Author: Lara McCarthy
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Stockholm Design – An interview with Joakim Olsson
If you’ve ever driven down a billboard-lined street or rented a movie online, it is almost certain that you’ve seen the work of Stockholm Design. The LA-based Entertainment Advertising Agency creates what is known as key art – artwork used in print and digital campaigns for theatrical, television and home entertainment companies. While the…
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The Museum of Failure is back – for good this time
For those of you in LA who missed The Museum of Failure‘s widely successful pop up tour earlier this year, fret no more – the museum is back, and this time it’s here to stay! The museum, which showcases failed products and services in a hilarious way that encourages visitors to celebrate and learn from mistakes, rather…
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Screening and Live Reading at 20th Century Fox
Join us for Slate One Production’s screening of the short comedic thriller, THE INVESTORS, (by Swedish director, Lara Wickman McCarthy,) as well as a live reading of excerpts from the upcoming screenplay: GRANNY AND THE OTHER DEVIANTS WHO RAISED ME. WHEN: Monday, February 12, 2018, from 4:30PM – 6:00PM WHERE: Zanuck Theater, 20th Century Fox…
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Scandinavian Film Festival LA 2018
While Scandinavian Film Festival LA has all the components of a glitzy Hollywood affair with its prestigious Beverly Hills location and screenings of Oscar-nominated films, it is, in fact, quite the opposite – a down-to-earth festival that focuses entirely on the films and celebrates excellent filmmaking without much extra fuss. The annual festival took place…
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Guide: Scandinavian Schools in the U.S.
If you are a Scandinavian parent raising children abroad, enrolling your kid in a Scandinavian school is a great way to keep your native language and culture alive in your family. Below is Swedes in the States’ guide to Scandinavian schools across the United States. While they may vary in size and structure, they all…
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Scandinavian Man – A Role Model for Style, Innovation and Equality
You don’t have to be a fan of men’s couture, or even a man, to appreciate the newly launched fashion magazine Scandinavian Man. Everything from its creamy thick paper to its outstanding articles and artistic photography screams quality and good values – once you start flipping through its pages, it is very difficult to put…
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Where To Experience Snow And Ice Around LA
Warm and sunny weather is often considered one of the perks of living in Southern California, but it can make it difficult to get into the holiday spirit. Drinking mulled wine and decorating the tree while wearing shorts and flip-flops just doesn’t feel right to most Scandinavians. Luckily there is no reason to fret, another…
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Meeting with the headmasters – Swedish school L.A. & Scandinavian School S.F.
If you are a Swedish parent raising children abroad, there are many reasons for teaching them your native language: it deepens their connection with the Swedish culture, it helps them communicate with family and friends when visiting Sweden, it’s good for children’s development to be bilingual, and it often feels more natural to speak in…
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Learn from other people’s mistakes at the Museum of Failure
Instead of seeing failures as…well, failures, why not see them as entertaining opportunities to learn something? That is the idea behind the Swedish Museum of Failure, which showcases a collection of epic fails by some of the world’s best known companies. Apple’s iconic technology failure, “The Newton”; the coffee and coke mixture, Coca-Cola BlāK, disastrous marketing campaigns like…
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Ankan och Marre – A New Gem in Children’s Music
It suddenly gets a lot brighter and warmer when musical artists Annica McCrudden and Maria Isaacs enter the coffee shop in a flurry of infectious laughter and warm hugs. We’re meeting at Urth Caffé in Beverly Hills to talk about their joint passion-project Barnmusik med Ankan och Marre – a series of Swedish children’s albums…