Ever wanted to go very fast down a hill with two sticks attached to your feet? Here’s how! Say what you like about the Icelandic winter—and you can, because it won’t make the slightest bit of ...

After this weekend, it will be December. No judgment if you started feeling jolly a bit sooner, but we say that, now, it’s officially permissible to get into a wintery spirit. Tonight, beginning at 17 ...

On November 21, her 60th birthday, Icelandic artist Björk publicly issued a lawsuit against the Icelandic state regarding sea-based fish farming in Iceland. The lawsuit is one of the four cases ...

Tourism was the unexpected saviour of the Icelandic economy after the financial crisis of 2008, and since then social media platforms like Instagram have facilitated a huge boom in visitors. Fourteen ...

Iceland has always been praised as a country with great equality between men and women. It also recently became the world’s first nation to make it mandatory for companies and institutions with more ...

What is BDSM? Typically considered sexual preferences and practices that include elements of control, submission or pain, it stands for bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism. It’s kink, it’s ...

When this magazine finds its way into the shops, cafés and cultural institutions of Reykjavík, it will have been a mere 46 days since the inauguration of President of the United States of America ...

I don’t know if it’s the scary and uncertain few years we’ve all been living through or my own personal stressors of the past 12 months that I was seeking out opportunities to momentarily forget, but ...

Construction of the Starbucks café at Laugavegur 66-68 in Reykjavík is well underway, with signage for the international coffee chain already in place, reports Vísir. The news that Berjaya Food ...

What do any two random Icelanders have in common, genetically? If this sounds like the beginning of a bad knock-knock joke (or Jimmy Kimmel sketch), that’s probably because by now you’ve read at least ...

In total, 218 foreign nationals began their prison sentence or detention in 2024. Number of Icelandic detainees also increased between years, as 90 Icelanders were sentenced to detention in 2024, ...