UN's top cop: she's Swedish!
March 09, 2010
A Swedish female police officer has been appointed the top cop for the United Nations. Decisively underscoring the moment of International Women's Day, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today appointed a Swedish woman, Ann-Marie Orler, as the top police office in the organization. READ MORE »
Still shivering, but...
March 09, 2010
Cold winter complaints have been countered by weathermen who say it's actually warmer. READ MORE »
Double Swedish at Vasaloppet.
March 08, 2010
Sweden’s Jörgen Brink won the traditional 90-kilometer ski race Vasaloppet while Susanne Nyström won in the women’s category. The traditional story behind Vasaloppet is the young Gustav Ericsson Vasa, considered founder of modern Sweden, escaping from the troops of the King of Denmark in 1520. READ MORE »
Oscar nominated Swedes.
March 07, 2010
Congratulations to a hard-working Paul Ottosson, who was awarded two Ocars at the 2010 Oscars! READ MORE »
Actor Michael J. Fox receives his Doctor's hat.
March 06, 2010
Fox received the honorary degree of medicine in a ceremony at the new Swedish Honorary Consul General's residence in New York on March 5. READ MORE »
Lund loses AstraZeneca, 900 jobs.
March 03, 2010
Despite a respectable increase in pretax profits for 2009, AstraZeneca, the UK-Swedish pharma giant, has announced it will close its research operations in Lund, Sweden and lay off 900 workers. READ MORE »
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U.S. expert praises Stockholm cleantech.
February 28, 2010
Ranking number nine on Shawn Lesser's top ten list of ”green good guys,” Stockholm's Milieu Technology Center was praised by the American expert. READ MORE »
U.S. considers Sweden's atomic waste tactics
February 28, 2010
Lauding Sweden's energy industry for enlisting public support, the AAAS advised that the U.S. adopt the same strategy for depositing depleted nuclear rods. READ MORE »
Snøhetta at Scandinavia House
February 16, 2010
Craig Dykers and Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, founders of Norwegian Snøhetta, presented themselves and their ideas during an invigorating evening at Scandinavia House. The evening kicked off the exhibition “SNØHETTA: architecture, landscape, design” curated by Eva E. Madshus for Scandinavia House. READ MORE »
Wearable art from Norway
February 15, 2010
White flowers are bursting open on a cobalt blue background and the waist is slightly cinched with a knitted midsection in two shades of pink, making this, like all Oleana sweaters, look like a painting. Oleana is definitely art. Art you can wear. READ MORE »
Leaving Circus-The spring/summer 2010 collection from IVANA
January 18, 2010
IVANAhelsinki fashion brand correctly introduces itself as a Finnish art brand rather than fashion only. READ MORE »
Cirkus Cirkör at BAM in Brooklyn.
November 05, 2009
Nov. 12-15, 2009. Order tickets - READ MORE »
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Cirkus Cirkör at BAM in Brooklyn.
October 29, 2009
Stockholm based cirque nouveau troupe Cirkus Cirkör will be performing at BAM New York's Howard Gilman Opera House between Nov. 12-15. “Like the younger, hipper little sister of Cirque du Soleil..." / Daily Express in a recent review. READ MORE »
Denials of Visas on the Rise.
October 21, 2009
Spending a longer time every year in the U.S.? Denials of B visa applications are on the rise - How this can change your travel plans forever! READ MORE »
Norsk Høstfest InBox:
October 17, 2009
From our reader and friend Margareta Lidskog, Mass., came these photos and comments about the Norsk Høstfest in Minot, ND, in early October. READ MORE »
Moods of Norway
October 12, 2009
Crazy, colorful and in a constant good mood — meet the guys behind Moods of Norway: Peder Børresen, Simen Staalnacke and Stefan Dahlkvist. READ MORE »
With a taste for the Vikings
October 07, 2009
When Brooklyn-based comic book creator Brian Wood was asked to think outside his comfort zone, which is decidedly urban and somewhat futuristic, he reached for the Vikings. READ MORE »
Evoking Iceland at More North.
October 06, 2009
More North gallery in New York has extended and added to Hjörtur Hjartarsson's works after the Icelandic artist's participation in an earlier collaborative exhibit with Hildur Jónsson. The present exhibition runs until December 6. READ MORE »
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Sweden to take charge of EU anti-pirate mission.
October 02, 2009
The Swedish Defense Ministry announced Oct. 1 it would send the command vessel HSwMS Karlskrona to the pirate-infested waters of the Gulf of Aden in April, 2010, when Sweden takes command of the European Union naval force patrolling the area. READ MORE »
“I am Nature” at Trygve Lie Gallery
October 01, 2009
When Amina Bech was three years old, she climbed up a large oak outside the house where she lived in Norway. Missing a step, she fell but her rubber boot caught on one of the branches and she ended up hanging upside down by that boot, before being rescued by her mother. Amina made no sound, she just looked at the view up through the branches. READ MORE »
Swedish Bluegrass band G2 tours the US
September 20, 2009
Swedish Bluegrass band G2 will perform at the International Bluegrass Music Association, Nashville, Tenn., in Chicago and Lexington, KY. READ MORE »
Embraceable fashion
September 15, 2009
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Nordic Notes
September 13, 2009
The Nordic countries and “phantom pains.” READ MORE »
Living in the USA…Musically, At Least
September 10, 2009
Swedish band 'The Sounds' are touring North America in the fall of 2009 - beginning in Canada in early September they will hit almost every major city in the U.S., ending with a concert at the Vic in Chicago on Nov. 7. READ MORE »
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