Elsewhere in the galaxy, different heroes had their mission. Released just seven months after Star Wars in 1977, Hardware Wars is the original science fiction spoof. Tuesday, Feb. 16, Hardware Wars will be available to fans all over the world. Local company Apprehensive Films will release it for the first time on DVD. Hardware Wars centers around the hero, Fluke Starbucker and his fight against evil and Darph Nader. Piloting a giant cassette tape, Starbucker leads the heroes away from evil. Ham Salad and Chewchilla join Starbucker and his fight against evil. From a basketball planet, Starbuckers flashlight (lightsaber) and flying bottle openers, Hardware Wars surprises viewers in every s

Star Wars fans will be thrilled; non-fans will be amazed. I fall into the latter camp. I saw the first film in 1977, on the day it came out, and enjoyed it. Since then, I’ve caught most of the other films, but remain underwhelmed. I just didn’t get it. Friday night at ARCO Arena, I got it. “Star Wars in Concert,” a multimedia spectacular that aims to extend the life of the Star Wars franchise into live performance, delivered a dazzling spectacle that beautifully summarized the entire Star Wars saga for those of us who didn’t connect with the epic on film. The show will be reprised this afternoon at 3 p.m. at ARCO. The hook of the show is John WIlliams’ grandiose music for all six Star

"Star Wars" fans will be in for a treat on Oct. 9 and 10 when "Star Wars: In Concert" will make its Sacramento debut at Arco Arena. "[The show] is a fully multimedia, full-evening concert that takes two hours, which includes a 20 minute intermission," said David Barber, the North American press representative for the tour. Clips from each movie will be used to tell an abridged version of the story, effectively summing up the entire adventure in roughly one-sixth of its actual length. "Lucasfilm cut the montages to fit John Williams' cut-downs of the music made for the event especially by Williams — all custom work," said Barber. Narrating the entire show will be none other than Anthony

Halloween came to Sacramento early Wednesday morning as a group of six local science fiction lovers marched downtown dressed in Klingon, Death Star Trooper and Sith Lord costumes. Dozens of children and sci-fi fans flocked to take photographs and speak with the costumed characters. Others gawked, laughed and one child even cried as they meandered from the California Museum down K Street and past the Capitol to Cesar Chavez Plaza. The march was organized to promote The California Museum's new sci-fi exhibit "Out of this World: Extraordinary Costumes from Film and Television," which will run from Oct. 3 to Jan. 10. It will feature more than 50 props and costumes from some of Hollywood's mo