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Throughout the United States and Britain, Lewis Carroll's immortal little girl is being fêted on the occasion of her 150th birthday—with exhibits and events, plays and performances.

The relationship between garden design and painting is the subject of "The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920," on view Jan. 23–May 9 in the MaryLou and George Boone Gallery.

This year is the 10th anniversary of the great science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler's untimely death; next year marks what would have been her 70th birthday. Butler created a body of work that helped launch a new genre called Afro-Futurism

The idiosyncratic physician, essayist, and naturalist Thomas Browne (1605–82) produced a diverse body of writings that reveal a cornucopian range of interests at once scientific and religious: burial practices and mortality (Urn-Burial), the geometrical patterning of nature

As a teenager, I thought it would be fun to collect lists, especially the kind that are known by their numbers: the 10 essentials for day hiking, which I learned as a Girl Scout, or the 12 ways that Wonder Bread helped build strong bodies

Today the Avery Chief Curator of Rare Books at The Huntington, Alan Jutzi, will kick up his office doorstop one last time and shut the door behind him after 45 years of dedicated service.

Earlier this month, a group of dedicated volunteers began the gargantuan task of pruning The Huntington's more than 3,000 rose bushes. Hard pruning once a year keeps roses healthy

Southern California is bracing for rain—lots of it—as the predicted El Niño weather system looms. After four years of relentless drought, some precipitation would be welcome, but too much at once could be disastrous, causing floods, mudslides, power outages