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Composer Nobuo Uematsu elevated video game music to a new level in the "Final Fantasy" series. (Photo courtesy of San Diego Symphony)

'Final Fantasy': Composer Nobuo Uematsu is game for San Diego

By Valerie Scher, SDNN

Composer Nobuo Uematsu is the John Williams of video games. And in an SDNN interview, he and conductor Arnie Roth get real about “Final Fantasy” and the music that’s taking them to San Diego and far beyond.

Comic-Con 2010 guide

By Joseph Peña, SDNN

Comic-Con is next weekend and navigating the four-day program and related antics can be overwhelming. How do attendees devise a game plan? With our help, of course.

Toulouse-Lautrec earns limelight (again) in San Diego show

By David Elliott, SDNN

Art review w/photo gallery: We’ll always have Toulouse-Lautrec’s Paris, says SDNN’s David Elliott. The art works are instant seducers and not even absinthe could make your heart grow fonder.

Comic-Con Sunday: Eight great can’t-miss panels and previews

By Joseph Peña, SDNN

Sunday is kid’s day at Comic-Con, with 27 special programs for kids, and other programs throughout the day that are great for kids, too.

Photo gallery: A day at the San Diego Zoo

By Valerie Scher, SDNN

W/photo gallery: Have you ever made eye contact with a Pygmy Marmoset? You can do that and much more at the San Diego Zoo, as SDNN’s Arts & Entertainment editor recently discovered. Check out the photos.

Artist of the Month

Glenn Paris and Claudio Raygoza are revolutionizing San Diego theater one electronically charged atom at a time. (Photo courtesy of ion theatre)

July Artists of the Month: ion theatre's Claudio Raygoza and Glenn Paris

By Annu Subramanian, SDNN

Ion theatre has 49 seats, low ceilings and a small stage space. But the men who run it have a big, bold mission.

SDNN Music

Jeremy Camp: They're better be sandwiches back there! And local coffee! Or else.

Even San Diego County Fair concert performers are divas

By Eric Yates, SDNN

Switchfoot not wanting iceberg lettuce in their salads? Joan Jett wanting only dark-colored towels onstage? Jeremy Camp's (yeah, I had to Google him, too) camp eating only sandwiches? Or demanding that there be only locally brewed coffee? Laughable.

SDNN Arts Photos

David Elliott on Movies

'Inception' scrambles DiCaprio, dreams, effects

By David Elliott, SDNN

Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Ariadne (Ellen Page) are caught on the slippery slope of dreams in "Inception." (Photo courtesy of Warner Bros./Melissa Moseley)

Movie review: Is “Inception,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio, a mega-“Matrix” or something less? SDNN movie critic David Elliott gives you the answer.

Pat Launer on Theater

Old Globe 'Madness,' 'Shrew' plus arts news

By Pat Launer, SDNN

(From left) Robert Foxworth (as Dr. Francis Willis), Miles Andeerson (as King George III) and Emily Swallow (as Queen Charlotte) in the 2010 Shakespeare Festival production of Alan Bennett's "The Madness of George III" at The Old Globe. (Photo courtesy of The Old Globe)

The Old Globe’s Summer Shakespeare Festival attracts theater-goers from all over. So let SDNN theater critic Pat Launer be your guide to productions of “The Taming of the Shrew,“ “The Madness of George III” and “King Lear.”

Culture Cruncher arts blog

Surf's up! 'Ultimate Wave Tahiti' surges into Fleet Science Center

By David Dixon, SDNN

Surf champ Kelly Slater faces tests his abilities in "The Ultimate Wave Tahiti." (Photo by Will Allen)

Movie review w/video: You don’t have to be a surfer to enjoy the IMAX documentary “The Ultimate Wave Tahiti,” says SDNN’s non-surfing teen contributor, David Dixon.