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 ...
Bombay Beach local Ray Evans remembers the land’s legends well: Frank Sinatra vacationed here once, after all. So did The Beach Boys. Bing Crosby. Sonny Bono. In the 50s, Bombay Beach wasn’t just ...
Reporting from Bombay Beach, Calif. — It is dawn on Sunday morning and a sliver of blue light has begun to emerge from behind the Chocolate Mountains, illuminating the steely waters of the Salton Sea.
Forget Burning Man, the once cutting-edge festival in the Nevada desert which has often sold out in recent years despite ...
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, ...
More stories by Nigel M. This week on DVD/Blu-ray: “Bombay Beach” from music video director Ama Har’el; the last epic from Chilean filmmaker Raul Ruiz; George Clooney’s political thriller “The Ides of ...