Reykjavík Grapevine - 04.02.2011, Blaðsíða 32

STUFFED WITH STUFF ISSUE 2 YOUR FREE COPY
YOUR ESSEnTIal gUIDE
TO lIFE, TRavEl anD
EnTERTaInmEnT In ICElanD
paGe 6
What we tend to end up doing most
often is in effect to stretch our budget
by providing duty-free alcohol for recep-
tions at exhibit openings and art festi-
vals. Because alcohol is highly taxed in
Iceland, our gifts of wine for receptions
strike Icelanders as far more generous
than they actually are.
The US Embassy in Reykjavík explains how to
win friends and influence people in Iceland.
paGe 8
A life without skyr is a life half lived.
Well, thank whoever’s your god for Siggi’s. If
you’re in the US, anyway.
paGe 8
Far from depicting a careful anarchist
conspiracy to attack Alþingi, what
transpired was a classic picture of the
kind of bumbling, unnecessarily brutal
overreaction and incompetence that
characterises the way governments
react when the public seeks to exercise
its constitutional right to protest.
The husband of an accused Rvk9-er on the
internationally infamous trial
paGe 10
The economic benefits to being the
safe-haven for free speech are very well
known because the last country that
did it is still the dominant empire on the
planet.
So says Smári McCarthy, co-founder of the
Icelandic Digital Freedom Society, ex-WikiLe-
aks volunteer, and one of the authors of the
IMMI proposal
paGe 22
At Kristín Jónína’s lecture, Þorkell Sig-
urbjörnsson mentioned that for years he
had to have an unlisted phone number
after receiving threatening calls—appar-
ently nothing made Icelanders angrier
than his hosting an avant-garde music
programme on the radio during rush
hour.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone
who remembers said programme
IT TOOK AROUND
ORDERS TO BREAK THIS PIN!
500.000
We have now bought a new one
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