Jan. 9—BEEKMANTOWN — A local family-friendly ski area is now open for winter. Despite weeks of uncooperative weather, Beartown Ski Resort was finally able to have their grand opening Saturday. "We ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HBO Europe has greenlit the Swedish original miniseries “Beartown,” which will be directed by Peter Grönlund and is adapted from ...

“Beartown,” Fredrik Backman’s latest novel, takes place in a remote, on the skids, small Swedish town whose people are hoping that their junior hockey team might bring them national glory and with it ...

Beartown is dying. It’s an industrial Swedish town where actual industry is on the decline and development has stalled or even reversed. Sometimes it feels as if the surrounding forest, thick with ...

When we first heard that the HBO Europe drama Beartown was going to center around a hockey coach and his team, we thought that the show would be a light drama or have comedic elements. But it’s as far ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Early in HBO’s Swedish-language adaptation “Beartown,” two people are running desperately through the snow. One is carrying a ...

“Friday Night Lights” is a series that, during its five-season run from 2006-11, brought us into the soul of a small Texas town — the angst, the desires, the small triumphs, the loneliness and poverty ...

For reasons too complicated and gnarly to cover in-depth in this column, the culture that surrounds hockey – the stories, novels, songs and poems – often concerns disillusion and despair, and death is ...

It’s makes no difference in the consistent power of “Beartown,” the tale of a community obsessed by the fate of the hometown athletic team, that every crucial element of its drama, every crisis, every ...