How Hard Is It to Be a Participant at the Smithsonian’s “No Spectators” Exhibit?
The Mission Right now the Smithsonian is holding a major exhibit of “Burning Man art” called No Spectators. Everyone is ...Read More
Posts about Shenanigans
Let loose the pranksters! Fire up the jackassery! Bring out the snark!
Burning Man 2018 to Institute CAPTCHA Protocol at Gate
San Francisco, April 4 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fearing that too many ticket holders are in fact spambots, Burning Man ...Read More
What Gifting Teaches Us About The Holidays
(This is an old post that was lost in the great website upgrade and is being re-shared.) Everything I needed ...Read More
Hottest Year Ever
By Terbo Ted
The playa was so hot this year, everyone of every gender was manspreading. All week long, the highest I got ...Read More
The Triumph of Fun and Weird Over Sense and Efficiency
After 30 years, someone turned the difficulty level up. Burners who have been here for decades and never had a ...Read More
All of the Reasons Burning Man Was Canceled, According to People Who Have Never Been
By Anselm Engle
“Burning Man? Is that still going?” Yes, believe it or not, Burning Man is still going. Don’t get me wrong ...Read More
The “Crime Wave” at the GLC Was Exaggerated: There Is No Black Rock City Crime Syndicate
Look, I’m not going to deny that something weird was going on at Burning Man's Global Leadership Conference (GLC). I ...Read More
A Story About Fear
A young woman who had moved to the city and learned the art of sculpting from the last legendary survivors ...Read More
A Brief History of Who Ruined Burning Man
In 1986, at the very first Burn, a crowd of complete strangers gathered around the Man once it was lit it ...Read More