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Among this weekend's offerings, Black Cube will debut an avant-garde artist's film, street artists converge at Rising Gallery, a holiday party and art show, and so much more.

Miljenko "Mike" Grgich, a driving force behind establishing Napa Valley as a premier global wine region, has passed.

A touring exhibition from the Smithsonian is now at the Mayborn Museum, with highly detailed NASA photos revealing various aspects of lunar geology and history in “A New Moon Rises.”

Love conquers It was love at first sight when a deer made a romantic Christmas pass at an ornamental doe in the front yard of a Camp Nelson, California, home recently. The statuesque female of the …

And she might succeed in getting events like these canceled.

Studies found new evidence that living near oil and gas extraction sites is hazardous to human health.

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Dogs have lived with Indigenous Americans since before they came to the continent together 10,000 years ago. A new analysis reveals the lineage of one 1800s ‘woolly dog’ from the Pacific Northwest.

A little-known dog lineage with fur so thick it was spun into blankets was selectively bred for millennia by Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest until its rapid demise following European colonization, a study in Science showed Thursday."We found signatures of inbreeding depression, showing that... reproduction was very carefully maintained over a very long period of time," said Lin -- echoing Native accounts that dog husbandry occurred in isolated enclosures or on coastal islands...

A full-length portrait of television icon Oprah Winfrey, painted by Chicago-based artist Shawn Michael Warren, was unveiled at the museum.