Sour Grapes
Re: Icelandic Referees Referees play an important role in any sport. Soccer is not the exception. They are in charge of justice on the pitch. However justice does not wear [&hellip
Belgium, an Unlikely Choice
It is common knowledge, or, at least it should be common knowledge, that Belgium is home to the best beer in the world. And, obviously, it’s famous for its delectable […]
A Day at the Mall
Everyone loves the mall. This has already been established and the video evidence made available by Kevin Smith. In the greater Reykjavík area, there are two malls worth visiting:
Across the Country in 40 Days:Adventures of The Lonesome Traveller, Leg 1
“Why on earth am I doing this?” The question surfaced a bit earlier in the morning and lingered there for a handful of seconds, as a last desperate warning or […]
Iceland-China
As Iceland and China moved closer towards signing a free trade agreement, the state television news came up with a great graphic to illustrate what might happen. Two lace-less shoe
Reykjavík International Film Festival Preview
Dimitri Eipides, programmer for the Toronto and Montreal Film Festivals as well as the Thessaloniki Festival in Greece, was brought on board to supervise the film selection in 2005
Boston
Until recently, Boston has been known to bar hoppers in Reykjavík as a comfortable place to go for drinks and meeting friends. Now it takes a plunge into the ever […]
Kron
That old cliché about women having a soft spot for shoes is alive and well in Reykjavík, especially when those women pop into shoestore Kron on Laugavegur. Co-shop owner Hugrún
Five Classic Books About Moving to the North Atlantic
You know the story already: a comfortably off writer buys an old farmhouse in France or Italy, drags their sceptical spouse along, meets the eccentric neighbours, learns to cook wi
Something Worth Hyping About
The two-person mosh-pit gyrating to Jakobínarína’s Jesus was spilling beer onto the crowd. It wasn’t their beer, they definitely didn’t look old enough to buy, but the man
Garðurinn
The restaurant Garðurinn, or as it is called in English, Ecstasy’s Heart Garden, is a small and friendly family-operated vegetarian restaurant, located on Klapparstígur, a litt
Confessions of an Art-Terrorist, Part II
I remember being in Austria as a small kid, probably in 1988, and I saw the cover of the album Birthday by the Sugarcubes in a storefront window in Vienna. […]
Who Needs Oxygen, Anyways?
The second annual Skullfest festival will likely be remembered as the year’s sweatiest show, which is a good thing. TÞM, the night’s venue, closely resembles a storage basemen
Mount Esja: The New Couple’s Therapy
In these modern times the therapy market is booming with self-help books, talk shows, relaxing CDs, day spas and the usual pill that’s suggested by four out of five not […
Domo
Domo has not been around for long, but in the short time since its opening it has garnered a good reputation through word of mouth. I am pleased to inform […]
The Cornell Challenge
As a live performer, Chris Cornell is an ontological challenge. By all accounts, he is a grunge-god, a member of a selected club that includes him, Eddie Vedder and Kurt […]
The Saga Museum
In the Saga Museum in Perlan it all starts at the very basic beginning; it begins with the land, with lava and with rocks. With a very fancy mp3 player […]
Countdown to Airwaves: 4 Weeks
The Iceland Airwaves web site, at www.icelandairwaves. com, is a great resource in this respect, as it lists all of the performers, links to their MySpaces and even doles out [&hel
An Everyday Extraordinary
“Every time she saw me she laughed,” says Mary Ellen Mark smiling at one of her large framed black and white photographs hanging in the National Museum gallery. “I guess [&he
From the Editor’s Chair
This issue is the last of our summer issues. That means we will accept the inevitable winter, and instead of bringing you a new issue every two weeks, from now […]
Getting Into It
Attending the final night of the Reykjavík Jazz Festival, I did not expect much. Stórsveit Samma (Sammi’s Big Band) has never excited me much and Brooklyn’s Antibalas was tot