Author: Andie Sophia Fontaine
Mumford & Sons To Play Airwaves This Year
The organisers of Airwaves have just announced that the British indie folk band Mumford & Sons will be playing at…
What Does Your Rainbow Look Like?
“I’m not educated in art,” Jóhann tells us at his home in Vesturbær. “At a very early age, when the…
Life In Pictures: An Opportunity To Play
Anna Kristín is a firm believer in the pin-up aesthetic, turning its association with objectification on its head. “It’s an…
In Photos: Borgarnes, The Prettiest Town You Never Visited
If you’ve traveled north on Route 1, chances are you have driven right through Borgarnes without giving it a second…
Uppreist Æru: Clearing The Reputation You Ruined Yourself
Many non-Americans (and a lot of Americans, too) are flummoxed by the US policy whereby convicted felons in some states…
Raw Sewage Pours Into Reykjavík Harbour, Shitstorm Ensues
Last week, passersby discovered that raw sewage was pouring into Faxaskjól, in Reykjavík harbour, at a rate of about 750…
All Aboard The Lava Express! That Train Will Soon Be Here At Last
You’ve been hearing about it for years now. You probably thought it was never going to happen. But now it…
Iceland: Against Nuclear Weapons, But Not Really
Iceland is well known for being a peaceful country with no standing army. However, that image deserves nuance: Iceland is…
Money Laundering In Iceland, And How We’re Fighting It
Guðrún Árnadóttir and Björn Þorvaldsson do not have the most glamorous jobs in the world. In fact, chances are you…
Missing In Iceland: Jukeboxes
Granted, these may be increasingly fewer in numbers everywhere around the world, but jukeboxes are conspicuously absent in Iceland. Which…
Kurdish Family To Be Detained And Deported – VIDEO
A family from Kurdistan Iraq who came to Iceland about a year ago are set to be detained on Monday,…
Piss Bandit Runs Amok At Vaunted Newspaper Office
Shockwaves have rocked the halls of Morgunblaðið, Iceland’s oldest continuously publishing newspaper, when it came to light that an unknown…
Reykjavík’s Planning Debacle
First-time visitors to Iceland’s capital are often struck by the city planning patchwork that Reykjavík is. Soviet-style apartment buildings, modernist…
Missing In Iceland: Pawn Shops
In a lot of major metropolitan areas around the world, if you’re hurting for some pocket money and you need…
Iceland Opts Out Of Anti-Nuke Vote At UN
Iceland was not one of the 122 countries that approved an international ban on nuclear weapons at a special session…
Today, We Bid Farewell To One Of Our Oldest Employees
This coffee machine, pictured above, was solemnly laid to rest today. Acquired from KKKarlson in exchange for an advertisement in…
Whale Hunting Falling Behind, Whale Watching Thriving
Hunters of minke whales have so far not been able to land very many whales at all, and they are…
Reykjavík One Of The Most Expensive Cities In The World
Reykjavík is now the 8th most expensive city in the world out of 506 cities indexed, according to the latest…
Heirs Of Laxness In Dispute With Tax Office
In a new interview in Fréttablaðið, Guðný Halldórsdóttir Laxness – daughter of Nobel Prize winning author and national treasure Halldór…
Swan Attacks Sheep – VIDEO
Icelanders Sigríður Línberg Runólfsdóttir and Halldór Margeir Sverrisson have taken several videos by drone of the Álftafjörður area, RÚV reports,…
Forgiveness Is Overrated
This is not a column I ever expected I would have to write. However, recent remarks from former Supreme Court…
Island Life
While this is normally the section where we post lighter, quirky news from the countryside, we would be remiss if…
Bloomberg Column Suggests Mueller “Check Out Iceland”
As we watch the salty hell circus that is the Trump administration Russian collusion investigations unfold from our tiny rock…
Missing In Iceland: All-Night Diners
Visitors to Iceland are often quite taken by how Americanised this country is, from car culture to hot dogs to…
Giant Ferris Wheel Proposed for Reykjavík
A story reported by Morgunblaðið has caught the attention of Icelanders across social media. Marta Jonsson, best known to Reykjavík…