13 Dec, 2018
Translations of the 19th-century Norwegian novelist introduce her to new audiences Barbara Sjoholm Port Townsend, Wash. Three Norwegian novels: A pretty, high-spirited singer at Copenhagen’s Tivoli captures the heart of a gentleman who hopes...
13 Dec, 2018
Groovy Grandma has a passion to create Victoria Hofmo Brooklyn, N.Y. How does one define the work of an artist who produces in a variety of styles, themes, and materials? Perhaps it’s best to...
29 Nov, 2018
Victoria Hofmo Brooklyn, N.Y. While walking around my neighborhood of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, I came across a flyer for a performance by Lords of the Fjords. Of course I was curious, being of Scandinavian...
15 Nov, 2018
Film review John Smistad Olympia, Wash. Espionage, betrayal, and murder are all spellbindingly explored—along with the darkest depths of the ocean—in the absorbing Norwegian thriller Pioneer (Pionér, 2013). Aksel Hennie (A Somewhat Gentle Man)...
14 Nov, 2018
REEL NEWS: From the Norwegian Film Institute (nfi.no) The most prestigious of the five prizes given to Los Bando in one week was the audience prize at the world’s largest media festival, Cinekid in...
12 Nov, 2018
Galleri Svalbard houses world-class art and artists Elizabeth Bourne Seattle The high arctic isn’t where you’d expect to find a world-class collection of printed works and paintings. And yet, here in Longyearbyen, an exceptional...
Arts & Entertainment / Norway Near You
29 Oct, 2018
Artists from Seattle and Bergen to make beautiful music together in holiday tour Lori Ann Reinhall The Norwegian American A few years ago, Reidun Horvei, a well-known classical trained folksinger from Voss in Hordaland,...
4 Oct, 2018
REEL NEWS: From the Norwegian Film Institute (nfi.no) Norwegian director Iram Haq’s second feature What Will People Say (Hva vil folk si) will be Norway’s bid for the Oscar nomination as Best Foreign-Language Film.The...
3 Oct, 2018
Book review John Sealy’s The Betrayal of Norway, published this spring, is surprisingly less about Quisling in WWII than the historically fictional account of Captain Wilhelm Schmidt of the German occupation force, who arrived...
20 Sep, 2018
The beloved musician’s last Midwest tour celebrates Norway in music and song Leslee Lane Hoyum Rockford, Minn. After 15 incredible Upper Midwest tours, Norwegian trumpeter Kai Robert Johansen is making his farewell autumn tour...
Choose your own Christmas goat & gnome
14 Dec, 2018
The magic of the missing nisse
13 Dec, 2018
Norsk 101: Saint Lucia Day (Luciadagen)
13 Dec, 2018
And the winning gingerbread is…
13 Dec, 2018
13 Dec, 2018
Choose your own Christmas goat & gnome
14 Dec, 2018
Shopping in Norway (Shopping i Norge)
14 Nov, 2018
Five prizes in one week for Los Bando
14 Nov, 2018
15 Nov, 2018
“More than a sweater” for 140 years
15 Nov, 2018
