No More Guerrilla Garments
With no mannequins, no large sign, and a location in the middle of an old industrial harbour, you’d be forgiven for not spotting the Guerrilla Store on the dock Slippurinn. [&hel
Vintage Shopping with Irony
“Frúin í Hamborg” is a fantastic riddle: What did you do with the unprecedented sum of money the lady of Hamburg gave you yesterday? The plot is as follows: answer […]
Midnight Golfing
“There are plenty of people who come here late at night after the clubs close, especially in the beginning of summer. Some even arrive at six o’clock in the morning […]
How to Lose Your Mind in One Week
Insanity comes in many forms. A sudden catastrophic event can turn an otherwise normal person into a drooling vegetable. Sometimes, it’s a slow and steady decline into complete,
At Least We’re Happy
If bad things happened to you while you were visiting, you might have a hard time explaining how you weren’t prepared. This isn’t Happyland, or Safeland, or even Moderatetemper
Political Change through Celebration
Most of the year, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender people are invisible to the population at large in Iceland. The Grapevine is as guilty as anyone of not covering the politics [&helli
Men Have to Take Responsibility
By emphasising the role men play in rape crimes in society, the NEI campaign points its finger at men as assailants. Now, for the third year in a row, the […]
Happiest Nation on Earth
This June, Iceland found out that it was, indubitably, the happiest place on Earth – fuck Disney World, Iceland blows it away, with Australia following somewhere as a distant sec
The Green, Green Golf Course of Home
Stefán Þorleifsson, 90-year-old sports instructor and gym coach, is sitting on the couch in his two-storey house in Neskaupstaður. He has just been asked what makes Icelanders t
Shock Value at Face Value
Lying on the bright red couch in his living room, Maggi sets down his glass bottle of beer on the coffee table beside him, and stares blankly at a muted […]
Magni…ficent
One of the most surreal moments in the history of pop culture: fantastically brain-dead rocker Tommy Lee stands on a chair, raises his hand, and attempts… WORD PLAY. And he [&hel
Sour Grape
I gave you a quick glance on line before my visit to Iceland. I was planning on sending you a correction to one of your articles, I was going to haughtily […]
From Newsman to Man on the News
Paul Nikolov has been a writer for the Reykjavík Grapevine for coming up on three years. This July, he finishes his contract with the Grapevine, and seems to be transitioning [&he
Reykjavík!
Typically they start with the weather. If you’re writing about the northernmost capital in the world, the windiest country on the planet, a country with “Ice” in its name, ye
Why Are They Dancing? Because They’re Plugged In
If you watched the World Cup, and even if you didn’t, you probably have an opinion on a certain commercial that has been played on national television with great regularity [&hel
Follow This Cab
“I’ve seen a lot of things,” Hafliði, taxi driver for BSR tells me. “Adultery, drugs, drunkenness, more adultery. People don’t seem to care what a taxi driver sees or he
Deep Political Thoughts. Keanu Reeves Deep.
As we were scanning the listings and PR statements on the atrocious movies being imported to this fair isle from America—the local cinema chain somehow imports only the most emba
The Grapevine Guide to the World Cup
Following the FIFA World Cup is an experience rivalled only by the Open Bar and the Mile High Club. Sure, the Olympics are both bigger and more respectable as an […]
Daddy Dearest
In January 2005, the Grapevine published an article on Prussian Blue – 13-year-old white power folk music twins Lynx and Lamb Gaede, based on our shock at the twins’ succes
“He Was Just Standing There”
On Wednesday July 5th, the news in Iceland was full of Magni Ásgeirsson, who would be competing on the reality television show Rockstar: Supernova on a direct feed from the [&hell
A Nation Defenceless
Negotiators from Iceland, the United States and NATO-allied countries met on Friday, July 7 in the ninth round of talks regarding the removal of the Iceland Defence Force from the