Author: Kári Tulinius
So What’s This Facebook Ban on Icelandic Feminists I Keep Hearing About?
Not all Icelandic feminists. Just one feminist: Hildur Lilliendahl Viggósdóttir, who was recently honoured by Stígamót, the leading Icelandic organisation…
So What’s This Icelandic Drug Smuggling Ring I Keep Hearing About?
Which one do you mean? There is the most recent one in Denmark. The Icelandic gang was caught with 35…
So What’s This Icelandic Tea Party I Keep Hearing About?
Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, former education and culture minister, current member of parliament and recent vice-chairman of the right-wing Independence Party,…
So What’s This Earthquake I Keep Hearing About?
An earthquake of the magnitude 4.6 on the Richter scale struck on Thursday August 30th. Its epicentre was near Reykjavík…
So What’s This Sunny Weather I Keep Hearing About?
All summer long, the weather has been absurdly good, almost ominously so. According to the Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavík has…
So What’s This Icelandic Handball Team I Keep Hearing About?
Icelanders as a nation have never had very many great athletes, just as one would expect of a country of…
So What’s This Pirate Party I Keep Hearing About?
Recently a group of people, including current Movement MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir, announced that they were preparing to found an Icelandic…
So Whats This Feminist Utopia I Keep Hearing About?
Many generations ago the population was struck by a plague that afflicted males solely, wiping them out and leaving only…
So What’s This Quota System I Keep Hearing About?
Since the beginning of our time, humans have had a difficult time not killing and eating everything that moves. Remember…
So What’s This New Constitution I Keep Hearing About?
After the 2008 financial crash there were loud calls for a new Republic of Iceland, where fat cats would have…
So What’s This Bauhaus Thing I Keep Hearing About?
Well, you’d think that it were a modernist masterpiece by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe or Walter Gropius judging by…
So Who Is This Geir H. Haarde Guy I Keep Hearing About?
Geir Hilmar Haarde, Geir Haarde for short, was Prime Minister of Iceland when the economy sank back in 2008. His…
Icelandic Literary Prize Awarded Today
The Icelandic Literary Prize, the most prestigious prize for books in Iceland, was awarded today in the categories of literature…
Iceland Pummeled With Snow
Snow has been piling up in Reykjavík for the last couple of days. All of the City’s snow ploughs have…
A Tiny Piece Of Freedom
Palestinian poet and journalist Mazen Maarouf has been given sanctuary in ReykjavíkMazen Maarouf—who has lived all his life as a…
Voodoo Economics
Most bibliophiles have bookstores that mean a great deal to them, places where they have spent hundreds, thousands of hours….
Sage Francis Struck A Nerve In The Listenership
Sage Francis ended his show at Sódóma Reykjavík last Saturday rapping while he surfed the crowd, lying on his back,…
FM Belfast: “It’s Incredibly Boring to Be Cool”
Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson and Lóa Hlín Hjálmtýsdóttir are surprisingly fresh, considering that the day before they flew into Iceland after…
Iðnó – Friday
by Anna Margrét Björnsson and Kári Tulinius
Photos by Hvalreki The evening started with a quiet, laid-back atmosphere at beautiful Iðnó when girl trio My Bubba And…
Apótekið – Friday
by Kári Tulinius and Bergrún Anna Hallsteinsdóttir
Photo by Hvalreki Being a performer is often ridiculous. Many venues an artist is made to perform at are all…
I Was Wrong About the Final Not Being a Moral Conflict
At one point during the final I entertained fantasies of the Dutch team crashlanding in the Andes and having to…
Passion Play
The storyline of the final has taken an odd turn lately. It’s almost become a passion play. You have the…
Are Spain Boring?
Spain have won every game in the knockout phase 1-0, scoring their single goal in the second half. Once they…
It Took a Great Effort Not to Use Mannschaft-related Puns
Spain 1 – 0 Germany Paul the Psychic Octopus was right. I suppose that’s what I get for doubting him….
Semifinal Words
Holland 3 – 2 Uruguay It was nice to see the Dutch get up to their old tricks, though some…