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comments Beartown is dying. It's 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 town's future: its junior hockey league.  "Beartown," the new five-episode HBO limited series from Sweden, centers on the league's hopes for ascendency after former National Hockey League player Peter Ander...

Fredrik Backman's 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 guaranteed to be a dark delight. Yet the Swedish import Beartown (in Swedish: Björnstad), based o...

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 names. Iconic furniture brand Lammhults is showcasing three new product launches in Space Matters,...

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 that's to increase the density of housing in this great city. occupancy in the city right now is approximating what it was in the dot com era, but without a bubble to sustain us. we need additional housing. ...