“That’s Not Arrogance; It’s Ambition”
“I love the amount of personal space you get here, and the good company. They don’t let just anybody in here, you know.” I would hear that sentence, or at […]
451 Degrees of Colin Farrell
At some point, years from now, scholars will look back in wonder at the cataclysmic effects of one Colin Farrell. How did one cocky Irishman manage to get his hands […]
Look Like a Local
I woke up last Sunday completely hung over, again. Between catching up with old friends and meeting a few new ones, my first month in Iceland has been spent pouring […]
No frills reviews of the festival for homebodies
Innipúkinn is an annual music festival for the colourful characters who decide, for some odd reason, to stay in the capital while the rest of the nation scatters to various [&hell
Midnight Golfing
“There are plenty of people who come here late at night after the clubs close, especially in the beginning of summer. Some even arrive at six o’clock in the morning […]
Nýhil Poetry in the Grapevine:
allar saumakerlingar eru horfnar úr þorpinu nýjir tímar ætla þeim aðra hnappa væri ég örlítið yngri myndi ég hrekja nútímann í burtu með naglaspítu eða priki eð
A Boat with Sails and All
The bakery had mixed up the order, so in the middle of the coffee table sat a chocolate cake bearing the iced inscription: ARON SNÆR 6 TODAY. The gaudy letters […]
Vintage Shopping with Irony
“Frúin í Hamborg” is a fantastic riddle: What did you do with the unprecedented sum of money the lady of Hamburg gave you yesterday? The plot is as follows: answer […]
Friðrik V
Friðrik Val Karlsson is a man who keeps his friends close, and his food closer. The 36-year-old chef, an Akureyri native, founded the restaurant with his wife Arnrún on his [&hel
Sour Grape
Hello editor (Bart?) I would like to start off by telling you that you and your staff are doing a “orl korrect” job with your newspaper. Although I find every […]