Eccentric artworks make up some of the pieces on display at this year's festival.
BOMBAY BEACH - By any stretch of the imagination, Bombay Beach is an oddity, starting with its exotic name, its location by a dying lake and the post-apocalyptic landscape that greets visitors.
But the tiny hamlet is experiencing a rebirth of sorts as a group of artists and well-heeled sponsors have taken up residence, buying up dirt-cheap property and organizing an annual three-day festival called the Bombay Beach Biennale. The tiny town -- one square mile -- today boasts a museum called the"Hermitage," a drive-in movie theatre filled with junkyard cars and an opera house decorated with disused flip-flops recovered from the beaches of Lagos, in Nigeria.
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