Shelby is an editor with an affinity for covering home improvement and repair, design and real estate trends. She also specializes in content strategy and entrepreneur coaching for small businesses, ...

Slab City is a unique off-the-grid community with no public utilities, attracting winter snowbirds and offbeat individuals.

Has your water bill gone through the roof recently without a plausible explanation? If the unexpected and unjustified rise in costs is accompanied by low water pressure in your faucets and shower ...

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

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 ...

Owners and architects choose polished concrete as an alternative to floor coverings, but the results can be particularly disappointing when polishing is specified for an elevated slab. Most ...

Texas culture can get boiled down to barbecue and country music, but some things are unique to a city like Houston. One of them? Swangas, which confused some drivers in Austin recently. First, a ...

Yeah, we got some News 52 imagery, we got mentions of Coast City, and my feeble mind realized for the first time that Ruve Adams was likely named for legendary Green Arrow artist Neal Adams…but at the ...