GRAPEVINE’S FANCY NEW MEDIA LAW!!!
Hi! Happy Harpa! I hope you find whatever it is you’re looking for in that house, and that you take some time read our massive and exclusive interview with Ólafur […]
Sour grapes and stuff
MOST AWESOME LETTER: Dear Grapevine Music Staff Thank you for covering the Reykjavik Music Mess. I have followed your paper’s musical coverage with interest for a while now a
Then Iceland Would Have Said “Yes”
The Landsbanki of Iceland kept itself running with the savings of British and Dutch depositors—charities, school-building municipalities, and “grandmothers saving for old
Jukebox Babe
My first impressions of the second Reykjavík Fashion Festival were of a well-run and well-organised event. Gone were last year’s queuing and outdoor toilet fiascos. Instead, gue
Pop Goes The Bubble!
In 2007, just as the housing bubble was about to burst, Newsweek senior editor Daniel Gross published a book called ‘Pop! Why Bubbles Are Great For The Economy.’ In it, [&helli
Are Icelanders True Romantics? Really?
Walking through Reykjavík late on a Saturday night and observing the natives attempt to go through the preliminary stages of copulation, one could be forgiven for assuming that Ic
Literature In The Land Of The Inherently Cute
(Practically) all political writing engages in representation and a form of adjudication—i.e. “picking a side”. Classic social realist writing of capitalist societies not onl
Sour grapes and stuff
MOST AWESOME LETTER: Hi- I was just on vacation in Iceland but had zero time to shop. Where can I find women’s leggings like the one’s I saw in Iceland? […]
CAR CLAIMS TO HAVE CAUGHT FIRE
[If you read Icelandic] You really should compare Icelandic and foreign reportage of Libyan Iman al-Obeidi, the woman who walked into a hotel in Tripoli Saturday March 26 and told
Taking Out The Trash
The concept of a ‘trash day’ will soon take on a whole new meaning for the hitherto spoiled residents of Reykjavík. Thus far, taking out the trash in Reykjavík has […]
Tiptoe Through The Tulips
Icesave: It’s like a slow waltz with the devil. By the time you read this, you may have already cast your vote; but the dance is still not over. Not […]
Making More With Less
Stand at any given busy intersection in Reykjavík, and one of the first things that you’ll notice is the car traffic. Reykjavík is, for better or worse, a car town. […]
A Course Of Action I Cannot Suggest
“The course of action I would suggest… is a course of action I can’t suggest!” The fictional President of the United States, Bennett, uttered these words in
READ MY PRIVATE EMAIL, WON’T YOU?
Hi, readers! Here is a letter I received from a friend of mine the other day: Hi Haukur, Couldn’t help but notice the little hubbub about the Grapevine satirical piece [&hell
Why Can’t She Stay?
By now many of our readers are familiar with the case of Priyanka Thapa. A young Nepalese woman who came to Iceland as an au pair for a family with […]
A FOREIGNER’S GUIDE TO THE CONFUSING WORLD OF ICELANDIC CELEBRITIES
While America is awash in third generation entitlematon celebrity and other fruit of Satan’s loins and the UK drags fame-starved Urukhais out of the Sing-Star mud to sate the
Deal Or No Deal?
Iceland will hold a referendum on April 9 to vote on a repayment plan for around 4.2 billion dollars, a claim disputed by the governments of Britain and the Netherlands. […]
The Iceland Airwaves Of Fashion
Reykjavík’s first real fashion festival took place in March 2010, a timely event coinciding with the current surge in Icelandic design. The festival proved an ample platform for
Creative Consumerism And The Fashion Blogger’s Holy Grail
Hola lovers, You might not know me, but you should (if you are a foreign national visiting the country; I forgive you, but if you are a native Icelander you […]
Introducing The Grapevine Product Awards
We wanted to do something special for this year’s DesignMarch, seeing as we had so much fun at the last edition. We thought: we can write lots of articles and […]
Design In Times Of Change
“Since the collapse of the Icelandic financial system and ongoing similar trends around the world during the last decade, many designers and other creative people realize that so