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"...lot of people never see them, there are chirping frogs all around us in Austin. UT amphibian expert Tom..."

June 28, 2024 News Feature

Arts, Comedy, Theatre, Movies, and More Recommended Weekend Events
Jackie and Foxy Brown?! Yes please!
"...your kids will probably use it to store small frogs, buttons, jacks, pebbles, Barbie shoes, or other such accoutrements..."

June 7, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Day Trips: Bend, Texas
Five reasons to take the Bend in the road
"...makes up in natural beauty. The clicking croak of frogs fills the night air, and in the morning birdsongs..."

May 31, 2024 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Hundreds of Beavers
Loony live-action cartoon about a fur trader who goes to war with rodents
"...whimsy with a straight face, treating knitted fish, puppet frogs, and the Wisconsin snowdrifts in which it was filmed..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup
News and events from Corpus Christi to Fort Davis
"...The Moanin’ Frogs in Concert May 21, Fredericksburg, www.fredericksburgmusicclub.com..."

May 4, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

The Luv Doc: It’s Bad, and It’s Nationwide
Comfort is the turd in which the mushroom of ignorance grows
"...night for anyone who had money on the Horned Frogs. That said, extreme humiliation is no excuse for deplorable..."

Jan. 20, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

Top 10 Austin Food News Stories of 2022
Restaurant closures, inflation woes, and cannabis wins
"...(or at home) cheaply these days. We are the frogs in the pot slowly growing acclimated to paying $13..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Tamales: A Winter Tradition
One writer’s picks for the best in Austin
"...their tamales with mole. Beans are quite popular today. Frogs and salamanders are said to have been used in..."

Dec. 6, 2022 Food Post by Christina Garcia

Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, September 9-15
"...or creek or lake. Converse with the fish and frogs and turtles and beavers. Study the ways of the..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

How Dean Fleischer-Camp Brought Marcel the Shell With Shoes On to Life
Inside the secret life of the stop-motion smash
"...was a frog. I grew up with tons of frogs in Virginia – they were just roaring in summer..."

July 21, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Oddities and Curiosities Expo Is Coming to Austin
The perfect place to stock your cabinet of curiosities
"...local Texan vendors. Shop the whimsical paintings of bats, frogs turning into mushrooms, human hearts being run through by..."

June 17, 2022 Arts Post by Mazzy Oliver Smallwood

Mohawk, Daniel Johnston, and Peelander Yellow Release NFTs on Emergent Online Marketplace
Austin music jumps into the collectable digital art trend
"...The Johnston NFT features six colorful frogs that blink as a keyboard instrumental from the 1985..."

April 7, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Hanging Out With Sophia the Sloth and Her Reptilian Pal
ZooKeeper’s sloth is torpidly glad to see you
"...accommodates the needs of many large snakes, lizards, turtles, frogs, and so on – that they make sure a..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Day Trips: Bob “Daddy-O” Wade
A tour of dearly departed Bob “Daddy-O” Wade’s art
"...Saloon on Lamar Boulevard in Austin to the dancing frogs that once decorated a truck stop on I-35. "I'm..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

In Memoriam: Bob "Daddy-o" Wade
A fond farewell to the original trickster of Lone Star art
"...for 40 years now. A sextet of 10-foot-tall dancing frogs that Wade created for the roof of the Tango..."

Dec. 27, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Daniel Johnston's Death Begins Its Reverberations Around the Globe
“He’s legendary, but he was first a legend in his own mind, then he became a real legend.”
"...found a container in the garbage that held rubber frogs," he elaborates. "It had a picture of a frog..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Penguin Highway
A wonderful anime adventure into childhood ... with lots of adorable penguins
"...starting to notice girls but still want to find frogs in pools...."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Grand Re-Opening of the Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata
Local treasure comes weirdin’ on back with a new annex and guidebook
"...even if it happens to be a rain of frogs...."

Oct. 17, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Point Austin: Ground Zero for Zero Tolerance
Southwest Key becomes the local symbol of brutal U.S. policy
"...Nevertheless, once the shelters were required to accept not..."

Aug. 3, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Of Frogs and Children
Do what you can to defend imprisoned refugees

July 13, 2018 News Column by Michael King

The Luv Doc: Terrible Music
Burn it all down and start over
"...You have to draw a line somewhere though, don't..."

April 20, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

Playback: No Really, How Are You?
Daniel Johnston provides backstory to Hi, How Are You? Day, plus the first 2017/18 Austin Music Awards talent reveal
"...found a container in the garbage that held rubber frogs," he elaborates. "It had a picture of a frog..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

“Pio Pulido: The Last Exhibit of the 20th Century” at the MACC
This retrospective is like visiting an artist’s crowded studio and yet provides just a glimpse of this visionary’s output
"...Arcimboldo-esque portraits. Self-Portrait features the artist's bust made from frogs, birds, rodents, and fish, topped off with a crown..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Imaginary Drinks We Wish Were Real
Our favorite fictional booze
"...Tatooine experience. For bolder palates, try the Klatooine paddy frogs. Slurm..."

July 21, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
"...after the winter solstice and marks the day when frogs, snakes, and insects come out of hibernation. One old..."

July 14, 2017 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Live Music to See This Weekend
Your handbook for a happy Friday and Saturday
"...Band. Dyn-o-mite. – Raoul Hernandez Jimmy Flemion of the Frogs..."

July 7, 2017 Music Post by The Music Staff

PJ Harvey Troubles the Water
Stubb’s sell-out offers little hope yet God-like force
"...signpost of an end that’s long arrived, humans as frogs being slowly boiled by our own hand...."

April 29, 2017 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

The Joyless Antidote
"...the March 31 edition of your newsweekly ["Page Two: Frogs Were the Second Plague"] is a masterpiece; just plain..."

March 31, 2017 Postmarks

Page Two: Frogs Were the Second Plague
The Time of the Toad, and a time to dance
"...The plague of frogs is welcome, toads are enshrined, a golden idol molded..."

March 31, 2017 Column by Louis Black

Friday SOS Record Reviews
Please Be Honest (Rockathon)
"...Bizarro flecks ("Sad Baby Eyes") recall the 58-year-old frontman's Frogs-like eccentricity. If fans approach this idiosyncratic half-hour listen like..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

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