Never Underestimate the Power of Play
Reykjavík based game developing company CCP was founded in June, 1997. In May 2003, the company launched its first Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMO), EVE Onlin
NASA
The cornerstone of Reykjavík nightlife, NASA plays host to the biggest bands and the biggest parties. NASA has several bars inside, and with the generally late door-opening hours
Janus & Tinna
Janus Bragi Jakobsson and Tinna Ottesen are an Icelandic couple who have gained attention recently for the experimental underwater concerts they held during the four day warm-up pr
Lost in Iceland?
Google and others struggle to map IcelandGoogle has mapped the moon, Mars and the sky, yet amazingly cannot provide a roadmap for Iceland. While every other European country has be
Eat Pizza and be Merry
Welcome to yet another instalment of Cheap Reykjavík, where the Grapevine’s resident misers share some of their patented money saving tricks and tips. If you’ve got some miser
Páll Óskar is On
Reykjavík’s LBGT community is rapidly readying the 2008 GayPride extravaganza. Pop star extraordinaire Páll Óskar took time out of his busy, busy schedule to divulge some tric
Only Amusing When Desperate
As soon as Grapevine heard rumours about a forthcoming full-length release from the dance moguls in FM Belfast they sent a reporter to find out whether the stories were factual. [&
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
Cafe D’Haïti on Tryggvagata 16 was established last April and has been steadily gaining fans ever since. Owner Metahulsen returned to Iceland from Haiti with wife Elda and now f
Another Icelandic Monster: Nykur
Fearsome water horse of yore: These guys are way evilThe creature we feature this month, for all your learning pleasures, is the horse-like amphibian Nykur. Try saying that slowly:
Great Moments in Icelandic History: Iceland get the beer back
Bottoms Up!Imagining Reykjavík without beer is like imagining Amsterdam without hash brownies. However, only nineteen years ago (!) it was against the law to sell and buy beer in
The Biggest Little Pride in the World
As the controversy over gay rights continues to seethe over heatedly and caustically in the United States, like freshly expulsed volcanic lava from Mt. Hekla, here in Iceland coole
Happily Ever After
On July 2, 2008, Katrín Þóra Víðisdóttir and Erla Björk Pálmadóttir became the first same-sex couple to be officially blessed by an Icelandic church, at Melstaðarkirkja i
Contributing to International Welfare
A few years ago, the Icelandic government decided to contribute to international peacemaking and established an organisation known as The Iceland Crisis Response Unit, ICRU . Its a
To Warn or Not to Warn, That is the Question
I hail from a surfers’ paradise in the Caribbean, where the ocean gets rowdy and unpredictable with undertows and strong currents. The most dangerous beaches all have warning sig