Icelandic artist Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir won her second Grammy award at the recent ceremony, celebrated in Los Angeles on February 1. Laufey’s win makes her a two-time Grammy winner, as her 2023 album ...
It isn’t often that an entirely new cultural medium is born. But over the last few decades, video games have taken over the world. With over three billion active players, games have emerged as both a ...
“I worry about the public’s declining trust in politics in general. That was my sense when I first went into politics. One of the first things I did was to travel the country on my own, meet people at ...
The valley of Mosfellsdalur is a 20 kilometre stretch of rolling farmland that sits just beyond the edge of Reykjavík. Many visitors pass through it each day without stopping, bound for more crowded, ...
Growing up in Iceland, you will at some point become aware of the Cod Wars. This awareness is comfortably nestled in the Patriotic Fun Fact Files, somewhere between “Iceland discovered America” and ...
Recent controversies surrounding the US company Running Tide, Röst, and Carbfix’s Coda Terminal project in Hafnarfjörður have shown that locals are objecting to using the country as a laboratory. Some ...
What if? It’s a pretty open-ended question and one friend of the Grapevine Valur Gunnarsson is applying to eight relevant-to-Iceland historical happenings over as many issues. Expand your mind, ...
A record store in Odense, Denmark, has removed Björk’s music from its shelves, reports the Danish broadcaster TV 2. This comes days after Björk’s comments about Greenland. “From tomorrow, it will no ...
The Borealis Data Center is a nondescript building next to a horse farm on the outskirts of Blönduós, a town of 800 inhabitants in the north of Iceland. Entering the building, after you make it past ...
After a fast-paced summer at the Grapevine, I decided to take an overdue summer vacation in October. While packing my bags for the Netherlands, I perused the programme for Eindhoven’s Dutch Design ...
The septic tank in Vík í Mýrdal can no longer handle the sheer number of tourists, sometimes resulting in a bad smell in the town, reports Vísir. In addition, the local residents occasionally have to ...
On New Year’s Day, Icelanders woke to the closure of Dunkin’ Donuts. The American doughnut chain, perhaps better known for its coffee, made its Iceland debut in 2015 to great fanfare but closed with ...
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