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10 memorable Stockholm moments of the 00s

Culture | 2010-01-01

What is there to remember from Stockholm´s...

Clooney in Stieg Larsson movie?

Culture | 2010-01-18 | 15 comments

Medieval museum and historical bridge re-opened

Culture | 2010-01-24

Norrbro in Stockholm is the bridge leading from the royal castle to Gustav Adolfs torg and the opera house. It was opened yesterday after more than two years of reconstructions. The museum for...

Bergman Estate to open in the autumn

Culture | 2010-02-01

Four months ago, the decedent estate of the legendary film maker Ingmar Bergman seemed to spread adrift over the world. But in October a Norwegian multi-millionaire suddenly appeared from nowhere and...

Noomi Rapace awareded for role as Lisbeth Salander

Culture | 2010-02-10 | 1 comment

The actress Noomi Rapace has been awarded the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter´s culture price 2010. Rapace plays Lisbeth Salander in the screen version of the Millenium triology.

Every third actress has experienced sexual harassments at work

Culture | 2010-02-15 | 1 comment

Every third woman in the theater and film branch in Sweden claim that they have been sexually harassed at work. This according to a new survey of 1672 actors by the public radio broadcaster Sveriges Radio.

Was Descartes murdered in Stockholm?

Culture | 2010-02-22 | 3 comments

According to a new book, the French philosopher René Descartes´s death in Stockholm 1650 was not caused by the unfriendly Swedish climate but by something else: cold-blooded murder.

Artists might lose life time salary

Culture | 2010-02-24 | 1 comment

Traditional cranes´ mating dance attracts tourists from all over the world

Culture | 2010-04-05

Spring is here. Despite a temporary backslash in form of snow today, there are obvious signs that...

Entrance fee when church re-open

Culture | 2010-05-05

Storkyrkan, the oldest church in Stockholm located in the Old town (Gamla Stan), has raised its entrance fee, a decision that is controversial.

Hollywood´s millennium version to be filmed in Stockholm

Culture | 2010-05-06 | 1 comment

The Hollywood screen version of the Swedish Millenium trilogy will be cinematized in Stockholm.

Museum missing Warhol work

Culture | 2010-05-26 | 1 comment

The Swedish National Audit Office severely criticize the Modern Museet (the Museum of Modern Art) in Stockholm for lack of control over the valuable...

Swedish National Day today

Culture | 2010-06-06 | 2 comments

Museum stops exhibition about homosexuality in religion

Culture | 2010-06-07 | 9 comments

The museum of World Cultures in Gothenburg cancels a planned exhibition about homosexuality in religion in order to avoid disturbing religious groups.

Unpublished Stieg Larsson novels found

Culture | 2010-06-13

This week, a manuscript for two novels written by Stieg Larsson were found in...

Collapsed talks about Millennium-millions

Culture | 2010-06-15 | 2 comments

Talks between Stieg Larsson´s life partner Eva Gabrielsson and the author´s heirs have failed. Both...

Difficult to find "the seven flowers"?

Culture | 2010-06-25

The classical Swedish meadowland has since the...

Controversial radio programme broadcast today

Culture | 2010-08-08 | 2 comments

Annika Östberg, sentenced for murder in the USA and back in Sweden after 28 years in American prison, held today´s version of the radio programme "Sommar". She spoke mostly of her time in the prison in California and how she handled that difficult time.

Bangladesh - Sweden - The World

Culture | 2010-09-12 | 7 comments

Tasneem Khalil came to Sweden from Bangladesh in 2007 as a refugee. Once in...

Nobel prize in literature to Peruvian

Culture | 2010-10-07 | 1 comment

Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese dissident

Culture | 2010-10-08 | 3 comments

Valuable items stolen from church

Culture | 2010-10-20

A large number of unique items from the middle ages were stolen from Tiderum church in the province of Östergötland in south-east Sweden.

Nationalistic politician banned from Nobel banquette

Culture | 2010-10-27 | 11 comments

The chairman of the Sweden democrats (SD) Jimmie Åkesson will not be invited to the traditional Nobel dinner later this year. The decision is controversial.

100 years since the last Swedish execution

Culture | 2010-11-24 | 4 comments

Today it is exactly 100 years ago since the last execution was conducted in Sweden. It was the first, and last, time a guillotine was used as a form of execution.

"Hollywood-Salander were to be older"

Culture | 2010-12-08 | 5 comments

The Hollywood version of the movies based on Stieg Larsson’s best seller books about Lisbeth Salander and Michael Blomqvist is under production. They could however have differed more from the books and Swedish film versions than will now be the case.

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