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YOUR FREE COPY THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIFE, TRAVEL & ENTERTAINMENT IN ICELAND Issue 01 – January 8 - February 4 – 2010 www.grapevine.is + COMPLETE CITY LISTINGS - INSIDE! The Reykjavík Grapevine Issue 01 — 2010 2 Editorial | Haukur S Magnússon 2009 in Pictures JULIA STAPLES Art Director: Hörður Kristbjörnsson YOUR FREE COPY THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIFE, TRAVEL & ENTERTAINMENT IN ICELAND www.grapevine.is + Issue 01 – January 8 - February 4 – 2010 COMPLETE CITY LISTINGS - INSIDE! [email protected] Design: Jóhannes Kjartansson [email protected] Photographers: Hörður Sveinsson / hordursveinsson.com Julia Staples / juliastaples.com Sales Director: Aðalsteinn Jörundsson Cover llustration by: [email protected] Hugleikur Dagsson Guðmundur Rúnar Svansson [email protected] Printed by Landsprent ehf. in 25.000 copies. 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The Reykjavík Grapevine magazine can’t really have opinions, is Catharine Fulton / [email protected] is distributed around Reykjavík, Akureyri, the Grapevine’s opinion – but they are all Egilsstaðir, Selfoss, Keflavík, Ísafjörður and honest opinions, formed by good, honest Contributing Writers: at key locations along road #1, and all major people. And they make for a damn good Sigurður K Kristinsson tourist attractions and tourist information Haukur Már Helgason centres in the country. read. Go find out for yourselves – the Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl paper should contain enough material to Valur Gunnarsson You may not like it, but at least it's not keep you occupied well into 2011. Bob Cluness sponsored. (No articles in the Reykjavík Now, I am going to go lie in some Paul F Nikolov Grapevine are pay-for articles. The opinions corner and whine about Icesave for Sindri Eldon expressed are the writers’ own, not the Egill Helgason advertisers’). a while. Happy New Year, thanks for Marc Vincenz everything, keep on truckin’, free Ragnar Jón Hrólfsson Mumia, jamming is brilliant; so long Ingi F. Vilhjálmsson and thanks for all the fish. Editorial Intern: Sophia Van Treeck / [email protected] Food Editor: Sari Peltonen On-line News Editor Paul Nikolov [email protected] Comic | Lóa Hjálmtýsdóttir presents: MUSIC Kimono & NIGHT Tomorrow LIFE kimono TRACK OF THE ISSUE Download the track of the issue Download your at www.grapevine.is free copy at grapevine.is Local alt-rock legends kimono certainly scored a lot of points in a lot of places with their latest release, Easy Music For Difficult People (available RIGHT NOW from your favourite record store or through gogoyoko via Kimi Records!). 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