"This is what happens when you let mentally ill people build their own playground in the desert." So says Wizard as we sit at the entrance to East Jesus, an open-air art museum in Slab City. The ...

We’ve told you about Slab City—California’s most desolate, isolated squatter community situated on an ex-military base in a harsh section of the desert—a few times over the years, reporting on the ...

Explore the unique economy and financial lives of residents in Slab City, California's off-grid desert community. Discover their views on money and alternative lifestyles. Anne Hathaway facelift ...

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 ...