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comments Beartown is dying. Its an industrial Swedish town where actual industry is on the decline and development has stalled or even reversed. Sometimes it feels as if the surrounding forest, thick with knobby spruce trees, is encroaching on the city, like nature has forgotten anyone lives there at all. But for Beartown (or Björnstad) residents, there remains a glimmer of hope for the towns future: its junior hockey league.  "Beartown," the new five-episode HBO limited series from Sweden, c...

Fredrik Backmans best-selling novel gets the small-screen treatment with this grim, underwritten adaptation. HBO Welcome to  Up Next, a column that gives you the rundown on the latest TV. This week, Valerie Ettenhofer reviews the Swedish adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s best-selling novel Beartown, which is coming to HBO. Scandinavian crime dramas are famous for being bleak and gripping. HBO has given viewers some of the best TV that’s ever aired. A marriage between the two seems all but g...

The limited series about a rape in a small town doesn't flinch, but viewers might.

Gunilla Allard teams up with Note Design Studio on a new lounge chair for Lammhults Words by Mandi Keighran The Sunny lounge chair, which blurs the boundary between furniture for public and private spaces, just launched at Stockholm Design Week in the brand’s newly refurbished showroom Stockholm Design Week (8th-14th February) is a celebration of Scandinavian design – and is the perfect setting for an installation that brings together some of the Swedish design industry’s most recognised...

san francisco who grew up here will benefit from the project by showing all of us that sustainable and socially responsible development can be achieved. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. i speak today in support of this project. the population of san francisco is growing and the land mass is not. that is a reality. we have but one option left and thats to increase the density of housing in this great city. occupancy in the city right now is approximati...

for development is -- it is 50 years old. my house is 98 years old and i had to do maintenance. i had to change the sewer. at a small cost for keeping a house, keeping your home. in parkmerced, they should do the same. 50 years old is not all for a house. someone lives there. thats their home. that is not being considered. in some sense, the renters are treated like second-class citizens. they are being treated like sharecroppers. [applause] a landlord is the big boss. he is the man. t...

treated like second-class citizens. they are being treated like sharecroppers. [applause] a landlord is the big boss. he is the man. the renters are just renters. theyre not people. it does not matter. we all know what the real reason for this is. money. big money. developers are going to make a big profit. the city thinks theyre going to make a profit. there is infrastructure that will cost. these things will not offset the cost. more importantly, there is a human cost. these are peop...

concerns in san francisco. there seem to be very many adequate, if not overreaching projectionprotection street as y manager, any property manager will abide by them. we need this housing. it is beautiful design. it addresses many needs of san francisco. its done ain a sustainable way. i really insist that you keep your mind open. supervisor mar: thank you very much. >> good morning. im a business representative with the international union of elevator constructors, local eight. thank ...

the renovation and expansion will increase affordable housing in san francisco. it benefits all the citizens in this city. the other thing to also keep in mind is that the city needs to grow jobs and this is an opportunity to do that. to do it in a situation where it is local to the community and also citywide. the tax revenues and the fees are significant. the additional individuals and families moving into parkmerced will mean increased revenue generated to the payroll and other taxe...

do not feel that $160 million is enough. this is one of the articles mike was talking about -- my neighbor -- about the larry gluck demolition. i think it is in harlem. its the piece of property that he owned when he wanted to try to destroy those people. he was not allowed to. parkmerced is a beautiful place. its absolutely spectacular. its a lovely place to live. we do not want to be torn down. we would like to stay just where we are. we would hope that you vote against this. we do n...