Latin for the act of speaking in tongues, Glossolalia continues multi-hyphenate artist Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir’s years-long exploration of language as a means of artistic expression. Jóhannes Bjarkason caught... https://grapevine.is/music/2025/01/17/speaking-in-tongues-asta-fanneys-glossolalia/

If you've been sleeping on Jónsi's exhibition over at Hafnarhús, you had better wake up: this weekend is your last chance to experience it. Here are some other hot happe... https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/17/grapevine-events-icelandic-photography-festival-last-chance-to-see-jonsis-flod-much-more/

Three cheers for Reykjavík's public swimming pools, which are all now rainbow certified! https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/17/every-reykjavik-swimming-pool-rainbow-certified/

Oh la la! The French Film Festival runs January 17 to 26 at Bíó Paradís. Valur Gunnarsson runs through some of the French flicks on offer. https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/movies-theatre/2025/01/16/thank-god-for-french-cinema/

No everyone's votes were tallied after the Nov. 30 election and at least two parties would like to speak with your manager about it. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/16/several-absentee-ballots-not-delivered-to-tally-stations/

Who will take the reins from Bjarni Ben as the Independence Party's top dog? All will be revealed at the party's upcoming conference. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/16/independence-party-confirms-national-conference-dates/

“We were all kids in the 80s when [Vigdís Finnbogadóttir] was president. She was very influential on our generation — on my generation,” director and actor Björn Hlynur Haraldsson told Ir... https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/movies-theatre/2025/01/15/vigdis-the-making-of-the-nations-role-model/

Iceland's search and rescue teams — all volunteer, it bears mentioning! — are literal lifesavers, as a bunch of tourists learned firsthand last night. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/15/tourists-rescued-after-cars-nearly-submerged-on-holtavorduheidi/

Scientist are on alert after a powerful earthquake swarm on Tuesday hinted an eruption could be imminent — and it's a long ways from Reykjanes. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/15/powerful-earthquake-swarm-in-bardarbunga-scientists-are-cautious/

"There is a world of microbes around us that is very different from one place to another." Brewers Kjartan Óli Guðmundsson and Sveinn Steinar Benediktsson are capturing the wild tastes of Iceland in every bottle of the... https://grapevine.is/mag/interview/2025/01/14/your-favourite-place-in-a-glass/

This is not a drill, people! A new Sin Fang video is premiering right here on the Grapevine! https://grapevine.is/music/2025/01/14/video-premiere-serious-damage-by-sin-fang/

The Directorate of Immigration has another unwell child to boot from the country. What a crack team they have there at ÚTL. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/14/infirm-child-to-be-deported-from-iceland/

Kópavogur has everything resident Pétur Eggertsson wants — except concerts. Ish Sveinsson Houle caught up with the curator of Kátt á línunni bout bringing more music to local haunt Catalína. https://grapevine.is/music/2025/01/13/just-outside-the-city-limits/

Iceland's armed special forces unit was out in force in Akureyri over the weekend. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/13/five-arrested-in-armed-operation-in-akureyri/

Bird flu appears to have claimed the lives of more than a dozen geese in Reykjavík's Vatnsmýri area. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/13/up-to-20-dead-geese-found-in-vatnsmyri-bird-flu-suspected-cause/

Have you visited Ásmundarsafn? This new exhibition might be just the excuse you've been waiting for to take a trip to the Laugardalur landmark. https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/2025/01/10/the-ever-changing-wonderland-new-exhibition-opens-at-asmundarsafn/

“Art making, for me, has a lot to do with subverting conventional systems or making strange or estranging what we know all the time,” angela explains of the project 10 years in the making. Read all about it... https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/2025/01/10/making-mischief-and-playing-seriously/

We have your weekend plans sorted! Check out these not-to-miss events. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/10/grapevine-events-xjazz-infinite-randomness-more/

Step right up! Get your new music, here! With the 2025 Reykjavík Grapevine Music Awards on the horizon, we're all about the new music... just like any other time of the year, but we really ... https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/10/grapevine-new-music-picks-hermigervill-inspector-spacetime-hekla-more/

A pair of tour buses bot up close and personal on the road by Hella. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/10/five-taken-to-hospital-following-bus-accident/

The government’s always trying to keep us down, man. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/09/record-volume-of-cannabis-confiscated-in-2024/

The capital area's fire brigade has been busy this morning, starting with extinguishing a blaze in a Reykjavík trailer park. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/08/one-taken-to-hospital-after-fire-at-trailer-park/

One sly fox managed to escape her enclosure at the Reykjavík zoo and was last spotted en route to the skating rink. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/08/fox-roaming-loose-in-laugardalur/

It looks like the future of Kolaportið is in limbo. Where else can we go to get our glow sticks, hákarl and army memorabilia in one stop? https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/07/future-of-kolaportid-flea-market-uncertain/

Beloved local electronic musician Árni Grétar Jóhannesson (a.k.a. Futuregrapher) died at the close of 2024. Friends and family will gather at Kaffibarinn tonight to remember him. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/07/arni-gretar-johannesson-futuregrapher-dead-at-41/

Strætó is chalking its latest fare hike to wage increases over the past few years. Check out how much it'll soon cost to ride the bus in Reykjavík. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/06/bus-fare-to-increase-to-670-isk/

