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2013: Let’s Be Careful Out There!
This is a repost of something we wrote before last year’s Burn. Has anything changed since then? Well, we’ve had a big K9 bust of what seemed to be some relatively sizeable dealers. We heard about...
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Eat Well and Be Merry
Burner Stephanie Hua has written a great piece on BAB about food preparations for a week on the Playa. Bay Area Bites is local TV station KQED’s public media food blog. Stephanie wrote about Burning...
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Interactive Music Guide
Stagedom has produced an interactive music guide to Burning Man 2013. It’s pretty comprehensive, and sorted by day and time. You can click through to any artist to read their profile, listen to their...
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Highway Update!
by Whatsblem the Pro NV State Route 447 in June of this year — PHOTO: Ralph Minnitte A lot of burners have been worried about the condition of Nevada State Route 447 since the recent heavy rains washed...
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Skysquid’s Tips
Thanks to Burner Skysquid, firstly for hosting and facilitating so many amazing Burning Man art projects like those from Peter Hudson and Marco Cochrane in his Treasure Island warehouses; and also for...
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Disneyfication, Anyone?
This is a guest post from Burner Jill Marlene, picking up on some of our previous posts about the ever-growing divide between Burning Man (the Organization) and the artists who create the 1000+ theme...
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Get Yer Apps Here!
Time to Burn! Smart phones are on the Playa, Giant iPhones, Giant Facebook LIke Thumbs Up - a symbol of the Caesars, when Christians, slaves, political dissidents were thrown to the lions for sport,...
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Rockstar Librarian 2013 Music Guide is Released
Get it here and print it yourself: 20-page mini-booklet 40-page guide Time To Burn app (Android) Time To Burn app (Apple) Printing suggestion: You may have different setting on your printer, but here...
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Drone Alert
Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a UFO? Is it a skydiver? Most likely, these days, it’s a drone. From the Atlantic: Just one week to go until Burning Man 2013, the massive annual...
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Burner Service Announcement #4 – Safety Tips
This one’s pretty good. These guys are really putting a lot of thought and effort into this. Filed under: Funny Tagged: 2013, cops, drugs, event, festival, funny, ideas, Party, playa love, virgin
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The Poor Man’s Burning Man 4: The Shower of Tower
by Whatsblem the Pro The weather cowers as the Control Tower rises. Flee, puny humans! PHOTO: Alan Macy The International Arts Megacrew has been out on the playa for over a week now, setting up camp...
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Busting Man: RIOT Calls for General Strike at Burning Man
by Whatsblem the Pro The Critical Snitch Parade? — PHOTO: Getty Images In the wake of what seems to be the beginning of a serious police crackdown on Burning Man, rumors of a general strike have been...
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BRC Weekly 2013
Black Rock City’s amusing and informative broadsheet Piss Clear is now known as BRC Weekly. They’ll be bringing 25,000 hard copies out to the Playa this year, great to read over a paid coffee at...
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I-80 Alert! Sinkhole in Truckee Forces Lane Closures
by Whatsblem the Pro Expect delays on I-80 through Truckee – PHOTO: Samuel Gonzalez/KCRA Caltrans reports that a sinkhole has developed in the center median on Interstate 80 in the Truckee area, near...
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Kentucky Fried Camp’s Packed U-Haul Stolen in the East Bay
by Whatsblem the Pro The missing truck bears this design, #107 in U-Haul’s “Venture Across America” series Kentucky Fried Camp, a group of mostly Kentuckians and San Franciscans originally from...
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Pershing County Cops and Federal Agents: Integrated and Synchronized
Welcome to our new post-PRISM world of high tech, syncrhonized, integrated LEOs. The word coming from the Playa is that the cops are cracking down hard on Burning Man this year – so hard that some of...
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Know Your Enemy
by Whatsblem the Pro They say that knowledge is power, and that you should keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. For your empowerment, Burners.me presents the specific rules in use on the...
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Cargo Cult Continues
Poolside at the Grand Sierra watching Brass Tax. Shower, massage, room service, and a 12 hour sleep made the world of difference. We left on burn night, after Lucent Dossier killed it (to thunderous...
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Airlifting in the Challah
Our compendium of Cargo Cult cyberspace coverage begins with this gem from Bloomberg – who seem to be having a bit of a love affair with Burning Man at the moment. Maybe last year’s Burn Wall Street...
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Cargo Tunes
They’re starting to come out Here’s Hernan Cattaneo at White Ocean Vitamin Devo Phoenix sunrise Beli3ver DJ Tommy T AppleCat Isaiah Martin Peter Hirshberg Playa Skool Art Car Parade Swami Harami...
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