Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist Peter Passalacqua spins around on a pole on the dance floor at his sprawling slab consisting of RVs, trailers and junk he ...

The last free place is hot, dry, and hard. Slab City’s freedom is not free from the exacting demands of the desert, nor is it free from life’s necessities: off the grid but on the edges of poverty ...

SLAB CITY, Calif. — Penny Puckett came to Slab City and fell in love. After four years of “bumming around and hopping freight trains,” the 25-year-old from Kansas City, Mo., arrived at this ...

This is Part 2 of a two-part series on Slab City. Read Part 1 here. SLAB CITY, Calif. — A punishing sun was finally giving way to night, and that meant show time at the Range. In the desert of ...

Since the housing bubble burst, nearly 4 million American homes have been lost to foreclosure. Now 1.6 million children will be homeless at some time during the year -- 38 percent more than at the ...

Slab City, California, situated in the desert near the Salton Sea, is renowned for its unique status as a community that operates outside the conventional structures of government, utilities, and ...

So says Wizard as we sit at the entrance to East Jesus, an open-air art museum in Slab City. The discarded junk sculptures that compose East Jesus depict ghoulish elephants made of old tires, ...

Reporting from Slab City, Calif. — Penny Puckett came to Slab City and fell in love. After four years of “bumming around and hopping freight trains,” the 25-year-old from Kansas City arrived at this ...

You have to go to Slab City to meet a man named Quokka. Slab City is a squatter’s settlement near the Salton Sea out in the Imperial Valley desert, about 150 miles east of San Diego. The “sea” is a ...

Born in Chicago, Joe played varsity football and baseball in Bowling Green, Ohio for BGHS and later played lacrosse at BGSU. A year abroad in Spain changed everything. As destiny would have it he ...