Weed Jokes And Puke Bonding

This Is the Real Best Coast

No one likes the sound of trying too hard or the smell of sweat—you sweat it, you lose. It’s a simple rule, really. And Best Coast are as laid back as bands come. Full story

Today’s Viking

Hail Odin and Hail Björn Jakobsen!

And now, just for the sake of historical accuracy in light of the preceding photo story, which is accurate in lots of ways but not so accurate in some key ways, we present an interview with a real, a seriously really real, Viking. Full story

10 NORWEGIAN JOKES

Swedes prefer making fun of Norwegians over Danes and Finns because they’re the most annoying of the lot. They’re superrich because they have oil, they’re all perky outdoors t… Full story

Swindie Neverland

Dag för Dag Aren’t Your Average Swedes

Sarah and her little brother Jake were over 30 years old when they decided to leave London and sunny San Francisco to move to Stockholm and start a band. Contrary to all reason, this bold arrangement proved successful. Full story

Literary

New Drawings By Ragnar Persson

You may remember Ragnar Persson from the scary taxidermy wolf he shot for our 2007 Photo Issue Cover. And if you saw his pretty pencil drawings of girls and Nordic woods in the No Photo Issue later that year, you’ll know that he is no slouch with a pencil either. Full story

The Demon Director’s Autopsy

Maaret Koskinen Found More Than a Few Skeletons in Ingmar Bergman’s Closet

When Ingmar Bergman was 20 years old, he faced a fairly ordinary existential predicament: What’s a guy to do with a head full of thoughts he can neither comprehend nor control? Full story

Roy Andersson

Roy Andersson refused to follow up his commercially successful debut A Swedish Love Story and was, ironically enough, punished with a 25 year sentence of directing commercials. Full story

A Brazilian In... Montreal & Stockholm

It’s a very nice city. Not many buildings. Everything is far apart. There’s a lot of nature, but not much to do at night. Full story

Hello Titty

Breast Milk Cupcakes Are Nature's Candy

A while back, PETA, made all the "weird news" columns in the US by suggesting that Ben & Jerry's should use breast milk, like the kind your mum fed you from her mum tits, instead of cow milk. Full story

Written in the Writing

Graphologists Read Between the Letters

Sheila Lowe has been analyzing handwriting for over 40 years. She looks at one scribbled line and can tell you all kinds of secret stuff about yourself. It’s scary. Full story