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Hard-core Harry Potter fans who devoured the books, camped out for the movies and trekked through the theme park now have a new way to relive the boy wizard's adventures. PHOTOS: Making of Harry Potter studio tour Debuting Saturday, the Making of Harry Potter behind-the-scenes tour at theWarner Bros.studios in England will let wizards, mudbloods and muggles pull back the curtain on the movie-making secrets of the most successful film series of all time. Located 20 miles outside of London, the three-hour self-guided tour will take visitors past sets, props, costumes, models and special effects exhibits from the eight "Harry Potter" movies.

A change is in store for the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens’ main display of its rare books, manuscripts, drawings, photography and other literary and historical  holdings -- including a Gutenberg Bible from the 1450s, a 1623 First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays and a gigantic first edition copy of John James Audubon’s “Birds of America.

Weaving a link between American history and the African folk art of basket making is the focus of a trio of exhibits at UCLA's Fowler Museum. The largest of the three, "Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art," a traveling exhibition organized by the Museum for African Art in New York, explores the significant contributions of African culture to American art. It features more than 200 objects from Africa and South Carolina, including sculptures,...

With a last round of roster cuts looming ahead of this summer's London Olympics, U.S. Water Polo Coach Terry Schroeder will get one final look at his team in action when it plays a series of exhibitions in Southern California against Croatia and Hungary, the defending Olympic champion, beginning Saturday at Newport Harbor High School. Schroeder needs to trim three players from a 16-man roster that includes 11 former Olympians, among them three-time Olympians Tony Azevedo, the team captain, and Ryan Bailey.

"Extreme Exposure" Where: Annenberg Space for Photography, 2000 Avenue of the Stars, Century City When: Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; closed Monday and Tuesday. Price: Free Info: (213) 403-3000; http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org

Re "Court takes up bid of illegal immigrant to be attorney," May 17 Sergio Garcia, an undocumented immigrant who passed the State Bar of California exams to practice law, is a perfect example of someone who would benefit from a federal Dream Act. Not only is he a model citizen, he's a smart one too. Why should this young man wait up to 15 years to become legal and then a lawyer? He should be admitted to the bar now, and a certificate of citizenship should be attached.

'Their Rights and Nothing Less: Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage' Where: Heritage Square Museum, 3800 Homer St., L.A. When: 12 to 5 p.m. Fridays to Sundays through Sept. 26 Price: $10, adults; $8, seniors; $5, children ages 6 to 12; free, children younger than 6. Cost includes a tour of the museum. Contact: (323) 225-2700; http://www.heritagesquare.org

FIDM's exhibit, "The Art Of Motion Picture Costume Design," opens February 9th and ends Saturday, April 17th, 2010. Gallery Hours: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Closed Sunday/Monday. Admission: Free Location: The FIDM Museum & Galleries On The Park, 1st Level, FIDM/ Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, 919 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90015 (Corner of Grand Avenue & 9th Street) Tours:1-hour tours available at select times, Monday - Friday, by appointment only.

Though the underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger operates well outside the mainstream, his cult films such as "Fireworks" and "Scorpio Rising" have influenced scores of filmmakers, musicians and other artists. Anger's work is the focus of the new exhibition "Kenneth Anger: Icons," opening Sunday, which explores his Magick Lantern film cycle and includes archival material and memorabilia. MOCA, 250 S. Grand Ave., L.A. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sun. (213) 626-6222. http://www.moca.org.

Richard Nixon sure had a way with his lady. The nation's 37th president married his wife, Pat, after a courtship that was marked by love letters in which the two flirted the old-fashioned way: via pen and paper. Nixon called her his "dearest heart" and his "Irish gypsy" in newly unveiled love letters going on display Friday at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda. The exhibit honors First Lady Pat Nixon on what would have been her 100th birthday.  "Every day and every night I want to see you and be with you," Nixon wrote in one letter.

