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ON THE PATH OF PUNK: The Reykjavík Punk Walk Starts Today!
Taking a tour through the local movement’s key locations and turning points with historian Unnur María Bergveinsdóttir. (Photo still from ‘Rokk…
Petition To Earmark Liquor Tax To Help Alcoholics
More than 15,000 Icelanders have a signed a petition to put 10% of the state’s revenue from alcohol taxes toward…
Homelessness More Than Triples In Eight Years
by grapevine
The number of homeless people in Iceland has more than tripled in the past eight years, but most of them…
So What’s This Icelandic Drug Smuggling Ring I Keep Hearing About?
Which one do you mean? There is the most recent one in Denmark. The Icelandic gang was caught with 35…
Michael Gira And The Ever-Changing Goal For Joy
by Rex Beckett
The SWANS bandleader talks about performance and the pushing of soundOccasionally when you import music into your iTunes, it will…
Whoops-a-daisy, I Fell Down!
You’ve probably noticed it too. Icelanders who go downtown after midnight on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday night tend to…
Eight Months For Stealing Cardamom Extract
by grapevine
A woman has been sentenced to eight months in prison after having repeatedly stolen cardamom and vanilla extract from stores,…
Talents In The RIFF Laboratory
by Mark O'Brien
The new generation of rising filmmakers learning the trade in ReykjavíkGlobal icons like Dario Argento and Marjane Satrapi may be…
The Nazi Clause Strikes Again
by Snorri Páll Jónsson Úlfhildarson
Can an individual degrade a whole nation or nation state? Apparently the answer is “yes” as suggested by the 95th…
News In Brief: Late September Edition
by grapevine
September began weirdly, as the media widely reported on a brutal attack of a six-year-old boy by a group of…
The Insider’s Guide To Iceland Airwaves
We ask the people in the know on the inside track of Iceland Airwaves, so now you know too! …
WTF ICELAND AIRWAVES!?: Advice For Getting Through Your First (Or Fifth!) Festival Experience
Dear Grapevine, I’ve been looking forward to Airwaves for ages. I got my ticket, a nice package flight, and am…
Nowhere Else To Turn
by Mark O'Brien
The half-dozen empty prams lined up by the front door at Kvennaathvarf, Iceland’s only shelter for abused women, paint a…
News In Brief: Early September
by grapevine
Good news for those who are bound to the bus when it comes to travel: municipal bus service now extends…
Mayor Celebrates Alcohol Service At Nursing Home
by grapevine
Reykjavík mayor Jón Gnarr was at the home for the elderly Hrafnista today for the ribbon-cutting of their new dance…
Wants To Permit Homebrewing
by grapevine
A former member of parliament has proposed that Iceland’s homebrewing laws allow people to brew their own alcohol to a…
What! The Police Are On FB, Twitter And Instagram, Too?
It’s 11:30 PM on a Sunday night and the police have just replied to a question posted on their wall…
Love In The Time Of War
Aside from the bombing of the oil tanker El Grillo, whose hulk can still be found lying at the bottom…
Run, Fatboy, Run!
by Bob Cluness
One night last November in a 101 Reykjavík bar, I was enjoying several drinks with some friends. Everything was normal…
Fresh Meat In Reykjavík
THE BARS Dolly just opened at Hafnarstræti 4 and is already vying for/clambering up the shitheap towards… the title of…
Northern Lights
by grapevine
RVK Homegrown, a group seeking to decriminalise and eventually legalise marijuana in Iceland, first made headlines last April with a…