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Victory for the Little Guy! [Updates]
Over the last couple of years, we’ve been following with keen interest a lawsuit in Canada. The plaintiff was Decommodification, LLC – a private company the founders set up, which owns all the...
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Ten Questions With Terry Gotham: Brad Burge – MAPS
(Interviewing the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies has been a dream of mine for years. I’m honored to present this conversation with their Director of Communications &...
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Who Won, Who Lost, What’s Fact, and What’s Propaganda? – Decommodification...
Recently we posted a story Victory For The Little Guy, about BMOrg’s failure in its personal pursuit of Napalm Dragon in Canada. One of our readers Anon said: “It would be helpful to provide links to...
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New Details of Man and Base
This year’s Turning Man is going to spin end to end. Bells are going to ring out every hour, and then the Man will be rotated like clockwork. The area around the base is going to be used for skills...
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Big Burner Bucks in the Biggest Little Tax Haven
A miniature Burning Man statue and an American flag greet travelers arriving at Reno airport; their busiest time of year is during Burning Man Tax is the big story in the Burning Man world right now....
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LSD Research: Where We Are In 2016
by Terry Gotham Since the interview with MAPS went over so well, I figured I’d keep the hype train about psychedelics research going. Over the last couple of years, really great thing have happened...
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Art Cars: Now Chosen by Curators
Image: M & R Photography, Flickr (Creative Commons) Over at eplaya, Trilobyte has posted the new rules for Mutant Vehicles. Have a cool art car? That’s no longer enough. In order to bring it, the...
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Doofnado [Update]
This past weekend Australia hosted the country’s oldest and best bush doof (outdoor dance party): Earthcore. Despite being nearly 10,000 miles away from the Playa, revellers at “Australia’s answer to...
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Tickets 2016: What’s the Latest? [Update]
Remember back a couple of months ago, in December 2016? BMOrg needed us to send money. They were fighting against the Burning Man Tax. They’d bring us an update in mid-January. And then in...
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Burning Man Tickets: $1500 [Updates]
Image: Thomas Tomaso, Facebook The shenanigans have ended. As we predicted, once the dust has settled from all the propaganda histrionics, BMOrg have raised ticket prices yet again. The 9% Live...
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Partying & Your Heart: A Primer On Drugs And Cardiovascular Health
By Terry Gotham Since we’re not getting any younger, cardiovascular issues will continue affect the Burner population in increasing numbers. Considering Burners also party like rockstars, in one of...
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Why We Burn: Isabeau Vidal, Kostume Kult Camp Lead
(This interview is years in the making. This camp is responsible for some of the wildest nights I’ve had in NYC, and always took care of me on playa. Kostume Kult is a massive undertaking. One of the...
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Another Senior BM Exec Resigns
This time it’s Propaganda Minister Will Chase, who has worked for BMOrg for the last 13 years. Says Maid Marian at the BJ: After 13 productive years working on Burning Man’s technology, art, and...
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Walking the Talk – New “Democratic” Process for Art Grants
BMOrg are introducing a “democratic” grant process for funding art grants, something the community has long been demanding. They have some funny ideas about participatory democracy, though. Attendees...
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GHB: Interactions, Advice & A Touch of Sanity
By Terry Gotham Every time issues of consent come up on the playa or in the regional Burner community, “date rape” drugs such as GHB are inevitably mentioned. To help people make smart choices both...
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Burning Man 2015: By The Numbers
SR-71 Blackbird using Afterburner. Image: Wikimedia Commons BMOrg have just released the Afterburn Report for 2015. Some information that used to be provided, is now hidden. Here are some of the key...
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Burning Man 2015 By The Numbers Part 2 – Census Highlights
Along with the 2015 Afterburn report, BMOrg released the results of their 2015 Census. I’ve had a chance now to go through this in a bit more detail. Some highlights: There are a lot of dudes (60%)...
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Life Cube Gonna Burn in Vegas
2014 Life Cube in Vegas. Image: Aluminarium Scott Cohen asked us to share this. It’s official. The Life Cube Project will be coming back to Las Vegas. The metal and glass Life Cube will be coming from...
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Ambien: Side Effects Include WHAT?
Cartoons by Toothpaste for Dinner: http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/ By Terry Gotham A lifetime ago, I worked in a Sleep Lab at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. We looked at the...
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Anti-Burner Judge Gets Spanked by Appeals Circuit for the SEVENTH Time
Burning Man announced today they won their appeal. Burners were left scratching their heads, without Propaganda Czar Will Chase there to put the usual spin on things. What does it all mean? Who’s suing...
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