By GroundScore Your friendly Black Rock City neighborhood GroundScore here, to get you ready for playa-time by giving you the scoop on how to best prepare to have the most amazing experience this year at Burning Man. Want to have a copper dragon come by your camp and take you…
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By GroundScore Yes dear reader, I went to my third Burning Man in 2018 with absolutely nothing other than the clothes on my back and a duffle bag full of costumes. ‘Cause you know, priorities. This was actually an accidental happening. One that I would not recommend, but I’m here…
By Michael Moore The Burning Man organization knows it wants Black Rock City’s population to grow to 100,000, but it has yet to devise a plan to accommodate that expansion. Bmorg is in the process of applying for a 10-year Special Recreation Permit that would raise the city’s population cap…
By Curious When Norma Bacon (her Playa name) stumbled out of Rampart, BRC’s emergency hospital, on Friday of last year’s Burn, she was bewildered by a headline she saw on a nearby copy of the Wednesday Beacon: “Don’t K Me: Cops Used Ketamine in Self-Defense.” That story was about an…
Photo by Taymar By the fridge “The rumble of the two trains, faint and far off at first, but growing nearer and more distinct with each fleeting second, was like the gathering force of a cyclone. Nearer and nearer they came, the whistles of each blowing repeatedly.… As they approached…
By Ria Greiff Well, if you ever sat around and contemplated Burning Man in retrospect and wondered, “When will the Bmorg allow animals into Black Rock City?” your wait for that answer is officially over, because this year, there will be ruminant ungulates all over the goddamn Playa. And I…
By Charlie If you can’t drain the swamp, maybe you can fill it with Playa dust. The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in collaboration with The Burning Man Project, has brought “No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man” to Washington, DC, after a prior installation with the…
Photo by WeeGee [Editor’s note: The following is the Beacon’s contribution to the Global Celebration and Day of Gratitude for Larry Harvey] By Mrs. Lucky A fox knows many things, says the Greek poet, a hedgehog knows one big thing. Larry Harvey was a hedgehog. Alone among the promiscuously creative…
By Ria Greiff Like all good intentions, this column’s path went straight to hell. As your mensch in the trench, my goal was to offer a monthly column. Blame it on the chocolate, blame it on the green beer, but this item took two months to get here. So break…