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So What’s This Changing Flora I Keep Hearing About?
In an interview with Icelandic state radio, RÚV, Þóra Ellen Þórhallsdóttir, professor of botany at the University of Iceland, said…
A Safe Place…For Topless Table-Top Dancing
What to expect in the home of Reykjavík’s queerest dance partyPicture the scene: It’s 2AM. You’ve tried your best fitting…
There Will Be Rainbows
Reykjavík has many reasons to be proud. Heck, just last issue we catalogued the gamut of what makes Reykjavík such…
Við Erum Best!
But you don’t have to take our word for it…At last count, there were 326,340 people living in Iceland. That’s…
Sturla Turns 800
A celebration is planned in Dalasýsla this weekend to mark 800 years since the birth of saga writer Sturla Þórðarson, reports…
Best Of Reykjavík 2014: Activities & Fun-Times
Once a year, we like to take a step back and celebrate our little city. It’s not that Reykjavík is…
Best Of The News
In reviewing the past year in news, you will see certain patterns emerge: certain public figures, events and topics that…
Ungoo
Part IV: Vital Irritation[Continued from Ungoo III] Until the advent of Iceland’s economic crisis, anno 2008, the conservative-liberal daily newspaper…
You Will Be Assimilated, Resistance Is Futile…
by Bob Cluness
With the BORG music collective, we will all dance as one mindIt’s the May Day bank holiday and everyone in…
Butterflies In November
by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir Translated by Brian FitzGibbonIf it’s possible to claim a ‘trend’ based on what is as yet…
The Death Of Ben Frost
“Frosty and glacial and barren fucking… landscapes of Jökulsárlón. Fuck you. That’s so lazy.”First, some disclosure: I came to know…
Corpse Cats And Criminals
A different side of Reykjavík on the dark deeds walking tourSummer visitors are spoiled for choice when it comes to…
Invasive Alien Species
Earlier this year, Grapevine reported that wild rabbits in Reykjavík and elsewhere around Iceland “will be removed”, with fittingly “little…
“More Icelandic Than The Flag”
Gunnars Mayonnaise and the Icelandic ImaginationIn late June, Gunnars Majones, an Icelandic company known for its sauces—and more particularly for…
Sour Grapes & Stuff: Issue 9, 2014
by You Guys!
Most Awesome Letter of the IssueHi! I just finished reading the Grapevine’s Big Ass Bar Guide 2014 and was dismayed…
“Icelandic Blood Has Been Shed”
About 1,200 Icelanders fought in World War IThis year marks 100 years since the outbreak of World War I, one…
Love In The Land Of The Midnight Sun
Or: Why there is no dating culture in IcelandIt’s nearing four o‘clock and the boys at the bar are tearing…
So Long Jakob!
The rise and fall of Svarta Kaffið’s controversial mascotSvarta Kaffið (“The Black Coffee”) on Laugavegur has been a fixture of…
Not Finished
by John Rogers
Nestled between two fancy restaurants on Lækjargata is an impressive white house that overlooks the town pond, with a castellated…
Gone Fishin’ With Illgresi
Talk about that high lonesome sound. The boys of bluegrass quartet Illgresi have searched every hummock and holler in Iceland…
The Exception That Proves The Rule
The dynamic duo, Ragnar Kjartansson and Kjartan Sveinsson, bring ‘Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen’ to ReykjavíkEarlier this year, artist…