Rebecca Conway
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Opening Today: Dark Music Days Festival
It’s time to wipe away your (proverbial) emo-kid bangs, even if it’s still dim and dreary outside—because the Dark Music Days festival is here. Since 1980, this cosy festival has been providing much-needed light and inspiration during the darkest winter days, also…
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Give Trash Another Chance
Everyone wants to recycle. Especially in 2016. It was your New Year’s resolution, remember? Sure you do. But, it can get confusing. “Where do the jam jars go?” “Is there a special thing for cork?” “What do I do with all these…
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Happening Today: TEDxReykjavík On Feminism
In conjunction with Reykjavík City’s celebration of the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, TEDxReykjavík presents talks by TEDxWomen, in addition to TED and TEDx talks by female speakers. Activist and queer feminist Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir hosts the event—and she is well-suited…
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Between Xmas And NYE: Melt For Hot Yoga
While working as an artist in Iceland in 2009, yoga expert Lana Vogestad realized two things were missing in Reykjavík: hot yoga and stuff to do in the days between Christmas and New Year’s. Thus, an annual holiday hot yoga retreat tradition…
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Gifts Worth Giving: Aid With Unicef
The scene is familiar: fire crackling, Christmas music humming, Aunt Millie peeling wrapping paper off a garden gnome with an unnaturally coquettish expression. This year, why not put an end to this depressing Christmas tradition with UNICEF’s Inspired Gifts and donate supplies…
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Happening Tonight: Anti-Christian Festival 2015
Iceland’s longest running metal festival, the Anti-Christian Festival, traces its roots all the way back to 2000 AD, when it was held to stick it to a nearby Christianity festival at Þingvellir—now it’s just sticking it to overly bland musical performances. This…
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Wintern Diaries #2: ‘Tis The Season
Winter is kind of scary, especially on this ungodly, windy, hella random rock in the middle of the ocean. Even moreso when even the sun hides its sweet face for months at a time. So after hearing horror stories about three-hour days,…
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Happening Tonight: Rokkjötnar
The semi-annual Rokkjötnar festival has had a tough time of 2015. Earlier in the year, the festival booked a line-up of badass bands and announced a much-talked-about show for September 5. Unfortunately, they had to cancel the whole shebang when headliners Mastodon…
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Ongoing Now: ‘Yearning For Space’
This exhibition features works by the late sculptors Ásmundur Sveinsson (1893-1982), Gerður Helgadóttir (1928-1975), Jón Gunnar Árnason (1931-1989), and Sigurjón Ólafsson (1908-1982), and posits modernist art as a reflection of technological and scientific explorations during the Space Race of the 1950s and…
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Ongoing Now: ‘Marginalia’
This exhibit turns our heads towards the oft-overlooked edges of pages, specifically to the marginalia surrounding Iceland’s most revered artist, twentieth-century Icelandic painter Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval (or: Kjarval) and his works. The chaos, variety, and sheer number of the marginal works on…
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Ongoing Now: ‘A Journalist And Her Camera: The Photography Of Vilborg Harðardóttir’
This photography exhibit showcases the work of the indefatigable Vilborg Harðardóttir (1935-2002). Known for her work as a photographer for the newspaper Þjóðviljinn, her role in Iceland’s Rauðsokkur (“Red Stockings”) feminist movement, and her time as an MP, Vilborg played a key…
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Some Iceland Things That Scare Americans
Letters that don’t look like our letters Maybe ‘ð’ and ‘þ’ both make sounds we can easily pronounce, but those symbols still look weird and alien, almost Lovecraftian. And make us uncomfortable. Like public nudity. The lack of Fritos Doritos are a…
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Giving Thanks, Low Key
Mom’s home (or store-bought) cooking has never seemed as far away as it does during your first Thanksgiving away from the states. But don’t worry, fellow recently relocated US babies, we can still show gratitude through food, even when there’s no classic family…
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Why Am I A Pirate? We Speak To The Pirate Party Grassroots
Bergþór Heimir Þórðarson (36), Reykjavík, secretary of the Pirate Party of Reykjavík, substitute in the Pirate Party executive committee, and organiser in Pirate grassroots and healthcare form/reform First and foremost, it is the party most likely to succeed in changing our government…
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Wintern Diaries #1: SADwatch
Winter is kind of scary, especially on this ungodly windy, hella random rock in the middle of the ocean. And it’s even scarier when the sun all but vanishes from the heavens above. So after hearing and sharing horror stories about three-hour…
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Speed-Dating An Old Friend: Driving The Ring Road In 2 Days
In a direct challenge to most internet commenters, two friends and I decided to spend two days circling the island in a grey rental car. While certainly not “preferable” to taking one’s time, driving Iceland’s storied Route 1—the ring road—in thirty-eight hours is…
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Learning To Love The Icelandic Rap Sheet
Icelandic rappers had been dotting my Spotify for some time, but until Airwaves 2015, I didn’t get what a socialist-leaning, generally-doing-alright country could rap about. But before you grab your rosaries or voodoo dolls or whatever, know that I’m a changed woman now.…
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Who’s At Iceland Airwaves? My Impressions Of You Guys!
Watching the audience has always been a huge part of my Airwaves experience. You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she reacts to music, which is why, during concerts, I often find my gaze sliding from the performers…
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Dissecting The Anatomy Of Frank
Fifteen shows in five days. It sounds like a pitch for a reality TV show, or maybe even a Dirty Dancing quote. But for Virginia-based, post-pop band The Anatomy of Frank, it was just a schedule for Iceland Airwaves 2014. Last year,…
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Sónar 2016 Sounds Off More Artists, Now Even More Exciting
Sónar ups its game today, announcing new additions to its quickly swelling lineup. Now set to perform at the festival in February 2016 are German DJ and producer Boys Noize, Detroit rapper Angel Haze, President Bongo (formerly of Gusgus) and his Emotional Carpenters,…
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People Live In The Arctic, And Maybe This Is News
A week ago, during a session at the Arctic Circle conference, debates quickly turn to indigenous participation in media outlets, with almost forty-five minutes of white men from both sides of the pond speaking one after the other on the difficulties of…
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Happening Tonight: Extreme Chill Festival Showcase
Drop by this extra icy festival showcase featuring live artists Stereo Hypnosis, Futuregrapher, Mike Hunt, and Murya alongside DJs Beatmakin Troopa and Árni Vector, all of who played at the Extreme Chill Festival earlier this year. The combination of nippy beats, inventive…
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Happening Tonight: Abominor Album Release Concert
Do you like black metal and new and exciting albums? Then you’ll want to catch the album release concert for Abominor’s ‘Opus: Decay’, a head-jarringly heavy collection of songs guaranteed to make your day a lil’ more hellish (in the best way…