Waukesha clock restorer crazy about cuckoos
The European cuckoo, too — Galinsky hears that bird all day, every day. Whether it's the 20 cuckoo clocks in his home or the hundreds he has built or collected or is currently repairing in his workshop, cuckoo calls are the sound track to Galinsky's life....
Watching Top Gun in Tehran
Iranian movie theatres could only show “approved” films, movies that presented a tarnished image of the West, such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, an award-winning movie in which Jack Nicholson plays the role of a criminal who lands in a mental ...
Nyack Sketch Log: Hickory Dickory Dock
Their daughter Loreen, who manages the day-to-day operation, has traveled to Germany annually for the last 20 years to build relationships with the craftspeople that make Hickory Dickory Dock's clocks and collectibles. The business is in its third ...
Luxuries: Designer cuckoo clocks, red clothes, accessories
One-day-movement Anton Schneider Bears German cuckoo clock, $730.80 at blackforestgifts.com. • Carved owls and birds eight-day mechanical German Black Forest cuckoo clock, $474.58 at clockrite.com. • Auckland 1055 wall clock is made of PVC, wood ...
On the road: Local brews featured at Logan Square Beer Fest
After a short drive to Monroe's Cheese Days, you'll enjoy cheese-making demonstrations, live music, dairy farm tours, two cheesy parades, an udderly entertaining cow-milking contest, barn quilt tours, cheesecake on a stick and absurdly good deep-fried ...
Oh baby, urban legends can be really coo coo
Life would be so dull without urban legends that rile us up and refuse to go away. A woman in Menomonie, Wis., is the latest to complain that a talking doll selling at Wal-Mart is trying to recruit children to become little Muslims. Lois Debee told her ...
Review: Ancillary Justice
The novel begins on Nilt, a cold, backwater world in a far distant future. Humanity has expanded across the stars by way of technology that allows people - and artificial intelligences - to replicate themselves and exist in multiple places at once ...