Author: Andie Sophia Fontaine
The Tuna Festival Is Here
Sashimi and sushi lovers, rejoice. Your time has arrived. Sushi Social has announced that their Tuna Festival has begun. From…
Travel Difficulties, Road Closures For Much Of The Country Today
Most roads in Iceland are going to be difficult to travel on at best, with many closures in the northern…
Couple Found Dead Last Week Likely Died Of Exposure, Preliminary Investigations Show
Preliminary investigations being conducted by the police indicate that a young couple who were found dead in South Iceland last…
Wednesday Evening Through Thursday: Hope You Like Wind And Snow
The good news is: temperatures along the southwest coast of Iceland are going to be above freezing this week. The…
Foreign-Born Residents About 14% Of Iceland, Varies Greatly From Region To Region
The latest data from the National Registry shows that as of December 1st of last year, foreign nationals comprised about…
Stuck On A Mountain For 12 Days In A NATO Radar Station
Working at one of Iceland’s four radar stations, which play a key role in NATO’s airspace defense of the country,…
Four Reindeer Killed By Vehicles Since Mid-December
Four reindeer have died in two separate incidents since the middle of last month, East Iceland news service Austurfrétt reports,…
Strike Amongst Reykjavik City Workers Possibly In The Cards
Voting for a series of work stoppages and a possible strike is now underway amongst Reykjavík city workers within the…
Screaming Yoga Class Disturbs Chess Tournament Next Door
Location is everything, as they say, and that apparently applies just as much to which two places of business are…
Proposal To Shorten Playschool Hours: Directors Approve; Parents, Not So Much
As Reykjavík City Council prepares to shorten playschool hours, there appears to be considerable disparity between how playschool directors and…
Iceland Being Explored As Possible Launch Site For Satellites
The space company Skyrora, in cooperation with Space Iceland, are exploring possible locations in Iceland for testing the capabilities of…
First Impressions #4: The Weather In Iceland
by The Reykjavík Grapevine and Andie Sophia Fontaine
As ever The Reykjavík Grapevine heads for world domination, and the first part of our complexed scheme is, of course,…
Couple Found Dead In Sólheimasandur, Police Investigating
A man and a woman in their twenties were found dead, about 150 metres apart from one another, near the…
The RVK Feminist Film Festival Starts Today
The RVK Feminist Film Festival begins today at Bíó Paradís, and has a fully-packed programme that will extend through Sunday…
Trans Icelandic Broad Cast #3 – How To Be A Good Ally
by The Reykjavík Grapevine and Andie Sophia Fontaine
As ever The Reykjavík Grapevine heads for world domination, and the first part of our complexed scheme is, of course,…
PM: “Today We Are All Westfjorders”; Justice Minister: “One House Flooded Is One Too Many”
In the wake of three avalanches that struck the Westfjords last night, both Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir and Minister of…
Three Avalanches Strike In A Single Night; One Rescued, Multiple Boats Damaged
Three avalanches, two in Flateyri in one in Súgandafjörður, across from Suðureyri, struck within very little time of one another…
Bára Halldórsdóttir’s Perfect Day In Reykjavik
by Bára Halldórsdóttir and Andie Sophia Fontaine
Bára Halldórsdóttir is perhaps best known for being the whistleblower in the notorious Klausturgate scandal, but she is also an…
Storm Days: Frozen Cars, Avalanche Warnings, Power Outages, Snow Tunnels
The latest weather alert from the Icelandic Met Office shows that storm conditions will persist over the entirety of the…
Where Love Hides: Gyða Valtýsdóttir ‘In Another Dimension’
GYÐA’s latest release, ‘Evolution,’ has been making waves. Since being one of the founding members of múm, one of Iceland’s…
Hildur Guðnadóttir Joker Score Secures Oscar Nomination
News has just come in that Hildur Guðnadóttir has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Score for The…
Stranded Air Travelers, One Traffic Fatality, Over Last Weekend
It was a frustrating weekend for those attempting to drive to, and those landing in, Keflavík International Airport this past…
Gale Force Storm Across Most Of Iceland Today: Travel Dangerous & Highly Inadvisable
The latest alert from the Icelandic Met Office emphatically advises against traveling for most of the country, with the only…
What Are Icelanders Talking About?
One of the weirdest attempts at igniting a social media shitstorm in 2019 came in late December, when news broke…
Icelandic Superstitions: Völvuspá
Few Icelandic cultural constructs have undergone as much change as the Völvuspá. Which stands to reason, given that it’s a…