Author: Anna Andersen
Senior Citizens Get One Bath Per Week
Senior citizens at Hrafnista, Iceland’s largest nursing home, receive a bath once a week or once every other week due…
Charges Pressed Twenty Months After The Fact
Snorri Páll Jónsson, one of the Reykjavík Nine, and Sunneva Weisshappel, were in court this morning for charges pressed against…
Iceland Music Awards Nominations Announced
The Icelandic Music Awards have announced their nominations for the 17th annual award ceremony, which will be held at The…
Akureyri Winter Festival Begins
Akureyri’s annual Éljagangur winter festival begins this evening with a full schedule of events lasting until Sunday when the festival…
New Economic Reality: Purchasing Power Down 20%
Even if the economy recovers from the aftermath of the economic crisis, Icelanders must face the reality that their purchasing…
Iceland’s Meteorologists Watching Vatnajökull For Signs Of Eruption
A geophysicist from the Icelandic Meteorological Office says a volcano under Vatnajökull glacier could erupt if the increased earthquake activity…
Pre-Accession Economic Programme Sent To EU Commission
Iceland’s Ministry of Economic Affairs sent its first Pre-Accession Economic Programme (PEP) to the EU, according to the Ministry of…
Jussanam: Inconsistency In Icelandic Citizenship Process
While Brazilian singer Jussanam da Silva’s request for citizenship is still tied up in the system, Icelandic MPs are pushing…
Hundreds Protest Cutbacks to Music Schools
Hundreds gathered outside City Hall this afternoon to protest new cut backs to music schools in Reykjavík. The cuts, which…
A Slice of Icelandic Christmas Through the Ages
How did a child-eating ogress, thirteen mischievous yuletide lads and a creepy bogeyman crash Jesus Christ’s birthday party? Ethnologist Árni…
The Yuletide Lads Rise To Christmas Stardom
In Iceland, Santa Claus doesn’t live on the North Pole. He doesn’t come to town on a sleigh guided by…
Canadian Publication Retracts Björk Interview After Magma Threatens Libel Suit
by Anna Andersen and Haukur S. Magnússon
On November 9, Maclean’s Magazine posted an interview with Björk called, “In Conversation with Björk: Why the Icelandic singer wants…
Delta To Fly Out of Keflavik
Delta Airlines will begin serving Keflavík via New York starting June 3, 2011. The route will be offered five days…
Stay-At-Home-Dad to Perform Surgery on Iceland’s Constitution?
Farmers, students, salesmen, chefs, stay-at-home-Dads, film directors, engineers, preschool teachers, architects, lawyers, painters, mechanics, security guards, museum directors, businessmen, veterinarians,…
Grapevine TV At Airwaves 2010
The Grapevine had a film crew documenting Airwaves this year. For a recap of this five day festival, which saw…
Is The Public Interest More Important In Canada?
While Iceland’s government stands by the sale of HS Orka to Magma Energy, Canada’s government this week blocked a similar…
Team Björk Tries To Freeze Magma Energy
It has the makings of an unfinished Agatha Christie novel. After getting a foot in the door last year, Canadian…
Slither Slander
I was at the Grapevine offices on Friday when someone called with an urgent matter. The person asked to speak…
The Gnarr Effect
We were scrolling through our Facebook newsfeed the other day when we stumbled upon the phrase “the Gnarr effect.” We…
Tjarnarbíó – Saturday
by Maleen Mohr and Anna Andersen
Photo by Hvalreki [Maleen Mohr took the first two acts at Tjarnarbíó so that Anna Andersen could go see her…
Risið – Friday
by Eimear Fitzgerald and Anna Andersen
Photo by Hörður Sveinsson I arrived at Risið to find a well-behaved crowd sitting in chairs listening intently to the…
NASA – Friday
by Eimear Fitzgerald and Anna Andersen
Photo by Hvalreki Ljósvaki were first up, and from the off puzzled, then confused and then confused some more. There…
Special Airwaves Discount To Transaquania – Into Thin Air
Flash your Airwaves wristband to get half-off tickets to Icelandic Dance Company’s “Transaquania – Into Thin Air,” which shows on…
Suspected of Inciting Break-ins at Ministers’ Homes
Steinar Immanuel Sörensson was interrogated yesterday by police who suspected that Steinar was inciting people to break into the homes…
Get Out Of Town!
Odds are that you’re here for the Iceland Airwaves festival—but you just can’t come to Iceland without venturing outside of…