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Weekend 2 of Coachella starts today. A Jewish rapper from Los Angeles will be putting on 10-minute pop-up Seders for those missing Passover with their families, and Kanye West will host his Easter Sunday Service. Festivalgoers will pose for photos with big art installations.

But elsewhere in the desert, another art community is flourishing. And it’s got its own fest. My colleague Penelope Green, who covers home, garden and the built environment for the Style desk, wrote about it, and all the artists she met there:

In late March, I spent three days at Bombay Beach, a place — population just over 300 — that would seem to be the least likely locale for such an extravaganza.

Once a camping spot on a peninsula on the Salton Sea, a body of water careering toward ecological disaster, Bombay Beach was popular in the middle of the last century, but flooding from agricultural runoff in the ’70s and ’80s swamped much of the area, and many people abandoned their vacation homes and double-wides.

For the next couple of decades, it was a must-see for artists and others drawn to document its derelict properties, and marvel at its weirdness. Suffice it to say that a lot of zombie movies and end-of-days video games were shot there.