[In our best Glinda soprano] Let us be glad! Let us be grateful! After 20+ years of back-to-back scandal — or, erm, political achievement — Bjarni Benediktsson is throwing in the towel. 🎶 GOOD NEWS! 🎶 https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/06/bjarni-ben-steps-down-as-chairman-and-mp/

If you were mulling a weekend stroll over the fresh lava field, we'd suggest making other (safer) plans. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/04/the-lava-field-remains-hot-and-dangerous-for-hikers/

“Wait, you don’t already have a plan?” The public responded to Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir's call for cost-saving tips. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/04/public-responds-to-prime-ministers-call-for-cost-cutting-ideas/

Looking for something fun to do in Reykjavík this first weekend of 2025? Here are a few ideas. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/04/grapevine-events-nylo-birthday-night-of-improvised-music-more/

Learning Icelandic is as easy as 2 + 2 ... or, in the case of this Word of the Issue, Mann + Orð. https://grapevine.is/mag/2024/12/25/word-of-the-issue-welcome-to-our-reputation-era/

Three people were injured in a stabbing on New Year's Eve. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/02/man-stabbed-on-new-years-eve/

President Halla Tómasdóttir kicked off the new year doling out hardware to a few notable Icelanders. https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/02/14-people-awarded-with-the-order-of-the-falcon/

This is it. This is the year you'll finally write that novel you've had rattling around inside your noggin for the past few years (or as long as it took you to read this post). If you're an aspiring writer, but you don't want... https://grapevine.is/mag/interview/2024/12/24/beating-the-blank-page/

Oh, to be a tree farmer. Tending to your growing woodland and zipping around on the back of your ATV. What a life! Iryna Zubenko caught up with tree farmer Guðmundur Sigurðsson to l... https://grapevine.is/mag/interview/2024/12/17/a-life-in-the-trees-meet-christmas-tree-farmer-gudmundur-sigurdsson/

What did you fill your belly with over the holidays? If you feasted at an Icelandic household, it may very well have been some of these culinary delights that made our list. https://grapevine.is/food-main/2024/12/19/feast-like-an-icelander-holiday-edition/

"How can a Bónus in a place like Klaksvík have the latest Lego sets, while my local Bónus on Laugavegur struggles to stock fresh (if any) vegetables?" There's a lot you're probably wondering about the Faroe Islan... https://grapevine.is/travel/2024/12/18/a-first-timers-journey-to-the-faroe-islands/

The recipients of "artist salaries" were announced earlier this month and, well, it made a lot of people angry. Now, a group of artists is calling for more transparency and equity in th... https://grapevine.is/news/2024/12/19/artists-call-for-diversity-and-equity-in-national-grant-selection-process/

When police were equipped with Tasers, it was only a matter of time before one was fired in the line of duty. That time came earlier this month. https://grapevine.is/news/2024/12/19/police-fired-taser-for-the-first-time/

A whole bunch of businesses are in hot water with the Consumer Agency for using English ahead of (or instead of) Icelandic. https://grapevine.is/news/2024/12/19/the-consumer-agency-to-initiate-proceedings-over-english-only-menus/

Ah yes, privatisation is always the right way to go. In this case, private playschools because municipalities can't provide enough spots for kids. https://grapevine.is/news/2024/12/18/private-companies-to-provide-daycare/

Remember, tourists, Iceland isn't only an expensive place to visit. Those same prices that make your eyes water have us locals in tears on the daily. https://grapevine.is/news/2024/12/18/cost-of-living-in-iceland-increases/

Exactly one month ago today, Icelanders went to their local polling places to vote. But when we asked people on the street for their thoughts on the results, we encountered a whole lot of tight lips and "no comments". Huh. https://grapevine.is/mag/2024/12/26/word-on-the-street-election-reflection/

Lest you thought all was quiet on the (south) western front, you should know things are still shaking over on Reykjanes. https://grapevine.is/news/2024/12/30/powerful-earthquake-swarm-at-reykjanes-ridge/

If the would-be bank robber had pulled off this heist in Hafnarfjörður, it wouldn't have been one for the silver screen. Skaupið may still be an option... https://grapevine.is/news/2024/12/30/police-searching-for-man-who-attempted-to-steal-atm/

Since reading Shruthi Basappa's article on Fine Foods Íslandica, we've spent about 75% of our time daydreaming about harvesting seaweed in the Westfjords. See you there? https://grapevine.is/news/2024/12/27/the-bounty-of-the-sea/

Nothing to see here, just the U.S. military bankrolling a massive new project in Iceland. Move along, people. (But seriously, how concerned should we be?) https://grapevine.is/news/2024/12/27/u-s-military-sponsored-airport-depot-to-be-constructed-at-midnesheidi/

If you were counting on one of Iceland's online booze retailers to inject your holidays with a little more holly and jolly, this news came as a disappointment. https://grapevine.is/news/2024/12/27/online-alcohol-merchants-closed-by-police/

In addition to being the person for whom Reykjavík's most photographed building is named, Hallgrímur Pétursson was also a pretty big deal in poetry circles. Now a collection of his secular poe... https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/books/2024/12/20/the-tipsy-tittle-tattle-of-hallgrimur-petursson/

Winter in Reykjavík can be downright miserable. First it snows, then it rains, then everything is a sheet of solid ice. Wash, rinse, repeat. We compiled some tips for getting through it all. https://grapevine.is/news/2024/12/23/do-shit-survive-icelandic-winter/