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Airline Recap: A Game Of Business
In March, WOW Air ceased operations after a long, tedious and public financial struggle. The question of how the tourism industry would handle the closure lingered in the air, with many expecting the industry to take a heavy blow. However, while the…
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WOW Air’s Revival Raises More Questions Than Answers
Earlier this year, the Icelandic Tourist Board released numbers that suggested the country’s lengthy tourism boom may be over. This was followed by an Arion Bank report that estimated that the dearly departed WOW Air was bringing in roughly 40% of tourists…
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5 Things To Do When WowAir Screws You Over In Iceland
So much like Moses in a basket in the Nile, you’re stranded in Iceland because WowAir decided to fuck you over. First off, sucks to suck, you should have known that a purple airline with $20 seats was too good to be…
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We’ve Literally Never Had This Much Snow In December
The snowmaggedon of the past week has broken all of Reykjavík’s records in recent history for snowfall in December and we’re only three days in, reports RÚV. So far 42 centimetres of snow has fallen, 9 cm more than the previous record…
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WE HAVE AN EXTRA PAIR OF SIN FANG TIX! THEY’RE YOURS!
Once we’d mailed out the prizes from last week’s Sin Fang Tin Drum ticket giveway, we realized we can’t math for shit. So, yup: we basically found an EXTRA pair of tickets to that bodacious Sin Fang show at Harpa tonight! It’s gonna…
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DRAMATIC SNOWPOCALYPSE PHOTOS FROM YESTERDAY
Our friend and photographer Art Bicnick is thankfully rather fond of documenting the world around him (via his trusty camera). After a long, snowpocalyptic day of not really going anywhere, because we weren’t really supposed to according to authorities, we were refreshed…
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Make A Weird Beard, See Sin Fang @ Tin Drum For Free, With A Friend!
Everybody loves everything Sin Fang does. This is fact. He’s playing a concert next Tuesday. At Harpa. It’s going to be so good. And guess what, reader? Because we love you, and want you to have nice things, we have managed to…
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Double Moonbow Spotted In West Iceland
Photographer Víðir Björnsson managed to capture a very rare moonbow in the night sky above Western Iceland, reports BBC. A second moonbow was also present though not visible on the photograph. “I was driving in heavy rain and so much wind and…
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Touristspotting In Iceland
This guy, Raffaele Piano, spent this past summer working on a rather cool project that you Grapevine reader types out there will surely appreciate. Basically, he lurked around Iceland snapping candid shots of tourists in flagrante. Having noticed that we at Grapevine…
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#AIRWAVES15 DEEP ANALYSIS
Welcome to this, our second advent into text message reporting about Iceland Airwaves. In it, you may find words from the one and only Mr. Silla and Andri Snær Magnason! Great! Mr. Silla, aka Sigurlaug Gísladóttir, had this to say:
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Don’t Get Too Excited, It’s Only Paper: An Editorial
Here is an anecdote: I ventured inside that Alþingi building the other day. I believe it was a Tuesday. The time was 3pm. The weather was mostly OK. I was there to help this tall wunderkind, the redhead superstar photographer man,…
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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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All You Need To Know About Surviving Iceland Airwaves In One Handy Guide
Welcome to Iceland! You’ve just landed at Keflavík (or will very soon) and it’s (probably) your first time in Reykjavík, and you’re all like, “What the hell do I do now!?!” You’re probably so pumped up about all the Airwaves-ing you’re gonna…
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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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These Human Shaped Pylons Were Never Built, But They Might Be
In the past month, there’s been a lot of noise about these supposed new electrical towers in Iceland that are shaped like people. Crazy, right? However, nobody really seems to agree on whether these towers are indeed happening, and when, and why, and do we…
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Misþyrming Is Roadburn Festival’s 2016 Artist In Residence
Move over Björk and Sigur Rós, a new Icelandic artist is making waves overseas. Black metal mavericks Misþyrming—whom we at the Grapevine have written a lot about—have just been announced as Roadburn Festival‘s 2016 Artist In Residence. Artist in Residence? What does…
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Breathing Space: Yoga In The Icelandic Wilderness
For all of Reykjavík’s obvious charms, ask anyone who’s lived in the city for a while, and they’ll tell you that they need to escape sometimes. In sharp contrast to larger national capitals, Reykjavík’s central island is a tiny area—walking the same…
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Famous Dicks & Nationalism: My Spa Date With Icelandic Rapper Bent
Many serious conversations have taken place in a hot tub here in Iceland. It’s the unofficial meeting place of businesspeople, politicians and, now, journalists and rappers. Rap in Iceland is undergoing one of its periodical booms at the moment. I’m meeting Águst Bent,…
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Vaginaboys Release Free Song! Play At UNICEF Fundraiser Today!
The masked electronic duo Vaginaboys have just released a new song dedicated to those who have lost their lives in search of a better life. And they’re playing at a UNICEF Fundraiser! https://soundcloud.com/vaginaboys/vaginaboys-u-reyndir/ The goal of UNICEF is to provide humanitarian aid…
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PHOTOS: Innipúkinn 2015, In Pictures
Last weekend, we had a blast at Reykjavík’s only Merchant’s Weekend festival, Innipúkinn. We’ll be posting some reviews and other coverage-type stuff soon enough, but while you wait, feast your eyes on these photos from the wonderful Timothée Lambrecq. It was a blast.
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PHOTOS: It Begins… Dunkin’ Donuts Hits 101 Reykjavík!
Twenty two years after then-Prime Minister Davíð Oddsson took the first bite of the first McDonald’s burger served in Iceland, six years after McDonald’s left the country, announcing that franchises there had never paid off anyway, the finest U.S. fast food is…
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VIDEO: Downtown Reykjavík Aurora, OMG
Those Iceland Aurora Films guys have really outdone themselves this time. You might remember their 130 Nights Of Aurora Borealis project, which we reported on last year (and do click through, that video’s crazy), but we dare say their latest venture is even more…
