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Sour Grapes And Stuff

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FREE GRAPEVINE TEE HEE HEE! We’ve got a new prize for all your MOST AWESOME LETTERS. And it’s a scorcher!…

Believe In Jesus. Now Give Me My Free Shit!

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For many years during my childhood, I was a fully committed Christian. Stop laughing, it’s absolutely true! I attended church…

Sour grapes and stuff

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FREE GRAPEVINE TEE HEE HEE! We’ve got a new prize for all your MOST AWESOME LETTERS. And it’s a scorcher!…

Nico And Jónsi GO ALL IN!

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It’s nearing midnight on Saturday, March 13, 2010. After a strenuous Icelandic Music Awards ceremony, the Grapevine feels like going…

RAFSKINNA #2

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Rass & Birgir Andrésson congratulate each other with a brass bandThis month Rafskinna offers on its webpage a quite unique…

Fashion Distraction

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These are some designed, fashionable times we’re living in. Everyone seems to be looking their absolute best these days, what…

Letters from 3rd issue

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MOST AWESOME LETTER Dear  grapevine I’ve been living in Iceland for seven months and I am having the time of…

Icesave Referendum Liveblogging – Let the Good Times Roll!

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10:10 – Polling places opened at 9:00, and will not close until 22:00. The chairman of the conservatives has already…

Casino Drama Continues: “We Have Gullfoss and Geysir and Not Much More”

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Former football stars and current venture capitalists Arnar og Bjarki Gunnlaugsson want a casino in Iceland, too, telling reporters that…

Letters from 2nd issue

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MOST AWESOME LETTER Dear Grapevine You are worth a read! Thank you for making my recent visit to Iceland informative…

2K9 Round Up Bonanza Extravaganza Madness!

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As 2009 drew to a close, Grapevine flipped through its stuffed contacts list and sent out a bunch of e-mails,…

Letters from 1st issue

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MOST AWESOME LETTER Hello Haukur, As a person interested in the financial fate of Iceland, as we all are, may…

Metal And Hardcore In 2009

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The year in Metal? In order to kick the ol’ brain cell bundle into gear I got in touch with…

Cleaning Up The Mess

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Noted political and social commentator Egill Helgason has hosted Iceland’s main political debate Show, Silfur Egils (now showing on RÚV,…

The Encyclopaedia of Icelandic Holidays

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Aðfangadagur (Ath-founga-dager) December 24th, Aðfangadagur, is the day Icelanders celebrate Christmas (as opposed to December 25th in most countries). The…

Letters from 18th Issue

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MOST AWESOME LETTER Dear Grapevine, I am not much of a reader but I am in Borgarnes, iceland for the…

Sour Grapes and Stuff

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MOST AWESOME LETTER: Hello Grapevine, As a concerned citizen who has had the displeasure of reading your rag of a…

Bringing Nour Home

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The Icelandic government’s hasty and unfortunate move to deport four refugees seeking asylum two weeks ago came as a shock…

I’ll Have What He’s Having

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Are you tired of writing your own damn poems? Does it feel like you’d rather plunge through the fiery gates…

Art In Sequence, Real-time!

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The Sequences arts festival has been pretty awesome these past few years. It is a unique offspring of the big…

One Nation, One Party, One Bank Account?

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A year after the economic collapse and one can’t help notice that nothing has really changed. The oligarchs, though officially…