Get Up – Stand Up!
It was a Saturday much like any other in Greenwich Village, New York. Business as usual on a balmy night in June. An assortment of drag queens, queers and lesbians […]
Seljalandsfoss – Go There: It’s Awesome
Seljalandsfoss. That waterfall. As far as natural phenomena go, it’s pretty great, and it is definitely deserving of its status as one of Iceland’s premier tourist attractions.
Are You Always Boring Your Friends With Your Superior, Learned Tastes In Music?
So here’s the thing. We love music. Freaking love it. We listen to it all the time. In the kitchen, in the bedroom, in the bathroom, on the balcony on […]
Sour grapes and stuff
MOST AWESOME LETTER: Greetings Reykjavik Grapevine, It has been a while since we’ve corresponded. We have been quite busy with our art and with our new baby girl. It was [&he
Back to the future
As a 23-year-old, I can now (against my will) officially say that I’m an adult and the long-awaited stage of complete independence has finally begun. Of course, now, I look [
Before Björk There Was…
It has always been an Icelander’s greatest dream to be accepted by big city folk. The Sagas are full of stories of Icelanders’ triumphs abroad, be it at the court […]
Thank God For Hot Water – The Reykjanes Pool And Some Of What Makes Life Bearable
One of this country’s best redeeming qualities are the pools of hot water found sprinkled all over it. Those pools somehow manage to make life on the edge of the […]
Tales from the cab side…
Tonight, as opposed to those covered in previous columns, is wrapped in a cloak of boredom and meagre turnover. Stranded at a slow procession of differing taxi stands throughout th
It’s official, the application has been submitted
There has been much talk about Iceland’s decision to court the EU, after the Althingi voted in favour of submitting an application for membership on July 16th. All the talk [&hel
Sunlit Halls
Eistnaflug (translated ‘Flight of the Testicles’, ‘TestFest’, or, worst of all, ‘Flight of the Testes’) is a metal festival held annually in the small eastern Icelandic
Hljómar Invent Icelandic Pop
During 1967 and ‘68, Hljómar were once again the major band in Iceland. After the band’s failure to break through (both internationally and locally) with their “difficult”
Not The Best Comic Ever
Welcome to Toronto Canada, the home of Scott Pilgrim, unemployed twenty-something bass guitarist of Sex Bob-Omb. When we first join our main character he is rebounding with a high-
Glastonburied With Emiliana Torrini
Love and hate. Looks like it’s going to rain again. Torrentially. That’s nothing new, seeing that it usually rains at Glastonbury. Still people go there in ever increasing numb
Puffin Wars
British ornithologists (those specializing in the study of birds) claim to have found Europe’s oldest living puffin on Rough Island in the Shiant Isles of Scotland. The bird is k
Open Sesame
Opened in May, Ali Baba has quickly gathered a reputation as the good new kebab place. The Middle-Eastern menu is short and straight-forward: a handful of kebab portions (a döner
When Batman Met Robin
Frank Miller’s new take on the Boy Wonder’s origins takes a few chapters to get used to. Maybe because it takes the story a few chapters to actually begin. But [&hellip
Puffin Party – Sailing Out To See Iceland’s Most Beloved Birds
Puffin Express brings you to the forefront of puffin life with their daily rides out to Akurey Island, which is just a short distance from Reykjavík Harbour. The business, which [
Fun Times In And Around Egilsstaðir – West Is Best But East Is… Pretty Great Too!
Welcome to Egilsstaðir, the sunny town in the east of Iceland that just happened to be cloudy and rainy when my colleague and I touched down for five fun-filled days […]
Poetics anonymous
I became a poet for more or less the same reason everybody else did: I’m lazy and I wanted to sleep late. That was the job description. You get to […]
…And On His Farm He Had Some Lettuce. E-I-E-I-O – Surviving A Weekend WWOOFing In Egilsstaðir
Working the land. Hoeing the weeds from deceptively long rows of lettuce and parsley. I’m in Egilsstaðir, in the far east of Iceland. As far away from Reykjavík as I […]
Asylum Seekers In Norway
Our arrival on a Saturday afternoon at a reception centre for asylum seekers on the outskirts of Trondheim, Norway’s third largest city, is met with mixed reactions. The grounds