Author: Ellen de Jong
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Haircut Happiness
Getting a haircut has always been a difficult thing for me. All these choices you need to make: Which salon?…
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10 Reasons to Go to the Reykjavík International Film Festival
1 This is a once a year chance to see the best independent films from all over the world. The…
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The Reykjavík Dance Festival
Johann Freyr Björgvinsson is one of the founding choreographers of the Reykjavík Dance Festival. Started four years ago, the festival…
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Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To mourn the victims, a memorial was…
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Videy: Not Just Landscape
Surrounded Blind Pavilion by Ólafur Eliasson was originally made for the Venice Biennale Art Festival in 2003 and was put…
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Chocolate and Family Values
What is it with Johnny Depp’s fascination for chocolate? First he dates a woman who owns a chocolate store (Juliette…
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Not Just Modern, Van Halen Modern:
Colourful and with as much variety as possible, that is how choreographer Ástrós Gunnarsdóttir describes this year’s Reykjavík Dance Festival….