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Author: Sigurður Kjartan Kristinsson

Stuff We Like!

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One of the things we definitely don’t like is being stuck in the murky surroundings of Reykjavík the whole winter…

What Does “Welcome Home” Signify?

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The Icelandic Dance Company premieres its February production, Welcome Home, today. The show is intriguing in many ways. Most dance…

Urban Warfare

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In the dark and murky city centre on this Tuesday morning in late October, the streets were empty. Even if…

Direct Action Thwarts Ministers’ Entry to Meeting Place

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At 8:45 this morning, about sixty-five participants gathered in front of Iðnó and strolled up to the Ministers’ meeting place…

A Farewell to Icelandic Films

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Alongside the growth of Iceland’s miracle economy, the country’s film industry grew stronger. During its epoch, almost a dozen Icelandic…

Brons

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I have to say that when I entered the delicately decorated and cool bistro Brons, I didn’t suspect at all…

Familjen

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The celebrated solo-musician Johan Karlson comes from the small town of Hässleholm in southern Sweden. For the last year or…

Getting More Serious

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Rumours had been going around that the roughest Icelandic flick to date was being screened in cinemas near you, so…

Broads and Balloons

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The band Mammút have been in somewhat of a coma since they won the Icelandic version of ‘Battle of the…

The Diva of the Icelandic Tattoo Scene

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For Jón Páll, the uncrowned king of the Icelandic tattoo industry, it all started about fifteen years ago when he…

The Golden Greek

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The Reykjavík International Film Festival, RIFF, begins September 25 and this year it should be bigger than ever. The Greek…

Top 5´s

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Gísli Galdur Gísli Galdur (left) a.k.a. DJ Magic is a notorious DJ and a musician in Reykjavík known to fire…

Pets of the Press

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The youngsters in Retro Stefson popped upon the Icelandic music scene about three years ago and aroused quite an attention…

Lystin

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I have to admit that I was a little sceptical when I was assigned this review, for the premises that…

The Night of the Transvestites

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Shabby, boozy, rugged and mucky are good candidates to describe the mood at Kaffibarinn when I arrived on this Friday…

The Lover’s Guide to Iceland

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The well-known myth about Icelandic women being goddess-like and undisputedly the most beautiful specimens of the female kind in the…

All Bark and No Bite

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I must say that the extremely merry atmosphere at Organ on Gay Pride Night overwhelmed me a bit upon entry,…

WANTED: Corpses or soon-to-be Corpses

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Icelandic artist seeks the dead for a video installationSnorri Ásmundsson has the reputation of being Iceland’s most infamous artist. If…

The Foreigner’s Guide to Icelandic Colleges

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Many consider the choice of studying in Iceland as somewhat of an oddity, but the main attraction must lie in…

An Ode to Marijuana

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The battle between Icelandic dir-ectors is getting more and more fierce everyday but this August the half-Icelandic Parisian Sólveig Anspach…

Orange

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The tremendous hype around the opening of the hip and stylish restaurant Orange had aroused my attention ever since its…

A Midsummer Night’s Boogie

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I have to note that going to a Trentemöller concert is a special event for me. Arriving at Tunglið, I…

Only Amusing When Desperate

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As soon as Grapevine heard rumours about a forthcoming full-length release from the dance moguls in FM Belfast they sent…

Contributing to International Welfare

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A few years ago, the Icelandic government decided to contribute to international peacemaking and established an organisation known as The…

Lose Your Moral Boundaries and Get Shitfaced!

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It might seem a bit crazy, even ludicrous, that one weekend a year, the preceding weekend to The Labour Day…