After three successful years in New York, Scandinavian candy store Sockerbit is opening up its first store on the West coast.
Read More »Ottiliana Rolandsson: “My place is in Sweden right now”
The ticket is booked, the beloved car is sold, and the moving container is slowly making its way across the Atlantic. In just a couple of days, actor Ottiliana “I was Greta Garbo” Rolandsson grabs mini poodle Evert and returns ...
Read More »Bertil Ohlsson is retiring
After 57 years in business, Bertil Ohlsson of Olson’s Scandinavian Deli is retiring. The Open House this past Saturday was a day full of laughter, shared memories and fond well wishing for the future.
Read More »Bringing Nordic film and culture to Southern California
It’s January, it’s Award Season in Hollywood and the time of year to head over to the Writers Guild of America Theater to see what Nordic film has been up to lately.
Read More »The Swedish Minister is leaving town
For close to five years Staffan Simonsson has been the Swedish minister in California. He has travelled back and forth between his two congregations in Los Angeles and San Francisco, feeling very much at home in both cities. In June, ...
Read More »Swedish crime writers keep on coming
– A dead body floats ashore on a beach and no one gives a damn. This is how Sweden’s most recent “Queen of crime fiction,” Tove Alsterdal, describes the essence of her thriller debut, Women on the Beach (Kvinnorna pa ...
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