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Modern Installations at Hafnarborg
The group exhibition entitled “Mega vott,” currently on display at The Hafnarfjörður Institute of Culture and Fine Art (Hafnarborg), features the works of contemporary sculpture contributed by five women. Artists shown are Icelanders Anna Eyjólfsdóttir, Ragnhildur Stefánsdóttir, Rúrí, Þórdís Alda Sigurðardóttir and…
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Pimped Up Party Mobiles
If you are the kind who has a PlayStation 2, flat screen TV and a million ISK sound system installed in the back of your newly polished sports ride, with a 240-horsepower engine and neon lights on the dashboard, and you love…
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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 spirit home to Minnesota. Saur is championing an effort to change the Minnesota Vikings [American] football team’s fight song from Guns N’…
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Change In the House of Arts
Last September, Hafþór Yngvason was appointed the director of the Reykjavík Art Museum. This September however, he is truly taking the reigns. During his first year on the job, Yngvason had been carrying out a schedule that had already been planned a…
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Flexible, Greased Up Comedy
“Where are my dirty, horny women!?!” a tanned and muscular man wearing only a black G-string, shoes and a collar shouted into a microphone, resulting in treble screaming, shaking bodies and wine glasses flying through the air. The noise didn’t diminish when…
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ICE-land Takes Puns to New Low Fronts
There are 56 words in the Icelandic language for “snow & ice”. In English, we have “snow” and “ice”. If there can possibly be that many words for the different conditions of that-icky-cold-stuff (now I guess we have three), then perhaps there…
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A Boat with Sails and All
The bakery had mixed up the order, so in the middle of the coffee table sat a chocolate cake bearing the iced inscription: ARON SNÆR 6 TODAY. The gaudy letters promised toffees by the kilo, huge gifts and grandmother’s footsteps. Although it…
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Marathons in the Morning, Culture at Night – Menningarnótt in Reykjavík
Downtown Reykjavík will celebrate its 11th annual Culture Night on Saturday, August 19th. This festival has become an annual event in the capital, always held the Saturday closest to Reykjavík’s birthday, the 18th of August, attracting almost one-third of the country’s population…
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The Building that Shaped the CityAusturstræti 16
The large grey concrete building located on the corner of Austurstræti and Pósthússtræti hardly catches your eye among the many distinct, if clashing, buildings of downtown. But it is one of the most revered buildings in Iceland. It was designed by the…
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A Northern Take on Carnival, Without the Religion
Feel like going on a road trip and listening to pop bands play in front of gregariously drunk locals celebrating their annual holiday by goofing off with grilled hot dogs and taking part in various activities while the police are trying to…
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Are You Gay Enough For This? – Different Days in Reykjavík
Iceland’s Gay Pride Festival, or ‘Hinsegin Dagar’ (Different Days) kicks off for its eighth gay year on Wednesday, August the 9th with a gay drag show at Gaukur Á Stöng. The following day, there is a gay walk in support of gay…
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Roots, Rock, Reykjavík
“A lot of them want to know about the Vikings, so I have to explain the different way we use the term in Iceland – there weren’t that many ‘true’ Viking expeditions from here.” When you hear this from a guide at…
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Independent People / Sugar-Crazed Kids
June 17th was the date of the 1953 uprising in East Berlin, the Watergate burglary of 1972 and the repealing of Apartheid laws in South Africa in 1991. It also happens to be Iceland’s independence day, as June 17, 1944 was the…
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JÓNI JÓNS AT TURPENTINE
“In the continent of personal dreams that lie beyond the reality of the mirror stands a vast area of conflict, where the power of imagination rules and symbols really matter − symbols of good, symbols of evil, symbols of the sublime, symbols…
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World of Warcraft
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games may be one of the clumsiest phrases to be coined in the last century, but at least it abbreviates fairly readily to MMORPG. The concept is basically the same as a role playing game, where you…
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The Carnegie Art Award 2006
An exhibition of works nominated for the prestigious Carnegie Art Awards is currently on display at the Reykjavík Art Museum, and will be until August 20th, so if you feel in the mood to take in the best Scandinavia has to offer…
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Playstation Goes Cosa Nostra
The Godfather trilogy surely ranks amongst the best movies ever made. Phrases such as “make him an offer he can’t refuse” have become part of popular culture, and the theme music is instantly recognisable to anyone even remotely familiar with Hollywood’s popular…
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If You’re Actually Into World Domination
Gaming is all well and good, but, as we pointed out a few issues ago, the new Sony PSP portable gaming unit’s incredible screen resolution and performance make it ideal for business travellers who just want to watch movies or find a…
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PSP for Business
As I approached a recent interview, and realized that after a lengthy cross-Atlantic flight I would be expected to hold a coherent conversation, I decited I needed a new method for coping with my fear of flying—anxiety medication is pricey and makes…
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Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls is a popular series of RPGs (role playing games) set in its own fantasy world, albeit one heavily based on a variety of other RPG universes that all seem to owe a great deal to the Tolkien mythos. The…
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Battlefield 2
It may not be the newest release on the market, but Battlefield 2 is one seriously hot game and as more expansion packs are in the pipeline it’s set to continue to be one of the most popular online games out there.…
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The Reykjavík Arts Festival
In Reykjavík, summer gets ushered in in the best way possible, with flocks of artists from around the world. Beginning May 12th, everything from Harold Pinter lectures to Bulgarian vocal choirs to Anders Widmark concerts, from South African vocalist and humanitarian Miriam…
