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Editorial: COUNTRY OF CONSTANT SORROW
Didn’t the mujaheddin once appear on our screens along with the West’s finest, Rambo and James Bond, liberating the freedom loving Afghanis from the evil Russians? Just as the Berlin blockade brought us a change in bad guys in 1948, when the…
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Editorial: ROCK AND ROLL
One fine mornin’, she puts on a New York station And she couldn’t believe what she heard at all She started dancin’ to that fine, fine music Her life was saved by rock ’n’ roll” Lou Reed: Rock and Roll I´m not…
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SIRE, IT’S ONLY A PROTEST
Leftists everywhere, and particularly here, have a thing for lost causes. They´ve been fighting for them all their lives. It seems they´re all on an eternal march from Keflavík to Reykjavík, protesting against the army base. Well, guess what? The base is…
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Editorial: 101 REYKJAVÍK : THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE, OF COURSE
The centre of my world began at Sjafnargata, and slowly expanded to the shop on the next corner, the Einar Jónsson Museum, Hallgrímskirkja and one day all the way down to BSÍ bus stop. The expansion went on to incorporate Britain, Norway…
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AFTER THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILISATION
When I moved back to Iceland in 1990, it seemed the scene was still living in the shadow of Rokk í Reykjavík. In fact, there was something of a punk revival going on Except now it was called Death Metal, and the…
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THE PETER PAN GENERATION
In the meantime, leaving the readership in the hands of the perpetually feuding giants of media, members of Grapevine have done as follows: Publisher Hilmar Steinn Grétarsson started his business studies at the University of Reykjavík, so he should by now know…