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- Letters
Stan Miller's return to TV is the best news we could ever read ("Miller is a blessing for 8; Tuck, Villareal KUSI coups" by Preston Turegano, Dec. 20).
- POP SCENE
The stuff that comes out of their mouths!
From the profound and the absurd to the profoundly absurd, musicians say the most fascinating things.
- '24' writers winging it as they go
CHATSWORTH – For no particular reason, except possibly to torture himself, Robert Cochran keeps a neatly typed story/character grid from the first season of "24," the real-time TV spy thriller he and Joel Surnow created four years ago, pinned to the bulletin board of his otherwise memento-free office.
- High notes, low notes
Classical music had plenty of high notes this year, especially when it came to singing.
- CLASSICAL MUSIC
He's hard at work creating a 'special feeling'
This was Jahja Ling's big year, the year he became the San Diego Symphony's music director and plunged into improving the once-bankrupt orchestra.
- BOOKS
From the land of avocados, a wordsmith's quantum leap
Out in Fallbrook, T. Jefferson Parker lives on the edge. That is, he always seems on the verge of breaking through commercially and becoming a big-, big-selling author.
- DANCE
New Yorker hits town, dancing as fast as she can
Times are tough for all the arts, all over the country, but dance in San Diego is especially vulnerable because there are so few financially stable local institutions to support the creation and presentation of this most human art form.
- LOCAL BROADCASTING
The father of San Diego's 'Progressive Talk'
Radio in San Diego changed radically and historically this year, thanks largely to the efforts of Cliff Albert, program director of Clear Channel Communications' KOGO/AM 600 and KLSD/AM 1360.
- TELEVISION
Sitcom veteran came up with a hit, and rescued a desperate network
Marc Cherry didn't exactly revolutionize network TV in 2004. He just reminded everybody of what the business is all about – hit shows.
- VISUAL ARTS
An artist expands (and shrinks) his genre
Seventy-one seems to be a very good year for Richard Allen Morris.
- CULTURE
We have met the enemy and he is us
Ashlee Simpson is my pop-culture Person of the Year, and I don't mean that in a good way.
- POP MUSIC
A flash in time echoes over the months
Move over, Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam. Step aside, Keb' Mo' and the Dixie Chicks.
- THEATER
A one-man act builds 'a company identity'
While most artistic directors around town saved a few choice projects for themselves, Sean Murray, during his Cygnet Theatre's first full season, directed and designed every show himself.
- MOVIES
Best Flamethrower Oscars should go to this odd couple
They were the Janus face of film in 2004, powerful profiles facing different directions, with even more impact than Ray Milland and Rosey Grier in 1972's "The Thing With Two Heads."
- MOVIES
The winners in the pairs competition
The biz buzz cooled for movies in 2004, though Mel Gibson ("The Passion of the Christ") and Michael Moore ("Fahrenheit 9/11") raised temperatures by jamming fierce new crowds into theaters.
- Action!
Tom Waits has taken a role as "a wandering soothsayer" in the film "Domino." Tony Scott ("Man on Fire") is directing the movie, based on the true story of model Domino Harvey, who gave up a life in the spotlight to become a bounty hunter.
- Join the conversation
As the song goes, it was a very good year, or was it?
You now get the last word.
- In Memoriam
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