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The Stories That Shaped the Year
In the year that passed, these news stories stood out above others. Heavy Industry to Increase Despite Growing Opposition The…
Religion by Numbers
In 1949 artist Dan Robbins birthed a concept allowing millions of Van Gogh novices into the sacred portal of the…
The Most Bizarre News Stories of 2006
In an attempt to bring to light the unbearable lightness of being, we bring you the funniest, oddest and most…
The Optimistic Serb
The Reykjavík Grapevine met with the Serbian film director Goran Paskaljevic in a cosy downtown hotel in Reykjavík. The surroundings…
Exploring the Historic Sights of Grettissaga
“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey”, have you ever heard that one? Even upon arrival at Keflavík International Airport…
SOUR GRAPES
Dear Grapevine Readers, The past weeks media reports have been overwhelmed by the immigration issue in Iceland. So far the…
“Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely”
Jóhann Hauksson and Sigtryggur Ari Jóhannsson’s recent article in the premier issue of the magazine Ísafold sheds new light on…
Reconstructing a City
The future of Reykjavík’s city centre has been the subject of heated discussion since witnessing a decline in shopping in…
The Real Face of Icelandic Music
How would you go about explaining Bubbi Morthens to an outsider? Lets start with a few facts. He is the…
The First Brave Step
by Toshiki Toma
In September, the Kjalarnes deanery of the national church of Iceland held a conference titled Peace and Conflict Resolution. Present…
Reykjavík International Film Festival
Turtles Can Fly Turtles Can Fly, and so can Kurdish cinema. Director Ghobadi’s stated intent is to help breed a…
Trolls and Bubbling Mud Pits
Tourists who come to Iceland for culture, rather than nature, are likely to miss Lake Mývatn. Less than two hours’…
An Unnatural State Of Affairs
Magnús Þorkell Bernharðsson is a professor of history at Williams College, visiting his native country to teach a course at…
“Don’t Make Iceland a Caricature of American Capitalism”
Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson is one of Iceland’s most experienced politicians. The former leader of the Social Democrat Party was a…
“A deep, strong hope in its core”
Linus looks up from his lifetime of work as an under-secretary in the Department of Implausible Devices and Vera is…
Movie Madness
Having been pleasantly surprised by the quality of movies in last year’s IIFF with gems such as The March of…
Old Hunters Welcome a New World
“It’s really tasty. You should try it,” Edda said to me as I put a piece of grilled seal meat…
A Witness to the Execution
Television reporter and aviation-enthusiast, Ómar Ragnarsson recently published an open letter in Morgunblaðið where he invited local V.I.P.s on a…
A Building As Honoured As Its Inhabitants
The oldest secondary school in Iceland, Menntaskólinn in Reykjavík (MR), which is perched on the small hill by Lækjargata, won’t…
Change In the House of Arts
Last September, Hafþór Yngvason was appointed the director of the Reykjavík Art Museum. This September however, he is truly taking…
Perfectly Brutal Exports
by Bart Cameron
Last issue, the Grapevine’s own featured cartoonist, Hugleikur Dagsson, gave us an enormous map with Icelandic horses abusing each other…