Iceland home of shining Lennon memorial
Yoko Ono, the wife of former Beatles legend, recently unveiled a lighthouse in honour of her late husband, John Lennon. The lighthouse is located on V...
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Icelandic publisher gets Latvian award
Last week the President of Latvia, Valdis Zatlers, gave the country’s most prestigious award in education to an Icelander. This year the Atis Kronvald...
Novelist brings Iceland to life in gripping murder mystery tale
Internationally acclaimed Icelandic author, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, is getting rave reviews for her most recent book which has just come out in an Englis...
Bjork’s delivers ‘epic’ performance in Scotland
Bjork played the closing set of Scotland’s first Connect Festival which ended on September 2nd. Her headline performance included old classics as well...
Femin.co.uk offers free tickets to Cortes concert in London
Femin.co.uk is giving away 50 pairs of free tickets to subscribers of its newsletter to see the Icelandic singing sensation, Gardar Thor Cortes, perfo...
Jared Leto visits Iceland
Last Tuesday American heartthrob Jared Leto made a stop in Iceland. The actor and musician was on his way to Greenland with his band, 30 Seconds to Ma...
Iceland Airwaves to release iTunes exclusive compilation
The Iceland Airwaves music festival in Reykjavik, with support from IMX (Icelandic Music Export), will be releasing an iTunes compilation featuring 17...
Icelandic archaeological digs featured on Discovery Channel
A documentary on world archaeologists and their work produced by the Discovery Channel will feature footage from Iceland and explore the excavations o...