Author: Parker Yamasaki
The Unmissables: Day 2
Grapevine Recommends…Your face is turning yellow and it’s not from all the Gull, it’s from staring at that goddamn (glorious)…
The Eye Of The Storm
Meet Matthew EismanThis is Matthew Eisman. Matthew is a professional music photographer with work published in the likes of SPIN,…
The Unmissables: Day 1
Grapevine Recommends…So it’s 4 degrees and raining, but the weather outside is mild compared to the raging fucking whirlwind that…
There’s No ‘Jungle’ in Iceland!
Lace up your roller skates and chuck them back in your attic, the soulful UK group ‘Jungle’ has just announced…
News In Brief: Late September
Happy, happy, joy, joy! Earlier this month Iceland was named the Most Peaceful Country by the 2013 Global Peace Index,…
News In Brief September
The world is a crazy place. Turbulence in the Middle East has led Iceland to offer asylum to about a…
News In Brief: Early September
It’s back-to-school month! A time for the re-emergence of the alarm clock, of brown bag sack lunches, and of making…
News In Brief: Late August
As summer nears its expiration, it’s time to start turning inward. Put the kettle on the stove and light up…
News In Brief, Issue 12 2013
Word on the street is, Jesus was probably gay. And it’s Reykjavík Mayor Jón Gnarr‘s word, so it’s probably true….
This Is How We Chill
We are standing in the parking lot surrounded by an army of baby blue Ísbíllinn ice cream trucks—ambitious soldiers of…
Hotels, Motels, Holiday Inns…
Watch the tour bus as a caricature of its passengers. It lugs ungracefully up Eiríksgata, heaves over the speed bumps,…
The Writing On The Wall
It’s not street art if it’s in a gallery. “I definitely don’t want to exhibit street art in the white…
Walk This Gay
A tremendous amount of care must be taken for an organisation to represent an entire community to international visitors. And…
News In Brief: Late July 2013
Iceland and fish are seen together so commonly in sentences that they might as well get married already, which is…
Listen To Your Art
by Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir and Parker Yamasaki
Over the bustle of the LungA lunch buffet one morning, Marteinn Sindri Jónsson sat with stick-like posture, listening to the…
Spontaneous Combustion
“Flott fjörd!” announced our driver as we pull into Stöðvarfjörður. It was the first exchange of words we had the…
News In Brief: Early July 2013
RYAN GOSLING. There, we got that out of our systems. EDWARD SNOWDEN. Okay, that one’s out too. Well, to be…
Standing Proper
“Hey, that group of kids look pretty fly on those Segways,” said NO ONE EVER. That is, until we took…
Best Of Reykjavík 2013: Best Place to Treat Yo Self
Even from the outside, Geysir is a barrel full of eye-candy for the window shopper with a sweet tooth for…
New Kid On The Iceblock
PÓLAR FESTIVAL! THE FIRST FESTIVAL EVER IN ICELAND!!! Oh, wait, we have tons of festivals. All the time. Especially in…
The Art Of Encountering Higher Beings
Sure the winter-wonderland scene of an alien polar bear crushing a weak and flailing naked woman was eye-catching, but what…
When In Roam
Walking up Skólavörðustígur one notices that the path of travellers on the sidewalks is akin to that of a drunken…
Beauty Never Goes Out Of Style
After taking a hiatus in 2012 for the first time in 30 years, Miss Iceland is back! And it seems…
Chalk Talk
Operation Creed hits 101, visions in mind, chalk in handsOn June 14, I walk down a misty Austurstræti to get…
A Visit To The Sand Man
Aegis Hands is the last remaining inhabitant of his wing at Höfðabakki 9. The steps are crumbling from the nibbles…