Two days before the likely first tropical storm to hit this area in 84 years barrels down in Pasadena, Nicole Cavender and Shadi Shihab knew one thing: they were ready. They will be on call this ...

The 50th anniversary of the Huntington Beach Central Library has suddenly turned into a political battleground. On Tuesday night, the Huntington Beach Community and Library Services Commission ...

The Huntington Beach Library System’s policy of making certain library materials, including sexual content, inaccessible to underaged patrons without parental consent is unlawful, an Orange County ...

One of nature's most extraordinary and elusive phenomena is about to unfold at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. A Corpse Flower, known as the world’s largest ...

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It was about a year ago when a special visitor showed up at The Huntington. Amid the sprawling San Marino library, its museum and botanical gardens was finance giant Charlie Munger, getting a tour ...

In her final years, author Eve Babitz was rediscovered as an essential Los Angeles literary voice, fluent in the ways of high art and rock & roll, and as a hometown rival to Joan Didion. Lesser known ...

I glanced over at Laureen, who was sipping coffee on our front porch. “You know,” I started. “I’d like to head down the hill today and walk through some gardens.” “We have plenty of land for you to ...

A putrid-smelling, not-so-dainty flower bloomed overnight in San Marino. The Huntington Library's Corpse Flower bloom emits the stench of rotten meat, and it attracts the curious who want to see and ...