MEDIA COVERAGE

All links last checked on January 31, 2008. For additions, email press(at)burningman(dot)com

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2005

• Burning Man applies to BLM for multi-year permit
  Channel 4 KRNV, December 14, 2005
• Bellingham friends travel to help out after New Orleans, Pakistan disasters (Link no longer active)
  The Bellingham Herald, Mary Lane Gallagher, December 13, 2005
• He died pushing the limits of art, and life
  Boston Globe, Sally Jacobs, December 11, 2005
• Children of Prometheus
  The Daily Iowan, Ali Gowans, December 8, 2005
• Open-source sprints for five days
  Stanford Daily, Melissa Fusco , November 15, 2005

  "Rob Miller, who masterminded Plone’s use as a collaboration tool for Burning Man"

• Subverting Christmas
  Time, Clayton Neuman, November 14, 2005
• The hottest artist in town puts on show at library
  Salt Lake Tribune, Frank Fisher, November 9, 2005
• Burning up the road: Spirit roams free in annual festival in Nevada desert (Link no longer active)
  Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dena Sloan, November 6, 2005
• Around South Mississippi: Red Cross visiting neighborhoods to help. (Link no longer active)
  Sun Herald, November 5, 2005

  "The Red Cross has been working with the Burning Man group to get Vietnamese residents back into the community..."

• Burning man art to ‘Flock’ to Civic Center
  San Francisco Examiner, Emily Fancher, October 27, 2005
• Sex and Drugs and Burning Man
  by Keith Axline, October 14, 2005, WIRED News
• Black Rock reunion
  CNET, Daniel Terdiman, October 10, 2005
• Burning Bush Meets Burning Man
  Jewish Journal, Julie Woldow, October 7, 2005
• Epilogue as prologue: Has Burning Man finally returned from the desert? And can San Francisco help share it with the world?
  SF Bay Guardian, Steven T. Jones, October 4, 2005
• Battling With Demons - How our correspondent gave up capitalism in the desert (subscription required)
  The Economist, September 22, 2005
• Burning Man: Sound bites
  Fabian Mohr, Mercury News, September 16, 2005
• Arty cocktails toast Burning Man
  Audrey Tate, The Arizona Republic, September 15, 2005
• The lingering afterglow of Burning Man
  Wallace Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel, September 15, 2005
• GREEN Burning Man Leaves No Trace
  Gregory Dicum, SF Gate, September 14, 2005
• Burning Man: A giant playground for adults
  Julie Patel, Mercury News, September 11, 2005
• Waiting for the End of the World
  The Eyewitnesses, Judith Lewis, September 9, 2005
• Burning Man 2005: What a long, strange trip it's been
  Chris Dreyer, Gonzaga Bulletin, September 9, 2005
• Burning Man meets The Dicky Box
  Elinor Mills, CNET News.com, September 8, 2005
• Burning Man defies Katrina? How can a huge, feral party in the desert possibly matter?
  Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle, September 7, 2005
• Surplus Burning Man food to help hurricane victims in Nev.
  Associated Press, September 7, 2005
• Burning Man, meet Drowning Man
  Andrew Orlowski, The Register, September 7, 2005
• Burning Man Celebrants Donate Items to Katrina Relief Effort
  Associated Press, September 7, 2005
• Unused food from Burning Man to help hurricane victims
  Carla Roccapriore, Reno Gazette-Journal, September 6, 2005
• Burning Man Mourns the Big Easy
  Daniel Terdiman, Wired News, September 6, 2005
• Reporter finds his 'good heart': Instead of a party, healing and revelation
  Toronto Star ,Scott Simmie, September 4, 2005
• A city that seldom sleeps: The partying rarely pauses as 'burners' pour in to desert festival
  Chuck Squatriglia, San Francisco Chronicle, September 1, 2005
• Flash: A Burning Man legend
  Meredith May, San Francisco Chronicle, September 1, 2005
• Burning Man Feeds Art Inferno
  Daniel Terdiman, Wired, September 1, 2005
• Burning Man offers something for everyone
  Carla Roccapriore, Reno Gazette Journal, August 31, 2005
• Campy themes: There are at least 477 very strange sites in Black Rock City
  Meredith May, San Francisco Chronicle, August 31, 2005
• Burning Man notebook: Wednesday on the Playa
  Carla Roccapriore, Reno Gazette Journal, August 31, 2005
• Ensign, Gibbons sending representatives to festival
  Ryan Randazzo, Reno Gazette Journal, August 30, 2005
• A warmer welcome: Residents of small Nevada town profit from annual countercultural festival
  Leslie Fulbright, San Francisco Chronicle, August 28, 2005
• More Reno businesses warm up to Burning Man participants
  KRNV-4, Reno, August 27, 2005
• Lamplighters Light the Way
  Carla Roccapriore RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL, September 2, 2005
• BURNING MAN AT 20 Thinking inside the box: Plexiglas cage lets S.F. man be part of the crowd, but isolated
  Meredith May, San Francisco Chronicle, August 30, 2005
• Playa population surges as Burning Man festival gets under way
  Sam Bauman, Nevada Appeal, August 30, 2005
• Art cars in tow, 'burners' head toward desert
  Carla Roccapriore, Reno Gazette Journal, August 30, 2005
• The players of the playa: Artists scramble to be participants
  Leslie Fulbright, San Francisco Chronicle, August 29, 2005
• Earth, wind and Burning Man: Artsy types dust off their free spirits for annual fest in Nevada desert
  Boston Herald, Bob Ecker/ Special to the Herald, August 21, 2005
• Desert Storm: How the Burning Man festival brings music to soothe the savage heat
  Liam Fitzpatrick, Time Europe, August 21, 2005
• Local Artists Create Time To Burn
  Richard Brenneman, Berkeley Daily Planet, August 23, 2005
• Coal Burning Man?: Proposal irks burners and raises questions about California's commitment to combating climate change
  Cameron Scott, San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 24, 2005
• Burning ambition: Bay Area artists let their imaginations ignite for annual Burning Man festival
  Article no longer available on-line
  Tri-Valley Herald, August 25, 2005
• The Burning Man (r)evolution: Founder says goal is now expanding the festival ethos to the world
  Neil Baron, Reno Gazette Journal, August 25, 2005
• Come, all ye faithful, join the giant and wise reawakening of faith
  Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, August 26, 2005

