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Government transparency finally broke through to the popular zeitgeist this year. It wasn’t an investigative journalism exposé or a civil rights lawsuit that did it, but a light-hearted sitcom about a Taiwanese American family set in Orlando, Florida, in the late 1990s.

Richard Tuschman, renowned for his contemporary and commercial art, has a solo show of “photographs” at the Center for Photographic Art that tell stories. It’s called Beautiful Terrible Things. They are tableaus of people in stripped-down interiors of 1940s or ’50s urban dwellings, looking m…

Directed by Todd Douglas Miller • Starring Buzz Aldrin, Joan Ann Archer, Janet Armstrong • Rated G • 93 min.

Thank you for this article (“Despite a persistent problem of encampments at Laguna Grande Park, the years go by, and nothing seems to change,” March 7-13). I have lived less than two blocks away for years and refuse to go into the park. Just look at the bushes at the corner of Canyon Del Rey…

I have been smoking for about two years now. I smoke bongs, blunts, joints, etc. The weed I used to smoke was always indica, usually from dispensaries, with about 30 – to 33-percent THC. My tolerance has always been pretty high. I can outsmoke friends who have smoked their whole life and I a…