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Potent
Quotables
I started doing this not
necessarily because
we needed to save the
money, but to chal-
lenge myself.
Katrín Björk Birgisdóttir teaches you to grocery
shop for cheap on page 10
We were always on
borrowed time. We
only had three to five
months, and then we
had six months, then
maybe one more year.
Gallery Port is still here. Read about their birthday
exhibition on page 15
We have to do much
better and we have
to clean up the entire
mess.
Read about Iceland’s low carbon illusion on page
12-14
The importance of
Skjaldborg is evident
from the fact that there
are hardly ever any
empty seats in the cin-
ema.
Iryna Zubenko gets the Skjaldborg experience on
page 18
The police were no
longer in charge of the
city and Ólafur’s men
began to arm them-
selves with whatever
they could find.
Valur Gunnarsson considers Iceland’s almost-rev-
olution on page 36