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February
13
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Þorrablót – Mid-Winter Feast
Click on the picture to watch an audio slideshow of Þorrablót, an Icelandic mid-winter feast. In the past there was no fresh food available at this time of year so people ate dried fish, smoked lamb, putrefied shark and soured blood and liver pudding along with other soured meat products—ram testicles included.
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Fjallabyggd (“Mountain Settlement”) is a skier’s dream. Its slopes are perfect for slaloming and there are also tracks for telemark skiing. Winter sporting enthusiasts can also go ice skating or rent snowmobiles. In summer, Fjallabyggd turns into a paradise for hikers. Read this special promotion about one of Iceland’s best hidden gems.
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22.12.2009 | 16:30
Inflation Measures 7.5 Percent in Iceland
The 12 month inflation in Iceland currently measures 7.5 percent as of December 2009, down from 8.6 percent in November. The inflation peaked at 18.6 percent in January this year and has since dropped rather swiftly apart from a slight increase in June.
Copyright: Icelandic Photo Agency.
The inflation hasn’t been lower in almost two years, Vidskiptabladid reports.
The consumer price index is 357.9 points, up 0.48 percent from last month, according to Statistics Iceland. In the past 12 months the consumer price index has increased by 7.5 percent.
The price of air fares to foreign destinations have increased by 25.5 percent (0.20 percent influence on the consumer price index) and the price of new cars by 4 percent (0.14 percent influence).
In the past three months the consumer price index has increased by 2.4 percent which equals 9.8 percent annual inflation.
February
15
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Kópavogur Has a New Mayor
Last night the Kópavogur town council voted in favor of making the leader of the Kópavogur Independence Party Ármann Kr. Ólafsson the town’s next mayor.
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February
15
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Video: Game of Thrones on Location in Iceland
A promotional video for the new season of TV show Game of Thrones has been premiered. There, the show’s producers and actors discuss the shooting on location in Iceland.
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February
15
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Ninety Percent of Icelanders Travel Locally
Last year, almost nine out of every ten Icelanders traveled locally.
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February
14
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Gay Winter Fest to Take Place Next Weekend
Next weekend, the first annual gay winter festival entitled Rainbow Reykjavík will be held in the capital.
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February
14
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Gossip
February
14
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Icelandic Population Rises to 319,575
February
14
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Here's Thor! S-Korea and 60 More Nations
February
14
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Anti-Gay Blog (Almost) Costs Teacher Job
February
13
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Gas Taxes Drive Icelanders Crazy
February
13
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Capelin Plankton Currently By Hrollaugseyjar Islands
February
13
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Hverfisgata Bomber: I Wanted to Send a Message
February
13
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Iceland’s ESC Entry Chosen
February
13
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West Iceland Glacier to Vanish in Few Decades
February
13
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Northern Wave Film Festival Prepared in West Iceland
February
12
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North Iceland’s Mývatn Cycling Path Planned
February
12
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Icelandic Voters Keen on New Political Parties
February
12
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EasyJet to Fly to Iceland All Year
February
11
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Denzel Washington to Work with Icelandic Director
February
11
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Ship with 1.5 Million Ton Record Total Catch
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The current issue of the quarterly magazine Iceland Review includes for example an interview with world-renowned fashion designer Steinunn Sigurðardóttir as well as features on the successful biotech company ORF Genetics and the hot debate regarding the EU. If you subscribe now, you will receive a photo book by IR editor, photographer Páll Stefánsson of the eruptions in Eyjafjallajökull as a gift. Click here to subscribe to the magazine and here to buy a gift subscription.
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REVIEWS
February
13
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Santiago Sierra, El Degüello or How Much is Enough?
The exhibition "Santiago Sierra, NO, Global Tour" at Hafnarhús, the Reykjavík Art Museum will leave nobody untouched. The socio-political theme in Sierra’s black and white (pretend objective documentary-style) films suffocated me with its hammer-on-the-head message that capitalism is dead. Are we doomed or are we not?
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February
13
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Feature of the Week: Coming Home
Steinunn Sigurðardóttir is standing in the middle of a wide open space with an original worn stone floor, and ceiling windows that allow the sunlight to form ever-changing patterns on the freshly painted white walls. Here, in central Reykjavík’s trendy fish-packing district, she is busy preparing to open her new headquarters and flagship store.
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February
13
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Event of the Week: Echo
In “Echo”, by Charlotta María Hauksdóttir and Sonja Thomsen, currently on display at the Reykjavík Museum of Photography, the theme is time and recurrence of the past. Charlotta works with different aspects of the memory, the conscious and the subconscious, while Sonja brings the focus on subconscious memories and asks the viewer to reevaluate them.
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