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 ...

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

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

This issue features a Björk interview. Normally, that would put Björk on our cover. Every time she has been so kind as to grant us an interview, which is more often than you’d think (thanks Björk!) we ...

On The Cover If you go to the Nasa.gov website, you will find the following sentence: “Eclipses have been occurring on Earth since long before humans walked the planet.

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 ...

Asking Trump for EU permission The Centre Party’s (Miðflokkurinn) fight for Icelandic sovereignty against foreign influence took a rather interesting turn recently, when MP Ingibjörg Davíðsdóttir bemo ...