During the recent municipal elections, we noticed that some of the great local civic accomplishments weren’t celebrated — or ...

Two women — one armed with a hi-def video camera — and a child visited the Secret Lagoon (Gamla Laugin in Icelandic) in March ...

In Reykjavík it is impossible to escape the trendy artisanal bakeries, which seem to pop up all over the place constantly, ...

It was the summer of 2003 and I, then editor of Grapevine, was walking through town with 58-year-old Megas, best known as ...

The devils of downtown Reykjavík rock have teamed up with art pop legend Barði Jóhannsson from the band Bang Gang to produce ...

The slaughterhouse-turned-music-festival Hátíðni returns to Borðeyri for three days of music, art, workshops and DIT ...

Walk into almost any souvenir shop in Iceland and you will find the same familiar symbols staring back at you: Thor’s hammer ...

As the biggest English-language newspaper on this particular North Atlantic rock we share some responsibility for giving ...

A short ferry ride from Reykjavík carries you across a stretch of water to an island that feels surprisingly distant from the ...

This issue’s cover story is about tourists who brought two rugged Land Rover Defenders and used them to deface Iceland’s ...

On July 2, Iceland competed in the World Cup. Not the FIFA World Cup underway in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. No, Iceland ...

We’ve got a list of our favourite 80 Icelandic releases of 2026 so far, and we’re doing our best to write them up. We’ll get ...