Dear Editor Great idea to have a memorial service for the Hiroshima anniversary. Maybe not such a great idea to use the American aluminium and oil industries to do it? Ok, paraffin wax candles in foil trays on the lake look pretty.…

Hey Bart – I’m rather new to the Grapevine as an Icelandic friend just introduced it to me the other day and I have to say that it’s an intriguing blend of professional journalism and tongue-in-cheek commentary on the current events shaping…

RE: Fan Mail, really… Back in January when I followed Bart and Ed’s tag team of idiocy, otherwise known as “Daily Life from Iceland,” I would often log on and think to myself, ok, what are Beavis and Butthead up to now.…

FYI – San Francisco Chronicle has a piece (or two) on Iceland in yesterday’s edition, including a para singing the praises of the Grapevine. Excerpt from John Flinn’s San Francisco Chronicle piece “But Do the Hidden People Eat Rotted Shark Heads?”: In…

TODD DOLAN-SMITH Howdy, that’s how we say hello in these parts! Well not really; I’m from Oakland, Calif, but I live in Bolinas,Calif. And been here too long! It’s this little town just north of Frisco, where all the hippies/ poets /writers/…

Hi Bart, I was in Iceland until yesterday doing my journo-ing bit looking at a new product made by an Icelandic company and picked up an issue of the Grapevine in my hotel, the Bjork. I like the look of the Grapevine,…

Dear Sir/Madam, I live in India — thousands of miles away from Iceland’s shores. Tonight there was a special Oprah Winfrey show in which she interviewed an actress from my country named Aishwarya Rai. She was followed by a beautiful lady from…

Regarding the latest issue of Grapevine, I want to thank you for printing the thought-provoking article on the decline of the Icelandic art community. Even though I probably fit in the category of people and ideas criticized in the article, I found…

Dear Mr. Bart Cameron I picked up the latest issue of Reykjavík Grapevine yesterday and came across the following quote from an interview a journalist had with me about the matter of Bobby Fischer: “Paul F. Nikolov, who works for the AFP,…

From: White Iceland Iceland4whites@yahoo.com I’m frankly offended that Bobby Fischer is getting all this attention when hard-working Icelandic antisemites have been try to get the message out about jew-control for years only to be hauled into court or, worse, completely ignored! Why…

Hello everyone at Grapevine, I am a native, but I always wait with trembling anticipation for the paper. For immigrants Grapevine must be one of the major benefits of living here. Thanks a lot for a great paper. It seems to be…

Dear Mr. Gunnarsson, Greetings! My name is Amia Srinivasan, and I’m a second-year student at Yale University in the U.S., though I studied and continue to live in London. Over New Year’s I had the good fortune to spend some time in…

Hi there I just wanted to thank you for sending me the paper to Fréttablaðið. It’s nice to know you can be expecting it. How are things going for you? Regards, Smári We’re fine, thank you. How are you? Hello Valur, My…

I love your paper – read the August issue and then kept the October one. When I got home I showed it to a friend whose friend was one of the ones you listed as ‘removable’ or ‘now forgettable.’ I don’t remember…

Dear Sir This may seem a rather random e-mail, but I found in an internet search a piece of work done on Icelandic sheep herding by Kirstin Egekvist. I used to have a penfriend called Kirstin Steffansdottir Egekvist four years ago. At…

Hi hi! I just want to say that your magazine is absolutely great! I came to live in Iceland four months ago and I was veeery happy when I saw that there was a free magazine in English…thank God. Iceland is a…

Whilst chatting with a friend on the corner of Austurstræti and Pósthússtræti the other day I was approached by a group of tourists – how did I know they were tourists? The umbrellas and German accent were a giveaway – one of…

Good Afternoon, (or would HOWDY be better) I have been the editor of Iceland Explorer, (you have heard of us haven´t you ??) for the last 5 years. You guys came along at exactly the right time. I went through the “damn…

Being an English magazine in Iceland, your target audience is foreigners, and so it makes sense that you promote multiculturalism and take notice of racism that occurs in our society. I would like to offer some insight as to why racism exists,…

Hi Valur! i really enjoyed all yr articles in latest GrapeVine :) I can assure you that we always destroyed our own instruments so the bit about me attacking Danny or his guitars is bullshit. I witnessed Pete Townshend & Jimi Hendrix…

Received sms: The regulars at Kaffi Vín support you wholeheartedly 100%. It´s about time Icelanders accept the fact that the world reaches farther out than 200 nautical miles and includes things that can even be more interesting than sour food, brennivín and…

Hi, One of our editors was in Reykjavik recently and he picked up a copy of your newspaper. I really liked the pull-out center section, “Guide to the City Center,” and I’d like to get in touch with the person who wrote…