Culture

Popular to stay home between holidays

Culture | 2009-01-05

Marvelous memoair novel by P.O. Enquist

Culture | 2009-01-06

Stieg Larsson most sold novelist in EU

Culture | 2009-01-16 | 2 comments

Stockholm Traffic sue art collage for “art”

Culture | 2009-02-17 | 4 comments

Metallica concert cancelled

Culture | 2009-03-09 | 5 comments

Opera-singer will represent Sweden in Moscow

Culture | 2009-03-15 | 3 comments

Nordic literature price to Norwegian writer

Culture | 2009-04-05 | 2 comments

Renewed Lenin Prize countered with Pol Pot Prize

Culture | 2009-04-09

Museums do not give priority to free entrance

Culture | 2009-04-11

Ebbe - the man, the myth, the affair

Culture | 2009-04-15

"The twenty most important Swedes in history"

Culture | 2009-05-04

Bonnier turns down Google

Culture | 2009-05-08

Viking ship (?) found in lake

Culture | 2009-05-08

Gabriel and Abreu win Polar Music Prize

Culture | 2009-05-12 | 2 comments

Art student sued

Culture | 2009-05-13

Eurovision 2009: Bad for Sweden but good for the Nordic region

Culture | 2009-05-17

Controversial guests in Linköping

Culture | 2009-05-22 | 8 comments

Expressen mistook woman for union leader

Culture | 2009-05-25

Crown Princess´ fiancé had kidney transplantation

Culture | 2009-05-28

Film censorship might be abolished

Culture | 2009-06-10 | 1 comment

Swedish culture overrated by Swedes

Culture | 2009-06-20 | 6 comments

When Swedes are asked they rate their own culture high. But others have a different opinion. Swedish culture is ranked as number thirteen on an international index.

Fewer read news on paper

Culture | 2009-07-10

Report from Stockholm Jazz festival, day 1

Culture | 2009-07-16

Christian Paul is reporting from Stockholm Jazz festival at stockholmnews.com:

The Anglican Church criticizes homosexual marriage in Sweden

Culture | 2009-07-16 | 14 comments

In a letter to the archbishop of the Church of Sweden, representants of the Anglican Church is critical to the Church of Sweden for being too liberal with homosexual marriage. This has stirred up a debate within the Church of Sweden writes Svenska Dagbladet (SvD).

Stockholm Jazz festival, day 2

Culture | 2009-07-17

Christian Paul continues to report from Stockholm Jazz festival

Famous Swedish writer connected to racial biology

Culture | 2009-07-26 | 9 comments

The classic Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf had connections with the ideology of racial biology according to a new article that has stirred up a debate.

Donald Duck in file sharing debate

Culture | 2009-07-27 | 3 comments

In one of the latest Swedish editions of the...

Are e-mail addresses in English a violation against the law?

Culture | 2009-07-31 | 1 comment

The e-mail addresses to the Swedish government are all in English. This is a problem according to the Swedish language Council.

"The Girl With the Dragoon Tattoo", an international success

Culture | 2009-08-05

The Swedish film "The Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo" has been seen by six million people world wide and made SEK sixty million to the film company.

Speak with South Korea through a hole in the ground

Culture | 2009-08-05

Through a deep spring in Brunnsparken in...

Old battlefield outside Stockholm becomes museum?

Culture | 2009-08-10 | 1 comment

Book review: The Darkest Room

Culture | 2009-08-21

How far can art go?

Culture | 2009-08-24 | 3 comments

The trial has started against Anna Odell, the art student in Stockholm, who in her student...

Angels over the Baltic

Culture | 2009-08-26 | 6 comments

Stockholm City Theatre accused of copyright infringement

Culture | 2009-08-29

Record company Universal was able to stop the Latvian guest performance ‘The sound of silence’ at Stockholm City Theatre and now threatens with legal...

Art student sentenced for acting phychotic

Culture | 2009-08-31 | 1 comment

The artist Anna Odell, who graduated this spring from Sweden´s national art school ´Konstfack´, was today sentenced to pay a fine for acting psychotic.

A really good show but should have been better advertised

Culture | 2009-08-31 | 1 comment

Theatre review: Romeo and Juliet, 19th August at...

Swedish movie raise attention in Venice

Culture | 2009-09-05 | 2 comments

A crowded movie premiere, an extra screening and live report from Italian public broadcaster RAI....

Extreme Islamist homepage in Sweden disturbs Russia

Culture | 2009-09-13 | 4 comments

A prosecutor in Russia has asked Swedish authorities for information about an extreme islamist homepage in Sweden. The reason is that a threat towards a Russian civil servant has been published on the homepage. This is reported in the Swedish Public Radio broadcaster SR in the programme ´Medierna´.

200 years of peace

Culture | 2009-09-17 | 4 comments

Today exactly 200 years ago Sweden signed the peace agreement ending the war with Russia. By this Sweden lost Finland,...

Anka causes upset reactions

Culture | 2009-09-18 | 6 comments

Anna Anka, the Swedish wife of musician Paul Anka, caused both amused and upset reactions in Sweden this week when she wrote that she might engage herself in Swedish politics. It was her program that created the reactions.

Nobel Prize for Literature to Herta Müller

Culture | 2009-10-08

The 56-year-old German-Romanian writer Herta Müller has been awarded this years...

A Swedish village in Ukraine.

Culture | 2009-10-28 | 15 comments

Not everyone, even in Sweden, are aware of its existence. But in south Ukraine there is a small village where some people still speak an old version of...

Theatres troubled by unexpected benefit payments

Culture | 2009-11-14

All state-supported theatres, dance and music institutions must pay large amounts of retroactive pensions. Theatres have been completely unprepared...

Liberal politician wants to review copyright legislation

Culture | 2009-11-20

The local commissionaire for culture in Stockholm, Madeleine Sjöstedt (Folkpartiet, social-liberal party), wants the government to appoint a commission that shall review the laws regarding copyright.

"Inspiration is for me a very strange word"

Culture | 2009-12-09

Nobel laureate in literature has arrived in Stockholm. On Thursday she will received the Nobel Prize and yesterday she held the traditional lecture. This morning a press conference was held and...

Mankell to write TV-play about Bergman

Culture | 2009-12-22

Bestselling author Henning Mankell will write the script for one of the biggest drama projects ever done by Swedish public service company SVT, a...

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