A tiny, half-abandoned town in a neglected corner of the California desert seems like an unlikely hot spot for street theater, classical opera and large-scale public art. Yet Bombay Beach on the ...

Ms. Lowe is the author of, most recently, “Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires.” Mr. Albrecht is a photographer based in Oakland, Calif. March 29, ...