One day Toad was on a bus with a class of young skiers. The bus was stuck in afternoon traffic between Aspen Mountain and Buttermilk. The kids were growing restless. Toad reached deep into his parka.

It was around this time last year that Elijah Wood’s company SpectreVision (formerly known as The Woodshed) acquired Jason Banker’s Toad Road (review), which Wood himself described as a special film ...

You might call it “Egg-in-a-Hole,” or one of the dozen other names dot the further reaches of the food internet—egg in a basket, frog in a hole, bird’s nest, one-eyed Jack. With some variation, they ...