  "I have seen it at Burning Man (and I will see it there again, next week), where more than 30,000 glittered and cosmically dusted revelers gather every year to celebrate the rather obvious idea that "god" is nothing more than a raw hot energy that permeates all things at all times in all places and it is meant to be shared like a long slow tongue-kiss across all genders and locations and hairstyles."

• SJ Merc News's daily blog about Burning Man by Fabian Mohr (Link no longer active)
  Fabian Moore, Aug-Sept 2005
• Dance Dance Immolation to light up Burning Man festival
  Posted Aug 15, 2005, 5:00 PM ET by Dan Choi
• Clown gets probation in theft Crime occurred at Burning Man; victim used Internet to track culprit
  Martha Bellisle, RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL, August 18th 2005
• Artist works around clock for Burning Man: Berkeley crew makes giant timepiece to torch
  Article no longer available on-line
  Laura Casey, Inside Bay Area, August 15, 2005
• Behind the flames
  Steven T. Jones, San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 17, 2005
• Angels of the apocalypse: What I learned about fire, people, and Burning Man as a minion of the Flaming Lotus Girls.
  Steven T. Jones, San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 17, 2005
• Burning Man: Let's get visual -- galleries you don't wanna miss (Link no longer active)
  Fabian Mohr, San Jose Mercury News Interactive, August 10, 2005
• Burning Man: I burn, therefore I am (Link no longer active)
  Fabian Mohr, San Jose Mercury News Interactive, August 9, 2005
• Seattle's "Machine" a metaphor in motion for Burning Man fest
  Nick Martin, Seattle Times, August 9, 2005
• Great Balls of Fire
  Denise Andra, Salt Lake Community College Globe, August 2, 2005
• Fire?: Shadow has a little spark.
  Lynn Jacobson, Seattle Weekly, August 3, 2005
• BIG FESTIVALS: WOW, THE CROWDS!
  Natasha Garber, Special Events Magazine, August 1, 2005
• BURNING MAN AT 20: A better Mouse Trap Architect of 25-ton artwork based on popular children's board game finally works out kinks
  Leslie Fulbright, San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, July 30, 2005
• Sneak preview of artwork at Burning Man festival
  Merideth May, San Francisco Chronicle, July 26, 2005
• BURNING MAN AT 20: The Heart of Burning Man: Volunteer carpenters craft festival's namesake totem for its moment in the moon
  Merideth May, Chronicle Staff Writer, San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, July 4, 2005
• The Faces of Burning Man
  San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, July 4, 2005
• Burner Season
  Steven T. Jones, SF Bay Guardian, July 2005
• Temple towers over new park: Burning Man sculptor created structure at former freeway site
  Leslie Fulbright, Chronicle Staff Writer, San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, June 17, 2005
• BURNING MAN AT 20: WORKING FOR THE MAN 'Desert rats' transform desolate playa into festival city -- then back from wild land to badlands without a trace
  Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writer, San Francisco Chronical, Sunday, June 12, 2005
• BURNING MAN AT 20: Rev. Billy warns of rampant consumerism's eternal price
  By Leslie Fulbright, Chronicle Staff Writer, SF Chronical, Saturday, June 4, 2005
• Out to change the world, BURNING MAN AT 20: Burners take creative approach to building sense of community
  By Leslie Fulbright and Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writers, SF Chronicle, Sunday, May 29, 2005
• Art on Fire
  By Gary C.W. Chun, Honolulu Star, Mar. 18
• Goliath crushing David: Burning Man sends big bucks to the artists while Borg 2 struggles to move forward
  By Steven T. Jones, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Mar. 16
• Burning Man tickets are a hot commodity
  Reno Gazette-Journal, Jan. 8
• Burning Man already a hot ticket
  San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 6

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