Groundhog Day has been celebrated in the United States since at least February 2, 1886. Starting in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, with its now-famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, the tradition spread throughout America. Here is what you need to know about Groundhog Day: the day dedicated to a weather-predicting rodent. Buckeye Chuck in Ohio, and Staten Island Chuck in New York. However, Phil is the most All hail Staten Island Chuck, a woodchuck at the Staten Island Zoo in New York City. Chuck, also known as Charles G. Hogg, topped the rankings with 85% accuracy. Groundhog Day has been a 1993 - Columbia Pictures releases the movie, "Groundhog Day," starring Bill Murray.In the years following the release of the movie, crowds numbering as high as 30,000 have visited Gobbler's Knob Over the years, several other locations have begun using their own groundhog, including General Beauregard Lee of Atlanta, Dunkirk Dave of Dunkirk, New York, and Jimmy of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. FALMOUTH, Maine — Groundhog Day may be a tongue-in-cheek holiday, but it remains the one day earmarked in the United States for an animal: Marmota monax, the largest and most widely distributed Staten Island Chuck, also known as Charles G. Hogg, is a groundhog living at the Staten Island Zoo in New York City. The Staten Island Groundhog Day prediction dates back to 1981, and according to While New York’s prognosticating groundhog, Staten Island Chuck, primps for his annual turn in the spotlight on Saturday, the Real Groundhogs of New York City are slumbering hard in their boroughs. In Burrows Across the City, It's Groundhog Day Year Round - The New York Times Groundhog Day slipped quietly into New York yesterday, and if it hadn’t been for a few Boy Scouts the whole thing could have been ignored. The Kips Bay Boys Club, nature study troop 472, has been pestering one groundhog or another every Feb. 2 for twenty years now, and Kips Bay Boy Scouts are not ones to ignore tradition. A.O. Scott is the co-chief film critic. He joined The Times in 2000 and has written for the Book Review and The New York Times Magazine. He is also the author of “Better Living Through Criticism.” The movie “Groundhog Day” came out in 1993, but it feels as if we’ve been watching it over and over ever since. This story of a smug weatherman (Bill Murray) who is stuck endlessly repeating A version of this article appears in print on , Section C, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: Producer Withdraws From ‘Groundhog Day’. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe A version of this article appears in print on , Section AR, Page 11 of the New York edition with the headline: Back to ‘Groundhog Day.’ Again. . Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe A version of this article appears in print on , Section C, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: A Melodramatic Take on ‘Groundhog Day’. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper Ben Brantley for New York Times "If a groundhog sees its shadow, there'll be six more weeks of winter. If you see "Groundhog Day," there'll be 2 hours and 45 minutes of kinetic and sometimes witty but ultimately wearying antics. There he was in the audience at the August Wilson Theater in New York City on Tuesday night, taking in a performance of “Groundhog Day,” the Broadway musical based on the 1993 movie that he Here's when Groundhog Day began: The first mention of Groundhog Day came in 1886 in Punxsutawney. Over the years, several other locations have begun using their own groundhog, including General Beauregard Lee of Atlanta, Dunkirk Dave of Dunkirk, New York, and Jimmy of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Around 2 a.m. Tuesday, something very ordinary happened. A four-minute video was uploaded onto YouTube.com, one of 40,000 that are added to the site every day. The Lives They Lived: Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in 2024. Ukraine’s Suicide Drones: Outnumbered and desperate, the nation began hacking cheap consumer Gareth McConnell for The New York Times. By Sarah Lyall. March 22, 2013; And in “Groundhog Day,” Bill Murray is forced to repeat the same wretched day, and listen to the same wretched
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