Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have It So Much Better
Franz Ferdinand’s debut album was an international phenomenon that used a disco beat to revise rock. The tunes were full of come ons and relationship troubles, with the overall m
Café Cultura
If you’re an immigrant living in this country, you have probably been to Cultura. It’s inside the Alþjóðahúsið (Intercultural Centre) and is usually one of the first stops
Thorvaldsen
It’s hard to be objective about a place when you’ve been so many times before and have already formed some conclusions. When eating rather than clubbing here, it’s still the
Carpe Diem
Never heard of it? I hadn’t either. Although it’s been around over ten years, attached to the Foss Hotel on Rauðarárstígur, the place hasn’t generated enough chatter for i
Five Beers or Better
Trabant -Emotional Worth six beers. Costs four beers. Trabant have captured the energy of their live shows, but, much better, they’ve reinvented the groove that early recordings
Alice Cooper
Funny as it may seem, the self-crowned Prince of Darkness is a huge West Side Story fan. Alice Cooper, (real name Vincent Damon Furnier), claims to have been absolutely blown [&hel
The Island Movie Review
The storyline takes place 17 years from now and the particulars of how the company practices the science of cloning are so far removed from anything that will be possible […
10 Reasons to Go to the Reykjavík International Film Festival
1 This is a once a year chance to see the best independent films from all over the world. The focus will be on new talented directors, Iranian cinematography and […]
The Reykjavík Dance Festival
Johann Freyr Björgvinsson is one of the founding choreographers of the Reykjavík Dance Festival. Started four years ago, the festival of modern dance now draws a large, diverse i
There’s Nothing Wrong with a Cow on a Swing
The plot of this story, with a vocabulary aimed at children entering grade school, is simple enough: one fine summer’s day, an ordinary cow (Mamma Mö) gets the urge to […
Haircut Happiness
Getting a haircut has always been a difficult thing for me. All these choices you need to make: Which salon? What style? What colour? Why aren’t we just born with […]
Inherent Sexual Difference
On websites concerning women’s bodies, women’s sex lives or women’s issues in general, an ongoing theme can easily be detected. This is true even for our very own Icelandic w
Takk
This is the final issue of the summer of 2005, the last of eight bi-weekly issues of the Grapevine, which have seen our content increase two-fold, our writing staff increase [&hell
Getting More Women in Politics
The Social Democratic Party has newly formed a women’s group within their own party, and have planned a meeting for 16 and 17 September that will define their objectives. Current
Guðmundur Steingrímsson Surpasses Gísli Marteinn…
Icelandic talk show host Guðmundur Steingrímsson impressed all five of his viewers on Friday, August 25th, when he asked a question so asinine and tinged with bigotry that mayora
Independence Party Contender for Mayor Has a Change of Heart
In Issue 11 of The Grapevine, we featured the Reykjavík city planning ideas currently being debated by the different parties who will be fighting for city council’s fifteen seat
Talking It Out
I didn’t personally download your album. I overheard someone listening to it and confiscated it. I swear. After we heard that you weren’t that upset over the fact that it [&hel
Icelandic National Team and the World Cup
It has not been a good eighteen months. Walking out onto the pitch at the Laugardalsvöllur stadium this Saturday, the players will line up knowing that their dreams of playing [&h
DYING FOR GOVERNMENT ATTENTION
One Nurse and Three Beds According to Katrín Sif Sigurgeirsdóttir, the chairperson of Spegillinn (The Mirror), an interest group for families and relatives of eating disorder (ED
Bad for Hollywood, Good for Us
Iceland used to be a place that celebrated the Hollywood blockbuster—eager movie fans here even shelled out to see Catwoman and, dare I say it, Alexander. But the scars inflected
GRAPEVINE’S PURCHASES THAT JUSTIFY EXISTENCE
Larger than Life from Tiger 400 ISK. Bill Murray inherits an elephant in this concept comedy from the time in Murray’s career when he wasn’t Mr. Sex Bomb for Generation [&helli