Verslunarmannahelgi falls on the first weekend of August. It is the biggest travel weekend of the Icelandic year.

A half-dozen dates in Ireland and Amsterdam, internationally famous Alok Vaid-Menon chose Reykjavík and the opening night of ...

If I’m lucky, I wish I could live 300 years just to do all the albums I want to do.

Some of you may be familiar with that piece of fan fiction known as Hamlet, Will Shakespeare’s rewrite of the classic Amlóða ...

At 24:00 on July 31, 2026, the Iceland Coast Guard and Special Forces boarded the protest boat Bandero, taking control of the ...

Few phrases in the Icelandic tongue can be as breezily delivered as “þetta er gjöf en ekki gjald,” a phrase one could ...

The powerful and playful minimalism of Karin Sander makes artworks that exceed themselves, turning the museum into a ...

With respect for the bird and the residents, the strategy was to wait patiently for the sparrow to expose itself on the patio ...

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

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

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

It became known colloquially as the þjóðvegahátíðin, or “highway festival”, of 1994. On June 17 that year, tens of thousands rushed to celebrate 50 years of Icelandic independence at Þingvallahátíðin ...