Most people associate the Martha Association with freshly baked pastries and rag rugs. Nevertheless, or perhaps that’s exactly why, many young people are now joining the association. According to the Viipurinkatu chapter of the Marthas, being a Martha has become a megatrend.
Text Petra Vuolanen
Photos Sanna Lehto
We Finns have plenty of water, so we don’t have to worry about how much we consume. Or do we? Wonderwater Café brings the information about the water footprint of your meal to your table.
Text Miia Vähähyyppä
Images Wonderwater Café
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Wonderwater Café
May 22–September 16, 2012
Café Kiasma, Helsinki
Viipurinkadun Martat – Taste of Helsinki – Matti Romppanen – Roberto Rodriguez – Adams – Portfolio by Scandinavian Carpenter Collective – Column by Olli Sirén – Wonderwater Café – Helsinki Calendar – New music and movies – The best shops, restaurants and bars in Helsinki
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Scandinavian Carpenter Collective has a different approach to kitchen. Unlike traditionally, all the kitchen furniture by the new furniture company are movable and detachable.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Riku Pihlanto, Virpi Palokangas
Column by Olli Sirén
The next time you put a fork in your mouth, you should realize you’re tapping the rhythm of humanity. Eating together is a fundamental piece in the puzzle that makes humans human.
Photo Helen Korpak
Zeitgeist means the spirit of the times, a trend. Food trends are in many ways a hot potato. What should we give up? Everything perhaps? Is it possible to live solely by breathing? Maybe the answer lies somewhere beyond good or bad food.
Text Johannes Ekholm
The Sushibar flagship restaurant &Dine’s head chef has worked at Gordon Ramsay’s three-star Michelin restaurant and is also a former chef of Chez Dominique, so you might want to check this out. Who is the kitchen’s wizard Matti Romppanen and how did he end up at Sushibar?
Text Sirje Niitepõld
Photos Matti Tanskanen
How would you like a starter from Farang, a main course from Demo and a dessert from Juuri, the sun shining over your head and a green lawn under your feet? Sure thing. That’s Taste of Helsinki.
Text Sirje Niitepold
Images Taste of Finland
Most people associate the Martha Association with freshly baked pastries and rag rugs. Nevertheless, or perhaps that’s exactly why, many young people are now joining the association. According to the Viipurinkatu chapter of the Marthas, being a Martha has become a megatrend.
Text Petra Vuolanen
Photos Sanna Lehto
Teksti Teemu Fiilin
Kuvat Jan Ahlstedt
We Finns have plenty of water, so we don’t have to worry about how much we consume. Or do we? Wonderwater Café brings the information about the water footprint of your meal to your table.
Text Miia Vähähyyppä
Images Wonderwater Café
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Wonderwater Café
May 22–September 16, 2012
Café Kiasma, Helsinki
Every once in a while an album or an artist appears which makes you drop down to your knees. Antero Lindgren’s folk rock is touching from the first time you hear it.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Cats on Fire’s fourth album doesn’t open up easily, but will reward a persistent indie pop listener.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Yournalist may suffer from its supposedly funny name, but luckily the music on the debut album can be taken seriously. The wild expression jumping from one style and atmosphere to another heard on last year’s debut EP has given way to a more straightforward stadium indie sound.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Puppa J may have started as a pure reggae artist but over the years his music has been influenced by rap and the ethnic styles of different continents.
Text Teemu Fiilin
In March the over 120-year-old Adams Hall on Erottajankatu saw the opening of a new restaurant for the first time in living memory. The traditional Adams Hall now combines a restaurant with a nightclub in an entirely new way.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Alfonso Almendros
Modern bands don’t create hits, they create genres. The blogosphere is constantly producing new microtrends and the most quickly growing ones make marketing gurus green with envy.
Text Johannes Ekholm
Image Niklas Ekholm
Federico Cabrera left Argentina, ended up in Asia and finally landed in Finland. While in Helsinki, Cabrera has established clothing stores, a fashion brand, an online gallery and an art/fashion magazine. Federico who?
Teksti Sirje Niitepõld
Kuvat Federico Cabrera & Jasmin Mishima
The Fashion Library offers an option to consume fashion with a clear conscience. No more wrong choices, bad quality or ridiculous credit card bills. The selection includes treats from Finnish designers as well as some vintage selected in good taste.
Text Emma Vuorinen
Photos Hanne Granberg
Bravo!, the International Theatre Festival for Children and Youth, introduces James Blond as well as performances by four other international theater groups.
Text Heini Lehtinen, Petra Vuolanen
Photos Bravo! / Theater groups
Column by Teri Niitti
The question is whether Helsinki needs a Guggenheim Museum, but rather in a broader sense whether a human needs modern international art.
Photo Matti Tanskanen
Vin-Vin will bring a wine bar to the corner of Kalevankatu and Yrjönkatu along with a beauty salon by Tom Wennerstrand. All-in-all, the place will be called Noir. Sounds like indulgence.
Text Sirje Niitepõld
Photos Helen Korpak
Zebra and Snake took a couple of years to develop their songs before making an album. Now the band is introducing a well-being concept that even modern medicine is not able to create – healing music.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Noora Isoeskeli
Paola Suhonen has achieved more than probably any other Finnish fashion designer. However, that isn’t enough for her and so she has decided to acquire a new skill at one of the world’s best film schools.
Text Petra Vuolanen
Paola’s photo Kim Öhrling
Illustration Jee Hei
Influenced by punk, progressive rock, ska and folk music, Tundramatiks has now added Balkan accordion tunes to its hysterically fast Finnish rock.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Burning Hearts’ brilliant and undeniably beautiful compositions move freely, like they had a mind of their own.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Made with great skill and a sense of style, Death & Decay may be retro, but it’s far from musty reminiscences of old times.
Text Teemu Fiilin
If Randy Barracuda and Mesak’s skweee music seems too disturbing, the Helsinki-based trio, Yöt, offers an EP with a more easily digestible version of the twisted skweee groove.
Text Teemu Fiilin
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16. January 2012
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20. January 2012
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11. February 2012
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15. February 2012
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