Growing up in Iceland, you will at some point become aware of the Cod Wars. This awareness is comfortably nestled in the Patriotic Fun Fact Files, somewhere between “Iceland discovered America” and ...

Billy Long, the nominated U.S. ambassador to Iceland, has apologised for comments he made about Iceland becoming the 52nd state of the United States, reports Arctic Today. As reported yesterday, Billy ...

If you’re reading this, congratulations. You’ve made it past the winter solstice, the darkest part of the year, and the light is already returning as we speak. This is purely a technicality at this ...

A record store in Odense, Denmark, has removed Björk’s music from its shelves, reports the Danish broadcaster TV 2. This comes days after Björk’s comments about Greenland. “From tomorrow, it will no ...

The incoming U.S. ambassador to Iceland and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives joked yesterday that Iceland would become the 52nd state of the USA and that he would be its governor, ...

If, like us, you’ve been glued to the world news this week and were hoping the weekend might at least give world leaders — or soon-to-be ambassadors — a break (spoiler: it won’t). But as always, TGIF!

“Um, can I ask, in lieu of your names, how would you like me to refer to you two?” I ask, tentatively. “The Bunny and The Pig,” The Pig states. I’m greeting two artists over Zoom, who are donning ...

But it doesn’t last. Nýhil was a pretty sizable group of people with a fluid membership, active from around 2001 to 2010, and formed around a pretty ill-defined idea (it had to do with black holes and ...

With 2025 formally wrapped up, it’s a good time to take stock of the year in music. It’s almost time for the Grapevine to select the best of the best. Which artist destroyed in 2025? Who should you be ...

In the first few days of January, we’ve seen headline after headline of bad news from around the world: a tragic fire, war continuing to rage on the European continent, one country having set their ...

The Grapevine planned a political lunch meeting for January 5, 2026. While the flu affected our guestlist, Ólafur Þórður Harðarson, the University of Iceland’s Professor Emeritus of Political Science, ...

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