Iceland has never been more expensive than it is today.

The likelihood of Icelanders voting in favor of opening accession talks with the European Union appears to have declined in recent weeks.

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...

The Reykjavík Grapevine has been published in downtown Reykjavík for more than 20 years. For most of that time, its offices have been next door to the “World Famous Hot Dog Stand.” Every day, people drop-in to our office for various reasons...

  Iceland’s Municipality ElectionsElections were held in Iceland’s municipalities last Saturday. These elections take place every four years and unlike parliamentary elections have a wider voting base, since people who don’t have an Icelan...

It’s 8:55 AM the Monday after municipal elections destroyed the left in Reykjavík, and I’m standing outside Háskólabíó holding an oily paper bag with two kleinur waiting for one of Iceland’s most celebrated living writers, Einar Már Guðm...

“New Milestone in Icelandic film premieres at Prague,” was what started my four-month pursuit of the VR film Fallax. Before I could ever actually personally encounter the film, filmmakers Owen Hindley and Nanna Gunnars, working under the company ...

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...