Expectations run high, first impressions are everything, the benchmark of quality must be set and now I am referring to the column, not my sexual technique, which has thankfully improved […]
Send me some of hi-tech lovin’
He told me about it in Messenger. I cannot even remember how was possible to have a date and be at the right place at the right time before owning […]
Living in a virtual world, making real money
MMORPG or massive multiplayer online role-playing is already one of the most popular forms of entertainment on the Internet with more than 15 million users in 2006. It is also […]
Will you take me?
FREE! Magazine offers a new look at Finnish culture. But hey, it’s in English. That’s right! There is already a good bunch of immigrants in Finland. Maybe you are even […]
Interview With Hanna-Leena Hemming
Could you tell us where the idea for opening the new museum came from? Hanna-Leena: There were two coincidences that led to the opening of EMMA. First of all, we […]
Malevich: The Beauty Of Simple Forms
Born near Kiev in 1878, Malevich is with no doubt one of the pioneers of abstract geometric art. He was inspired by Cubism and Futurism until he gave birth to […]
Borat: the Comedy of Superiority
{quotes}Part Jackass, part Andy Kaufman, Sacha Baron Cohen is clearly a man who thrives on controversy, but to label him as a low-brow shock comedian is to miss the point.{/quotes} […]
Fox Days: The Size Does Not Matter
All of the films shown had English subtitles, so Fox Days makes a perfect occasion for the non-Finnish speaker to get a better idea of what is going on in […]
Someday a Real Snow Will Come
{mosimage}The movie is based on the 12-episode TV series Fragments (Irtiottoja) shown in Finland during the autumn of 2003 in which the taxi driver Veli-Matti was one of the main […]
Tom Waits – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
{mosimage}Orphans is divided into three parts, arranged by title and theme. The first disc, Brawlers, is the rock and blues album with the artist traveling across the darkest places of […]
Expressionism Painted with a Jazz Guitar
{mosimage}Raoul was born in Los Angeles when his mother, the Finnish actress Taina Elg, worked for Metro Goldwyn Mayer in Hollywood. However, he was raised in New York, where he […]
Ourvision, (Y)our Music!
OurVision, Caisa’s new enterprise and its biggest production to date, is a song contest for all the artists coming from the continents ‘left out’ of Eurovision. It was Caisa’s director […]
Helsinki Book Fair
The fair became a paradise for book lovers. The biggest names of the industry placed huge stands where you could find all the newly-released books, but there was also plenty […]
Uncovering the Underground
{mosimage}Conrad, born in 1940, was in charge of the opening concert at the Kiasma Theatre. In the early sixties he was a seminal figure in the art scene in New […]
Photographs In The Green
{mosimage} Things Do Not Change, a photographic exhibition by Carla Schubert, a Finnish-Austrian artist, comprises a series of black and white photographs portraying shapes and details of woods, trees, roots… […]