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Goodbye Solo
Film Review  May 8, 2009
Description: This small marvel of a film by American portraitist Ramin Bahrani is a large-hearted examination of human curiosity and kindness and the limits of both.

"...An American portraitist working in the same scope (but with more hope) as Wendy and Lucy’s Kelly Reichardt, Bahrani has made three films in four years, all of them critically acclaimed if underseen, and in 2008 he won the prestigious Someone to Watch Independent Spirit Award. Goodbye Solo – which continues the vehicular thread of his previous films, Man Push Cart and Chop Shop – tells the North Carolina-set story of the brief bond that forms between a Senegalese cab driver named Solo (Savané) and his frequent passenger, 70-year-old William (West, a former stunt actor and one of Elvis Presley's longtime bodyguards)..."

Humble Me
Music Blog  January 29, 2008
Description: Sharon Jones sold out Austin, but she's nowhere near selling out.

"...Like a worn out cassette tape, it’s a scenario that has played out over and over again throughout modern music history: A young white performer borrows the sound of a black artist to disproportionate acclaim and compensation. If you need a primer on said scenario check Mos Def’s “Rock N Roll” or Gil Scott-Heron’s “Ain’t No New Thing.” As Scott-Heron ever so delicately says in the intro, “Chuck Berry was doing a very heavy rock ‘n’ roll thing … but white people couldn’t dig having their daughters go to no shows and cream over no black man wiggling on the stage so consequently they invented Elvis Presley.” You could call this an oversimplification but it would be hard to call it entirely inaccurate...."

One Night With the King
Film Review  October 20, 2006
Description: Despite a title that makes it sound like a tell-all about a one-night-stand with Elvis Presley, this movie is actually about the Jewish heroine, Queen Esther.

"...Starring: Tiffany Dupont, Luke Goss, John Rhys-Davies, Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, John Noble, Tommy "Tiny" Lister and James Callis. Despite a title that makes it sound like a tell-all about a one-night stand with Elvis Presley, this movie is actually about the Jewish heroine, Queen Esther (Dupont), who saves her people from extermination through her marriage to the powerful King Xerxes of Persia (Goss)..."

3000 Miles to Graceland
Film Review  February 23, 2001
Description: Like great sex, a truly great action film leaves you feeling shaken and stirred. The Wild Bunch, The Killer, Dobermann, Reservoir Dogs, La Femme Nikita, even Armageddon -- all of...

"...I suspect this is meant to represent grizzled thugs Murphy and Michael (Costner and Russell), who are soon after introduced as the leaders of a quintet of thieves embarking on the daring daylight robbery of a Vegas casino. They arrive in the midst of the annual Elvis Presley impersonator festival, costumed as the King and mutton-chopped to within an inch of their lives, grab a cool $3.2 million, pop off a lot of rounds, and then, like the King, leave the building..."

Six-String Samurai
Film Review  September 18, 1998
Description: The whole Road Warrior/Death Race 2000 post-apocalyptic hero genre is stone-cold dead, and no amount of clammy-lipped CPR from Kevin Costner is going to bring it back. But with the...

"...But with the feral genius of a comics-steeped mind, ballyhooed young director Lance Mungia has managed to wring some fresh excitement out of it anyway, crafting a wild, indescribable fantasy romp that doesn't so much revitalize a tired story tradition as detonate a stick of dynamite up its keister. The action takes place in an alternate universe in which the USA, soundly whipped in a nuclear war with the Russians, has devolved into a ragtag tribal confederation ruled over by “King” Elvis Presley..."

Beware of a Holy Whore
Film Review  November 5, 1993
Description: Beware of a Holy Whore is Rainer Werner Fassbinder's -- the Seventies' enfant terrible of foreign filmmaking -- quintessential film. Made in 1970 (along with six other films -- Fassbinder's...

"...Shot by the amazing Michael Ballhaus, there are numerous breathtaking tracking shots that follow the characters through the hotel. This print is a new restoration sponsored by the Fassbinder Foundation and its soundtrack includes several songs that were cut from the first American release because no one had paid for the rights to use them -- songs by Leonard Cohen, Elvis Presley and Ray Charles..."

Mind Over Music: Austin’s Music Trivia Smackdown
Sports Story  February 5, 2010
Description: The Chronicle's first-ever music trivia competition featured a who's who of Austin's vibrant music scene

"...Answers: 1) Elvis Presley; 2) 23; 3) Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wis.; 4) "Crazy," "Funny How Time Slips Away," and "Night Life"; 5) Van Zandt's two parakeets..."

Learning the Game
Music Story  February 5, 2010
Description: Learning Buddy Holly's game, 203 tracks at a time

"...Bound yearbook style, priceless pictures including the day of Holly's biggest bang – opening for Elvis Presley in Lubbock's Fair Park Coliseum, 1955 – Not Fade Away twangs, rocks, and breaks your heart like an audio biography, every track a page of Buddy Holly's brief musical lifetime – a recorded burst starting that year of Presley and cut short by the winter tour that resulted in his death four years later. Texans should consider its 79 pages required reading, the narrative a breathless one...."

Event Menu
Food Column  January 8, 2010
Description: This week, Austin foodies tailgate, tango, and do their best Elvis impersonations

"...• Put on that lamé jumpsuit and celebrate what would be Elvis Presley's 75th birthday at your favorite Chuy's outlet (five area locations, www.chuys.com) with green chile fried chicken or an Elvis Memorial Combo. Show up dressed as Priscilla or the King and eat for free! Friday, Jan..."

