Creating the Black Rock City Café
By Rod Garrett
[This post is part of the Metropol Blog Series.] Early in 2000, a young restauranteur presented an idea for a ...Read More
Posts about Building BRC
Follow the stories of building an annual desert metropolis.
Designing Black Rock City
By Rod Garrett
[Editor's Note: Rod Garrett's essay Designing Black Rock City, originally written for the Burning Man website, provides a comprehensive history ...Read More
The City of Burning Man
By Rod Garrett
[This post is part of the Metropol Blog Series.] We might view Black Rock City as a great machine, efficiently ...Read More
Road Tripped
[Tony "Coyote" Perez first set foot in Black Rock City in 1996, where he immediately went to work, ultimately becoming ...Read More
Welcome to Metropol – The Story of a City
By Larry Harvey
[This post is part of the Metropol Blog Series.] According to my dictionary, a bohemian is “a creative person, as ...Read More
Make it real
By John Curley
Take your plans and make them real. For a lot of Burners, it's a yearlong task. You plot and plan ...Read More
Company’s coming
By John Curley
It was the day before the gates would open, and all through the city, people were getting ready for the ...Read More
The State of the ART
By Moze
Three days before the event begins, I am most pleased to report to you that this year’s ART is sprouting ...Read More
Back to the garden
By John Curley
Maybe we have time today for a personal anecdote. There are only a couple of days before it all changes ...Read More