Hundreds of people, many just back from the Black Rock Desert, turned out for this year’s Burning Man Decompression 2025 at The Loom on Oakland’s Embarcadero. The festival is a celebration of the arts ...

Maureen Maples, 49, has been a regular at the annual Burning Man event in the Nevada desert for the past 20 years. Attending Burning Man has impacted her life in many positive ways, she shared with ...

"Burners" mourn the free-thinking philosopher king of their pagan desert gathering.

Danica Patrick has swapped the mountain air of Colorado for the sandy expanses of Nevada's Black Rock Desert, making waves at this year's Burning Man festival, which spanned from August 24 to ...

Burning Man 2025 took place from August 24 to September 1; the year’s theme was “Tomorrow Today.” Photo: Elisa Carollo for Observer If you think Burning Man is just a crowd in the desert dancing, ...

Have you ever wanted to burn a man? In June 1986, the founders of the Burning Man project and nonprofit, Larry Harvey and Jerry James, built a wooden human effigy and set it on fire on San Francisco’s ...