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Author: Bart Cameron

Dr. Spock Dr. Phil

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Explaining why he enjoys Icelandic staple Dr. Spock, who are releasing their first CD after having played live around Reykjavík…

Lights on the HighwaySelf-titled.

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There’s a lot of layered acoustic guitar here, and a lot of layered vocals. Vocal effects and outstanding fill-heavy drumming…

Original Music from the film Screaming Masterpiece

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Many visitors and fans of Iceland enjoy the film Screaming Masterpiece, by Ari Alexander Magnússon. The film features the best…

Come On, People. How Deep Do Your Cartoons Have to Be?

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Okay, Madagascar came to Iceland late, so we had already heard earfuls of “it’s too superficial” and “just a bunch…

Shelved Books Worth a Second Look

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Páll Ásgeir Ásgeirsson. Adventure in Iceland. (2005) The curiously dated front cover looking like something from a 1980s bowling alley,…

TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: Things to Fear

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Laptop entertainment centres. Apple always understood it, but now HP and Toshiba have caught up, and you can watch TV…

Death Hikes, Berserker Lava Fields, Hag Mountains and Desolated Islands:

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We have three different maps in the car, each with circles and notes from Icelanders suggesting different spots in Snæfellsnes…

Government Intervention Works. The Libertarians Proved It.

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According to some, Iceland is the dream model for a conservative government. The former prime minister and key member of…

Sónar Festival for Advanced Music and Multimedia Art in Barcelona and G! Festival in the Faroe Islands.

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Grapevine designer Hörður Kristbjörnsson, one half of the dynamic DJ-duo Skratch n Sniph, loves music festivals. He can’t get enough…

Night and Day: Two Very Different Approaches, If Shirts Are Your Thing

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Nonnabúð The most celebrated t-shirts in town have come out of Nonnabúð for years. Even a casual visitor will notice…

The Nohito and Other Brennivín Cocktails

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Brennivín is a fine hard caraway-flavoured schnapps, traditionally served as cold as possible. So cold that the liquor gels, if…

Bezt í Heimi:Hornið: The Chianti in wicker kind of classy

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How do you take a quaint restaurant with the kind of consistently good Italian that always goes with the Chianti…

The Seals

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This all started a week ago, when I was told about the unique farm of Hindisvík. According to sources, there…

The Iceberg

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After an hour of photographing, I was welcomed back to the boat, though we had to stop again as Helvítis…

Soft Colours with Bruising:

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“They asked me in Stykkishólmur if I was getting good motivation from the mountains,” Þórdís Aðalsteinsdóttir tells me, as we…

RASS

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When punk goes right, explaining it is a hell of a thing. Rass (ass) made up of a group of…

KimonoArctic Death Ship

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Reykjavík has been waiting for this sophomore release from Canadian-Icelandic rockers and producers Kímono. An early release from the record,…

Schpilkas So Long Sonja

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A modest effort from an extremely popular local Klezmer band, So Long Sonja is a good keepsake, but not a…

Assorted ArtistsAcoustic Iceland

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A fantastically badly-designed and badly-marketed CD, this 20-song anthology actually does contain 20 essential tracks. And the packaging, when you…

Foo Fighters

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Are you still reading? Yeah, I said Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age. The names alone evoke scores…

Safe… If Guilty

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I had a master plan: I had long been interested in city planning for Reykjavík, as modern urban living solutions…

The Consequence of Gender Inequity

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The dirty secret of the great Icelandic holiday Verslunarmannahelgi (Merchants’ Holiday) is that while many young Icelanders manage to only…

The Adventurers

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Not a Rational Decision

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A couple of American emigrants stopped by The Grapevine office this week to discuss their move, our paper, and the…

GRAPEVINE, GISP!, Gallery Lobster or Fame and JPV Publishers Present:Comics in a Bomb Shelter

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Comics and large concrete subterranean rooms: ah sweet sweet nostalgia. Of course, few of those involved in the exhibits adorning…