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September 17, 2004
Logan Herald Journal
Slightly
Off Center: Please! Don't send in the clowns
Humor is tragedy plus time and distance.
While the following may be funny to some right now, it is going
to take some time before it's funny to me. On the evening of Sept.
4, I got bike jacked by a clown in western Nevada. That's a National
Inquirer headline by itself, right?
CBC Radio
Give
It Away Now - Burning Man's Gift Economy
Out here in the lifeless dust of an alkaline
lakebed, there's nothing for the taking. But all that changes
during the annual Burning Man arts festival. People bring stuff
you'd never expect to see in the desert. Some of it you might
not see anywhere else. And they bring it to give it all away.
September 11, 2004
La Presse
Le
monde étrange de Burning Man: Bienvenue à Black
Rock City
Les baby-boomers américains ont eu Woodstock ; leurs enfants
ont Burning Man. Le plus gros party de la planète a lieu
chaque année au milieu de nulle part, entre la poussière
du désert, les peintures phosphorescentes et le whisky
épicé. Si vous voulez rompre radicalement avec votre
train-train urbain, vous serez chez vous à Black Rock City,
une ville temporaire où presque tout est permis, et rien
n'est prévisible.
BBC
In pictures: 'Burning Man' goes political
This is Burning Man - the counterculture
arts gathering of self-reliant souls who for a week every year
meet in a Nevada desert to rebuild a sense of community many feel
has been lost, while riding unfeasible bicycle contraptions and
attending kissing classes. And this year, it had a political edge.
September 10, 2004
LA Weekly
A
Considerable Town: The Taming of the Burn
At Esplanade and 5 o’clock —
a prime address by Burning Man standards — a silver-haired,
ruddy-faced young man in old-fashioned service-station coveralls
beckoned women beautiful and unbeautiful off the playa with a
friendly but insistent pitch: “We’re gAsso, your full-service
ass station on the playa.”
September 9, 2004
Colfax Record
Colfax
artist brings planets to life: ‘Terrasphere’ project
shown off at Burning Man festival
Colfax’s resident artist Jim Bowers
has been at it again, this time displaying his latest creation
for up to 35,000 people to view. “The Terrasphere,”
an interactive viewing of the ten planets in the solar system,
was conceptualized by Bowers and designed with help from a group
of about 60 artists known as The Tribe.
September 6, 2004
San Francisco Chronicle
The
Burning (Man) Question - At 19, is Burning down the Man getting
old?
Festival of art and chaos undergoing an identity crisis
Gerlach, Nev. -- As thousands of dust-covered,
partied-out people began streaming out of the Burning Man festival
Sunday, many were thinking past their hangovers. The event was
bigger and more spectacular than ever. But was it a rave, a debauch,
an art festival or an experiment in community living?
Detroit Free Press
BONFIRES
OF POSSIBILITIES: At Burning Man fest, art meets a carnival amid
visions of a better world
BLACK ROCK, Nev. - While most Americans
circle around holiday picnics today, more than 30,000 Americans,
including about 200 from Michigan, have formed a far more exotic
circle in a bleak expanse of desert that looks like it might be
the end of the world.
The Edmonton Journal
False
idols stoke their passion - Crowd sifts ashes, hoping to find
seeds of a new human age
BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada - Sunday morning
in the Black Rock Desert, hundreds of weary burners sifted through
the charred and fragrant remains of the man, hunting for ritual
objects.
The Associated Press
Burning
Man draws big crowd
BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. -- As jugglers
danced with spirals of fire, cars belched flames and hypnotic
drums echoed through the night, more than 35,000 costumed revelers
ritually burned a 40-foot neon and wooden icon of a man deep in
the Nevada desert.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
'Ritual
and party all in one' at Burning Man
BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev. -- A terrasphere
made of four facing satellite dishes seems to beam and communicate
with itself, stories about the universe flash on the ceiling of
a dome, a Milky Way installation seems to float and rotate (the
wrong way, mind you) in mid air. The northeastern Nevada desert
was dotted with lighted art installations, most in keeping with
this year's theme for the Burning Man arts festival, the "Vault
of Heaven."
September 5, 2004
Associated Press
Heaven's
gate meets Dante's Inferno at Burning Man
BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. -- Bhak Tivedanta
created an orange blob that literally and figuratively sucks in
spectators at this year's Burning Man, lifting them out of the
audience and onto the stage to become part of the amoeba-like
creature.
San Francisco Chronicle
Burning
Man at its hottest - Festival of art, anarchy draws record crowd
of boundary breakers
Gerlach, Nev. - The circular, spaceship-like
vehicle buzzed across the desert surface, stopped at a crowd of
wildly dressed people, and suddenly whirled on its axis, faster
and faster like a spinning disk, its occupants laughing wildly.
