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Anna’s Editorial: Play The Rehab Card
The most-read stories across multiple Icelandic news sites this week are about a Progressive Party MP projectile vomiting all over other passengers on a WOW Air flight. This led to multiple accounts, retracted stories, and, at the very least, the appearance of…
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Excessive Drinking On The Rise In Iceland
Iceland is one of few OECD countries where alcohol consumption has increased over the past 20 years. RÚV reports that according to a new study from the OECD, alcohol consumption has decreased in the OECD, with the exception of a few countries,…
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Holy Shit We’re Throwing You A Sónar Warmup Party!
Whoa, Sónar Reykjavík is just about to start. And as you might have noticed, we are more than a little excited. Just how excited are we? Well, we’ve been covering the event a whole bunch, with interviews and guides and such (and…
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Northern Sights
I moved to Iceland to get away from my friends and family. I don’t hate them, but I was beginning to think they were stopping me from reaching my full potential. My friends were always showing up at my house and forcing…
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Iceland Jägermeister Commercial Banned
A Jägermeister commercial shot over 10 days in Iceland has been banned by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for being irresponsible, reports Vísir. The £3 million campaign featured a group of real-life professional surfers – including Oli Adams, Ben Skinner and…
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66 Degrees of Separation
This is the story of how Lebowski broke my heart. From the position in which I imagine the perpetrator was standing, if he or she had been so inclined as to make a small directional shift of only 66 degrees, the outcome…
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The Ghosts Of Best-Ofs Past
Compiling the BEST OF REYKJAVÍK has always been, at best, a half-absurd proposition. As much as we love our city, it is a tiny one, a miniscule one. It is a city that hosts exactly two competitors for the category of ‘best…
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The Dark Wingman
“You gotta fight for your right to paaaaaarty” is a line I often sang at the top of my lungs as a teenager partying in Reykjavík. The Beastie Boys were cool. Partying was cool. I was drunk on youth and recklessness, thirsty…
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A Guide To Watching The World Cup In Reykjavík
World Cup season is finally upon us. Every four years, football fanaticism surges during a month-long period before reaching its apex in the tournament final, this year scheduled for July 13. The World Cup is the world’s most widely viewed sporting event,…
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Are We Drinking The Kool-Aid, Iceland?
Icelanders breathed a collective sigh of relief this week when EFTA ruled in its favour in the long-disputed Icesave case. Congratulations flew this way and that and Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir even did a little victory shake to show how happy she…