Phases & Stages
Music Review  December 18, 2009

"...All this time, your stereo gets louder and louder. "Promenade" pops a hatch to Eno's Ambient Airlines on "4th of July," which returns as closing a cappella Bono benediction "MLK." Between them, "Bad" takes Marvin Gaye indie rock, Edge performs more Benihana on "Indian Summer Sky," and "Elvis Presley and America" dons Jim Morrison's shaman fringe..."

After a Fashion
Columns  October 9, 2009
Description: Stephen's Home Alone adventure was not at all like Macaulay Culkin's

"...WENT TO Last Thursday, I went to a party with Elvis Presley. "How so?" you might ask..."

Beyond Austin City Limits
Music Blog  September 30, 2009
Description: There's plenty to hear and see this weekend

"...The food is good and cheap, and you can join the dancing hippies if you’re so inclined. Later, again at the Continental, guitar god James Burton’s in town (he’s played with Elvis Presley and Elvis Costello), followed by T Bird & the Breaks, whose soul revue gets hotter every time they hit the stage...."

Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
Music Blog  September 2, 2009
Description: Elvis Costello's spectacle at the Bass Concert Hall

"...For this tour he brought those musicians - Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Mike Compton, Jim Lauderdale, Dennis Crouch, and Jeff Taylor - with him for a nearly three hour performance that included almost all of Sugarcane and covers from Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Merle Haggard, the Grateful Dead, and one curve ball, the Rolling Stones. It was one of the most engaging performances I’ve seen the man give in more than 30 years of following his career...."

Sometimes Rumble, Sometimes Tumble
Books Story  June 26, 2009
Description: Joe Lansdale may be Texas' bloody answer to Mark Twain

"...The post-atomic-bomb science-fiction tale "Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back"? Too dark for the marketplace, Lansdale originally thought. "Bubba Ho-Tep" and its mix of an aged Elvis Presley, a black John F..."

Book Review
Books Review  June 26, 2009
Description: Lansdale is Lansdale, his ownself, sanctified in the blood of the walking Western dead and righteously readable

"...It's less a beach book, thank god, than a pond or crick or quarry read, compiling as it does Lansdale's best known – and frequently most disturbing – stories, every one of them a minimasterpiece of the short form. There's the incandescent, ink-stained horror of "Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back" (my own first introduction to Lansdale, circa 1988); the casual, perfectly captured redneck nightmare of "Night They Missed the Horror Show"; and, thanks to Don Coscarelli's film adaptation, Lansdale's most well-known novella, "Bubba Ho-Tep," which posits an unlikely nursing-home alliance between an aging Elvis Presley and a black man who may or may not be John F..."

Gone Gone Gone
Music Blog  May 7, 2009
Description: The Head Cat himself, Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, talks in his sleep.

"...AC: You’re the generation for whom Elvis Presley is ground zero...."

SXSW Film
Screens Story  March 20, 2009

"...Teaming again with cinematographer Michael Simmonds, Bahrani creates the feel of a strikingly well-worn outsider universe. Newcomer Savané hits just the right notes as the well-meaning but unwanted chaperone, while West (one of Elvis Presley's original Memphis Mafia bodyguards) lends the film its touch of world-weariness..."

Event Menu
Food Column  January 9, 2009
Description: Your local foodie events for Jan. 8-10

"...• All five area Chuy's (www.chuys.com) locations celebrate the birthday of Elvis Presley this week with menu specials, impersonator performances, and party favors, plus commemorative drink cups and limited-edition T-shirts. Guests who arrive dressed as the King or Priscilla will receive free entrées..."

Happy New Year, 1954
Music Blog  January 7, 2009
Description: Pulling up the roots of rock

"...It’s also interesting to hear original versions of tunes that have become part of the rock and blues canon: “I Got Loaded,” “Baby, Don’t Do It,” “Shake a Hand,” “Eye Sight to the Blind.” Some might quibble with the tracks chosen to represent Little Richard and Fats Domino, or the absence of Elvis Presley and John Lee Hooker. The liner notes could be a bit more expansive as well..."

Karaoke Queen
Books Blog  December 30, 2008
Description: In honor of Brian Raftery's Don't Stop Believin' karaoke tome, K8X weighs in with her own karaoke lists.

"...22 Songs I'll Never Stop Singing at Karaoke Paul McCartney     Live & Let Die U2     Pride (In the Name of Love) Sweet     Ballroom Blitz Black Sabbath     War Pigs Tal Bachman     She's So High Elton John     Philadelphia Freedom Jefferson Airplane     White Rabbit Deep Purple     Highway Star Eric Burdon & Animals     Spill the Wine Righteous Brothers     You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' Starbuck     Moonlight Feels Right Elvis Presley     I Can't Help Falling in Love With You Temptations     Can't Get Next to You (solo, all parts) Golden Earring     Radar Love Kelly Clarkson     Since U Been Gone Cornelius Brothers     Treat Her Like a Lady Bruce Springsteen     Born to Run Tom Jones     What's New Pussycat Todd Rundgren     I Saw the Light Joe Tex     I Gotcha Richard Harris or Donna Summer     MacArthur Park Paul McCartney     Uncle Albert..."

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