Associated Press
"Burning
Man' faces more regulation
BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. -- There aren't
many options for getting around Black Rock City, perhaps the world's
most fantastic and illusionary urban setting. The vanishing city
appears and disappears in a week on seven square miles of long-dry
lake bed in one of the flattest and most remote places in America.
September 4, 2004
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
''Burning
Man' storms into Nevada desert
BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev. -- In this flat
and windy stretch of desert, roughly three hours northeast of
Reno, a vast expanse of prehistoric lakebed has been turned into
a makeshift city of art and light and celebration.
Seattle Post Intelligencer
A
moment with ... Erika Harris, Burning Man Participant
Despite the Nevada desert's unforgiving
climate, Burning Man participants show up in large groups for
belly-dancing classes at Groovig, a dance camp at the annual arts
festival. Groovig creator Erika Harris, 33, a Seattle environmental
planner and dance enthusiast, tells us why she's bringing belly
dancing and the Lindy Hop to a place that's a scorchin' 100 degrees
by noon.
September 3, 2004
Wired Online
Slice
of Heaven in the Desert
BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada - Burning Man,
the annual countercultural art festival held in Nevada's Black
Rock Desert, is under way this week. As in previous years, though,
no matter the theme -- this year it's the Vault of Heaven -- fire
is king. At night, huge plumes of flame can and do come from any
direction at any time.
Associated Press
Burning
Man organizers expect largest crowd ever
The man himself is slightly taller and
the crowd is expected to be the biggest ever at the Burning Man
festival running through the weekend in the desert 120 miles north
of Reno. More than 30,000 people attended last year's counterculture
event. Festival organizers say they already had sold more tickets
than that as of Thursday, but they refuse to disclose the total.
September 2, 2004
Associated Press
Burning
Man sets sights on permanent Nevada location
BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. (AP) -- Burning
Man started as a vanishing flight of fancy on a San Francisco
beach, an artwork that literally disappeared in a puff of smoke
when artists torched an eight-foot wooden figure 18 years ago.
September 1, 2004
Edmonton Journal
Pagan
sacrifice in the Nevada desert - but what does it mean?
BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. - The underground
is not deep. From basement conception to unprecedented genius
to sales rack at Wal-Mart, it takes about five years for North
America to commodify and devour any meaningful artifact of its
counterculture.
August 31 ,2004
KNRV
Paramedics
prepare for harsh conditions during counterculture event in Black
Rock Desert
The counter-culture festival known as
"Burning Man" kicks off Tuesday in the Black Rock Desert.
The week-long event will end with the burning of a wooden structure
in the shape of a man. Paramedics are also heading up to the desert.
Eric Guevin, REMSA's Director of Community Relations, says they
handle thousands of emergencies every year, mostly because people
aren't prepared for the hot days and cold nights.
August 30, 2004
San Francisco Chronicle
Baby
Burners - Yep, parents are bringing the kids to the desert bacchanal
Burning Man, infamous for its drug-fueled
debauchery in the wind- whipped Nevada desert, may seem like the
last place to haul the kids for a family vacation.
August 28, 2004
Reno Gazette-Journal
Reno
man finishes his Burning Man project
The first nuts and bolts were pounded
into the flatbed truck under 94 degree temperatures. As perspiration
began building on his nose and soaked his T-shirt, Patrick Lutsch
began to wonder if he could sneak away.
August 27, 2004
Reno Gazette-Journal
Throwers,
spinners turn flames into art - Reno group to perform at Burning
Man
Every Wednesday night about 8:30, fire
lights the skies and the parking lot at John Champion Memorial
Park near where Second Street turns into Kuenzli Street, just
south of the Truckee River. For the past four years, a group called
Reno Control Burn regularly flocks to the park to throw flames
from propane tanks, spin chains with wicks that are dipped into
white gas and then lit. They dance to a group of drummers beating
out primitive rhythms.
Oakland Tribune
Berkeley
artist's work serves as Burning Man's jungle gym
BERKELEY - MICHAEL CHRISTIAN'S most recent
large-scale artwork is perhaps best appreciated while on top of
it. On top of it, inside it or shaking it from below while watching
other white-knuckle climbers hold on in the Nevada desert, where
such things are not only possible but the norm this time of year
at the Burning Man festival.
August 26, 2004
Reno Gazette-Journal
Golden
Phoenix embracing Burning Man - Room special: ‘Burners’
offered a deal on way to and from counter-culture desert event
In what is believed to be the first direct
marketing to Burning Man festival goers by a Reno-Sparks area
casino resort, downtown Reno’s Golden Phoenix Hotel &
Casino is offering weekday rates of $19.95 for registered “Burners”
on their way to or from the Black Rock Desert.
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