A Northern Take on Carnival, Without the Religion
Feel like going on a road trip and listening to pop bands play in front of gregariously drunk locals celebrating their annual holiday by goofing off with grilled hot dogs […
Are You Gay Enough For This? – Different Days in Reykjavík
Iceland’s Gay Pride Festival, or ‘Hinsegin Dagar’ (Different Days) kicks off for its eighth gay year on Wednesday, August the 9th with a gay drag show at Gaukur Á Stöng. [&
Roots, Rock, Reykjavík
“A lot of them want to know about the Vikings, so I have to explain the different way we use the term in Iceland – there weren’t that many ‘true’ […]
Independent People / Sugar-Crazed Kids
June 17th was the date of the 1953 uprising in East Berlin, the Watergate burglary of 1972 and the repealing of Apartheid laws in South Africa in 1991. It also […]
JÓNI JÓNS AT TURPENTINE
“In the continent of personal dreams that lie beyond the reality of the mirror stands a vast area of conflict, where the power of imagination rules and symbols really matter [&he
World of Warcraft
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games may be one of the clumsiest phrases to be coined in the last century, but at least it abbreviates fairly readily to MMORPG. The [&he
The Carnegie Art Award 2006
An exhibition of works nominated for the prestigious Carnegie Art Awards is currently on display at the Reykjavík Art Museum, and will be until August 20th, so if you feel [&helli
Playstation Goes Cosa Nostra
The Godfather trilogy surely ranks amongst the best movies ever made. Phrases such as “make him an offer he can’t refuse” have become part of popular culture, and the theme [
If You’re Actually Into World Domination
Gaming is all well and good, but, as we pointed out a few issues ago, the new Sony PSP portable gaming unit’s incredible screen resolution and performance make it ideal […
PSP for Business
As I approached a recent interview, and realized that after a lengthy cross-Atlantic flight I would be expected to hold a coherent conversation, I decited I needed a new method [&h
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls is a popular series of RPGs (role playing games) set in its own fantasy world, albeit one heavily based on a variety of other RPG universes that […]
Battlefield 2
It may not be the newest release on the market, but Battlefield 2 is one seriously hot game and as more expansion packs are in the pipeline it’s set to […]
The Reykjavík Arts Festival
In Reykjavík, summer gets ushered in in the best way possible, with flocks of artists from around the world. Beginning May 12th, everything from Harold Pinter lectures to Bulgaria
Flight of the Valkyries
Without warning or introduction, two young women marched onto the stage and took their positions behind the two standing drums, dressed in semi-military garb. Their faces frozen ex
Changes to Grassroots
This year, not only the intention behind the exhibition, but the whole organization will be different, thanks to the new board of organizers. Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir and Bryndis
SPENCER TUNICK: BODY PUBLIC
Akureyri Art Museum, until 30 April Spencer Tunick is best known for his treatment of the nude. Or in his case, nudes, often hundreds of them. Since 1994, he has taken […]
In Case You Missed It: Michael Page at Gel Gallerí
On a scale of one to ten, the need to import creativity to a city like Reykjavík lingers somewhere around a meagre half point. Thousands of artists, musicians, designers, writers,
Bloody Brilliant
For decades, the movie industry has been fascinated with making films based on comic books. The most recent examples are Sin City, X-men, Fantastic Four, Batman and Spiderman. Some
The Reykjavík Marathon Saturday August 20th
Because Reykjavík is so far north, because the air is so clean, and because the sidewalks and roads were laid with a special polymer cushioning, the Reykjavík Marathon is the [&h
Videy: Not Just Landscape
Surrounded Blind Pavilion by Ólafur Eliasson was originally made for the Venice Biennale Art Festival in 2003 and was put at Viðey in May this year. It’s easy to climb [&hellip