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Tuesday, 03 April 2012 16:30 |
The Reykjavík Blues Festival kicked off on Saturday and will carry on throughout April 5. Tonight, “Iceland’s Queen of Blues” Andrea Gylfadóttir and her backup band the Blues Men will perform with the Marel Blues Project at Hilton Reykjavík Nordica.
A previous blues festival. Photo by Páll Kjartansson.
Tomorrow and Thursday American musicians John Primer and Michael Burks will take the stage at the same location. All of the festival’s three main concerts will begin at 8 pm.
Grammy Award winner John Primer is an experienced rhythm guitarist who has played with as legendary artists as Magic Slim...
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 April 2012 10:32 |
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Tuesday, 03 April 2012 14:00 |
Three Icelandic companies have been founded specifically for oil exploration in the so-called Dragon Zone, off Iceland’s northeastern coast between Iceland and Jan Mayen, Norway, and have applied for permits at the National Energy Authority to that effect.
A gas station in Iceland. Archive photo by Páll Kjartansson.
At 4 pm yesterday the National Energy Authority was closed for further applications for oil exploration in the area, visir.is reports.
Director of Energy Guðni A. Jóhannesson declared this to be a very satisfying outcome. “And it exceeds our brightest hopes,” he said, adding that...
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Tuesday, 03 April 2012 12:35 |
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 Sporting Swedes took to the whites last weekend to compete in the country’s second annual snow golfing competition. The tournament in Kiruna, northern Sweden, saw Tomas Wågberg and Susanne Mellgren crowned the country’s unofficial champions.
Although there are international competitions in Austria, Switzerland and Greenland, it is thought that the fusion sport was first invented by British author Rudyard Kipling, who apparently began painting golf balls red and whacking them around his garden in 1890s while we was writing The Jungle Book.
“Those who are golf-crazy find it really exciting...
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Saturday, 31 March 2012 12:00 |
Icelandic artist Guðjón Ketilsson opened his exhibition “Extension of the Head” in the Luise Ross Gallery in New York this week. His exhibition is scheduled to run until May 5.
From New York. Photo by Páll Stefánsson.
Guðjón graduated from the Icelandic Institute of Visual Art and Industrial Art in 1978 and continued his education in the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada from where he graduated in 1980.
He specializes in drawings and sculptures, and his work foregrounds the human body, its presence and absence.
He explores and works with the mundane connection we have with our...
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Monday, 02 April 2012 17:30 |
The highest temperature to hit Iceland in March by far was recorded at 20.5°C (68.9°F) at the farm Kvísker in Öræfi, southeast Iceland, on Thursday; previous reports assumed a one-degree lower temperature as measured by the Icelandic Road Administration.
Early summer in Reykjavík. Is spring around the corner? Archive photo by Páll Kjartansson.
The record was confirmed by the Icelandic Meteorological Office’s automated weather observation post which is located by the farm, whereas the Road Administration’s post is down by the road, Morgunblaðið reports.
The record temperature was measured twice...
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Monday, 02 April 2012 15:16 |
The environmental initiative “Green April”, where information, products and services that are considered to be environmentally-friendly are highlighted, has begun with a recognition granted to the executives of the shopping mall Kringlan in Reykjavík.
Kringlan (to the right of the towers). Photo by Dagbjört Oddný Matthíasdóttir.
At Kringlan 38 percent of the waste is sorted which saves the mall ISK 2.5 million (USD 20,000, EUR 15,000) in waste fees. It is the first of the country’s larger shopping malls to encourage recycling with separate waste bins, Fréttablaðið reports...
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Sunday, 01 April 2012 20:00 |
Icelandic indie pop band Sigur Rós is scheduled to release a new album, entitled Valtari (which means “roller” as used during road constructions in Icelandic), at the end of May; it is expected to hit stores in the UK on May 28.
Sigur Rós.
This is the band’s sixth studio album; its previous albums and the band’s front man Jónsi’s solo project have enjoyed widespread popularity and critical acclaim.
According to Morgunblaðið, Sigur Rós are booked to play at a number of larger music festivals next summer, including the Montreal Osheaga Festival...
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