black rock desert
The Playa's Christina returns to "dock" at Hard Rock Lake Tahoe
Submitted by paula on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 1:12pm
Event Date:
Repeats every day until Sat Nov 02 2019 .
November 1, 2019 (All day)
November 2, 2019 (All day)
The Christina, a 65-foot yacht that once called Lake Tahoe home, is now an iconic art car that has been cruising along the playa in the Black Rock Desert. She is returning to Lake Tahoe during "Docked at Hard Rock" November 1-2.
Flipper Manchester, a South Lake Tahoe construction company owner, was originally hired to demolish the yacht that had been dry-docked at the Tahoe Keys Marina for years.
Thousands of Burners head through Reno-Tahoe International Airport on way to Black Rock Desert
Submitted by paula on Mon, 08/26/2019 - 5:03pm
The Reno-Tahoe International Airport (RNO) was a very busy place Monday as most of the 20,000 people expected to fly in for Burning Man 2019 passed through on their way to the Black Rock Desert.
Attendees to the annual event (known as Burners) were greeted at the airport RNO's therapy dogs, Paws for Passengers, who wore costumes for the day to bring smiles to arriving Burners.
Welcome activities are taking place all week at Air Playa Info, a welcome area staffed by local volunteers dedicated to assisting Burners.
Local artist once again chosen to create Burning Man art
Submitted by paula on Mon, 07/08/2019 - 11:28pm
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - In 53 days Kelly Smith Cassidy will be representing the South Lake Tahoe community at the communal city in the Black Rock Desert, Burning Man. Tabbed as a culture of possibility and a network of dreamers and doers, organizers select artists from around the world who best personifies their mission.
Burning Man idea turns into Lake Tahoe business
Submitted by paula on Sun, 05/26/2019 - 3:53pm
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Have you ever wanted to experience Lake Tahoe from the comforts of a camper, enjoying the outdoors and campfires, while fishing for dinner outside your door that you'll cook on an open stove? Then cuddling up in bed with nothing but the sounds of nature outside to lull you to sleep?
Don't have the gear to make this happen?
James "Jay" Cooley and Alecia Baker do, and they are in business to help create those kinds of memories with Tahoe RV Rentals.
NHP and CHP participate in "I-80 Challenge" to target reckless and distracted drivers
Submitted by paula on Fri, 08/24/2018 - 7:41pm
The California Highway Patrol’s (CHP) Valley Division and Golden Gate Divisions, having jurisdiction over the Sacramento regions and San Francisco Bay Area, are partnering with the Nevada Highway Patrol (NHP) to participate in an “I-80 Challenge.”
This effort aims to reduce distracted and reckless driving along the 615 miles of Interstate 80 from San Francisco, Calif. to the Nevada/Utah Stateline from Monday, August 27 – Labor Day, September 3, 2018, by enhancing traffic safety, enforcement, and education along this section of the National Highway System.
South Lake Tahoe artist's "Creu Hudol" heads to Burning Man Pavilion
Submitted by paula on Fri, 08/24/2018 - 1:03am
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Many know Kelly Smith Cassidy as an artist who creates copper and bronze welded sculptures, but now many more will know her as the artist who created a burnbot for Burning Man.
Kelly, who is a seasoned "burner," heard from another that Burning Man had put out a request for proposals for panels and burnbots for the Man Pavilion, all which will be burned in a symbolic ritual on the final day of the popular event on Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
Choices limited on what to do with California's 102M dead trees
Submitted by paula on Tue, 08/29/2017 - 2:02pm
There are now an estimated 102 million dead trees in California, creating unhealthy forests that are prone to major and catastrophic wildfires. Even though funds are being allocated to remove many of them, where will that timber go?
For now, there aren’t many options because of what has transpired from the government since 1968.
In that year the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior issued orders restricting the volume of timber that could be harvested from Federal lands in the West. It was updated in 1969 to limit the total harvested to 350-million-board-feet.
Registration begins Wednesday for those seeking Burning Man tickets
Submitted by paula on Tue, 03/21/2017 - 1:43pm
Burning Man, the popular annual festival of self-expression in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, takes place over Labor Day weekend, August 27 – September 4, 2017. This "temporary metropolis" dedicated to art and community has become so poplar that buying the high-demand tickets is not only costly, but buying tickets is now a two-day event.
The theme this year is "Radical Ritual."
Burning Man organizers buy Nevada ranch for year-round activities
Submitted by paula on Fri, 06/10/2016 - 11:27pm
The organizers of the annual Burning Man Festival just purchased a ranch near Gerlach, Nevada, a place that has the potential to become home to year-round art and self expression activities.
