It's the end of an era for a local entertainment venue.Mad Frog announced it's closing the venue on East McMillan Street after 26 years of business.The entertainment venue opened in December 1996 and ...

Equipped with flashlights, a group of scientists trekked through a marshy area in India. That’s when they heard a unique sound — and discovered a new species of “musicians.” Researchers conducted ...

Things can get hot and heavy in swamps where the Emei music frog lives. Scientists have discovered that females of this species make unique sounds during sex to encourage the performance of their male ...

A trio of green frogs strummed lazily in the late summer heat along the edges of the oxbow pond at Mosquito Hill Nature Center. The largest common frog found in our area — with the exception of the ...

In 1876, a woman named Jeanne Bonnet, who made her living catching and selling frogs to San Francisco restaurants — and was repeatedly arrested for wearing trousers in public — was shot to death. A ...

San Francisco in the summer of the 1876, between the Gold Rush and the smallpox epidemic, is the setting for Emma Donoghue's boisterous new novel, Frog Music. There's real frog music in these pages, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This is the official album art for Frog’s “1000 Variations On the Same Song.” Loser music isn’t ...

The second in a series of posts in which we ask writers about the cultural influences on their work. I often draw on fact to spin my fiction. But in the case of “Frog Music,” which is based on an 1876 ...

It sounds like a Hail Mary thrown by a desperate writer facing an editor who demands to know the plot before sending the next advance check. "I'm writing about a girl ...