Reykjavík Grapevine - 11.09.2009, Page 48

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PaGe 2:
Reading through the stories not
only sheds light on the Grape-
vine’s short history, it also man-
ages to reflect the past six years
in Iceland: every major event
and issue – along with plentiful
samplings of the local discourse
– is represented in the Grape-
vine’s back catalogue; within
its total of 4.644 pages, 2.206
articles (by over 300 writers of
varying ability), 943 reviews and
109 comix.
It’s the 101st issue of the Reykjavík Grape-
vine and to mark the occasion our pages are
littered with boastful Grapevine nostalgia,
histories, facts, exaggerations, half-truths
and outright lies.
PaGe 6:
“‘All media are looking for dra-
matic stories. So they try to find a
small baby girl, the only positive
child in Iceland, and try to put her
in the tabloids. We want them to
tell our story as a positive one.
We want to remind people that
there is life with HIV’”
Catharine Fulton talks HIV in Iceland with
HIV-Ísland.
PaGe 8:
“Do not say attack, these peo-
ple have attacked our homes
and families so the people have
to pay back. The government
in power is covering the act of
crime they have committed to
our beautiful country.”
Some local activists have taken to vandalis-
ing the homes and automobiles of those
they deem responsible for Kreppa. We got
to ask them some questions.
PaGe 10:
So you’ve read the words ‘rela-
tive of an EEA citizen’ and natu-
rally you think to yourself ‘Oh my
goodness! My third cousin, twice
removed on my father’s side is a
Liechtensteiner residing in Ice-
land! I’m in!’ No. No you’re not.
The Grapevine gives you the skinny on im-
migrating to Iceland.
PaGe 22:
“This is when the crowd is pos-
sibly at its thickest, girls rumble
into stage squeezing their very
womanhood into steel railings,
fluorescent headbands glow,
beer cups slosh. Yet the mood is
subdued, sensitive....”
G! Festival, as experienced by Marc Vincenz.