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The Awesome Absurdity of Being
SO, WE GOT THIS PRESS RELEASE THE OTHER DAY. REAL OFFICIAL LOOKING. “Reykjavík, Iceland, March 13, 2009: The official Icelandic representation…
“Serious Judgement for Journalists” Says Journalist Union Leader
by grapevine
Arna Schram, the chairman of the Icelandic Journalists Union, called a Supreme Court ruling sentencing a journalist to pay damages…
Start at the Top: Kaffismiðja Íslands
I like coffee and Reykjavík is a nice place to drink it. For a town of its size, there are…
Stuff We Like!
Set to commence this evening and go on through the weekend, the Melodica Acoustic Festival is a brilliant display of…
Private acc. – Guesthouse Borg
Reykjanes peninsula Year round Address: Borgarhraun 2 240 Grindavík Phone: 426-8685 895-8686 Contact/Info: bjorksv@hive.is Area: Reykjanes peninsula Type: Private Acc.
Hotel Björk – Kea Hotels
Reykjavik area Year round Address: Brautarholt 22-24 105 Reykjavík Phone: 511-3777 Web: www.keahotels.is Contact/Info: bjork@keahotels.is Area: Reykjavik area Type: Hotel
Kleppjárnsreykir Camping Ground
The West Address: Björk 320 Reykholt Phone: 435-1182 Area: The West Type: Camping Ground
Women to the Rescue!
Icelandic vocalist Björk Guðmundsdóttir and investment firm Auður Capital have founded a new venture fund that is to go by…
Five years on…
As Van “The Man” Morrison once sagely noted: “Music is spiritual; the music industry is not”. We all know which…
Desertification Way Up North
As an avid Kyuss fan, I went to Cafe Amsterdam with mixed expectations this evening. On the one hand, I…
Sequences Festival 2008
by Stevie Ward
Exploring Site Specific ArtThe Sequences Festival is an annual independent arts festival established in Reykjavík in 2006. Founded by four…
From Oakland to Iceland
by Stevie Ward
Ragnhildur Magnúsdóttir, is the director of From Oakland to Iceland: A Hip-Hop Homecoming, showing at this year’s Iceland Airwaves festival….
Sexism and Sloppy Journalism
In the last issue of the Reykjavík Grapevine we published an open letter from Björk, where she lambasted the music…
Art and Ice – A Difficult Combination?
Pretty people, money and the weather – ask most people about Iceland and they’ll usually weave you a story around…
The Future of Rock and Roll
Is India the next Manchester?With the world shrinking at a continuously faster pace, far away places are being exposed to…
Happily Ever After
On July 2, 2008, Katrín Þóra Víðisdóttir and Erla Björk Pálmadóttir became the first same-sex couple to be officially blessed…
The List
Top 5 things IcelandicTop 5 Spots In Iceland by Lucas Quesnel Keller Lucas is currently working as a chef at…
Loads of Visual Fun!
New Rafskinna DVD releasedThe second issue of Rafskinna DVD Magazine was released on July 3, stuffed with all kinds of…
Deafening Silence
Sigur Rós, despite their success, is a band that is still on it’s way out of Iceland. In a way,…
Sugarcubes, Björk LPs Get Luxury Treatment
Upon learning that the The Sugarcubes and Björk’s back catalogues were to be reissued on deluxe heavyweight vinyl, via something…
The Machine is Deaf
June 17, 1944, the greatest minds in Iceland convened on the banks of Lake Þingvallavatn to declare independence. From this…