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Arrests, Citations Up
The new Pershing County Sheriff promised to get the arrest count up from last year, and he’s already delivered – 12 arrests and an unknown number of citations. At least one Burner has been reported...
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People Freaking Out Over FBI Surveillance of Burning Man
Image: Beverly & Pack/Flickr (Creative Commons) Earlier in the year, VICE news published a story When the DEA Went to Burning Man, Shit Got Redacted about the DEA’s activities at Burning Man, based...
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Red Rock City: Burn Night 2063
(This is a minor experiment on my part, instead of thinking about what is, I’ve decided to meditate a little bit on what can or will be. Let us know in the comments if you want to hear more about the...
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Daft Punk – Back Once Again
Image: Timothy Stoner | Facebook Just when you thought that the horse was dead and had been flogged beyond a bare semblance of a carcass…we get Daft Punk. At the trash fence. Burning Man 2015. Earlier...
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2015 Celebrity Sightings
Some Burners will go “who cares”…but if you type “Burning Man” into Google and set time to “past 24 hours” under Search Tools, you will see that this is the main story being discussed on the Internet...
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Quiznos Commodifies Burner Culture [Updates]
20th Century Fox has a new film coming out “Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials”. Quiznos makes sandwiches. Put two and two together, and what do you get? Burning Man 2.0. When the Shark ate the Subway....
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Methoxetamine: The “Legal” Dissociative That Is Stronger & More Dangerous Than K
by Terry Gotham Now that everyone is slowly filtering back into the default world, I wanted to mention a somewhat warped trend that the dance music community has been coping with for the last couple...
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2015 Crime Scorecard: Arrests Increased 600% [Update]
Cops at Burning Man, 2012. Image: Simon Pearce | Flickr (Creative Commons) New Sheriff Jerry Allen was reportedly going to crack down on crime at Burning Man this year. When the story hit the media, he...
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Burning Man Critics Miss The Point
Image: Peter Ruprecht A guest post from Daniel Souweine. What do you think, Burners? It’s been a week since Labor Day, so if you live in the Bay Area, that means your Burner friends are still giving...
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Suing For Your Supper [Update]
Thanks very much to Burner ShaggyDog for this guest post about some of the legal issues surrounding the recent Quiznos parody. The BMOrg has put out quite a bit of bluster regarding a certain ad for a...
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The Man Behind The Music
Image: IRDeep via Spin Spin magazine has an interview with Opulent Temple founder Syd Gris. Some highlights: The organizers behind Burning Man deny any affiliations of being a “music festival,” but,...
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Methylone: Proof The Market Decides, Not The Legality
c/o New York DanceSafe by Terry Gotham Continuing the series on “things your dealer cuts your drugs with,” this week I’m talking about Methylone. We’re a couple of years out from peak Methylone (circa...
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El Sherpo: Latina Labor Abuses At Plug-n-Plays
(NB: the Burner pictured is a full participant, not a sherpa in any way) A guest post by Buena Chica. This first appeared in the last edition of this year’s Black Rock Beacon. Everyone has their...
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Be Leery Of The Leary [Update]
There has been a lot of press this year about Susan Sarandon’s ceremonial procession to lead Timothy Leary’s ashes to the Totem of Confessions, where they were placed underneath the Masturbating Nun...
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Ketamine: Destroyer of Scenes, Savior of the Depressed
By Terry Gotham This week, I want to discuss a substance that has developed a huge global following and staunch defenders on both sides of the Atlantic. Ketamine has become one of the most used...
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Why We Burn: Ryan & Erika
(In an effort to bridge the gap between the coasts & inject some positivity around these parts, I’m going to be taking time to interview some of my favorite East Coast burners about the Burn &...
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Consent: Touching, Hugging & Progress On The Playa
By Terry Gotham No discussion of harm reduction can stay on drugs forever. While we’ll continue our cavalcade of questionable substances next week, I wanted to take a quick break to chat about...
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Why We Burn: Aaron & Honeybee
(After seeing the success of our first Why We Burn segment, I’m delighted to have spoken to Aaron & Honeybee. One a department head at a tech company here in NYC, the other a heart surgeon, they’re...
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Dabs, Wax & BHO: What The Kids Are Smoking These Days
Image via Buzzfeed At certain points in the history of drugs, there have been pivot points. Moments in time when the way a drug was consumed changed, altering the path of the habit for those that use...
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Radical Self Expression, Meet “No DickHeads”
Baron de Merxhausen just posted this on the Burning SEED Australia Facebook group. It’s interesting to see the Regionals struggling to get to grips with the Tin Principles That Are Just Guidelines,...
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