September is cinema season in Reykjavík as the annual RIFF film festival rolls into town. From a stamp card for multiple trips to Iceland’s top art house cinema to a photo book about a decomposing ...

Gunnar Lárus Hjálmarsson, aka Dr. Gunni, is a true local legend. Initially the driving force behind Icelandic cult indie collectives S.H. Draumur and Unun in the 1980s and ‘90s, he’s also a renowned ...

You know, there’s so much music that gets released every single day. We’re lucky that an enterprise such as the Reykjavík Grapevine exists to help you sift through all that information and deliver you ...

“There was a cult for breakfast burritos,” says Íris Ann Sigurðardóttir as I point out the famous recipe in the newly printed The Coocoo’s Nest cookbook. Lucas Keller, her husband, smiles in agreement ...

This August I spent two days on Vestmannaeyjar documenting the annual puffling toss, where teenagers, mostly, seek out wayward pufflings wandering the streets, having been drawn out by the bright ...

One of the peculiar things about Italian food is that its relative simplicity often leads folk to confidently, although falsely, assume that anyone can cook it. Some also feel like they could do the ...

A Spanish man working for Hótel Drangshlíð, near Eyjafjallajökull, was threatened with termination by his employer should he join a labour union, RÚV reports. The employee had been working for the ...

Dear Grapevine reader, there’s a new issue of your favourite magazine out on the streets of Reykjavík today. The issue’s cover feature profiles the quiet yet massive success of Reykjavík-based label, ...

A polar bear was seen outside a summer house on Höfðaströnd in Jökulfjörður today, reports RÚV. According to the summer house owner, the polar bear was roaming around his summer house in Jökulfjörður ...

From the fine aromas of Fischer, to earthy scents of up-and-coming perfumier Ilmur og Sjor, to the pungent reek of a freshly opened bag of hardfiskur, this week’s shopping bag is particularly whiffy.

In 2021, the only church on a tiny Arctic island burnt down — and with it, a living archive of the past 800 years went up in smoke. The fire didn’t just erase a piece of the island’s past; it also ...