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...Hampton, and at the heart of that supremely exclusive enclave of class and culture is the Maidstone, TheMaidstone.com, the completely overhauled new incarnation of the historic Maidstone Arms. Originally built in 1740, the 19-room hotel was taken over last year by Swedish hotelier Jenny Ljungberg, whose family owns Stockholm's rock-'n'-roll-cool Lydmar Hotel. Ljundberg has transformed the Maidstone's interiors, replacing dated nautical motifs with a contemporary Nordic-inspired aesthetic, filled with natural light and brightly patterned furnishings. A pair of Swedish and American chefs creates both Scandinavian and Yankee classics, and bikes are available...
...this lush pop opera was released, once again as a concert album. Nearly four hours long and containing a staggering 39 songs, the piece was staged in Stockholm in 1997 and ran for nearly four years. The three-disc CD topped the local charts but was never issued abroad. Herbert Kretzmer, who had anglicized the French musical Les Misérables, worked with Andersson and Ulvaeus on an English translation, yet despite the seismic success of Mamma Mia!, the new show never left Sweden...
...1840s and '50s, it focuses on the lives of Kristina (powerfully sung here, as on the original album and on the Stockholm stage, by Helen Sjoholm) and her husband Karl-Oskar (Russell Watson, the Salford factory worker known in England as "the people's tenor"). Nearly starved by crop failures in their native Smaland, Karl-Oskar and his brother Robert (Kevin Oderkirk, who earned vigorous shouts with each of his numbers) resolve to leave the land their ancestors have farmed for a thousand years and go to America. Despite Kristina's severe reservations, that's what they do, accompanied...
...blossomed are more vulnerable than ever and that unless we recognize our planetary boundaries and stay within them, we risk total catastrophe. "Human activities have reached a level that could damage the systems that keep Earth in the desirable Holocene state," writes Johan Rockstrom, executive director of the Stockholm Environmental Institute and the author of the article. "The result could be irreversible and, in some cases, abrupt environmental change, leading to a state less conducive to human development." (See TIME's special report on the environment...
...What They're Watching in Sweden: Even more shocking than the content of Dirty Diaries--a collection of 12 short pornographic films that premiered in Stockholm on Sept. 3--is the source of the project's funding: Swedish taxpayers. Director Mia Engberg received $70,000 from the Swedish Film Institute to depict "sexuality through a female's perspective"--a revelation that rankled conservative pols and filmgoers alike...