In Tuska, I felt like I am living the Alice Cooper mantra for his new band members: “You’re gonna see the world. You’re gonna get paid, and you’re gonna get stitches!”
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Tuska, the annual three-day open air metal festival, kicked off for the 18th time on Friday. Thousands of heavy metal heads across the country summoned at Suvilahti.
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Imagine a one-night stand and after that an extraterrestrial beast will follow you to the end of your life.
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Sarah Kay, a 26-year-old spoken word poet from New York, performed at a crowded bar in Kallio on...
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Hundreds gathered in Helsinki on May 21, people even joining from Estonia, to demonstrate against...
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Late on Monday afternoon June 15, about 2000 people summoned at Kansalaistori in Helsinki to...
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I’ll say straight off the bat that I walked in to Terminator Genisys with a strong sense of “why is this franchise being dredged up again”?
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The midsummer celebrations were not free from casualties this year either, when nine people died in the festivities.
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Our road trip up to the west coast was filled with unexpected surprises.
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“Use your common sense! Education is important!” This is the core message of about 2000 demonstrators who protest against cutting from the education late on Monday afternoon. Click to watch the video.
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“I’ve got a big fat ass.” The line from the US rapper Nicki Minaj’s song Anaconda was proven in thousandfold, in a form of paper dolls, which were spread over the steps of the Helsinki Cathedral on Wednesday morning.
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Her words are empowering, direct and unapologetic.
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Dare to take a ride in the Jurassic World?
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In their latest issue, reporter Jean-Yves Camus takes a piss to the Finns party.
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Entourage (2015), which is based on the award-winning hit HBO series, is sure going to be the hit movie of the summer.
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At a time when most Finns are apprehensive about the future of their own country, a photo exhibition has quietly made its way to the public, which presents a crystal clear account of Finland’s past.
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10,000 men strong. That’s the amount of soldiers participating in the Wihuri2015 military exercise of the Finnish army, which is arranged in North Karelia, licking the border of Russia.
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The president of Tanzania, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, visits Finland to show his appreciation for the support Tanzania has received for over five decades. He is also seeking investments in the nation, which is on the verge of climbing out of poverty.
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The Funniest Person in the World is back in his home country, Finland.
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The government platform of somewhat 50 pages, released last week, states that immigrants strengthen the innovation capabilities of Finland.
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The Finns party member, Olli Sademies, suggested on his Facebook page that the African men arriving in Finland should be sterilised.
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The performance of the Afro-funk legend Orlando Julius was one of the highlights on Sunday.
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Thousands welcome Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät to Finland after the band has spent two weeks in Vienna, Austria, competing in Eurovision song contest, struggling for the win.
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Thousands attend the first day of World Village Festival at the Kaisaniemi park on Saturday. Here are the highlights.
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There are dirty things happening in Finland and at the same time we were among the top candidates in Eurovision.
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The expats of Porvoo arranged a warm event where a sudden twist of events more than tripled the amount of visitors on Saturday afternoon.
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“Nuke Russia now.” Maria Kozlovskaya writes a column in disgust over a comment Finland Today received from Canada.
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The most significant decision reached during the week, from the point of view of a foreigner, is the policy of starting to charge tuition fees from students arriving outside the EU and EEA regions.
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Finland tops the rankings of the global Human Capital Index in 2015.
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The number of people violating their entry bans to Finland has increased dramatically in the past few years, reveals an evaluation report by a working group of the National Police Board on fighting illegal immigration.
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Maggie (2015) is a zombie film but not of the traditional kind. Those expecting a bloody splatter film, where Schwarzenegger’s shotgun sends zombie brains across small town walls are going to be disappointed. However, those ready to see Arnold in a character role unlike seen before are going to be delighted and maybe even surprised.
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The smell of roasted marshmallows in the heat of the village bonfire, the seducing sounds of the djembe drum . . . this and more can be experienced at the Market of Possibilities, an event arranged by the local expats of Porvoo on May 16.
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It’s now a matter of reaching an agreement between the three biggest parties negotiating for the new government: the Centre, National Coalition party and the Finns party, who today started the preliminary government negotiations of forming a coalition that couldn’t lean any further to the right.
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There is disbelief. Indeed, some of the stories I heard at a series of Qutomo forums sound more like movie scripts.
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Richard Leakey, one of TIME’s 100 Greatest Minds of the 20th Century, a Kenyan paleanthropologist, visited Finland on Wednesday.
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Tony Öhberg rambles about the weather, the government and the frenzy of May Day.
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The Finnish Maiden jumps into the bandwagon of high-octane culture when the new museum card becomes available today.
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This year the student union responsible for the crowning promises to deliver the student cap on the sculptures curls with a spectacle never seen before.
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“Every person is of equal human value and has his or her own important place in our society. This applies both to native-born Finns and to those members of our community who have come here from elsewhere,” said Juha Sipilä, the speaker of the parliament.
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The Finnish navy detected a possible underwater target based on sound observations after 11:00 on Monday morning April 27. Here’s all you need to know about the operation, which continued on Tuesday and the aftermath in the media.
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Finland’s representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät (PKN) – the punk band suffering from Down’s syndrome – will be challenging discriminatory attitudes in a stamp dedicated to the band.
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Finland Today got acquainted with the revamped park on Friday, while the crew was putting the final pieces together. Watch the video and join the tour around some of the improvements.
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Eva Wahlström, the Finnish professional boxer, won the vacant WBC World female super featherweight title in a 10-round bout against the Argentinian, Natalia Vanesa del Valle Aguirre on Saturday evening, April 25 2015, at Helsinki Arena.
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Eva Wahlström, the Finnish professional boxer, will face Natalia Vanesa del Valle Aguirre on Saturday April 25 2015.
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Finlayson, the Finnish world-renowned manufacturer of Moomin sheets (and more recently famous of the gay Tom of Finland collection), stops all its cooperation with department store Kärkkäinen because of racism.
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Hamina, which was founded in 1653, burnt in 1712 and rebuilt in 1720, offers a wide variety of wooden houses, churches and museums within a walking distance from each other. To get lost is barely impossible because of the circular shape of the centre.
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The implanting of an artificial heart is a rare treat around the world. For example, in the Nordic countries only a few have been implanted.
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The situation is very difficult,” Juha Sipilä, the vote-puller and winner of the parliamentary elections 2015, said to me at the Centre party’s election watch gathering in Helsinki’s Töölö district late on Sunday evening. “We need a big change.”
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“From the selection of non-alcoholic beverages we only sell sodas to the minors,” said Alko.
Read MoreFinland places among the top four countries in the world when it comes to the fluency of English.
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