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Police Insist They Do Not Keep Records Of Political Opinions
Despite evidence to the contrary, the Commissioner of the Capital Area Police says the police do not keep a record…
Red Cabbage As Eruption Pollution Meter
One enterprising Icelander discovered a way to gauge levels of sulphur dioxide pollution, in a decidedly Icelandic way. Sulphur dioxide…
Microphonic Body Machine
Angela Rawlings in Norway, and IcelandEkeberg Park, Oslo: The September sun reflects in yellow leaves. Angela Rawlings and her colleagues…
STEF Issues Injunction Against Telecoms
Copyright holders interest group STEF has issued an injunction against many Icelandic telecoms to block access to Deildu.net and The…
Grúska
by Holden Jaffe
From start to finish, Grúska Babúska’s wobbly, otherworldly self-titled debut is a pleasure to experience. There is something definitively narrative…
Journalist Wins Case Against Icelandic State (Again)
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled in favour of Icelandic journalist Erla Hlynsdóttir in her case against…
Look Into the Light, Man!
‘The Haunting of Reykjavík’ by Steinar BragiDespite its late-night silence, eerie for a city of its size, most would not…
Keeping The Romance Alive
by Jessica Solt
Mexicans: They’re Everywhere- Part 3In our third and final instalment of “Mexicans: They’re Everywhere,” we meet Libertad Venegas. Prior to…
Deildu.net Moves Overseas
Icelandic file sharing site Deildu.net has moved their website abroad, in response to yesterday’s court ruling ordering some ISPs to…
Akranes: Where Busted Amps Go!
To Be Resuscitated By Flemming MadsenAfter carefully lugging my vintage guitar amplifier all the way from New York to Iceland,…
Court Rules Icelandic Torrent Site Blocked
Reykjavík District Court has today ordered ISPs Vodafone and Hringdu to block their customers from accessing the Pirate Bay and…
Iceland’s Sonic Landscape: Driving The Ring Road
by Nathan Hall
A composer’s road trip around the country Not long ago, I was packing my travel bag into the back of…
Arca To Co-Produce New Björk Album
The follow-up to Björk’s 2011 album ‘Biophilia’ will be co-produced by Brooklyn based Venezuelan artist Arca, reports Pitchfork Media. Arca…
So What’s This Support For Scottish Independence I Keep Hearing About?
A number of prominent Icelanders cheered on the Scottish independence movement during the run-up to the September 18 referendum deciding…
Owning it
by John Rogers
Icelandic Rappers Stamp Their Personality Onto Hip HopIn a crumbling old building on the outskirts of central Reykjavík, a dust-covered,…
Capturing Biophilia
by John Rogers
As Björk’s Biophilia film prepared for its Reykjavík premiere, we spoke to co-director Nick FentonWay back in June 2011, English…
Independence Is Not A Disaster:
Scotland Teeters On Independence And Looks NorthAfter decades of discussion on the political and economic details of a theoretically independent…
Funding Dries Up at the Library of Water
This year marks the first and only year since its opening in 2007 that VATNASAFN/LIBRARY OF WATER has been unable…
Didaskophilia
by John Rogers
We talked to Björk about her education programme breaking into the Nordic curriculumThe Biophilia project has extended its tendrils into…
Tying A Ribbon On Biophilia
by John Rogers
Sitting upstairs at Iðnó, pouring out a cup of coffee in a fetching fluorescent yellow ensemble, an animated Björk is…
Halló, I’m Back!
Anna’s 47th EditorialI went on a vacation last month. It was wonderful. I left the country. I spent very little…