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Pop Vomit
On the wall of a dark room in Reykjavík’s Hafnarhusið art museum, a stream of brightly coloured icons is fizzing out of the ground. Triggered by the tiniest sound, they erupt onto the wall at every footstep or word, tumbling into a…
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Rural Evolution
This summer saw the birth of two food markets. One of them, a fully fledged outdoor market in Fógetagarðurinn where street food and high-end restaurants mingle. The other, an ongoing series of grassroots pop-up markets with a focus on ethnic cuisine. This…
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Urbanization On Paper: A European Narrative
Spark Design Space has a clean minimalist facade, a welcome place to rest your eyes next to the garishly painted corrugated tin front of its neighbour Kiki. The large glass windows show the dozens of posters tiled on the back walls of…
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Don Donuttio DiMaggio Of The County Fair
Just as the infinitely self-deprecating Don of the Springfield mafia couldn’t resist a tiny bicycle trick, I’m a gal who can’t deny the appeal of a mini doughnut (or donut, depending on your upbringing). From the classic Americana appeal of the Munchkin…
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The Great ConSkyracy That Wasn’t
Iceland’s MS Dairies began exporting skyr to the US’s high-end grocery store Whole Foods in 2006, following the yogurt-like product’s success in Scandinavia and Switzerland. The arrival of this “real” skyr stateside was big news for American Icelandophiles and those for whom…
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Planet Of Sound
The great summer of concerts begins with a bang on June 11 with the legendary American indie band Pixies playing at Laugardalshöll. We were fortunate enough to catch them the last time they rolled into town exactly 10 years ago when they…
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Icelandic Bar Life
Sigríður “Sigga” Guðlaugsdóttir’s induction into the world of running bars began by chance. She was working part-time at a bar in Boston while she was studying film in the ‘80s when the owners suddenly fired the managers and asked her to take…
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Kigali Needs Fine-Tuning
Kigali is a recently opened café named after the capital and largest city of the war-ridden African country of Rwanda. It serves all the conventional westernized versions of Italian Coffee, the only difference being that their Americano is called an “Africano.” A…
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To Be, Or Not To Be… Icelandic
The Icelandic Bar is not a new establishment. It came about as part of a trend, around five years ago, when a several new joints seemed to be popping up around the city with the same brilliant idea of naming themselves after…
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Icelandic Ingredients, International Execution
The Fish Company is one of a number of relatively new restaurants focusing on fresh local ingredients and the best possible international twists to showcase them. The restaurant is located in a beautifully refurbished basement next to the Reykjavík Art Museum with…
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Homeward Bound
In 2007, Iceland’s economy was still in its pre-crash boom days, cruising along to an eventual 4.9% GDP growth rate. Eiríkur Hauksson, the country’s Eurovision ambassador, failed to qualify for the final round of the contest entirely. “Eyjafjallajökull” was not yet an…
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The Chief Of Reykjavík
I clearly remember the day, just over a year ago, when I first saw the Reykjavík bookmobile (bókabíll) parked on a side street in my secluded seaside neighbourhood. So incongruous was this enormous bright blue city bus covered with whimsical illustrations of…
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One Year In Prison For Blackmail
A 36-year-old man has been sentenced to a year in prison for attempting to blackmail a wealthy couple in Ísafjörður out of 100 million ISK.Vísir reports that the blackmailer sent a letter to the couple at the end of October 2012, demanding payment…
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Industrial Setting, Ambitious Kitchen
Restaurants and bars have long had a healthy relationship with upscale hotels, pretty much all around the world. This seems to be the case even in remote old Iceland. But what about a restaurant and bar at a hostel? Quite a different…
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Man Offers Take-Away Coffee From His Home Window
A Reykjavík resident has taken it upon himself to sell coffee he makes in his own kitchen, and sell it from his ground floor window. MBL reports that Sverrir Rolf Sander has started his own take-away coffee shop. Called“Puffin Coffee”, it’s located at Baldursgata…
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Icelandic Fashion Grows Up
Reykjavík Fashion Festival is in its fifth year and has been a fantastically worthwhile, if ambitious, project for a country with only 330,000 people and one fashion college (Fashion Academy Reykjavík). It’s a long, long journey for those students who graduate, those…
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We’ve Been Waiting For You, Kimchi!
Several attempts have already been made to open up a Korean restaurant in Iceland—at least once in the mid-nineties and again at the turn of the century. For inexplicable reasons all previous attempts have failed, which is why there is so much…
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Continental Charm
Continental Charm Although it only opened two years ago, Snaps Bistro has become something of a staple on the Reykjavík restaurant scene, helping to bridge the gap between the city’s more fine dining establishments and your standard grills, family-friendly quick meal stops…
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Nanna Dís Features Her Favourite Photos From Sónar 2014
Grapevine photographer Nanna Dís shares a few of her favourite photos from Sónar 2014. She also has a website that lives here. Day 1 Högni’s first solo project HE was a great start to the festival. He delivered a powerful and emotional performance.…
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A Trip To Höfn: On The Road With Shorts&Docs
After wrapping up in Reykjavík, the Shorts&Docs festival took to the road, journeying all the way to the hamlet Höfn í Hornafirði in southeast Iceland. In a lovely small Höfn cinema called Sindrabær, twenty-five films from the festival were to be screened…