Castles and country manors

Crooks & Castles continue its accessories program with a new timepiece dubbed El Presidente, which is inspired by the classic Rolex Presidential Oyster Perpetual. The watch is offered in two different colorways, including Matte Black and Silver, with each featuring Diamond Chip details. Only 125 Japanese made units were produced, all now available through select [...]  

Following-up closely on the recently released UNDERCOVER x WIRED H comes another WIRED H collaboration with well-known Californian streetwear brand Crooks & Castles. The watch features a chain motif around the bezel in two-tone colors. The back features Crooks & Castles markings as well. Stay tuned for a release date. Source: honeyee © extremeugene for Hypebeast, [...]  

(TrendHunter.com) Castles and mansions have always eluded those making their way through life inside the middle class, but that doesn’t stop us from looking. There is something instinctive in our DNA that always deems those…  

A collection of high-resolution relief images from the ordnance survey database, including over 26,000 km2 of aerial photographs (2.50m resolution), will provide you with a realistic bird's eye view of the terrain in the French departments of Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Indre et Loire and Loir...  

Photo of Chromeo by Dakota Blue Harper There were plenty of concert options last week to celebrate Halloween, but none may have been quite as raucous as the Freaky Deaky show held Friday night at Congress Theatre. Featuring Chromeo, Crystal Castles and Boys Noize, the night was filled with sweaty bodies, inebriation, surely some illegal substances and, of course, copious amounts of fancy footwork. There are dance parties and then there are...  

Pictured is the Castle Doria-Malaspina that sits pretty on top of the village of Calice al Cornoviglio in Italy's Liguria region, which we recently visited. Dank and dreary castles might be all the rage for that Halloween party, where you might drink some grog and eat ghoulish food--but this ain't it. The castle is host to a Locanda which just happens to have a facebook page where you'll find the menu for their Halloween party. To start there...  

Being hopelessly sentimental about Christmas — and particularly fond of Christmas carols — I found myself humming ‘Good King Wenceslas’ as I packed for a recent trip to Prague, where I had every intention of starting my Christmas shopping. You can’t visit Prague without bumping into the Christian martyr St Wenceslas — the Czech nation’s patron saint — who was murdered by his power-hungry pagan brother in 935. In a city filled with symbolism...  

A Flickr slideshow of houses on Richmond's No. 6 Road – why so big? With the possible exception of sprawl developers and the Fraser Institute, few in our province would like to axe the Agricultural Land Reserve, or ALR. There is constant pressure to remove land from the ALR, as in the case of pro-development councils like one in the District of Maple Ridge. But no elected official in a senior level of government today would seriously...  

While iconic European castles such as Ashford in Ireland and Amberley in England evoke images of fairy tales and living happily ever after, the truth is these medieval palaces were built as fortifications designed to keep out brutal marauders. These days,...  

As do Daft Punk themselves. They really did make masterful pieces of music as well as pushing 'music' forward as a whole. I could talk for ages about this record and Daft Punk. But all i'll say is that if you haven't got the album, ...  

Frankly, Crystal Castles front woman Alice Glass is a little terrifying. It isn’t the layers of black eye shadow that give her gaze a naturally sinister gleam that does it. It’s not her goth-influenced black outfits. It isn’t her “Behind the Music”-ready story as a teenage-runaway-turned-indie-princess. It’s not even her madcap stage antics that make her such an intimidating presence. No, it’s that otherworldly howl — a high-pitched guttural...  

Crystal Castles Crystal CastlesSunday, Nov. 8Waterloo Park (403 E. 15th)7:30pm, Orange stage[info] | [tickets] Crystal Castles are prepared to wake up Waterloo Park on what would be a humble Sunday evening albeit for Fun Fun Fun Fest 2009. Trance-like, thumping beats are a sure fire way to wrap up the evening after a long day of absorbing great music. The Canadian boy-girl duo brings a whole new meaning to the experimental electronic genre...  

In this episode of the podcast our thoughts and observations about the first few days of the tour: An surprisingly hospitable first night of the trip, an unexpected discovery along a bike path, second breakfast and a bit of bubbly overflow....This item belongs to: audio/opensource_audio.This item has files of the following types: Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, VBR M3U, VBR MP3, VBR ZIP  

WARREN TWP. – “Castles of New Jersey” will be the presentation by historian Phil Jaeger of Cedar Grove sponsored by the Warren Historical  Society  at 3 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 18, at the historic Kirch-Ford House, corner of Mount Bethel and Reinman Roads.  

(TrendHunter.com) The Kanayama Community Center by Kengo Kuma and Associates Architects is a public space and museum which boasts a unique facade. Modeled after the stone wall that protected Kanayama Castle -- a regional…