The U.S. Senate has confirmed the appointment of Billy Long as ambassador to Iceland.

Hildur Björnsdóttir, leader of the Independence Party on the Reykjavík City Council, plans to meet today with the leaders of three other parties represented on the council after yesterday's scheduled talks were postponed.

Scam emails pretending to come from Iceland Revenue and Customs (Skatturinn) have been circulating recently. The messages falsely claim that recipients are owed money by the tax authorities and ask them to confirm the payment by providing identifi...

Western Iceland can expect glorious weather today, with temperatures potentially reaching as high as 17°C in sunny areas.

Hildur Björnsdóttir, leader of the Independence Party in Reykjavík, will spend the first part of the day considering her options before contacting the leaders of the parties she is exploring coalition talks with, Ari Edwald of the Centre Party,...

Magnús Jóhann is a very serious composer, and, as very serious composers do, he recently wrote Very Serious Music, his new concerto for Ondes Martenot, piano and orchestra, to premiere at Harpa on the 22nd of May. I met up with Magnús to talk abou...

Björgvin Halldórsson died last month, a week before his 75th birthday. He is the sound of Icelandic Christmas: synth ballads, dramatic key changes, songs that warm the darkest months. Many of them are Italian pop songs he heard on holiday in the 19...

On election night, The Grapevine interviewed candidates from almost all of the parties running in the municipality of Reykjavík. What is relevant in these interviews now, after the ballots have been cast and counted, is what a coalition to rule Reyk...

The Reykjavík Grapevine has been published out of downtown Reykjavík for more than 20 years, with its offices for most of that time next door to the “World Famous Hot Dog Stand.”  In this episode of The Drop-In, Bart Cameron and Jón T...

Two decades ago, the Grapevine ran a stunning advertisement that stated there were now 400,000 tourists in a country of 300,000 people. At that time, we were one of many free newspapers, and we held the singular advantage of presenting information in...