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Gentrification knows no borders. London has Shoreditch, Paris has Belleville, San Francisco has Soma, and – closer to home – Kennedy Town has smartened up considerably since when it was more “other ...

STOCKHOLM - Fans of the late crime novelist Stieg Larsson are getting lost in the Swedish countryside, searching for the quaint town of Hedestad featured in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." The ...

THERE’S nothing particularly remarkable about the mustard-colored building at Bellmansgatan 1, in Stockholm’s Sodermalm neighborhood. But that doesn’t stop tourists from taking photos of the place.

New York and London have Soho but Stockholm's southern island Sodermalm has SoFo - a slice of bohemian Nordic cool. Quentin Tarantino calls it his favourite record store in the "universe". Elvis ...

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo opens inUKcinemas on Friday, following the story of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander seeking a missing woman. The film is based on Stieg ...

Södermalm was ranked as the "coolest" neighbourhood in Europe in Vogue magazine this month and the article's gone viral. So we asked people in Söder if they believe the hype. Vogue gushed about the ...

The Brooklyn-esque island of Södermalm offers countless cozy café options for its young and trendy dwellers. Here’s The Local’s list of five hotspots to have a "fika" (coffee break), lounge, and bask ...

In a far corner of Sodermalm, Stockholm's hipster-haven island, it's surprising to find a mansion laced with history tucked away amid modern utilitarian apartments. The 240-year-old listed building, ...

My Swedish friend was sullen. The summer months had finally arrived in Stockholm, but he was out of the country. “I just hope it’s not sunny there,” Isak lamented. Summer’s oh-so-fleeting factor in ...

Except that the country is not far off being twice the size of Blighty and is the home of Abba, Ikea, Volvo, H&M, Björn Borg and, of course, Gina Tricot. Gina Tricot? Yup, Gina Tricot, “Scandinavia’s ...