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Home and garden events in the Southland
TODAY Native plants: Horticulturist Lili Singer leads a class on California flora. Learn about planting techniques, irrigation, pruning, maintenance and where to see and buy native plants. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. $35 to $45. Later in the afternoon, James...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, Sun Valley, Los Angeles, Science and Technology
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Steven Koblik, Huntington Library's major domo
![STEVEN S. KOBLIK wants to make a point. He strides into the president's conference room, across the hall from his office at the <a href="http://www.huntington.org/">Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens</a>, and stops in front of three framed photographs. Shot in the 1880s by Carleton E. Watkins, the images depict the San Fernando Valley and Santa Monica as pristine landscapes and downtown Los Angeles as a fledgling commercial center with Hispanic-flavored architecture.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-05/39113936-23093223.jpg "STEVEN S. KOBLIK wants to make a point. He strides into the president's conference room, across the hall from his office at the <a href="http://www.huntington.org/\">Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens</a>, and stops in front of three framed photographs. Shot in the 1880s by Carleton E. Watkins, the images depict the San Fernando Valley and Santa Monica as pristine landscapes and downtown Los Angeles as a fledgling commercial center with Hispanic-flavored architecture.")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSTEVEN S. KOBLIK wants to make a point. He strides into the president's conference room, across the hall from his office at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, and stops in front of three framed photographs. Shot in the 1880s by...Tags: Basketball, Stanford University, Tourism and Leisure, Los Angeles Times, Gardens and Parks
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Review: 'A "New and Native" Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene'
![In the spring of 1893, a financial panic hit Wall Street, sending the American economy skidding toward a depression. It also helped reshape the course of architectural history in Southern California, since cloudy career prospects in the Northeast helped persuade brothers Charles and Henry Greene, in the summer of that year, to leave Boston and head west to Pasadena. <b>¶</b> Stepping off the train, Bruce Smith reports in the catalog that accompanies "A 'New and Native' Beauty," a smallish but dense exhibition at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, the Greenes "were faced with a dirt street and the immensity of the new Hotel Green, a grand tourist hotel built five stories high in the Moorish style." After a rail trip through Chicago (where they stopped off at the World's Columbian Exposition) and Dodge City, Kan., and over the Rockies, "they had arrived in a city incorporated less than a decade before, populated with 10,000 people, up from the 390 residents of the 1880 census. It had all been created over the past two decades. It was all new. It was all invented." <b>¶</b> Henry Greene was 23 years old, Charles 24. They were born in Ohio and were recent graduates of the architecture school at MIT. Though their parents had preceded them to California by a full year, and though a growing number of wealthy Midwestern families were buying land along the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, their immediate professional opportunities seemed highly limited. Even in the flushest of times, not many clients seek out architects in their 20s. <b>¶</b> Within a decade, though, the Greenes had managed to earn more than two dozen residential commissions in and around Pasadena. By 1916, the year Charles quit the firm and headed north to Carmel "to ponder art and life," as he put it, they had designed a handful of houses that still rank among the most significant pieces of architecture produced in this country.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-10/43004572-21114828.jpg "In the spring of 1893, a financial panic hit Wall Street, sending the American economy skidding toward a depression. It also helped reshape the course of architectural history in Southern California, since cloudy career prospects in the Northeast helped persuade brothers Charles and Henry Greene, in the summer of that year, to leave Boston and head west to Pasadena. <b>¶</b> Stepping off the train, Bruce Smith reports in the catalog that accompanies "A 'New and Native' Beauty,\" a smallish but dense exhibition at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, the Greenes \"were faced with a dirt street and the immensity of the new Hotel Green, a grand tourist hotel built five stories high in the Moorish style.\" After a rail trip through Chicago (where they stopped off at the World's Columbian Exposition) and Dodge City, Kan., and over the Rockies, \"they had arrived in a city incorporated less than a decade before, populated with 10,000 people, up from the 390 residents of the 1880 census. It had all been created over the past two decades. It was all new. It was all invented.\" <b>¶</b> Henry Greene was 23 years old, Charles 24. They were born in Ohio and were recent graduates of the architecture school at MIT. Though their parents had preceded them to California by a full year, and though a growing number of wealthy Midwestern families were buying land along the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, their immediate professional opportunities seemed highly limited. Even in the flushest of times, not many clients seek out architects in their 20s. <b>¶</b> Within a decade, though, the Greenes had managed to earn more than two dozen residential commissions in and around Pasadena. By 1916, the year Charles quit the firm and headed north to Carmel \"to ponder art and life,\" as he put it, they had designed a handful of houses that still rank among the most significant pieces of architecture produced in this country.")
