

Things I learned on high