The Reykjavík Grapevine Issue 1 — 2011
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The Reykjavík Grapevine Issue 12 — 2015
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Hafnarstræti 15, 101 Reykjavík www.grapevine.is grapevine@grapevine.is
Guys, You’ve Got Us All Wrong!
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Anna’s editorial
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Editor In Chief:
Haukur S Magnússon / haukur@grapevine.is
Editor:
Anna Andersen / anna@grapevine.is
Journalist & Travel editor: John Rogers / john@grapevine.is
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Gabríel Benjamin / gabriel@grapevine.is
TRACK OF THE ISSUE
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Publisher:
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Contributing Writers: Bogi Bjarnason Davíð Roach Gunnarsson Eli Petzold Elín Rós Haukur Már Helgason Helgi Hrafn Guðmundsson Kári Tulinius Kristín Loftsdóttir Larissa Kyzer Nanna Árnadóttir Óli Dóri Paul Fontaine Ragna Ólöf Guðmundsdóttir Rebecca Scott Lord Shawn Forno Sigrún Davíðsdóttir Sindri Eldon Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir
Editorial Interns:
Ciarán Daly / ciaran@grapevine.is Hannah Jane Cohen / hannah@grapevine.is Katie Steen / katie@grapevine.is Sam Wright Fairbanks / sam@grapevine.is
Earlier this month, Dunkin’ Donuts opened shop on our main drag, and if you haven’t noticed, it’s kind of a big deal. For more than a week now, there has been a massive queue outside. People are lining up out the door and down the block. We are, to say the least, really excited about this new addition to our budding culinary scene. It’s amusing, then, to note that many of our readers from abroad are actively grieving on our behalf. On the day Dunkin’ Donuts opened, we posted a photo gallery full of delighted Icelanders, only to be bombarded with condolence messages
from around the world. But they’ve got us all wrong, we thought, we’re not this pure country free of big corporations. We have loads of them! And we love them! In fact, when McDonalds opened in Reykjavík, our Prime Minister showed up to eat the very first burger (see that glorious photo below!). So, we thought, let’s set the record straight this issue and attempt to explain why Icelanders tend to consider the arrival of multinational junk food franchises a really big deal. Turn to page 21.
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Hörður Kristbjörnsson / hordur@dodlur.is
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Anton Kaldal Ágústsson
Photographers: Art Bicnick Anna Domnick Hörður Sveinsson
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Tonik Ensemble Imprints
Download the FREE tracks at www.grapevine.is Our track of the issue features all the best of what Tonik Ensemble (Anton Kaldal Ágústsson, and a host of contributing collaborators) can do in the studio. The beat is steady, a driving force of welcome techno staples, overlaid with deftly placed instrumental, ear-candy flourishes. Atop it all is the solemn, chilled-out vocal track supplied by Jóhann Kristinsson: it's synthesized enough to sound mystical, but left alone enough to retain humanity. “Imprints” is a mood maker: the kind of track that adds profundity to passing landscapes on a long car ride, or gets things a bit weird and wavy on a Friday night. In short: good stuff.
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Founders:
Hilmar Steinn Grétarsson, Hörður Kristbjörnsson, Jón Trausti Sigurðarson, Oddur Óskar Kjartansson, Valur Gunnarsson
Comic | Lóa Hjálmtýsdóttir
The Reykjavík Grapevine is published 18 times a year by Fröken ltd. Monthly from November through April, and fortnightly from May til October. Nothing in this magazine may be reproduced in whole or in part without the written permission of the publishers. The Reykjavík Grapevine is distributed around Reykjavík, Akureyri, Egilsstaðir, Seyðisfjörður, Borgarnes, Keflavík, Ísafjörður and at key locations along road #1, and all major tourist attractions and tourist information centres in the country. You may not like it, but at least it's not sponsored (no articles in the Reykjavík Grapevine are pay-for articles. The opinions
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IN THIS ISSUE ECONOMICS
Greece vs. Iceland? FOOD
Real Icelandicana! MUSIC
Submit to Iceland’s theremin queen! TRAVEL
On the road, again! NEWS
Cops: so unchill!
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