Welcome to The Haul, where we give you a peek into our shopping bag (or the shopping bag of someone far more interesting than us) and an idea of what’s worth browsing and buying in Reykjavík these ...

If you didn’t know, the age of digital streaming is soon to be over. Before you know it, the coolest people you can think of will all be collecting physical copies of cultural media. Even CDs are ...

The production cost of filming The Odyssey in Iceland was estimated at over 2.5 billion ISK, with reimbursements from the state treasury expected to reach nearly 900 million ISK — the second-highest ...

Magma under Svartsengi reached 11 million cubic meters on Sunday, September 28. This means that the volume of magma has now reached the level that erupted in the same area during the last eruption.

“I’m squeezing the lemon so hard,” Ida Schuften Juhl admits. “Since Knackered is a completely new project and I haven’t shared a lot on social media, I took it as an opportunity to create a universe ...

Recently Donald Trump flew to the United Kingdom on an official state visit. The British Government, eager to curry favour with a fickle ally, rolled out the red carpet and the Royal Family too. If ...

What is the Reykjavik Grapevine? Your essential guide to life, travel and entertainment in Iceland. The Reykavík Grapevine is Iceland's biggest, best and most widely read English-language publication.

None of this was supposed to happen. GusGus was just supposed to be a short film, not a band. And even when it became a band, and remained a band, it—in some ways—still felt like more than a band.

While puffins are practically the symbol of Vestmannaeyjar, petrels (a small species of sea birds in the same family as the larger albatross) are much more enigmatic. Stephen Hurling, a PhD student in ...

In the afternoon of June 25, 2020, a house on Bræðraborgarstígur in Reykjavík’s Miðbær neighbourhood was set ablaze. Smoke engulfed the western part of town and a majority of the downtown area, ...

Iceland’s Minister of Education and Children’s Affairs, Ásthildur Lóa Þórsdóttir, resigned earlier this year amidst a scandal that made headlines here in Iceland and notably around the entire world.

At the southern tip of Lagarfljöt lies Fljótsdalur, a scenic river valley carved out by meltwater from the northern edge of Vatnajökull. It’s a wild and storied place, with a glacier research centre, ...