It’s the detours in life that make getting there so much fun, which is exactly what happened when we drove east out of Palm Springs and made the spontaneous decision to turn left toward the Salton Sea ...

During the mid-20th Century, California's largest lake was home to a buzzing tourist resort with an air of celebrity glamour. Decades later, curious visitors still find remnants of that time dotting ...

Shot in the dusty desert of California, where the Salton Sea was once intended as a getaway oasis and is now a near-abandoned ghost town, the hybrid film “Bombay Beach” is more lyrical tone poem than ...

Anybody that’s ever seen the Salton Sea understands why writers, artists and filmmakers of a certain disposition are drawn to the place. A landlocked, increasingly saline inland sea in the Southern ...

I have to admit, I've only been perpherially following the earthquake swarm currently going on in Southern California, near the end of one of the strands of the San Andreas fault out below the Salton ...

Intriguingly non-standard docu "Bombay Beach" captures the fading California community's white-trash denizens with a fresh eye and deeper sensitivity than most who have come before. “Beach” opens with ...