Giant cuckoo clock at PDX welcomes travelers, in a very Portland way (photos ...
At 24-feet tall, the largest free-standing cuckoo clock in America, an all-Oregon creation, greets holiday travelers at Portland International Airport. The clock is part of Travel Portland's, "Portland is Happening Now" campaign. Michael Lloyd/The ...
Kovels: Comic hankie goes for super price
Q: I have a very old cuckoo clock. It belonged to my great-great-great-grandparents. It must have been made in the early 1800s. On the hour, a boy and girl pop out of the house-shaped clock and a cuckoo sings. On the half hour, a cuckoo appears and ...
Solicitor: Michael Slager indictment in Walter Scott shooting just the beginning
A Charleston County grand jury on Monday indicted the former North Charleston policeman who fatally shot Walter Scott, marking the second time in the past year that a white South Carolina officer has been formally charged with murder in a black man's ...
Last Best Show: Belle and Sebastian at the House of Blues
We're just three songs into the band's wonderful 100-minute show last night at a packed House of Blues and Murdoch and his mates have already fulfilled that promise. Kicking off an extensive North American tour in support of their fine new album "Girls ...
Light uses energy from falling weight to illuminate homes without electricity
It sounds like something more akin to alchemy, but engineers have developed a new light powered by gravity. The GravityLight is aimed at helping the 1.3 billion people who live without electricity in areas of the world too remote or poor to have a ...
Herdsman turned horticulturist becomes Britain's most successful gardener
Mr Dorlay, who was introduced to the Queen with his team when she visited the show on Monday, has kept meticulous notes on the weather over the last 50 years and he says it helps him make informed decisions on how best to grow particular plant in ...
'Magician' looks at the life of Orson Welles
That is, even something as familiar as Charles Foster Kane's death scene, with the shattered snow globe, or Harry Lime's “cuckoo clock” quip, in “The Third Man,” retain a freshness and torque that remain uniquely Wellesian. Yes, Carol Reed directed ...