A SPECIAL BULLET FOR A SPECIAL STAG
This seemed to wake up the man at the grill who jumped up, spun round and wrestled both men to the ground. There he held them until both had agreed […]
Finding everything you lost on the way
“I don´t get Nasa,” people would tell me. “That place gives me the creeps.” But Nasa didn´t worry me at all. You see, any question you can ever have about […]
A House of Culture
Parked right in the heart of Reykjavík is a house with the motto of being “at the heart of a nation”. This majestic building is none other than the Culture […]
LIFE BEYOND GULLFOSS
From mighty death blow to a slap in the face The landscape between Selfoss and Vík is fairly uniform, verdant farmland with an occasional glimpse of ocean. This is the […]
The God Damned Skunks get drunk
The first thing you need to know is that the God Damned Skunks aren’t a band really. They were formed to deal with the need that certain members of Singapore […]
SÆVAR KARL´S GALLERY: THE SUITS WON’T SPOIL IT
The exhibition space is simple and serene. Its discrete ambiance makes it feel like a peculiar haven, distinctly sans-fashion. But there’s no getting around it: it’s weird for
Westman’s Your Man
The islands, just a few miles off the south coast, are composed entirely from lava, formed when volcanoes erupted under the sea. For many years these subaquatic fissures were thoug
SPIDERMAN 2: A SOAP OPERA FOR BOYS
Where the first Spider-Man works best is when Peter Parker is discovering his powers. Somehow, it manages to capture the thrill of being an ordinary teenager who can suddenly beat
Singapor Sling
The room is stripped down. On the walls, one poster of a centerfold with an unusually well-groomed pubic region, one poster for Bonnie “Prince” Billie, two for Slowblow, and a
The settlement of Geir
Iceland has a lot to offer in matters of music and the way the industry works today, many musicians are trying to keep up with new and fresh sounds. But […]
In the footsteps of fictional characters
The City Library organises guided walking tours around Reykjavík centre, where scenes of great Icelandic literature are visited. There is a guide who delicately blends the world o
SEARCHING FOR SHANNON ELIZABETH
Seeing Höddi’s camera, some stop us to deliver quotes: “I came to enjoy the culture and the game itself” says John Poppy, a Heineken beer distributor from Phoenix. Never min
WHERE IS THE MULTICULTURALSOCIETY
If G. Pomrenke travelled from Virginia, USA expecting to engage in the social and cultural activities and expected to find them Icelandic/Nordic and not African, and presumably dis
Mother tongue licks t-shirts into shape
Then the slogans moved on. They took over t-shirts and scarves, shoes and shoestrings, bangles and backpockets of jeans. The t-shirt, which was considered underwear until liberated
Danny Pollock
Rokk í Reykjavík band: Bodies Best known for: Having fistfights with his brother on stage when the latter tried to trash guitars Danny Pollock was around from the beginning of [&
Guðlaukur Krstinn Óttarsson
Rokk í Reykjavík band: Þeyr Best known for: Playing the guitar on Killer Boogie until his fingertips bled I spoke with God Christ in an art museum in the center […]
Outclassing Metallica
Krummi: Sorry I couldn’t get you into the show. I couldn’t even get my girlfriend in. Grapevine: That sucks. If you’d known that, would you have signed on for the […]
BEERMAN IN: “COMFORTS DON´T COME CHEAP.”
Not knowing whether you scored the previous night, you move towards her. She´s not nearly as pretty as your waitress, but she´s there and the waitress is not. Whatever happened [
Coffee, Java, Hipsters & Me
I meander down to café/bars where I try to fit in among the hipster/musicians born from Iceland’s punk/new-wave/alternative music boom of the 1980s. I sit among them in my favou
PLEASE DON’T INTERRUPT SIGUR RÓS
As the photographer drove me out of Reykjavík, complaining about Mosfellsbær as a suburb that takes too long on the bus, I could help noticing that, boring as the town […]
ON THE RIVERBANK WITH BUBBI
The drugs and drink behind him and an early morning regime of workouts in the boxing gym have produced a man who exudes health and energy; a man in his […]