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 ...

“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 ...

If you’ve been following the Do Shit series for a while, you should be able to do a lot of shit by now. We assume you’ve gotten your legal status squared away, successfully filed your taxes, gotten ...

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, ...

“Ooof!” I let out a loud sigh as the first iteration of the Reykjavík International Film Festival programme lands in my hands. At a mere 112 pages, navigating the festival’s schedule feels like trying ...

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 ...

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 ...

A man who was the subject of a police search near Vík í Mýrdal since Monday was found dead, reports Vísir. The man was a Hungarian citizen named Illes Benedek Incze. He was a resident of Vík. The ...