Author: Larissa Kyzer
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You Have To Confirm It With Your Own Hands: Seeing Believing Having Holding Debuts At i8
You might be familiar with a famous motif in visual art, that of Thomas, one of the Biblical disciples, sticking…
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Something For Everyone: Bike Cave
Located in the Skerjafjörður neighbourhood behind the domestic airport, the Bike Cave is somewhat out of the way for travellers…
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One Night Only: In Reykjavík, Pop-Up Restaurants Keep… Popping Up
Walking into the open, dining room at ‘slow-food’ favourite Bergsson’s harbourside satellite location in late September, we knew we were…
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On The Road Again (And Again)
In a wide, grassy meadow where the road to Húsavík breaks off from the Ring Road, you’ll encounter a rather…
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Casa Grande: Go Big Or Go Home
Located in a red corrugated iron house overlooking the old harbour, Casa Grande is situated smack-dab in the middle of…
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Misbehaving Nuns, Ancient Ice: Five Seasonal South Iceland Sights
Ideally, all of your travels in Iceland would be accompanied by mild weather and cloudless skies, but waiting for perfect…
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Feeling Parsley, Hearing Voices At The Iceland Writers Retreat
The second annual Iceland Writers Retreat took place this past weekend, bringing together acclaimed authors from Canada, Iceland, Norway, the…
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Iceland Writers Retreat Redux
Going into its second year, the Iceland Writers Retreat—which, armchair copyeditors take note, is purposely “apostrophe free”—is riding high on…
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Yule Year-Round: Visting Jólagarðurinn
A visit to the JólagarðurThis fall, while planning my first trip up North, I messaged a friend of mine who…
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Kicking Off Iceland Noir 2014
Following the easygoing success of last year’s inaugural Iceland Noir crime lit festival, this year’s event is already off to…
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Back To Basics
Brynja Pétursdóttir And Natasha Monay Royal Bring Street Dance To Iceland, One Step At A TimeAlthough contemporary hip hop culture…
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Everyone’s A Chef
Fine Icelandic cuisine made simple at Salt EldhúsI walk into Salt Eldhús (“Salt Kitchen”) on a rainy summer afternoon that…
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The Way We Live Now
‘News Muse’ by Vala HafstaðTaking its inspiration from idiosyncratic headlines around the globe, ‘News Muse’ by Vala Hafstað combines two…
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Selling Like Hot (Crab) Cakes
Located further afield than most of Reykjavík’s new brigade of food trucks, Walk the Plank—specializing in crab cake sliders from…
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Remembrance and Re-Remembrance
The Dance for Me theater company’s “Petra” at TjarnarbíóFollowing the astounding success of their last collaboration, “Dansaðu fyrir mig,” (‘Dance…
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When Dreams Become Realities
Brogan Davison, Pétur Ármannsson and Ármann Einarsson talk creative collaboration, artistic growth and family tiesIn early 2012, 49-year-old Ármann Einarsson,…
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Have You Seen Hidden People?
Unnur Jökulsdóttir gathers first-hand accountsDuring her childhood in Flói, a small rural area in Southwest Iceland, author Unnur Jökulsdóttir grew…
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Bárðarbunga Earthquake Visualization
An Icelandic computer scientist has created a data visualization showing all of the Bárðarbunga earthquakes measuring over 1.5 on the…
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Hiding in Plain Sight
Remote viewer Aaron C. Hanson talks remote viewing, Hidden People and Iceland’s “Next Most Significant Event”In early 2014, we at…
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Bárðarbunga Volcano Watch: The Afternoon Edition
Don’t panic.Volcano watch is still in full swing, but no eruption yet. In the meantime, here’s a roundup of the…
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Readers’ Huldu-fólktales
Since our Hidden People issue came out on Friday, readers have been submitting their own elf-encounter tales left and right….
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Hidden People: They’re Just Like Us (Kind Of)
When foreign media outlets report on Iceland and need to add a little local colour, they will invariably throw in…
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Hidden People Folktales
It is due to the efforts of two men, Jón Árnason (1819-1888) and Magnús Grímsson (1825-1860), that such a large…
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Reykjavík Pride Starts Today!
Reykjavík Pride (Hinsegin dagar), a six day celebration emphasizing LGBTQIA visibility, solidarity, and yes, pride, starts today. Reykjavík Pride began…
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Time’s Ticking For The Icelandic Goat
Goat farmer Jóhanna Bergmann Þorvaldsdóttir has launched a new IndieGoGo campaign to save her family farm, Háafell (also known as…