modern cuckoo clocks

Garage-band legends the Sonics roar back to life

And we could have, with the modern recording.” Diamond When Lind, a clarinetist at the time, grabbed a saxophone and started playing along, the band director shot out of his office “like a bird out of a cuckoo clock,” he recalls, “yelling, 'Get the ...

Belle and Sebastian Massey Hall, Toronto ON, April 1

They finished the night teasing a few lines from "This is Just a Modern Rock Song," before transitioning to "Get Me Away from Here I'm Dying," a sentiment Murdoch admitted he in no way felt. A brief break brought the band back for "Sleep the Clock ...

The Lebanese designers now gaining global recognition

The duo's comparatively pared-down cuckoo clock is made of Lebanese cedar, and so riffs on their native country's national emblem, despite looking resolutely modern. Beirut has a tight-knit design network. “Over the past 15 years, there has been a ...

Belle and Sebastian at Massey Hall

The professional dancing gave way to the fan-provided excitement, with people rushing to the front for the set's second song: “I'm a Cuckoo”, from 2004's Dear Catastrophe Waitress. By the third number – 2015 single “The We were teased with a couple ...

REVIEW: The Broken Heart, Sam Wanamaker Theatre

What purpose could be served by 'translating' the play into modern language, unless the proposal was to mount the revival using that idiom? Far better, surely, to understand the text itself, why and when it was written, in order to be able to ...

Richard III: An alternative guide to the procession route

Moving swiftly on to Market Bosworth, once home to Samuel Johnson, who endured a short, miserable stint as a teacher at Dixie Grammar (where his life was as "unvaried as the note of a cuckoo" and where he was uncertain "whether it was more ...

The Past, Present, and Future of the Cuckoo Clock

For such an iconic timepiece, there is surprisingly little written about the cuckoo clock, but, as recently noted by the National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors, modern scholarship does not support the Ketterer theory. While the full origins ...

R.L. Stine's Fear Street Wattpad Project Shows Everyone's Favorite Children's Book Writer Is Ready To Face The New Generation — INTERVIEW

cuckoo clocks, haunted cameras, and hundreds more. But despite Stine’s rise to fame in the 1990s, the 71-year-old author has never shied away from modern ways of reaching out to readers. He’s a huge presence on Twitter and other social media sites ...

Garage-band legends the Sonics roar back to life

And we could have, with the modern recording.” Diamond ... the band director shot out of his office “like a bird out of a cuckoo clock,” he recalls, “yelling, ‘Get the hell out!’ ” As teenagers, they were often in the crowd when another ...

Concert Choir and Chamber Singers will present free concerts

The Contemporary Music Festival is held ... It is a textual and musical glossary of clock sounds, consisting of mostly soft, delicate, tick-tock motives and the occasional cuckoo or the low, loud Westminster chime sounds. From the set “Due West ...