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Aug. 25, 2006 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Below the Surface: A Different Order
In both halves of the Marjorie Moore and Jeffrey Dell joint show, "Below the Surface: A Different Order," a sense of loss is communicated, sometimes in terms of artistic technique, sometimes in terms of life
"...There is the loss of life endemic to road-killed frogs and taxidermied birds, as well as the passage out..."
Aug. 11, 2006 Arts Review by Amanda Douberley
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"...creeks and the brooks with the tadpoles and the frogs and the turtles." "Hey Pops! I've seen pictures of..."
May 26, 2006 Column
What's 'The Austin Chronicle'?
"...creeks and the brooks with the tadpoles and the frogs and the turtles.” "Hey Pops! I've seen pictures of..."
May 23, 2006 Postmarks
Wake Up, This Is Reality!
"...being killed per year by free-roaming cats. This includes frogs, snakes, rabbits, squirrels, and most of all our beautiful..."
Nov. 28, 2005 Postmarks
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Drug makers, belly dancing, and Harrison Ford
"...Chicago World's Fair.Despite the fact that thousands of fish, frogs, armadillos, egrets, killdeer, shorebirds, and marsh rabbits die or..."
Aug. 5, 2005 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants
Lege Notes
Odds and ends – mostly odds – from beneath the pink granite dome
"...other than tobacco-pusher Philip Morris. Despite early reports of frogs falling from the sky and plagues of locusts swarming..."
July 22, 2005 News Column
Shrinking Schools
While the suburbs sprawl, central city schools count their children – and their blessings
"...shelves overflowing with stuffed animals (pigs on one wall, frogs on another), Dusing mulls her options. She could go..."
May 20, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Dead hair and Nixon's psychic
"...you might say, "Cuando las ranas crien pelos" (when frogs grow hair). A close English equivalent is "When pigs..."
May 13, 2005 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Scissors, elephants, truck noises, lawnmowers, frogs, and 1/100th of a second
"...as well as mimicking the sounds of lawnmowers and frogs...."
April 22, 2005 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants
Overnight Sensation
Sword of Dracula' creator Jason Henderson is taking
over the (fantasy) world
"...also his newest: Sylvia Faust. The story of a cute-as-a-rain-of-frogs rogue witch with a mysterious past and an even..."
Jan. 14, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Paul McCartney
Gift guide
"...of the same name by David Wiesner, in which frogs float through a town on their lily pads. "Rupert..."
Dec. 24, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt
The Rules of the Game
How Hudson's on the Bend captures the spirit of cooking fearlessly
"...for two ($24) – a compendium of tender fried frogs' legs, alligator tail, and crawfish cakes – all crisp..."
Aug. 20, 2004 Food Feature by MM Pack
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Bullets, birds, and Booth
"...Guinea, produces neurotoxins similar to those found in poison-dart frogs of Central and South America...."
July 30, 2004 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants
Luv Doc Recommends: Something’s Brewin’ in Shiner screening
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, Monday, August 2, 2004
"...with beer companies it’s insipid advertising campaigns involving lizards, frogs, dogs, or ponies – cute stand-ins for the pot-bellied,..."
July 30, 2004 Column by The Luv Doc
Summer Fun
The Austin shore: beachy fun in Centex
"...to the Top" 'ritas as it is for its frogs, C'nC's is Lake Travis' hopping night spot and live..."
May 14, 2004 Features Feature by Meiling Guentzel
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Picks & Sleepers
"...Vagiant9pm, Club DeVille Imagine Kid Rock abducted by the Frogs, and you're getting Vagiant. These four L.A. fart jokers..."
March 19, 2004 Music Feature
Weird Science Takes the Stage
The strange but true tale of how a high school class turned a science textbook into a play
"...What do you see? Frogs. Formaldehyde. Dissection tools. The parts of a cell. Kingdom,..."
Feb. 6, 2004 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson
The Hightower Lowdown
George talks the macho talk, soldiers walk the deadly walk; and Congress says "Health care for me, but not for thee."
"...a boy, enjoyed shoving firecrackers down the throats of frogs, tossing them in the air to watch them to..."
July 25, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower
SXSW Picks and Sleepers
"...Engineer, but it hops harder than a Box of Frogs. Three of the album's axe mercenaries, Steve Vai, Joe..."
March 14, 2003 Music Feature
Tori Amos
Record Reviews
"...personas: the quirky-pants, piano-bench humping cornflake girl singing about frogs on her toes named Jethro and the older, wiser,..."
Nov. 22, 2002 Music Review by Melanie Haupt
A Cook's Tour
You just had to be there: The Chronicle's Mick Vann compasses the cuisine of Thailand, in Bangkok and beyond.
"...canals to catch fish, fresh water prawns, crawfish, or frogs. Ducks and geese swim in the water, and the..."
June 28, 2002 Food Feature by Mick Vann
The Tuna Helpers
Texas Platters
"...Stephen Foster's "Old Folks at Home," too. Unless the Frogs coax Christian children's songstress Little Marcy into collaborating, this..."
June 7, 2002 Music Review by Greg Beets
The Prayer Robbers
A fantasist's view of the rise of monotheism.
"...Our agents provided various spectacles: plagues of locusts and frogs, the parting of a substantial sea, burning bushes --..."
May 17, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura
Hightower's Hoedown
Jim Hightower's Rolling Thunder Down-Home Democracy Tour kicks off in Austin.
"...side together," he said, "is like trying to load frogs in a wheelbarrow." Hightower envisions Rolling Thunder as a..."
March 29, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, April 27-May 6
"...just be getting out of bed," said one, "the frogs be getting in your throat." In this case, tonsils..."
May 18, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez
2001 Kids' Summer Fun Guide
"...arachnoid species. You can watch them -- snakes, lizards, frogs, spiders, et al. -- in their cages and artificial..."
May 4, 2001 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
"...decidedly un-French. Once compared to Archers of Loaf, these frogs' instro-grooves pulse and pound like good indie alterna-bash, locking..."
March 16, 2001 Music Feature
Stinky del Negro
"...between comedy and inflammation is vaguely reminiscent of the Frogs, but his music is all over the map. He..."
Feb. 16, 2001 Music Review by Greg Beets
Coach's Corner
Coach wrests the TV Room away from the womenfolk to watch college football's "Rivalry Saturday" -- but what a disappointment!
"...forward to TCU/UTEP. I last saw the No. 15 Frogs the last time they visited the still Memorial Stadium..."
