About Coolstockholm

Some of the hottest trends in fashion, film, design, art and music have their origins here in Scandinavia, on the roof of Europe. Cool Stockholm has been created by culture-vulture journalist David Bartal, together with Nizar Achmad, gourmet chef and major-league party animal

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Psychedelic trance rock at Roskilde

This band called “Wooden Shjips” is one of the groups that will be playing this summer at Denmark’s Roskilde Festival. Nice to contemplate summer when its -10 C outside.

Cooking with Nizar and Alice Bah

Cooking With Nizar & Mårten Andersson

Strike a pose

This is exactly what Carolina Gynning did when I asked her for a photograph after her performance in Söndagsparty, Kanal 5’s new talk show live from New York with comedians Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson.  Carolina Gynning, most famous for winning the Swedish version of Big Brother in 2004 and her voluptuous looks, was one of the show’s guests on May 24th, together with author and poet Björn Ranelid. (…)

A fertile place for murder and mayhem

The Stockholm City Museum is arranging guided tours in English of the locations depicted in author Stieg Larsson’s phenomonally successful Millenium thriller series.

Poking around on a spooky boat wreck

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My friend Alex Farnsworth found a mysterious bag of bones last week on an abandoned boat on a small island on the south side of Stockholm. (…)

Animated video invitation from Ljunggrens

FromMeToYou Trailer 1 from Vidiots on Vimeo. (…)

Another crazy project from Finland

The guys behind the Star Wreck film spoof have a new movie project called Iron Sky under way which will also be released as a computer game. (…)

A blood-red cinematic weekend

If  vampires or werewolves are your cup of tea, Stockholm is your kind of place.  A three-day film festival called “Brutes, Vampires and Females” is taking place in the Swedish capital this weekend, arranged in part by the Romanian Institute. (…)

Nobel Prize dinner with Swedish movie star Helena af Sandeberg