Author: Virginia Zech
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Icelandic Hockey Suffers for Lack of Ice
Forget everything you think you know about Icelandic hockey. For Icelanders this will mean accepting that hockey is at least…
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Swim Naked and Sing Your Heart Out in Helsinki
Helsinki (Helsingfors) is in many ways the Nordic capital that tourism forgot: especially, for reasons of both light and weather,…
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Trolls and Bubbling Mud Pits
Tourists who come to Iceland for culture, rather than nature, are likely to miss Lake Mývatn. Less than two hours’…
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Guantánamo Detainees Released Into Captivity
After three years in military captivity, Rhuhel Ahmed and Asif Iqbal are touring the globe to present Michael Winterbottom’s documentary…
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Movie Reviews
The Libertine Look, we are all Johnny Depp fans. But let’s be honest, JD’s fanbase, magically doubling in the past…
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An Unnatural State Of Affairs
Magnús Þorkell Bernharðsson is a professor of history at Williams College, visiting his native country to teach a course at…
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Icelandic Whaling: But Is It Science?
While the debate surrounding Iceland’s decision to persist in scientific whaling rages on, Iceland’s plans for commercial whale meat sales,…
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RIFF Brings Darkness to Urban Youth
The annual Reykjavík International Film Festival (RIFF) is approaching, and along with it a series of seminars, symposia, celebrities and…
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Minnesota Vikings to Fight Way Out Of Jungle
Iceland enthusiast and frequent visitor (six times so far), Andy Saur is seeking to take a bit of the Viking…
Look Out, Reykjavík!
If you read the last issue of the Grapevine, well, you’re probably not alone. Ever since I arrived in Iceland…