In the spring of 1893, a financial panic hit Wall Street, sending the American economy skidding toward a depression. It also helped reshape the course of architectural history in Southern California, since cloudy career prospects in the Northeast helped...Tags: Book, Long Beach (Los Angeles, California), Berkeley (Alameda, California), Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), History
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Just the facts
![<h2 style="infobox">Just the facts </h2><b>Getting in:</b> The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens opened to the public in 1928. Admission was free. It started charging admission 13 years ago. Today the cost is $15 (weekdays), $20 (weekends and holidays). Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily (except Tuesdays).](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-05/39112891-23093459.jpg "<h2 style="infobox\">Just the facts </h2><b>Getting in:</b> The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens opened to the public in 1928. Admission was free. It started charging admission 13 years ago. Today the cost is $15 (weekdays), $20 (weekends and holidays). Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily (except Tuesdays).")
Just the facts
Getting in: The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens opened to the public in 1928. Admission was free. It started charging admission 13 years ago. Today the cost is $15 (weekdays), $20 (weekends and holidays). Hours:...Tags: Coconut, Tourism and Leisure, Washington, DC, Gardens and Parks, Travel
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The world on a platter
Times Staff WritersSavvy L.A. eaters know that to see the world — or at the very least, taste it — all you need to do is stay home. Paris, Singapore, New York — yadda, yadda, yadda. We'd argue that nowhere else can you find the ethnic varieties of cheap...Tags: Butter, Gwyneth Paltrow, Gardens and Parks, Breads, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia)
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Artist mixed paint, sculpture, cast-offs
Times Art CriticRobert Rauschenberg, the protean artist from small-town Texas whose imaginative commitment to hybrid forms of painting and sculpture changed the course of American and European art between 1950 and the early 1970s, died Monday night, according to New...Tags: Entertainment, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Plymouth, Mark Rothko, Tiffany & Company
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James Thorpe dies at 93; former director of the Huntington Library put it on the map
James Thorpe, former director of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens who helped raise the public profile of the institution, turning it into one of Southern California's leading educational and cultural centers, has died. He...Tags: Literature, Research, John Milton, Death, San Marino
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For Earth Day, go play in the garden
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHIS weekend, you could celebrate Earth Day -- which is technically Tuesday -- among L.A.'s stalled freeways, its overbooked apartments and endless arid concrete sidewalks. Or, like the hundreds of thousands of us who trek through Southern California's...Tags: Frederick Law Olmsted, Cypress (Orange, California), Los Angeles Times, Sculpture, Services and Shopping
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Learn about fire-resistant landscaping
NOV. 8 Firescaping: Landscape architect and contractor Owen Dell, a co-designer of the Santa Barbara Firescape Garden, leads a class on fire-resistant landscaping. 1 to 3 p.m. Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers & Native Plants, 10459 Tuxford St.,...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), Photography, Agricultural Research and Technology
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Oxy's new president hopes to bridge eras
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterRobert Skotheim was at first amused when he was invited to become president of Occidental College, even for just 18 months. "I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of," he recalled. After all, the former professor of American history had...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles Times, United Nations, University of Southern California
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Huntington Library's new garden celebrates Chinese culture
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFar from the frenetic pace of modern China, hidden behind a Wall of the Colorful Clouds in suburban San Marino, a placid garden links botany with poetry and a scattered ethnic community with the elegant grandeur of its ancient civilization. In the 12-...Tags: San Gabriel, Elections, Minority Groups, Poetry, Los Angeles Times
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'This Side of Paradise' at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
![A1991 photograph by John Humble shows Selma Avenue at Vine Street as a jumbled, architecturally constructed Hollywood landscape of office buildings, stores, asphalt and advertising billboards. Dominating the center is Angelyne, the cosmetically manufactured "human Barbie doll," who adorns one enormous sign.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-06/40093042-17132343.jpg "A1991 photograph by John Humble shows Selma Avenue at Vine Street as a jumbled, architecturally constructed Hollywood landscape of office buildings, stores, asphalt and advertising billboards. Dominating the center is Angelyne, the cosmetically manufactured "human Barbie doll,\" who adorns one enormous sign.")
Times Art CriticA1991 photograph by John Humble shows Selma Avenue at Vine Street as a jumbled, architecturally constructed Hollywood landscape of office buildings, stores, asphalt and advertising billboards. Dominating the center is Angelyne, the cosmetically...Tags: Entertainment, Gardens and Parks, Photography, Vehicles, Recording Studios
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