Category: Arts & Entertainment

Crime Corner’s Jerry Holt travels the world with his latest recommendations, from Longyearbyen, Norway, to Naples, Italy, to Oklahoma.

Editor-in-chief Lori Ann Reinhall writes about the streaming service Films of Norway and their collaboration with The Norwegian American.

John Smistad reviews Troll, the Netflix film about a monster awakened from deep in the Dovre mountains and its destructive pilgrimage to Oslo.

Crime Corner’s Jerry Holt writes about three Scottish noir authors, Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, and Helen Fields, and their most recent books.

Geir Mæland reviews the documentary film about World War II, Front Fighters, which tells the stories of Norwegians who fought with Germans.

Bergen-based pianist Oda Voltersvik is returning to U.S. audiences on her new concert tour “Nordic Unrest,” featuring pieces by Edvard Grieg , Jean Sibelisu, Geir Tveitt, and Atli Heimir Sveinsson.

Marit Fosse interviews Christian Lamøy Stahr, musical artist in charge of cultural activities at the Norwegian Seaman’s Church in New York.

John Smistad reviews Against the Ice, a 2022 historical film on Netflix about two men on an expedition in Greenland and their fight to survive.

The Edvard Grieg Society of Minnesota opens its 2023 piano competition for both youth and adult divisions, with an April 1 deadline.

Editor-in-chief Lori Ann Reinhall reports on how Laura Loge saves the Nordic Chamber Music series for another season in the Pacific Northwest.