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The Black Rock Beacon Newspaper
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Black Rock Beacon Archive
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Feeding the Masses
By Lonestoner
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(July 20, 2008) -- Thinking of feeding the Playa people this year? Is it your "American Dream" to impress your fellow Burners with your
culinary prowess? Do you want to be the proud chef of the finest eating establishment in Black Rock City? Or maybe you just want to provide
a place for dirty hippies with the munchies and danced-out, half-starved ravers to wash down a grilled cheese sandwich....
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FED EX: Absolutely, Positively WTF?
By Pamela Lane
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(July 20, 2008) -- It’s been said that "for one week every year Black Rock City is the fifth largest city
in Nevada. You can even get Fed Ex deliveries there." The fifth largest city claim is exaggerated, and the
Fed Ex thing is debateable.
On Monday of BRC in 2007 soon after arriving on playa, I realized that I forgotten my bioidentical hormone
replacement capsules....
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After the Deluge
By Deb Prothero
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(January 28, 2008) -- Most Burners know Fernley, Nevada, as the final gateway to Black Rock country, the last place
to fuel up the car and the stomach before entering the high desert. For most of us, it is a place of summer, but in
the predawn hours of Jan. 5, residents were forced to flee their homes when a levee broke on a 31-mile irrigation canal,
releasing a flood of icy wintertime water that covered parts of the city to a depth of at least three feet....
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How to Unmuck a Flooded Town
By Deb Prothero
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(January 28, 2008) -- Tom Price of Burners Without Borders says the group knows a thing or two about helping
people recover from a flood, thanks to its experience with Hurricane Katrina. Some tips....
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Urban Planning
By Mitch
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(Oct 13, 2007) -- Show Burners an aerial photo of Black Rock City, and you can expect a wave of
nostalgia -- or anticipation, depending on the time of year -- to wash over them. But have you ever
wondered why the city has its distinctive C-shape? ....
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Mutaytor Changes Its Mind
By Pulpracer
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(Aug 15, 2007) -- After uncertainty with the arrest and departure of its founding member Matty Nash, The Mutaytor, Black Rock City’s own house
band, is planning a return to the Playa in 2007.....
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The Thinking Burner’s LNT
By Howeird
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(Aug 15, 2007) -- Without stating the bleeding obvious, LNT stands for Leave No Trace. Enough said, I say. However here are
some LNT practices to consider: .....
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Burning Man: This Place Sucks
and I Want to Go Home!
By Doxie
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(Aug 14, 2007; penned after BM 2006) -- I just spent the last seven days of my life living in harsh desert conditions, eating a quarter of
the food I normally do -- and for a hypoglycemic that is a huge feat -- showering only twice in seven days and
not brushing my hair even once.....
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(June 9, 2007) -- "To the newcomer, welcome. You are the most important person on the Playa. You won't get your virgin ass whacked on the
way in to embarrass you. It's just so we can get to know you better.
If you want a list of Do's and Don't's....
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Bacon in Bacon
By Deb Prothero
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(May 21, 2007) -- There is no Bacon in Bacon, Indiana. This reporter travelled 200 miles out of the way enroute to Burning Man on an
intrepid search for Bacon from BACON....
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Premature Ejection May Affect
Hundreds Of Early Birds
By Howard Jones
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(Aug 23, 2006) -- An Black Rock City brouhaha is brewing this weekend, as hundreds of Theme Camp setup crews are due to arrive Saturday and Sunday.
Vehicles may be denied early entry to the city if even ONE occupant is not on the Early Arrival list, which closed for entries several weeks ago....
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Flames Have Consequences --
Cool It Forward
By Deb Prothero
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(Aug 20, 2006) -- Burning Man volunteers face “An Inconvenient Truth.” Flames have consequences! Like 100 tons of greenhouse
gases just for burning the Man.
But have no FEAR – there is HOPE, Burners Without Borders, www.burnerswithoutborders.org
and www.coolingman.org
have teamed up with a plan to offset the climate change impact of our annual firefest....
