Quantcast
Channel: Burning Man – The Mercury News
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 24 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Burning Man cancels 2021 festival, sets sights on next year’s event

For the second consecutive year, Burning Man organizers have pulled the plug on the big in-person event in the Nevada desert due to concerns regarding the coronavirus pandemic. That means that...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Burning Man revelers returning from the desert with lifelong memories, and COVID

Burning Man’s annual gathering in the Nevada desert has never been easy on people’s lungs. The fine dust and sand coats every surface and enters every crevice, often causing respiratory symptoms...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

A (literally) fiery seafood restaurant opens in Richmond’s Point San Pablo...

The giant Burning Man sculptures at Richmond’s Point San Pablo Harbor have been awfully lonely since the departure of quirky Black Star Pirate BBQ last November. (The owners have since opened Baltic...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Tens of thousands at Burning Man told to conserve water and food after heavy...

(CNN) — Tens of thousands of people attending the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert are being told to conserve food, water and fuel as they shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert after a...

View Article

Burning Man flooding strands tens of thousands at Nevada site; authorities...

BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. (AP) — An unusual late-summer storm turned a week-long counterculture fest into a sloppy mess with tens of thousands of partygoers stuck in foot-deep mud and with no working...

View Article


Wait times to exit Burning Man drop after flooding left tens of thousands...

BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. (AP) — Wait times for tens of thousands of Burning Man partygoers trying to exit the mud-caked northern Nevada desert are beginning to decrease after flooded roads left them...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

13-year-old boy found drowned in Las Vegas floodwaters caused by heavy rain

LAS VEGAS — A 13-year-old boy drowned over the weekend in floodwaters amid a series of late-summer storms that drenched Las Vegas and caused widespread flooding throughout the desert valley. The...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

How the ultra-wealthy infiltrated anti-capitalist Burning Man

By Allison Morrow | CNN New York  — Burning Man, the desert confab that descended into chaos over the weekend, isn’t quite the scrappy, free-spirited revelry that it once was. For many watching the...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Burning Man survived a muddy quagmire. Will the experiment last 30 more years?

By SCOTT SONNER | Associated Press RENO, Nev.  — The blank canvass of desert wilderness in northern Nevada seemed the perfect place in 1992 for artistic anarchists to relocate their annual burning of a...

View Article


What does the future hold for Burning Man?

By Scott Sonner | Associated Press RENO, Nev. — The blank canvas of desert wilderness in northern Nevada seemed the perfect place in 1992 for artistic anarchists to relocate their annual burning of a...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 24 View Live




Latest Images