“Life is nothing but a habit anyway,” says Red, a wizened ex-oil field worker, waiting out the long fade in a sun-baked trailer with his smokes and whiskey. This is the sort of elegiac dialogue at the ...

An offbeat art festival called the Bombay Beach Biennale has come to the Salton Sea. How do the locals feel about the influx of art and opera? In the 1950s and ‘60s, Bombay Beach, California was a ...

Back in the 1960s, Bombay Beach was the kind of Salton Sea resort town where celebrities such as The Beach Boys would spend their weekends sunbathing and waterskiing. Today, it's a town of mostly ...