Author: Chandler Fredrick
Unexpectedly Awesome
Chances are that your handy rough guide doesn’t mention this. From the road, it appears that someone has transplanted colourful…
How Did You Like Iceland?
I The other day I was flipping through Hugleikur Dagsson’s “Avoid Us,” the English translation of the one-line Icelandic comics…
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Gone Fishing
Chapter One: Fish Guts The first thing that strikes you about working on a fishing boat is the amount of…
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Gallery Crush
At various Icelandic art schools, designer/fashionista Óli has a reputation. Having focused his art in the direction of the greater…
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Borderline OK
When you identify your band as “rock,” you’re automatically recognizing your own fated mediocrity in a way. It almost predetermines…
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Fljótt og Gott
The journey down to the BSÍ bus terminal for my first bite of boiled Icelandic sheep’s head was not a…
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Round and Round Around Route 1
The last time I came to Iceland, in 2006, I drove the 1,339 km Ring Road in 27 hours. My…
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Sir Gussi: A Metal Knight
Okay, so his name is actually Gunnar Guðbjörnsson. While he’s not officially knighted, his studio space might just become the…
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How do you like AIR?
They’re veterans, AIR. They’ve been doing the album-tour-album-tour format for almost a decade now, squeezing in the occasional festival gig…
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Swooning With The Rapture
I wonder if the Motions Boys have been having nightmares about power. For those of us who were there for…
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The Playground Hvítá River
The people at Arctic Rafting could tell just by looking at me that I had never been rafting in my…
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Selection From the Sweets Shop
When the editor summoned me and told me to explore the field of Icelandic candy, I thought it would a…
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Skyr: A Beginner’s Guide
Skyr (pronounced ‘skeer’) is a traditional Icelandic dairy product made from pasteurised skim milk without omitting certain kinds of milk…
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Street Art: Accepted in Galleries, Banned in the Streets
It’s not just the weather. Reykjavik is a grey city. Beyond the pastel corrugated iron houses of Skólavörðustígur and the…
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Eiki Feiti
You can talk all you want about your braised lamb shanks, your fancy baked Alaskas, and your filet mignons in…
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Kaldi: The Coolest Beer in Iceland
It seems that the introduction of an Icelandic microbrewery has been long overdue: it was nearly twenty years ago that…
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The Night the PA System Blew
As a part of the Take Me Down to Reykjavík City concert series, the Grapevine assembled a handful of upstart…