Every autumn, the National Museum of Iceland celebrates the Icelandic national costume with a festival, and this weekend’s National Costume Festival is particularly exciting because of the exhibition A Story in the Luggage – The Bridal Costume...

The majority parties on Reykjavík City Council, the Independence Party, the Progressive Party and the Liberal Reform Party, approved changes to parking fees in downtown Reykjavík and other parking-related matters at a meeting of the City Executi...

Vilhjálmur Birgisson, chairman of the Federation of General and Special Workers in Iceland, welcomes IKEA’s decision to lower the prices of more than 1,000 products, in some cases by 30%.

“In my view, this is an effort by the union to reverse the concession made in 2020,” a Morgunblaðið source from the aviation industry tells the newspaper, when asked for his opinion on the results of a survey conducted among Icelandair pilot...

Halla Gunnarsdóttir, chair of VR, says the framework for the upcoming wage negotiations was discussed at a meeting between the Confederation of Icelandic Enterprise (SA) and VR that concluded a short while ago.

You know the rules. Name that sheep. Tell us the name of this specific sheep. Email us at sheep@grapevine.is. If you get the right name, and you’re in Iceland, you win a hot dog, made in part with sheep. One guess per email address please. Not in I...

“That autumn there came an agitation and a plague brought on by an evil spirit or a ghost… it seemed to rush down into their throats, so that they were seized by violent belching and a great swelling… It afflicted those women who were still vir...

Weeks of dark omens. The sky went dark and day turned to night. Horses were observed walking on their hind legs. Dark-clad men, unknown persons all, were heard speaking in the long-dead Ostrogothic tongue. At the Grapevine building, our in-house econ...

Time caught up to me at this year’s Menningarnótt in ways I wasn’t expecting. The annual culture festival/Reykjavík birthday celebration has been a big part of this magazine for more than 20 years. In my first editorial run, we worked closely w...

Finally the referendum is over. While this is written before the votes have been counted, we can pass some preliminary judgement on how Iceland as a society and as a democracy fared. In short, not well. Icelanders are collectively suffering from refe...