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Bank Robbery In Reykjavík
A bank was robbed on Borgartún just minutes ago, and the suspects are still at large as police deploy helicopters. RÚV reports that two suspects were seen fleeing the scene on foot, and police were alerted by eyewitnesses after seeing news of…
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Hard Rock Café Returning To Iceland
The Hard Rock Café has secured a location in downtown Reykjavík, some ten years after disappearing from Iceland. MBL reports that Lækjargata 2A, which currently houses Iða and Café Mezzo, will be closed over the New Year holiday in order to make…
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Rogue Merchants Opening Gates On Laugavegur
Some merchants on Laugavegur have been caught opening the gates intended to make Reykjavík’s main shopping street more pedestrian-oriented. While Reykjavík City Council recently passed a measure to close Laugavegur to car traffic for the holiday season, not everyone with a shop…
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Straumur’s Guide To An Alternative Christmas
With that hectic Iceland Airwaves week still simmering in our hearts, we feel obligated to bring you a list of the top acts we saw at the festival. Here they are, in no particular order. It’s that time of the year again.…
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Happening Tonight: Sykur / GKR
Sykur has long been a beacon in Iceland’s galaxy of electronic music. The glamorous singer Agnes pulls us in, sporting killer heels, whipping her pink dreadlocks back and forth, growling her way into our soul. GKR, on the other hand, has the…
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Deadly, Beautiful Icicles In Reykjavík
Watch out or you just might get slammed by one of the huge icicles hanging off buildings in Reykjavík. We recommend wearing a cap, or even a helmet while strolling around town. We haven’t actually heard of anyone who’s been hit by one…
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4 Out Of 5 Immigrants Did Not Vote In Last Municipal Elections
Only about 20% of immigrants who could vote in 2014 did so, data from Statistics Iceland shows, but voter participation in general was very low. Kjarninn reports that 239,734 Icelandic residents were eligible to vote in the 2014 municipal elections, comprising just…
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Passer-By Captures Engagement, Email Address Lost, Search Goes Viral
An interesting internet-romance story unfolded in Reykjavík this weekend that even caused a slight thaw of our icy hearts here at the Grapevine. Jessica Bowe, an American who’s lived in Reykjavík for several years, was walking home from Bravó on Friday night,…
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Winning Design For Mosque In Iceland Unveiled
The winning design for the soon-to-come mosque in Reykjavík has been selected, and the chairperson of the Muslim Society of Iceland is confident that funds can be raised within the organisation to build it. The design, which you can see below, is…
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Ice Rink At Ingólfstorg Coming Soon
The annual ice skating rink is coming back to Ingólfstorg this Tuesday. After its grand unveiling, Vísir reports, the rink will be open from noon until the evening every day until December 23. Admission will be free, and the skateless need not…
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Sunken Ship Risen From The Depths
The ship which sank in Reykjavík harbour just two weeks ago has been surfaced, although it is still unknown what caused it to sink in the first place. RÚV reports that some 700 tonnes of sea water have been pumped out of…
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Police Release Suspected Rapists, Who Then Leave Iceland
Two men suspected of torturing and raping women in a Reykjavík apartment have been released from police custody, and have since left Iceland. Many Icelanders on social media are expressing anger and confusion over the matter, but the police maintain there was…
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Airwaves Saturday, Pink Street Boys Became One With Bar 11’s Basement
I can only imagine that organising a festival such as Iceland Airwaves must be a logistical nightmare. Not just in getting bands both local and from abroad to be able to put time aside to play one or more gigs over the…
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Airwaves, DAY THREE: Ten Perspectives!
The best show of the night was hands-down Ho99o9—the punked-out dark hip-hop performance turned the heat up and kept it at a feverish high throughout the wild ride. It had the whole nine yards, and then some: costume changes, leaping performers, massive…
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Kælan Mikla: Someone Please Help Them Break Out
I’m not normally into touting local bands to the wider world as being in need of breaking out and making it big. Mostly because I don’t pretend to know enough about music to consider myself a good judge where that’s concerned. But…
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Airwaves Day Two: The Importance Of The Unknown
It’s easy enough to say when you live here, but if you’ve traveled thousands of kilometres for the express purpose of coming to Iceland Airwaves, you should still set aside some time to see acts you’ve never heard of. The importance of…
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Reykjavíkurdætur: Too Many Cooks
Iceland’s hip-hop scene, much like elsewhere in the world, is predominantly a boy’s club. Even though rappers like Cell7 – arguably one of the best MCs in the country – have been around for years, women in Icelandic rap have been primarily…
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Ship Sinks In Reykjavík Harbour
The sand dredger Perla sunk in Reykjavík harbour this morning, just after being launched after a week in dry dock. The ship, which has done extensive work around the Westman Islands to clean the harbour there, was launched this morning after a…
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The Börn Guide To Enjoying A Cheapskate Airwaves
OK, so you’ve spent most of your money on studs, glue, Rudimentary Peni reissues (those don’t go for punk prices, do they?) and renewing your MRR subscription. But, yikes! Iceland Airwaves is coming up, and you can’t afford a ticket. Yet, you…
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5 Great Things About Running In Reykjavík
Our friends from that website RunninginIceland.com sure love running. They wrote this fun article about the benefits and joys of running in Reykjavík and sent it our way. And we thought: many of our readers will enjoy this! Let’s “run” it! So…
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Reykjavík Will Start Accepting Asylum Seeker Families
Reykjavík will be welcoming 90 asylum seekers, and will for the first time include whole families as well as individuals. RÚV reports that the City of Reykjavík signed the agreement with the Directorate of Immigration this morning. The agreement is a continuation…
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Hlemmur Bus Terminal To Become Food Market
From grimy bus caterpillar to artisanal food butterfly, plans to turn Hlemmur bus terminal on Laugavegur into a food market hall are set to go ahead. Bus company Strætó bs. announced yesterday that Reykjavík’s main bus terminal, Hlemmur, will be shutting down operations…
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People Keep Stealing Parkas, Presumed Cold
A new marketing campaign from clothing company 66°North, which displays actual parkas inside bus stop advertising slots, is being regularly sabotaged by thieves. On two separate occasions have parkas on display in a bus stop by Lækjargata been broken into and taken…