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July
02
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A Hokey Folky Tale
The resonance of folk music in our current musical atmosphere is palpable if you really listen, but I guess that depends on whether you use music to activate or pacify. It made me curious about Iceland’s musical past, given the country’s extraordinary musical present.
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June
22
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Icelandic Music
Watch Iceland Review Online's special video feature, an interview with managing director of Iceland Music Export (IMX) Anna Hildur Hildibrandsdóttir discussing how music is leading Iceland out of the crisis.
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July
02
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Coast Guard welcomes New Aircraft
TF-SIF, The Icelandic Coast Guard’s new surveillance and rescue plane, landed at Reykjavik Airport yesterday afternoon.
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It can cost an Icelander 245,000 ISK (2,000 USD) to rent a station wagon for a week, the average rental period of a rented car. The price of rental cars has all but doubled since last summer.
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Handball champion Ólafur Stefánsson , along with three others, will open an elementary school this fall, which will be housed in a building which formerly housed Reykjavik's Health Care Center.
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Minister of Finance and Leader of the Left Green Movement, Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, finds it positive that half the nation supports the government despite its unpopular and difficult choices.
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July
02
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Running in the Name of Peace
Minister of Education, Katrín Jakobsdóttir started the Peace Run in Laugardalur yesterday. The Peace Run is an international torch relay race, with the purpose of promoting peace, friendship and understanding.
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July
02
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Many Icelanders in Massive Car Loan Debt
Icelanders currently are 115 billion ISK (just under a billion USD) in debt in foreign currency car loans. More than forty thousand people owe car loans that are fully or partially in a foreign currency.
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REVIEWS
When you look at the cover of Sigurgeir Sigurjónsson’s 2009 photography book, The Little Big Book about Iceland, it feels as if the book is looking back at you. It’s the strangest sensation. If feels as if you’re looking into the icy blue and all-seeing, all-knowing eye of a prehistoric creature that has awoken from its sleep but remains calm and cool—and into the very depths of Iceland.
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June
29
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Feature of the Week: Running Silver
Salmon fishing in Iceland in the summer season of 2008 exceeded all records with 88,000 fish being caught on rods in the numerous magnificent, crystal clear rivers. The Atlantic salmon is a remarkable specimen of a fish sought after by anglers from all over the world. It is so remarkable that the Sagas often mention lax, Icelandic for salmon.
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June
29
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Event of the Week: Possibilities
This week familiarize yourself with the contribution of Icelandic women artists to visual art over the last 12 years through the exhibition “Possibilities” at Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús, featuring the work of artists who have won recognition from the Gudmunda S. Kristinsdóttir Fund for the Arts, established to empower the creation of art by women.
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