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issue 98 COME OUT AND PLAY 6 Roadmap Short film,
African film and the return of Kulturhuset. 8 Stockholm Jazz Festival The festival returns with some longawaited live music. 12 Cocktail Stories Meet Emil of Grand Hotel’s Cadier Bar. 18 Gastro Omaka is finally open. 20 Bitesize Small nuggets from the Stockholm restaurant scene. 26 Highlights Who, what where, when? Jazz and cocktails In a way, the situation is eerily similar. In January, a hundred years ago, it suddenly became illegal to go out drinking in the US. 100 years and two months later, we found our way into a near comparable situation, due to the lockdowns as a result of the pandemic. During prohibition, jazz and cocktails were all the rage, and now jazz and cocktails are what we’re directing our spotlight towards in this issue. Stockholm Jazz Festival, a cultural institution in Stockholm originally established in 1980, returns and offers us some welcome live music entertainment. Granted, this year’s edition looks a bit different of course but the main thing is that it’s going ahead. We speak to festival director Eric Birath about the ups and downs and the final programme on offer. As for the cocktails, the city’s premier bars are also struggling with the new normal. We tracked down Emil Åreng, the creative force behind the counter at Grand Hotel’s Cadier Bar. Emil is, according to the whisky brand Mackmyra, Sweden’s premier cocktail connoisseur, and some would call him our best bartender. His cocktail roadtrip book was even named the World’s Cocktail Book of the Year a couple of years back. A few things can happen when you encounter someone dubbed Sweden’s premier cocktail connoisseur. The correct choice is to have him make you some astonishingly tasty cocktails of course, but that we didn’t. Luckily, neither did we venture into the bewildering concoction of myth, legend and misinformation that you fall into when trying to entangle the origins of any given cocktail. What we did instead, was talk about the current situation, the bar industry and his new book, which is a quest for the perfect dry martini (for you). And of course we asked him how exactly he likes his whisky. So jazz and cocktails. Here’s hoping your own October will consist of some of the same ingredients. Peter Steen-Christensen 4 Totally Stockholm Nöjesguiden Media AB Slussplan 11 111 30 Stockholm Editor in chief Peter Steen-Christensen 0708-867101 ps@hkm.se Editor and Social Media Austin Maloney 073-689 28 34 am@hkm.se Art Direction & Design Abdul Hamid Ali 076-999 14 48 aa@hkm.se Advertising Jordache Naran 073-316 14 42 jordache.naran@ ng.se Leopold Ericlid 073-8705066 leopold.ericlid@ng.se Dennis Karlsson 070-910 84 60 dk@hkm.se Emil at Grand Hotel wants to serve you the perfect cocktail #98 / OCTOBER 2020 / FREE / WWW.TOTALLYSTOCKHOLM.SE PLUS KULTURHUSET CINEMAFRICA STOCKHOLM JAZZ FESTIVAL AND OMAKA Cover image: Emil Åreng at Grand Hotel’s Cadier Bar Contributors Max Fairclough Stephen Freiheit Klara G Petra Hellberg Ellika Henrikson Viktor Joandi Peter Lang Maria Leck Austin Maloney Damien Priest Matilda Rahm Pelle Tamleht Carl Thorborg Thomas Widerberg Responsible under Swedish press law Pelle Tamleht 070-633 27 63 pelle.tamleht@ng.se #totallystockholm #totallysthlm Totally Stockholm is a monthly HKM publication and is distributed from 350 selected distribution points. STOCKHOLM IN ENGLISH Always online at totallystockholm.se