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22.3.2010

Volcano Still Erupting

The Eyjafjallajökull eruption continues to rage on, although it has apparently calmed down a tad since three o' clock this morning. Also, geologists are saying the eruption should have come as no surprise.

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19.3.2010

Fashion Distraction

These are some designed, fashionable times we’re living in. Everyone seems to be looking their absolute best these days, what with all the haircuts and the shiny clothes and various accessories and trinkets people are decorating themselves with.
It hasn’t always been this way, though. If you browse through photo albums or newspapers from the last century, the first thing you’ll notice is how cheesy and uncool – sometimes plain ugly – everyone looks. But not anymore. Our correspondents from the fashion world – Sruli Recht, Ásta Kristjánsdóttir, Rúnar Ómarsson, Mundi and Bára Hólmgeirsdóttir – are some of the best

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8.3.2010

Stuff We Like!

We do love us some Icesave over here at the Grapevine. And, apparently, so do you guys! At least if we judge by the amount of correspondence you're sending in. We even received a poem!
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16.3.2010

Christ, they all talk foreign here!

I am a complete moron. No seriously, I am. Despite holding all sorts of degrees and wowing people with my rapier wit and all round brilliance, it looks like I’m dropping out of my current Icelandic course. Did I want to do this?
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Dining

Glætan
- Cafe
Glætan is a great café with a domestic feel .
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Saffran
1000-1500 - Indian
Wowohmygawdthatwasf’ingincredible! The food was so superbly prepared and shockingly delicious that I feared my words would not do it justice. More »
Dill Restaurant
3500-5000 - Icelandic
Pioneering New Nordic Kitchen style cuisine in Iceland, Dill Restaurant recently and has very quickly gained status as a Reykjavík favourite. More »

Food

16.3.2010

No, No, No Green Giant

A new offering from the owners of Rizzo Pizzeria, Græni Risinn, is rather unremarkable from the outside: a typical Skeifan strip-mall with the establishment’s name marking the building’s façade in bright green lettering.

Art & Films

19.3.2010

RAFSKINNA #2

This month Rafskinna offers on its webpage a quite unique collaboration between artist Birgir Andrésson and the punk band Rass, performing a classic Eurovision song with a brass band.
The collaboration was an initiative of Kitchen Motors, a think-tank/art collective that has had a special talent for creating a fruitful collaboration...

Travel

19.3.2010

Celebrating the Obscure

Joshua Foer has made a name for himself as a freelance science journalist for various publications such as Slate.com, New York Times and the Washington Post. He is also the author of the forthcoming Moonwalking with Einstein which documents his journey from covering the USA memory...

Music

19.3.2010

Stereo Hypnosis: Hypnogogia (2009)

I looked it up too; it means the transitional state between sleep and waking. Óskar Thorarensen – Jafet Melge/Inferno 5 – and his son Pan Thorarensen, aka Beatmakin Troopa, build on the organic electronic of Parallel Island with this woozy long-player…
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