Organic food for kids, farming in the city, great parties, pop-up restaurants and new food stores. Food strategy of the City of Helsinki seems to be all that is up-to-date in food.
Text Ida Kukkapuro
Photos Sanna Lehto
Mirel Wagner is like a music lover’s daydream. The young singer-songwriter from Espoo appeared out of the blue in 2010 and managed to convince even the most dedicated music lovers with her blues-folk sound. Now, Wagner is moving on to win the hearts of the rest of the world’s population.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Hertta Kiiski
…Or a caffè latte with raw milk? Both options will be available at the Eat&Joy marketplace in Kluuvi, offering food products from small Finnish farms as of October.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Sanna Lehto
Rubik can, for a good reason, be called Finland’s biggest indie band. The band’s indie approach is illustrated not only in its style of music but also in its way of thinking and the channel through which it releases its albums.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Matti Tanskanen
Artist Noora Isoeskeli’s photographs, illustrations and paintings discuss small insights with the visitor.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Several wine bars have opened in Helsinki within the last year. It seems, however, that there could be more.
Text Juhana Hurula
Photos Anna Kiuru
In the city, people make a fuss about propellants, rain forests, pesticides and carbon emissions, depending on what the hot topic of the decade is. The people by the lake may or may not listen. The debate topics in the studios change, but the calm and firm hands keep putting the dried milk cartons in the fireplace as always.
Text Antti Vassinen and Simo Vassinen
Photos Kaarle Hurtig
Statistics can also be sexy. Open data produced by the cities within the Helsinki Region will now be available to everybody through an online service that is part of the Helsinki Region Infoshare project launched in March.
Text Ida Kukkapuro
Photo Anna Kiuru
This summer’s Finnish indie phenomenon will undoubtedly be the debut album from the Shine 2009 duo. While the sounds point to the Hacienda club in Manchester, the songs work better on the couch at home.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Mummypowder still trusts its key competence – music with tons of melodic hooks, drawing its inspiration from 60s harmonic baroque pop, 70s power pop and the 90s classic indie.
Text Teemu Fiilin
TV-Resistori made its name playing slightly naive indie pop, but its new sounds are softer, more like popular music and less amateurish.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Finland’s or perhaps the world’s most talented beatboxer Felix Zenger’s debut album is thankfully not only about showing off his beatboxing skills, but of course it’s part of the deal.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Mostly Cloudy 
20X0 – A Journey into the Future
8. October 2011
Heureka – The Finnish Science Centre
Yellow City – Illustrated Stories from Helsinki
16. January 2012
All around the city
20. January 2012
Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art
Outi Heiskanen – Primordial Sea
11. February 2012
Didrichsen Museum
15. February 2012
City Museum Helsinki
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