GREENSBORO, N.C. - A third day of jury deliberations in the campaign finance trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards passed without a verdict Tuesday, with the jurors due back in federal court Wednesday morning. The jury of eight men and four women requested two more prosecution exhibits, bringing to more than a dozen the number of exhibits sought by jurors since deliberations began Friday. The documents requested Tuesday were letters to or about Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, now 101, a billionaire heiress and Edwards supporter who gave $725,000 that was used to help hide the candidate's mistress during his failed campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

Re "Court takes up bid of illegal immigrant to be attorney," May 17 Sergio Garcia, an undocumented immigrant who passed the State Bar of California exams to practice law, is a perfect example of someone who would benefit from a federal Dream Act. Not only is he a model citizen, he's a smart one too. Why should this young man wait up to 15 years to become legal and then a lawyer? He should be admitted to the bar now, and a certificate of citizenship should be attached.

GREENSBORO, N.C. - The jurors who will decide the fate of former presidential candidate John Edwards deliberated for more than four hours Friday before breaking for the weekend in a trial focused on complex campaign finance laws and lurid details of Edwards' extramarital affair. The jury of eight men and four women must decide whether Edwards knowingly conspired to violate federal election laws as part of a scheme to cover up his affair with videographer Rielle Hunter during his campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

Culture Monster will occasionally visit museum exhibits dealing with history, anthropology, science or sociology. The show : "Visions of Empire: The Quest for a Railroad Across America, 1840-1880" at theHuntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. The goods : The Huntington archives supply 98% of the exhibits, from the resolutions of eight Eastern states to build it, to a railway worker's letter home to his mother and the ledgers workers signed (one with Chinese characters)

As its 75th birthday fast approaches, the Golden Gate Bridge is getting a little birthday present. Even though about 40 million vehicles cross it each year and visitors come in droves daily to admire and photograph it, the spectacular span has never had a visitor center. That is, until this month. "The bridge experience up to this point has just really been self-guided and a photo opportunity," said David Shaw, vice president of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. "Now there's this bridge pavilion, which is a really nice welcome center.

The signs of penguins in love were unmistakable at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach on Monday: puffing their chests, standing on tiptoes while clicking their beaks together, belting out donkey-like brays. The colony of 13 Magellanic penguins, which recently moved from holding pens to a new $1.5-million exhibit that opens to the public Thursday, has seethed with courting rituals since the arrival of breeding season. One pair is already tending to a newly hatched chick.

Marvel at the photographic mastery of one of the art form's early practitioners: Frederick Evans . Evans began making photos in the 1880s and became known for his eye for architecture. The Getty, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles. Through June 6. Free. (310) 440-7300; www.getty.edu.

Her one and only voyage ended in tragedy, yet the Titanic has been famous ever since. Next year is the 100th anniversary of the fatal sinking, but exhibitions about the doomed vessel have been running for years all around the world, many of them launched in the wake of the huge success of James Cameron’s 1997 movie. The newest exhibit is a homecoming of sorts. "Titanica: The Exhibition" is opening Tuesday at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, a 174-acre site a few miles outside Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the ship was designed, crafted and riveted in the Harland & Wolff shipyard.

"What's the difference between Jewish and Chinese mah jong?" the protagonist of Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" asks her mother about the quintessential Chinese game. Her mother replies, "Entirely different kind of playing.... Jewish mah jong, they watch only for their own tile, play only with their eyes. " "Project Mah Jongg," a colorful exhibition opening Thursday (through Sept. 2) at the Skirball Cultural Center, tells the Jewish side of the story. With vintage photographs, souvenirs, playing guides and other ephemera, and of course examples of the tiles themselves, the exhibition traces how the game was enthusiastically adopted and integrated into the social life of Jewish women in the 20th century.

NEW YORK - "A snake swallowing an elephant" is how the Chinese artist Wu Guanzhong described himself. The snake was the Chinese artist in him, and the elephant was Western art. The stylistic fusion that made him one of China'sleading modern artists is on view at the Asia Society Museum here in "Revolutionary Ink: The Paintings of Wu Guanzhong," which also reflects the artist's long life amid the turmoil of China's 20th century. Wu died in 2010 at 90, and these works from his last decades - depicting nature and architecture, some more naturalistic, others mostly abstract - show his easy cohabitation of two cultural hemispheres.