Burning Man Project has purchased Fly Ranch, 3,800 acres of land located twenty-one miles north of Gerlach in Washoe County.
Preger to Speak About Photographing Burning Man April 5
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 03/28/2016 - 5:10pm
Event Date:
April 5, 2016 - 6:00pm "From the Lens of Eleanor Preger," is an exhibition at Sierra Nevada College that includes images from Burning Man 2011-15, and the photographer will talk about her art during the closing reception for the show on April 5. Crimson Rose, Burning Man co-founder, and Maria Partridge, Artist Advocate for the Burning Man Foundation, are both expected to make comments during the evening.
Eleanor Preger's talk will take place in the Ron and Maureen Ashley Community Gallery at the Holman Arts & Media Center on campus from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Location
Sierra Nevada College
999 Tahoe Blvd.
Incline Village, NV
United States
39° 14' 42.4176" N, 119° 56' 14.802" W
See map: Google Maps
Burning Man skydiver killed in Paris attacks
Submitted by paula on Tue, 11/17/2015 - 11:35am
Pierro Jacare Innocenti, 40, of Paris, was killed when gunmen stormed the sold-out Eagles of Death Metal show that Innocenti was attending at the Bataclan Concert Hall. Innocenti posted a photo on his Facebook page of the concert billboard with the comment “Rock!” at 8:45 p.m., less than an hour before three gunmen gunned down 89 people at the venue.
On Friday evening, gunmen and suicide bombers with the Islamic State, or ISIS, almost simultaneously targeted the concert hall, a major stadium, restaurants and bars in Paris, leaving at least 129 people dead and hundreds wounded.
Report: Reno-Tahoe tourism must adapt now
Submitted by paula on Mon, 08/24/2015 - 3:05pm
Change.
It’s happening fast in Reno-Tahoe tourism, from millennials’ growing influence in the marketplace to changing preferences among visitors, according to a new industry analysis.
And the quicker the region embraces it, the better.
“Reno-Lake Tahoe Tourism Industry – Navigating Change,” is a white paper written by South Lake Tahoe-based SMG Consulting and its president, Carl Ribaudo.
BLM wants government officials to get VIP treatment at Burning Man
Submitted by paula on Fri, 06/26/2015 - 11:46pmU.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officials are asking Burning Man organizers to provide "excessive" comforts such as flushing toilets, washers and dryers, and vanity mirrors in a compound for high-level government officials staying in Black Rock City.
A Burning Man spokesman estimated the compound would cost the event more than $1 million, bringing its 2015 permit fees to about $5 million. The renderings of the compound obtained by the RGJ also show various accommodations set aside for VIP visitors but don't indicate who the visiting dignitaries will be.
Friends of Black Rock looking for artists for Spring residencies
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 02/22/2015 - 6:54pmAs we enter a New Year, it’s time for artists to share their thanks in celebrating one of Northern Nevada's icons by applying for spring residencies at the Black Rock Desert High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area. Applications will be accepted until March 31.
Burning Man pre-registration tickets on sale Wednesday through Sunday
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 02/06/2013 - 5:25amPre-registration begins at noon today for 40,000 Burning Man tickets at $380 per ticket. The pre-registration period ends noon Sunday, Feb. 10. Burning Man officials are doing tiered first-come-first serve sales of the 2013 tickets.
According to the official Burning Man website, organizers say they've come up with a ticket sales plan to meet the needs of the "greatest number of people possible," given that there is a limited supply available.
Management plan for 10 Nevada wilderness areas OK'd
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/01/2013 - 6:00amRENO, Nev. - Federal land managers have completed a management plan for 10 wilderness areas around northwestern Nevada's sprawling Black Rock Desert.Kristine Struck, a wilderness specialist for the...
Lighting up the After Burner
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 11/03/2012 - 6:00amJeff Clark is a serious business man, or at least he's always considered himself one. But when some of his friends headed to Black Rock Desert, Nev., for the 2012 Burning Man, he decided to give...
Memories of the Nevada 10-In-10 challenge
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 2:21pm
The newspaper headline on page one on Aug. 15, 2002 said it all:
“They made it!”
Yes, they did! And, they did it in record-setting style.
Four athletes, who are personal friends of Elaine and I, completed 10 very physically and mentally-demanding challenges in a period of 10 grueling days, way back in 2002.
I know because we were there for each and every one of those 10 memorable days that resulted in the very first Nevada 10-in-10 Challenge going into the Nevada record book.
Those four were Karl Horeis, Jeremy Evans, Rick Gunn and K. M. Cannon.
Burning Man sells out; first time in 25 years
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 8:18amBLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. - It's a big bummer for "Burners" who don't have their tickets.Burning Man organizers say the eight-day counter-culture festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert has sold out f...
