It has come very far from those rather humble beginnings on a nudist beach in San Francisco. Today Burning Man has become "Nevada's fifth largest city." It also has quite an interesting relationship with the stock price of Costco, I'm speculating. SFGate covers it from various angles.
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The real issue this momentous year is the rift between the core art community and Harvey, and what the outcome will be like as a result. Generally better at covering BM than the Chron is the SFBG, here with lots of details and stories about the politics at work behind the event.
On a side note: This article 'Coal Burning Man?' outlines a plan for a heavily contested coal-fuel plant outside the festival range: "As thousands of Bay Area residents head out to Nevada's Black Rock Desert this week for the Burning Man festival, an energy company has other intentions for the land around this ancient lake bed: construction of a massive, coal-fueled power plant. Just 10 miles away from the festival site, in an area that boasts what the Environmental Protection Agency ranks as some of the cleanest air in the country. San Diego-based Sempra Energy has proposed to build Granite Fox, which, in 2010, would begin to feed 1,450 megawatts of energy into the nearby Los Angeles transmission line, which conveys power to southern California."
And here's the chron's latest about the local Gerlach economy at BM time.
(Interview with Larry Harvey about future of BM)
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