Day Trips: Gladys Porter Zoo, Brownsville

Zoological and botanical park is more than just a zoo

"...The Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville turns a tropical garden into an out-of-the-ordinary..."

May 10, 2019 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

We Bought a Zoo

Matt Damon is a widower with two kids who buys a zoo after his wife bought the farm in Cameron Crowe's latest movie.

"...lack of bite will probably cause We Bought a Zoo to dwindle at the box office once the relatives..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips: San Antonio Zoo, San Antonio

It’s all happening down at the San Antonio Zoo

"...The San Antonio Zoo has been without a gorilla exhibit for 31 years...."

Sept. 2, 2022 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Zoo

Filmmaker Robinson Devor sadly sabotages his own attempt to bring the practice of bestiality into the light.

"...overlaid the film with a lyrical impressionism that drains Zoo of any possibility to titillate. While the effort might..."

May 25, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wish List: A Forever Home at Austin Zoo

Keeping the zoo's animal kingdom warm this winter

"...The Austin Zoo spares the lives of animals that have been abused,..."

Dec. 12, 2016 News Post by Montinique Monroe

Bike Zoo's Zest for Life

There's no short of imaginative puppetry with this bicycle troupe

"...corrugated steel gate on Austin's central Eastside, the Bike Zoo workshop is abuzz. On this day in early December,..."

Dec. 16, 2011 News Feature by Ramon Martinez

Day Trips: Sculpture Zoo, Waco

Spend the day with free-range animals by the Brazos River

"...The Sculpture Zoo in Waco invites visitors to get up close and..."

Feb. 9, 2024 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

'The Zoo Story'

A take on Albee's classic two-hander has the actors swap roles throughout the run

"...the role swap in a new staging of The Zoo Story. For six weekends starting April 16, the pair..."

April 15, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Film Review: Petting Zoo

An unplanned pregnancy throws a teen's life off course

"...details and it’s to the film’s credit that Petting Zoo gets those details right every single time. Whether it’s..."

March 18, 2015 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Chronicle Field Day & Petting Zoo

May 29, 2015 Photo Gallery

The Zookeeper's Wife

World War II drama based on the bestselling book

"...The Zookeeper’s Wife tells a unique story of Holocaust heroism and..."

April 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Madagascar

Animated zoo animals head back to the wild

"...who is weary of pampering at the Central Park Zoo and lusting for a life in the wild. There’s..."

May 27, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Out of Her Cage

Micah Magee explores a Texan's teen pregnancy in Petting Zoo

"...Like the protagonist of her film Petting Zoo, Micah Magee grew up in San Antonio, experienced a..."

March 17, 2015 SXSW Post by Amy Gentry

The Wedding Plan

A rom-com with a twist

"...to work as the proprietor of a mobile petting zoo (where one mother tells her how unfeminine it is..."

June 2, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Victor Frankenstein

This version of the Frankenstein tale is told from Igor's perspective

"...theft of various mammalian body parts from the London Zoo, and also the recent demise of a circus worker..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

EDM MDMA PSA

New York’s electronic dance music fest outs Molly

"...the third and final afternoon of New York’s Electric Zoo festival was cancelled after two people died in drug-related..."

Aug. 28, 2014 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

The third installment of this animated series gets the job done as the animals take protective cover in a traveling circus.

"...to return to their home at the Central Park Zoo in New York. Since the penguins and monkeys have..."

June 8, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Pirates!: Band of Misfits

Whether it's Pirates or Wallace and Gromit or Chicken Run, Aardman's stop-motion animation delivers the goods.

"...enemy of pirates, wants the animal for her petting zoo, but has other unstated reasons that are more nefarious...."

April 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Good Luck Chuck

Pitched somewhere between Farrelly brothers-lite and some oddball National Lampoon outing, this comedy is as familiar as it is charming, which isn't to say it's a good film.

"...that makes the film tolerable. She's Cam, a penguin-obsessed zoo worker, who meets cute with Charlie at a mutual..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Animal

"...mad Dr. Wilder (Caton), who stitches in a veritable zoo of animal castoffs in a “radical trans-species-ectomy.” Alive again,..."

June 8, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Max, Mon Amour

"...perhaps through the bars of a cage at the zoo. With a thorough detachment that provides us with no..."

Sept. 5, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Freaked

A young Hollywood pitchman (Winter – also the film's co-writer and co-director) finds himself at the mercy of a backwoods mad scientist (Randy Quaid).

"...Butthole Surfers video/film shot out at the old Coxville zoo. It's too bad their genuinely warped sense of humor..."

Jan. 28, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The British Animation Invasion

"...short film. It uses clay-mation techniques to interview several zoo animals regarding their discontent. My favorite is Charlie Fletcher..."

June 28, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Disney+ Comes to SXSW

Streamer presents three smashes free with local firms

"...Austin Fashion Week, Austin Books and Comics, and Austin Zoo - for a special day of free screenings, open..."

March 4, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips: Eclectic Menagerie Park, Houston

Outdoor collection is part sculpture museum, part inanimate zoo

"...The inanimate zoo and sculpture garden fills the expansive 108-acre lawn of..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

In Memoriam: Bob "Daddy-o" Wade

A fond farewell to the original trickster of Lone Star art

"...Mall, the 12-foot-tall iguana standing guard over Ft. Worth Zoo's animal hospital, and the 25-foot-long horns hanging in UT-Austin's..."

Dec. 27, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Day Trips

"...New at the Dallas Zoo this year is the endangered species carousel. From an..."

July 26, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

"...the October floods that hit South Texas, the Texas Zoo was a semi-tropical park showcasing native Texas animals. photograph..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

"...The San Antonio Zoo takes visitors on a safari around the world to..."

June 30, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

The Ellen Trout Zoo in Lufkin houses nearly 800 animals representing every continent except Antarctica

"...The Ellen Trout Zoo in Lufkin uses the thick pine forest of East..."

May 12, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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