beautiful cuckoo clocks

Where Silicon Valley (Still) Looks for Love

We're talking, like, high-end beautiful girls." She's certainly not the only one floating these suspicions. Called the Cuckoo's Nest, some 1,500 founders, investors, and artists will pay a $2,500 membership fee to attend fireside chats, meet-the ...

Hallé/Elder review – Alisa Weilerstein devours a multi-flavoured concerto

The piece begins in a dark, introverted mood reminiscent of Berg, pits the cello in a pummelling one-to-one exchange with an intimidating bass drum, and concludes with an exhausted passage of ticks and drones as if an over-wound cuckoo clock has ...

Seven Days, Seven Nights: Bill Maher to Engelbert Humperdinck

Last week I accidentally discovered the MMFA's Les plus belles fesses exposées au Musée, a weekly French-language guided tour of the most beautiful nudes in the museum's collections. Meet in the lobby of the Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion at 2:30 p.m ...

Trekking Around Titlis: Snowshoeing in Central Switzerland

It's late afternoon, that magical part of the day when the sun gives those last rays everything it's got. The pretty alpine landscape now seems magical, as a pink hued glow is cast upon the snow. Only the soft crunch of snowshoes striking the ground ...

Germany's Black Forest: a popular holiday destination

When I traveled there last year I enjoyed wonderful hiking and cycling, with beautiful, inspiring scenery. In spring, summer and fall, an extensive network of hiking trails and mountain bike routes in the region are a great way to experience the area's ...

Giant cuckoo clock lands at Portland International Airport

Passengers wondering what time it is at Portland International Airport can look at a watch, a smartphone or a digital flight display board. But it's now far more entertaining to do a time check at the giant cuckoo clock that recently landed in the ...

You'll Go Cuckoo For This Gigantic Clock Carved Out Of A Single Tree

A remarkable cuckoo clock forged from a single maple tree is being used to crow about Portland, Oregon. Designed by Nicolas Gros and carved by chainsaw sculptor J. Chester Armstrong, the 24-foot-high, 7,000-pound clock is being shown off around the ...

Seven Days, Seven Nights: Bill Maher to Engelbert Humperdinck

Last week I accidentally discovered the MMFA’s Les plus belles fesses exposées au Musée, a weekly French-language guided tour of the most beautiful nudes in the ... 24 Hours in the Life of a Swiss Cuckoo Clock produced by Geneva’s Haute école ...