Catharine Fulton
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20 Years Of Grit, 20 Years Of The Grapevine
Former editors look back on their time at The Reykjavík Grapevine From A Pagan Chief To Bobby Fischer It seems like a long time ago that a picture of a black woman in the Icelandic national costume would cause a furore. A…
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Reykjavík’s First Soundwalk: Listening To The Sounds Of The City
The wind blows, the sea hisses. Cars putter and splash. The sounds of Reykjavík are all around you and, if you’re like most, the ambient noise goes largely unnoticed as you navigate through your day. But what if it were brought into…
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A Coin Of Our Very Own
On March 25 the internets made it rain all over Iceland. Auroracoin, a cryptocurrency for Iceland to call its own, officially airdropped, and each and every Icelander was invited to claim a gift of 31.8 AUR. The forces behind Auroracoin’s development—an anonymous faction…
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In Love And In Hate With The European Union
To EU or not to EU? That’s… not exactly the question. As Icelanders have amassed in the thousands at Austurvöllur over the past few weeks, they haven’t been protesting in favour of joining the European Union. It’s more preliminary than that. What…
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A Letter to Victor Blaer
Dear Victor Blaer, I was surprised by your article in the last edition of this fine publication [Reykjavík Grapevine, issue 14: ‘Foreign Investment Racism and Grapevine’s Leftist Communistic Hippies’]. I laughed at your loaded headline that you fail to back up with…
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Catharine’s 1st Editorial!
Ohmagawd you guys, I’m writing an editorial! That Haukur has been working too hard for too long not to take a lengthy vacation in some far away, exotic locale and, on route to the airport, he called me in to pick up the slack and,…
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What Namibia and Iceland have in common
What do Iceland and Namibia have in common? Despite one’s first guess—likely of ‘nothing’—the nations share something other than Atlantic coastlines. With a population barely surpassing 230,000, Windhoek is a rather small national capital. The wealthy few are an equal mixture of…
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Haukur’s 16th Editorial
I’m back. I wrestled the reigns away from Davíð Oddsson. Even though I was excited about some of his new editorial policy (expanding the poetry section, more original fiction), it still came down to the fact that I kind of like this…
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Ásbyrgi: Giant Horses, Hidden Folk And UFOs
Sleipnir was one hell of a horse. Born of the eternally mischievous god Loki (while in the form of a seductive white mare, naturally) and Svaðilfari, the magical stallion of a stonemason-impersonating giant; and not limited to only four legs like others…
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It’s Worth The Drive To Hveravellir
It’s a long and arduous drive through the rocky and oft barren interior of the country. Unpaved, unkempt, deeply rutted, rock strewn roads force driving speeds near the single digits for ill equipped vehicles and will put a 4×4’s shock absorbers to…