pine cone cuckoo clocks

Early Bird Biscuit: Out of time, out of this world

Vintage knickknacks and kitsch decorate his little 725-square-foot bakery: There's the cuckoo clock that belonged to his grandmother (“I used to love to pull the pine cones,”), rotary phone, collection of old rolling pins long past their prime, and ...

Discreet luxury in Klosters

While the streets of Gstaad and St Moritz are lined with the boutiques of Cartier, Louis Vuitton and Prada, on my walk from the outskirts into central Klosters, I pass only shops selling garden machinery, kitchen cabinets and cuckoo clocks. Instead ...

Festival of Trees auction slated for Friday

More than 200 decorated trees, wreaths, stockings and other entries and their incentives will be auctioned off from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday at the Muskingum County Welcome Center. Bids may be placed in person or by calling 740-450-1990. The auction ...

'The iPads of their day'

At six years old, Peter Guggenheim (1927–2012) was given a cuckoo clock by his grandfather — a gift that would inspire a lifetime of collecting. Together with Dr. John Abbott, he cultivated a renowned collection, following the Guggenheim family legacy ...

Literopolis: A Weekly Look at Portland Literary Events, March 16-22

Later on Sunday at Powell's City of Books, Sy Safransky, founder of the 40-year-old magazine The Sun, will be reading from his book Many Alarm Clocks, a collection of excerpts taken from his personal journal that have traditionally been published in a ...

Worldwide light show rings in 2015

Items being dropped include: a big chilli in Las Cruces, New Mexico; a replica peach in Atlanta; a musical note in Nashville, Tennessee; a large pine cone in Flagstaff, Arizona; an oversized spurred cowboy boot in Prescott, Arizona; an 80lb wedge of ...

Iquitos, Peru: Wet and Wild

the gentleman pushing a life-size red-and-gold merry-go-round horse up a lime neon-lit edge of an avenue and the woman stopping traffic at midnight with a pompom routine, and heard the tinny soundtrack of cuckoo-clock church bells straight out of ...