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I know I know, every picture from Finland so far has been of Moomins, but isn't a peroxide blond bad boy also a beloved character from ...

One night while I was in Finland, I found myself seated at an event I would never in my right mind have attended back in the United States:...

Since the Sibelius symphonies I checked out from the New York Public Library were too scratchy to play, my main impression of what the musi...

I can unequivocally state that I've never been in a culture as intent on eating black food stuffs as the Finns. (Even in Cambodia, they...

Packing up for a week in Finland today (read: thermal britches). A few days in the countryside and then off to attend a music festival in ...