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Winter is one of the showiest seasons at The Huntington, especially in the Desert Garden. Thousands of colorful aloes are at the peak of their bloom right now, making it the perfect time to explore this 10-acre landscape.

Did you join the millions of Americans who made New Year's resolutions a couple of weeks ago? If you're determined to travel more and get plenty of exercise in 2014, The Huntington has the perfect solution.

Jack London celebrated his 28th birthday on Jan. 12, 1904, less than a week after mailing off his manuscript of The Sea-Wolf. As Earle Labor explains in his new biography, Jack London: An American Life, London was already off on a new adventure

Winter would never be considered rose season, even in sunny Southern California. But if you're a rose lover who is already dreaming of a backyard bower of fragrant blooms, now's the time to get busy.

Two wall-sized cityscapes neatly divide sections of "Face to Face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance Painting," the exhibition on view in The Huntington's Boone Gallery through Jan. 13.

Anyone who lives or works in the Pasadena area knows that New Year's Day is all about roses—the annual Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl Game, to be precise. Visitors flock into town to enjoy the festivities

The death of actor Peter O'Toole earlier this month can't help but bring to mind the great David Lean film in which he starred, Lawrence of Arabia. The epic about the British Army officer-archaeologist-author T. E. Lawrence will be screened

The title of this tome lives up to its packaging. Inside the glowing patina of an oak box is an oversized book covered in a handsome, green morocco binding decorated with a profusion of gold-tooled ornamentation