The Reykjavík Grapevine: Magazine Articles

LITTLE ORCAN ANNIE

THE WEIRDISH WORLD OF KEIKO, POP ICON By the time of his first public appearance at Marineland, Ontario, Canada in 1982, he was billed as Kago. Why Siggi wasn’t good […]

August 22, 2003

PLAYING THE GREEN CARD

Both the product and the puppet of seismic activity, Iceland’s resulting terrain is as unique as it is spectacular. For centuries ecological and economic evolution progressed alo

ICELAND AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD:

A BRIEF FLING OR A SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP? When Icelanders agreed to pay taxes to the king of Norway in 1262, one of the conditions was that the King continue to […]

THE BIGGEST LITTLE PRIDE IN THE WORLD

The Reykjavik Gay Pride festival is the third biggest in Reykjavik. It’s been held since 1999 but the first parade was in the year 2000 and has from the beginning […]

THE PTARMIGAN

Hunting is a popular sport here in Iceland. Almost every Icelandic man I know hunts. They are known as “veiðimenn” (hunting men). My ‘Viking’ fishes, and he too is called

ICELAND FOOTBALLA COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Years that end in odd numbers hold barren summers for football addicts in most of the civilized world with no World Cup or even a European Championship to ease the […]

ICELAND AT WAR

The facts In August 1990, the Security Council of the United Nations imposed on Iraq – as a response to Iraq’s military invasion and occupation of Kuwait – the most [

Editorials

Monday Morning Coming Down

Monday morning after Verslunarmannahelgi. Something’s wrong. I sit up and my surroundings seem strangely familiar. At first glance, this does not seem to be a moss-covered hill s

WRETCHED REFUSE YEARNINGTO BREATHE FREE

I left the United States for good, and I mean really and for true, in 1999, and have vowed never to return, ever. Aside from general embarrassment and disgust with […]

Letters

Good Afternoon, Congratulations on an insightful and informative newspaper. A friend of mine recently returned from a hiking trip to your country. I just finished reading a copy of

Cover Features

Megas: Iceland’s Greatest Living Wordsmith

Grapevine does not know what to expect as the phone is picked up. Will Master answer in verse or prose, quoting pearls of oriental wisdom, the Sagas or the Bible, […]

Opinion

“HEYRÐU!” – “HA?”

Just the other day I listened to two Radio X presenters (einasta radióið sem rokkar, in case you have forgotten) as they spent considerable time pondering over the variety of [&h

Shopping

TURN ON, TUNE INDRESS UP!

It is said that some things that don’t make sense actually do make sense. Using a design store as a place to hold concerts does in a way not make […]

Editorials

TEARS OF THE CLOWN

I was having dinner at Casa Grande when a portly Paraguayan came up and started serenading me with his guitar. Duly serenaded, he invited me for dinner. He said his […]

HE WHO LAUGHS LAST:

THE OIL COMPANIES AND ICELANDIC BUSINESS For the past few days news of illegal price collaboration between the three main oil companies has dominated the Icelandic media, the lates

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

SOME ICELANDERS WHO TRIED AND FAILED TO CONQUER THE WORLD The Sagas often take pains in pointing out how well received Icelanders were at the courts of kings and chieftains. [&hell

Keflavík, We Have A Problem

So the summer continued. I had a chance to return to home to spend some days with my boys Jake and Harry. Willed myself out of bed at 5.00am to […]

Belfast And The IRA

Once upon a time about 800 years ago in a green and distant isle, a young clansman called Diarmaid was having trouble with his neighbours so he decided to invite […]

The Voice Of The Resistance

Anyone who read John Boyce’s article on the media (issue 2) should have realised that said media are not to be trusted. It seems that in the information society we […]