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Vaccination Requirement For Kindergarten “Too Radical” For Mayor
A proposal that would have denied unvaccinated children access to kindergarten was defeated in Reykjavik City Hall for being “too radical and poorly thought out”, Mayor Dagur B. Eggertsson said. As MBL reports, the City Hall majority coalition struck down the proposal,…
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Body Of Woman Found In Reykjavík Harbour
The body of a woman found in Reykjavík harbour last Tuesday has been identified, police confirm. They do not suspect foul play was involved in her death. The woman in question was found around 9:00 Tuesday morning, Vísir reports, near the Sun…
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Kyrja Fashion Reveals New Lookbook, Good News
This month, the Icelandic fashion label Kyrja is releasing its Autumn/Winter 2015/16 Campaign pictures, to be followed shortly by the lookbook. Its founder and creator, Sif Baldursdóttir, says it’s been in the works since she released her first collection in 2013, which…
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Progressive Campaign Manager: Refugee “Slave Owner And Pimp”
The campaign manager for the Progressive Party in Reykjavík has declared Nigerian asylum seeker Tony Omos to be a “slave owner and pimp”. This is also not the first time he has spoken openly against ethnic minorities in Iceland. Stundin reports that…
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Reykjavík’s First Soundwalk: Listening To The Sounds Of The City
The wind blows, the sea hisses. Cars putter and splash. The sounds of Reykjavík are all around you and, if you’re like most, the ambient noise goes largely unnoticed as you navigate through your day. But what if it were brought into…
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Police Chief Broke Law In Asylum Seeker Leak Case
The Data Protection Authority (DPA) has ruled that Reykjavík Police Chief Sigríður Björk Guðjónsdóttir, during her time as Suðurnes Police Chief, broke the law when she sent former Interior Minister assistant Gísli Freyr Valdórsson confidential information on Nigerian asylum seeker Tony Omos.…
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Reykjavík Experiments With Shorter Work Week
The city of Reykjavík will be making a tentative experiment with a shorter full-time work week for some of their employees. As announced on the city’s website, 25 employees of the Árbær and Grafarholt Social Services centres and 40 employees of Child…
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Well Done Paul!
This is being written a few days after Paul Kalkbrenner’s set at Sónar Reykjavík, I’m still kind of blown away. I needed time to recover. Paul Kalkbrenner’s first set in Iceland was a complete success, plainly put: the gig overwhelmed me. The…
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Sónar Reykjavík: For Them, And For You
Sónar Reykjavík is one of the world’s most revered music festivals. Since its inception in Barcelona, it has spread across the globe and now takes places in cities like Cape Town and Stockholm—and in Reykjavík. This is really special, as we learned…
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It’s The Small Things That Matter
Cory Arcangel is buzzing with energy, as one might expect just days before the opening of his first Icelandic solo exhibition. I meet the mild-mannered American artist—now a few years shy of his fortieth birthday, but as youthful in look and attitude…
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Matur Og Drykkur Dusts Off Some Recipe Books
Matur og Drykkur is a brand spanking new restaurant from the people who gave us renowned Westmann Islands restaurant Slippurinn. The restaurant opened for business in mid-January at Grandagarður 2 in the old Allianz house, a 90-year-old building where they used to…
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The Dogs D’Amour
Whether by accident or design, each year’s French Film Festival seems to be arranged around a certain theme. In 2012, with the credit crunch still fresh, it was the economy. In 2013, with the first boomers hitting 67, it was aging. I…
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Kindness On Chasing The Sounds In His Imagination And Ignoring His Critics
Kindness is the nom-du-plume of one Adam Bainbridge, born in the distinctly un glamourous town of Peterborough in the Northeast of England. Over recent years, the long-haired, pouty-lipped singer has carved out a niche as a purveyor of a slick, disco/R&B-inflected pop…
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DJ Steindór Jónsson On Good Taste And The Reykjavík Club Scene
He’s performed in nightclubs and at festivals in Iceland, Denmark and in Germany. He is playing at Sónar Reykjavík for the second time. And guess what: we tricked him to sit down with our German intern and tell him all about the Reykjavík…
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Police Trap Polar Bear In Reykjavík
The Metropolitan Police trapped a polar bear yesterday after sightings were reported in Vesturbær, Reykjavík, reports Vísir. Thankfully upon closer inspection the police realised it was not in fact a real polar bear wandering the streets but a life-sized stuffed bear most…
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STEP INTO THE LIGHT: 2014
A Shit Sandwich Of Gloom Lorded over by the most bumblingly inefficient government in recent memory, people found it increasingly harder to feed themselves. For instance: at the start of 2015, Icelanders saw rising food prices, along with a tiny drop in…
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Tourist of the Year 2014
Wow, tourism really did dominate the landscape of debate here in 2014, didn’t it? We here at Grapevine have spent more time experiencing, arguing, analysing and pondering the effects of tourism on Iceland than maybe anything else. And there was some serious…
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Barry And His Guitar Are In Iceland
The third production of the one-man show “Barry And His Guitar” has arrived in Reykjavík. After a successful year in London the show will launch in Iceland at Mengi tonight, January 2. The production charts the unfortunate tale of a young musician, Barry, whose…
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VIDEO: The Essence Of Icelandic Christmas
Like most decent Reykjavikings, Grapevine’s friend Kormákur Arthursson hung out in 101 Reykjavík on December 23rd. His trusty smartphone in hand, the rascal managed to catch the essence of what being an (non-empoverished-diseased-or-otherwise-troubled) Icelander at that particular time of year. Seeing this,…
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Dirty Holidaze
December is by far the darkest and spookiest month. It is also the booziest, by far. The overwhelming joy one often associates with the annual Christmas frenzy increases the longing for a nightcap, the fright that correlates with mass expenditures in gifts…
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National University Hospital Dealing With Leaky Roof
The Reykjavík Fire Department were called to Landspítalinn (the National University Hospital of Iceland) yesterday to deal with several roof leaks, reports RÚV. As the temperature rose and the ice on the roof began to melt, water started to pour through holes in…
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Iceland Among Most Googled Rising Holiday Destinations
Though it did not crack the Top 10 Holiday searches in Google’s “Year in Search” for 2014, Iceland is on Google’s list of “rising holidays” – destinations that have seen the biggest increase in searches this year. The Independent reports that the…
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In Pictures: Snowstorm Strikes Reykjavík
One brave Grapevine Staffer, Jón Benediktsson, left the safety of the indoors to capture images of what Reykjavík looked like around noon today. As reported, the capital city has been struck by another snowstorm, this one serious enough to close most roads in…