Watch, Read, Listen

Historians can be like kids in a candy store when it comes to Halloween. Nicholas Rogers, the Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington in 2009–10, had fun with a public lecture in Friends' Hall last October.

Halloween is upon us, and if your spirit is craving something "super-natural" this week, forget about chocolate bars and candy corn and gather up a basket of herbs instead. In just about any backyard garden or patio potager, you'll find mysterious plants

You might have caught Larry Harnisch's series of posts on his latimes.com blog The Daily Mirror about the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building. Larry did quite a bit of his research here at The Huntington

This Saturday USC Libraries play host to the fifth annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar. The Huntington was the site of the first bazaar in 2006, when 30 historical collections and archives exhibited photos, pamphlets, and other primary documents from their collections.

This month at the Huntington Library Press, we have been time travelers. We began in the distant past, doing the last proofreading on a special issue of the Huntington Library Quarterly devoted to what people read, mostly in England

Before coming out to The Huntington this weekend for the annual Southland Orchid Show, listen to Jim Folsom's recent talk on "Getting to Know Orchids." Folsom, the Marge and Sherm Telleen/Marion and Earle Jorgensen Director of the Botanical Gardens, spoke yesterday at the Second Thursday Garden Talk & Plant Sale.

Last night, California gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman sparred for the third time in their campaign. In Friends' Hall at The Huntington, an audience of 150 watched the debate on two wide-screen televisions and then listened to a live panel

Big yellow buses will start rolling through The Huntington's gates this week as the school tour season gets under way. When students disembark for a morning of discovery, a group of highly trained volunteers will be ready and waiting.