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…
Gone Fishing
Chapter One: Fish Guts The first thing that strikes you about working on a fishing boat is the amount of…
Gallery Crush
At various Icelandic art schools, designer/fashionista Óli has a reputation. Having focused his art in the direction of the greater…
Borderline OK
When you identify your band as “rock,” you’re automatically recognizing your own fated mediocrity in a way. It almost predetermines…
Fljótt og Gott
The journey down to the BSÍ bus terminal for my first bite of boiled Icelandic sheep’s head was not a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Swooning With The Rapture
I wonder if the Motions Boys have been having nightmares about power. For those of us who were there for…
The Playground Hvítá River
The people at Arctic Rafting could tell just by looking at me that I had never been rafting in my…
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…
Eiki Feiti
You can talk all you want about your braised lamb shanks, your fancy baked Alaskas, and your filet mignons in…
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…
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…