Subject: John Williams

• Fair from Over

  October 21, 2008

• Scene, Heard

  A flood of inaugural party invites hits our mailbox

  January 18, 2001

• Cat man dues

  May 11, 1995

• War of the Words

  July 25, 1996

• Leader of the band

  July 25, 1996

• Force fed

  January 30, 1997

• Out There

  July 17, 1997

• On the fringes

  January 1, 1998

• Comfortably numb

  January 8, 1998

• As You Lock and Load Your Halo Wars Demo, Keep An Ear Out For Plano's Stephen Rippy

  Xbox-ers are no doubt anxiously awaiting tomorrow, when Microsoft finally unleashes its Halo Wars demo in advance of the game's March 3 release date. (Am I the only person who misses Tempest? Ooooh -- thanks, Atari!) I digress. So happens there's an extremely local connection to the Halo spin-off: The guy who scored the videogame happens to be a Plano resident by the name of Stephen Rippy, who, for the last 10 years, has worked for Microsoft's (now-defunct) Ensemble Studios and provided the soun

  February 4, 2009

• Far from perfect

  June 4, 1998

• Going for the gold

  September 17, 1998

• A slightly dirty dozen

  December 31, 1998

• Stephen Rippy Sets Halo Wars High Score

  February 26, 2009

• Mr. Soundtrack

  February 19, 2009

• Duh-Nuh, Duh-Nuh, Duh-Nuh

  June 26, 2008

• Recycled Steel

  You'll swear you've seen this Superman somewhere before

  June 29, 2006

• The Arcade Fire

  Funeral (Merge)

  September 30, 2004

• Burning Japanese

  Godzilla after 50 years reveals more than just a rubber suit

  June 17, 2004

• Drood Awakening

  Dickens around at WaterTower

  April 3, 2003

• Catcher in the Sky

  Spielberg, once more, is caught up in the thrill of the chase

  December 26, 2002

• Wonder Boy

  Harry Potter's second adventure delights exactly like the first

  November 14, 2002

• Dicking Around

  Minority Report is guilty of being a fun ride with a bumpy end

  June 20, 2002

• California Dreaming

  Los Angeles artists bring their defiantly difficult work to Dallas

  September 6, 2001

• Space Oddity

  Spielberg and Kubrick had a weird little kid, and its name is A.I.

  June 28, 2001

• He Scores

  Ennio Morricone has written great music for good, bad and ugly films

  March 29, 2001

• Saving Private Mel

  The Patriot is sentimental, overbearing, flag-waving--and a crowd-pleaser

  June 29, 2000

• Great expectations

  Theater is still a taste worth acquiring, even in the age of special effects

  July 8, 1999

• Out of Africa

  Spielberg delivers a wildly erratic--and tumultuously moving--historical epic with the overreaching passion of a man possessed

  December 11, 1997

• Tim DeLaughter Gets Nominated For An Emmy

  It was back in January when we learned that Polyphonic Spree frontman Tim DeLaughter had written the theme music for the Diablo Cody-penned Showtime series United States of Tara. Well, six months later, more on that front: DeLaughter's been nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on the theme song in the category of Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music. Won't be a cakewalk win, though; the category pits DeLaughter against venerable John Williams, among others. The wi

  July 16, 2009

• Today In Music News: Star Wars Music Comes Alive, American Music Fans Are Slow and Dawson Passes

  Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, July 27, 2009... Nerds unite! A symphonic concert version of Star Wars will start in October.  The symphony will play the classic John Williams score set to different video pieces of the beloved franchise. Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan thinks U.S. music fans are 30 years behind the times. Which is fine with me. But, seriously, have you heard of this band the Sex Pistols?! They're crazy! Psychedelic songwriter John "Marmaduke" Dawson has

  July 27, 2009

• So, Wait, They're Gonna Show Star Wars on the Cowboys Stadium's Big Screen?

  Local painter Christine Smith's Leia's Tea Party, on display at The Soda Gallery (and quite the bargain)​Just as I was getting ready to post photos from last night's Star Wars art shindig at The Soda Gallery, a Friend of Unfair Park sent word this morning: The Star Wars: In Concert tour is scheduled to land at the Death Star itself -- Jerry Jones's EnormoDome -- on October 23. (Tickets, matter of fact, went on sale yesterday.) Seems like quite the geekout: two hours' worth of John Williams's m

  August 23, 2009

• Star Wars In the Death Star

  October 22, 2009

• Sometimes It Ain't Easy Being C-3PO. But Anthony Daniels Loves Him Just the Same.

  Sir Anthony Daniels: The Unfair Park Interview from Dallas Observer on Vimeo.The 6-year-old who lives in my house has spoken: We will be attending Star Wars: In Concert tomorrow night at the Cowboys Stadium, where, one prays, The Force will be with the sound system for a change. So, then, what to expect: two hours' worth of the six Star Wars movies sliced and diced into Cliff's Notes narrated by Anthony Daniels, who'll be joined by an orchestra performing a John Williams best-of. Daniels, of cou

  October 22, 2009