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(Aug 20, 2006) -- "Try to make everything perfect." Possibly my favorite BM sign of all time. Scribbled with black marker on a
piece of cardboard, attached to a fence post on the morning of the burn sometime in the late 1990s. Most camps were already
trashed by days of 40-knot dust storms, but at least one person had HOPE. I laughed so hard I thought my sarong would never
dry. Cue rimshot....
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An Appreciation
By Pathcrosser the Sidhe
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(Aug 20, 2006) -- Six people were killed and two hospitalized with gunshot wounds in a early morning killing spree by a lone gunman
during an after-party on March 26 following an all-night theme party in Seattle....
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Hail to the Man
By Mitch
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(Aug 1, 2006) -- It's not that Larry Harvey
wants to take over the world. It's just that he wants it to be run by Burners. In a lengthy telephone
interview from his home in San Francisco last month, the Burning Man founder laid out a blueprint for the
expansion of the Burner community into mainstream culture....
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Flames and Beats
By Tony Tohono
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(July 2, 2006) --
There were forecasts of heavy rain, and, indeed,
several interludes of fire's dreaded adversary
showered the event, but in the end the third annual
FireDrums went on, more intimate for the threat of a
deluge.
Perhaps the rain kept the spectators away. Last year,
there seemed to be a lot of people who were there more
for the party. This time, it was all about fire and
the drumming....
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Driving a Hard Bargain
By Mitch
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(July 2, 2006) --
If you post it, they will come. In March, El Monte RV
Inc. quietly opened a satellite office in Reno and
started taking bookings for recreational vehicles on
its website. Even though it was charging roughly
double the rate....
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Supracompression Rocks London
By Wanda
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(May 7, 2006) -- For Burners in and around Britain, it was costumes ’a
go-go’ at Supacompression, an event organized by the
Euroburners in London on May 6.
Visually, it was a real treat. Overall, the atmosphere
and great friendliness made the night a success....
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Only in America
By Mitch
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(February 26, 2006) -- For all the brouhaha on
Tribe
and
ePlaya
last year, by the time the Discovery Times Channel
presented its Burning Man television documentary in
January, it was anti-climactic. It was not – as some
Burners had feared -- a sell-out, it probably will not
encourage a boatload of tourists to show up this
August, and it did not provide any event-threatening
revelations....
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Art Appreciation 2005
By Tony Tohono
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Wednesday night I was invited on an art appreciation
walk. I arrived at my friend Tracy’s camp sometime
after dark, and she introduced me to most of her
friends as they congregated in the main camp area.....
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Playa Con Dios
By Howeird
GERLACH, Nevada (August 4, 2005) -- According to the locals, our beloved Playa is in the best shape it has been in since 1997, when a jet-propelled
car called ThrustSSC broke the sound barrier there on October 15th and set an new world land speed record of
763 miles per hour....
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Announcing the Black Rock Beacon
BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada (June 20, 2005) -- From the
dust of playa papers past comes the Black Rock Beacon,
a new daily publication for the Burning Man community.
Our gift is an independent source of news and
information to brighten the week in Black Rock City
and a website to keep people up-to-date on Burning Man
happenings the year round....
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Smile High:
Fundraising Post-Haste
By Gothalot
What, you thought the Black Rock City Post Office just
ran on bribes? Those insatiable postalites may never
get enough playa schwag, but like any other theme camp
they need cold, hard cash to provide their disservices
to our fair municipality....
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Forming a Nonprofit Organization on a Shoestring
By Smaze
In April 2005, the the Burning Man organization
dropped a bomb on the staff of the Black Rock Gazette,
which had chronicled the goings-on in Black Rock City
for a dozen years. Funding for the five or six
on-playa issues of our daily newspaper was cut to
zero, leaving only a prefabricated “Gate Edition” that
is handed to every person arriving for the festival.
The official word was that there would be no official
newspaper for the yearly desert experiment in art,
community, and radical self-expression. But many of
those who had produced that newspaper still had some
radical self-expression left in them and so The Black
Rock Beacon was born....
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Burning in the Rain:
The Portland Region’s First Soak
By Jason
Soak, the first regional Burn in the Portland area, was held on the Central coast of Oregon near Waldport over the first weekend of
June. It took place on 80 acres of beautiful landscape containing a lake, sweat lodge, playground, orchard, and many other attributes....
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