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What Could Be: A Look At Australia’s Idiotic Lockout Laws
By Terry Gotham For the Aussie Burners, this is going to be old news, but I wanted to take some time to explain what’s occurred across Australia, as it relates to the continued specter of clamp-downs,...
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Support Plug-n-Play – it’s not what you think!
Legendary Burners Parts (Plug4) and Bacchus (Disorient, or as it is known this year, D16Orient) have teamed up to bring vinyl and old school beats back to the Inner Playa. Parts at Plug4 has teamed up...
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Shadow History Part 3: Satan’s Birthday Party
It’s been a long time coming. Part 4 has been recorded too, and will hopefully be out soon. There’s a lot of ground to cover establishing the When and Where, before we get to the Who. All clips,...
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Why We Burn: Orion Keyser
(I really need to interview DJs I’ve booked more often. I’ve been lucky enough to have Orion spin at a couple of things I’ve done, and not even because he’s been one of the main selectros in the...
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Building the Revolutionary Community (Again)
“Take a moment to drop in, and imagine the world that you want to co-create.” That’s the Burning Man 2.0 message, sent to me today by Social Alchemist Bear Kittay. He’s just given a talk – combined...
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Why We Burn: Jungle, Mayor of Kostume Kult
(Youth is wasted on the young, but is the playa wasted on the seasoned? Not according to Jungle. One of the most visible, Falstaffian leaders of Kostume Kult, I was honored to speak to him about Kamp...
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Hitler Lived On For Years in South America
This post is in response to a comment from Ed from the UK on my Debunking Douglas Dietrich post. Ed said: Just a quick note. Yes, Dietrich is a sloppy researcher, and no doubt a complete bullshit...
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Don’t Sneak In! 2016
We just received this tip-off from Anonymous Burner: from private gate FB group where people sneaking in to burning man are being discussed: Gate are really gunning for people trying to sneak in this...
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Best Alarm Clock Ever
SK8 camp are coming back to the Playa for the 6th year, bringing free skateboarding for everyone. Support their Kickstarter, let’s bring more stoke. Look out for them at 7 & Esplanade, Dustfish...
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Shadow History of Burners Part 4 – Occult Rituals of the Cult
How did Burning Man begin? Larry Harvey says “I don’t really remember” and “I’ve got all these stories I tell”. Only 2 of the current ruling group ever went to Burning Man on the beach. On Michael...
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Why We Burn: illexxandra
(As the last interview before most of us start heading out to that thing in the desert, I couldn’t be more proud to present this conversation. illexxandra is a Burning Man legend, with performances...
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Financial Times Sits Down For Shrimp With Larry
It’s a tough market these days, so the world’s canniest investors are turning to new sources of wisdom. Not Black Rock, the world’s largest asset manager with $4.7 trillion… but the Black Rock Desert,...
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How I Got Kicked Out of Burning Man Last Year
A guest post from Kevin O’Neill. How I Got Kicked Out of Burning Man By Kevin O’Neill I got kicked out of Burning Man last year. To this day, I can’t quite tell you what offense I committed heinous...
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It Started in SF as a Jazz Group and Now it’s a Religion
An epic performance from Sammy Davis, Jr from the 1969 movie Sweet Charity looks very much like a precursor to Burning Man. He is a preacher, singing about his new church which is sweeping the nation....
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Last Minute Medical Drama
Jenny Kane in the Reno Gazette Journal brings us news of some last minute tensions between Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen, who wants to use Humboldt General Hospital staff; and BMOrg, who are up...
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Hollywood’s Vacation for the Soul
Image: Hollywood Reporter Hollywood Reporter has a big article Burning Man Turns 30: The Joys Pitfalls and Drugs of Hollywood’s Vacation for the Soul I think it’s great to be celebrating Burning Man’s...
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2016: How To Deal With Cops At Burning Man
Some free advice from Mark Atwood, updated for this year. Last year there was a huge spike in arrests, including one for kidnapping. This is not legal advice, please consult an attorney to understand...
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There’s Pokemon But No Internet
It’s hard to know who to believe, these days. Mainstream media reporting in USA Today? Or YouTube video uploaded from the Playa? USA Today say Burning Man Pokemon Appear Most Elusive Yet. They say...
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2016: BRC Weekly
Piss Clear Weekly are back with another issue of Burning Man’s free paper. 2016 – Issue 7 Download PDF of External Pages Download PDF of Internal Pages From the makers of Piss Clear comes its...
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Radical Copter Reliance
Images: Facebook Thanks to Tex Allen from Why The Nose for sending this. Nice touch with the headdresses on the Playa Chickens – just to really stick it in, a MOOP and cultural appropriation double...
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