Sweden

Pork Contamination in IKEA's Moose Lasagna

This past weekend Swedes woke up to news of a pork contamination in the moose lasagna previously sold at their local IKEA stores -- in addition to 18 other European countries. Reuters reported that a little over 17,000 packs of the frozen entrees were quietly pulled from shelves after they were foun ... More >>

The Best L.A. Metal Concerts To See In April

Tuesday, Apr 2 Ensiferum, Tyr House of Blues Sunset Strip The annual Paganfest tour has become one of our favorite regular metal tours. Finland's Ensiferum is grounded heavily in orchestral folk metal, but maintains a galloping pace that keeps headbangers moving in the pit. Denmark's Tyr has more in ... More >>

Cars and shorts

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Warrior Snowman and a New Bridge Over the 210 in Arcadia

This week, artists contemplate the end of the Mayan calendar, Metro debuts its strange new Gold Line bridge and a group exhibition experiments in portraiture. 5. Live-streaming the end times The supposed upcoming apocalypse triggered by the end of the Mayan calendar has become a fixation. This wee ... More >>

Eat More Chocolate, Win a Nobel Prize

What is the secret to winning a Nobel prize? A genius IQ? Long, lonely hours in the lab or library? An unfaltering commitment to establishing peace in the Middle East (good luck with that)? Actually, it turns out that Nobel prizes are within reach for all of us, because the secret may be eating a ... More >>

A Swedish Chef (Not the Muppet) Takes Over @Sweden

If you've been following the country of Sweden's Twitter account, you no doubt already appreciate this grand experiment in which a very particular kind of personal restraint meets the power of social media: Each week, a Swedish citizen (a "Curator") is given full control of Sweden's Twitter account ... More >>

Chocolate May Lower Stroke Risk in Men

Consuming just one chocolate bar a week could lower men's stroke risk by almost 20%, according to a new Swedish study. Researchers at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute followed more than 37,000 men between the ages of 45 and 79 for about a decade, CNN reports. Men who ate the most chocolate over th ... More >>

Sweden Dominated '90s Radio, and a New Generation Threatens to Do the Same

See also: What The Hell Is Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" About? UPDATE: Mind-blowing Shit Has Come To Light Sweden makes big hits. And we're not talking about Abba and Ace of Base songs, we're talking about American hits. In the '90s, much of the most famous (and ridiculous) pop music was ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Superfood for Babies, the Politics of Olive Oil Low-Cal Cocktails

Bon Appetit: 10 creative recipes that use BBQ sauce. Good Food: One way to get your baby to eat broccoli, quinoa and zucchini. Food GPS: Top-selling chocolate from Los Angeles chocolatiers. Finer Things L.A.: Cheers to the weekend: hitting up happy hour at Mercado in Santa Monica.

IKEA Serves Up Midsummer Smorgasbord Friday

In Sweden, Norway and Finland, "Midsommar" -- celebrated the weekend closest to June 24 -- is an especially important holiday that's steeped in tradition and rivals Christmas in popularity. It marks the start of the summer season and celebrates joy and romance with maypole dancing, girls wearing bri ... More >>

World Cup of Baking Winners Announced in Paris

No culinary fragrance can compete with that of freshly baked bread. You can be comforted, exalted, seduced, relieved, or stimulated by nutty yeast tones gently wafting toward you. Or maybe you're just hungry. The Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie, or World Baking Cup, is an event that will make every ... More >>

Read This Now: Saveur 100, the 2012 Edition

If you're stuck in the check-out line right now, you might want to look further than the latest issue of People -- Lamar and Khloe are in Dallas anyway, so what do you care -- and pick up the new Saveur. This month's issue is the Saveur 100, in which that magazine's editors pick out a hundred of the ... More >>

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Review

Lisbeth Salander, meet David Fincher

From Leftovers to Love: A Dating Website Helps You Get a Date by Looking in Your Fridge

Rachael Narins​Being a single person who likes to cook can be tricky. Making a full meal might, at times, feel less fulfilling without that special someone to share the experience and help eat all the food. Let alone pitch in on doing the dishes. If you live in Sweden, a collective of farmer ... More >>

LudoBites: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Page Two: Return of the Prankster God

Live Review: Sparks' The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman

Guy Maddin, by Guy Maddin​ WHO: Sparks' The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman WHERE: Ford Amphitheateer WHEN: 6/25/11 Just to recap the slightly complicated scenario, Sparks' The Seduction of Ingmar BergmaN, as presented at Ford Amphitheater on Saturday evening, was a staged read-through of a pla ... More >>

Study Shows Longer Commutes Lead to Crappier Marriages; That Explains Los Angeles

Ahnold's true downfall?​A study recently conducted in Sweden can tell Los Angeles a lot about its trafficky, sexually frustrated self. After following the work and home habits of over 2 million Swedes for five years, researchers at UmeÃ¥ University found that "the risk of separation is 40 perc ... More >>

Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time: Swedish Food, "Swedishly"

The only Swedish chef we've known was all wispy eyebrows and mustache. He wore a flattened white toque tilted slightly to the right. He made meatballs, turtle soup, and frog legs. You couldn't understand most of what he said, but he was cute, strange, and creepy. At a time when New Nordic fare ... More >>

From Sweden, With Buzz

Little Dragon keeps getting bigger, with a little help from KCRW (and the Swedish welfare state)

Little Dragon Wants to Collaborate with Dam Funk, Flying Lotus and Nite Jewel: Expanded Interview with the Swedish Trip-Pop Sensation

Flying Lotus Little Dragon? The Swedish Trip Pop Outfit Can Dream

Give Me What You Got

The Dragtones: the Hives, the Hi-Winders and the guy from the San Fernando Valley

Brief Interviews With Naked Men

And other highlights of the 2010 DocuWeeks slate

Billys Pan Pizza: Comfort Food For The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Familjen DafgÃ¥rdBillys pan pizza​ With Lisbeth Salander, the tiny, pierced, tattooed protagonist of the hugely popular Millennium Trilogy, Swedish crime fiction writer Stieg Larrson created a modern day feminist action hero. When cornered, she takes down hulking foes with an arsenal of weapon ... More >>

MP3 Exclusive: Opolopo's Funked "Mothership" Remix by Portformat, Dudley & Georgia

Portformat's 'The Repeat Factor' repeated​Some things bear repeating -- especially when they're funked up to resemble a modern beat music take on Parliament's timeless space-groove. It's no secret that L.A. residents Dudley Perkins and Georgia Anne Muldrow are descendents of the P-Funk tradit ... More >>

It's International Waffle Day: Get Your Griddle on A Williams-Sonoma Waffle Recipe

March 25 is International Waffle Day; not to be confused with National Waffle Day (August 24) or National Waffle Iron Day (June 29). While we don't understand the need for three distinct waffle days - domestic, international, gadget-oriented or otherwise - we'll find any excuse to eat ourselves into ... More >>

Exclusive Interview: Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagano Offers Required listening for Swedish Psychedelia

Exclusive Interview: Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagano Offers Required listening for Swedish Psychedelia

Live review: Sweden's Peter, Bjorn, and John Get Icy at Club Nokia

Live review: Sweden's Peter, Bjorn, and John Get Icy at Club Nokia

THE FANG'LL COME OUT GOMORRAH

Summer of Tough Love: Iraqi Double Agent Remains in Limbo

Secret World of Cat Ladders: What Is Next? Cat Elevators?

​ Jimmy Robertson, 37, of Stockholm Sweden blogs about cat ladders. You have to wonder: um, why? How did you become interested in cat ladders? Do you really like cats? Ladders? It started when I was unemployed a couple of years ago. I had the time to take long walks and then I discovered tha ... More >>

Iraq Features Stir Support

Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#25-21)

25. Wu-Tang Clan-8 Diagrams [SRC/Loud] 8 Diagrams is east coast hardcore rap that doesn't sound like it was made on the east coast. It was recorded in LA but it doesn't sound like LA either. considering it isn't loud, it isn't flashy, and it certainly couldn't soundtrack a barbeque unless Jim Jarm ... More >>

Johnossi and The Noisettes

"Yea Sweden!" Someone from the crowd yelled at John Englebert from Johnossi, "You've got good health care!" "Yeah - California loves Sweden," he replied. Johnossi's album doesn't come out in the U.S. until Tuesday, but it'd be hard to be more impressed with it than their live show. A two-piece (ac ... More >>

Shout Out Louds: Loud, Proud 'n' Unbowed

With their upcoming performance at Detour festival around the corner, the band's singer talks about their new album, songwriting and their fellow Swedish musicians

Swede Spot

“The phrase 'marzipan-sweetened cream' has for some reason lodged in my head. Do you know what I’m talking about?”

Best Armchair Travel for the Vacation Impaired

The Teddybears' Picnic

Meet Sweden’s newest black-metallers-turned-pop-tarts!

Music Picks

For the week of June 15 - 22

Snakebites

Beyond Impossible Price

Cold Feet

Coping with uncertainty in Scandinavia and Hollywood

Tangled Up in Blue

The soundtrack of our sad lives

25 Reasons I Returned to L.A. from Sweden, Las Vegas, and Texas

Santa is a Wildman!

Jeffrey Vallance in The Land of Hoarfrost

American Fútbol!

The Weird Cup, week 3

Games Without Frontiers

The World Cup, week one

Fetal Frenzy

How the embryo in amnion became the strange icon of anti-abortionists

In the Mood for Wong Kar-wai

The year’s best films

Revelations

Sometimes it's better not to know