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YOUR FREE COPY THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIFE, TRAVEL & ENTERTAINMENT IN ICELAND Issue No 6 – May 22 - June 4 – 2009 www.grapevine.is + COMPLETE CITY LISTINGS - INSIDE! + Asylum Seekers: Guilty Until Proven Innocent? Iceland's Transcendental Underground! Get Freaked In Vík! The Artist Would Like Some Champagne With His Revolution RAGGI GOES VENICE! The End of Ragnar Kjartansson + Complete Reykjavík Listings Lots Of Cool Events Opinions! Reviews! And now... even more advertising Ragnar Kjartansson’s exhibition for Venice, entitled The End, will feature a tableau vivant of the artist and his model that will last for the entire six-months of the Biennale, along with a monumental video and music installation. PG. 10. The Reykjavík Grapevine Issue 6 — 2009 Lóa is the Grapevine comic artist. As well as doing our comics she runs a prominent downtown hang- 2 out, Karamba. Editorial Comic strips Haukur’s 6th Editorial! — by Lóa Hjálmtýsdóttir I’m not gonna lie to you, I’m real nerv- got only 32 or 40 pages to work with. Fit- ous when it comes to the Grapevine. I ting in the articles, the interviews, the feel we have a big responsibility to a lot schedules and quotes. So we try and we of folks out there, and I constantly worry scramble to cram it all in. Try is key here, about letting them down. Here are some which is unfortunate, and often leads to groups of people that come to mind: heated phone calls or angry letters from First and foremost, there’s our read- previous friends and well-wishers who ers: we should try and keep them in- all of the sudden want to see our bodies formed of what’s going on (events wise, impaled on sticks, Cannibal Holocaust- in the news, in culture, etc.), amuse them style. while they wait for take-away pizza and Anyway. Isn’t this here valuable space provide them with a mass of high-quality that could be used to cover some theatre paper for arts and crafts projects (speak- group or something? I guess this is my ing of which, didya notice last issue’s de- attempt to explain to friends and family – lightfully decadent 60 gram paper? The and my cats – why I stay up all night four Masthead On Cover printers were saving the thin stuff for the days in a row prior to publication and local newspapers). don’t see them for weeks on end. And — by Hugleikur Dagsson Our writers and photographers: to I’m not the only one; Grapevine is lucky provide them with the space they de- enough to have an army of dedicated and serve, to not mess up their contributions talented folks working at all hours of the and maybe try and lay them out nice, so day to ensure we make it to print on time, people will want to check them out. We that we deliver some interesting content pay as much as we can for articles and and that we’ve got ads to pay our salaries pictures, and it ain’t a whole lot to be hon- and printing costs. Hats off to all you est. So you know that our contributors people. are turning in their pieces out of a sheer Since I’m hatting off, I might hat off and admirable dedication that demands some more. So I’ll off my hat to all of y’all our utmost respect. that write or phone (or pester our staff There’s also events promoters, bands, at bars) with helpful suggestions for im- galleries, artists and pretty much anyone proving our paper. Keep ‘em coming. I who’s offering up some form of enter- would also like to hat Yohanna Guðrún tainment or happening that deserves our for almost winning Eurovision, our new attention. There are a lot of good people MPs for keeping their priorities straight doing a lot of great things in town – in the (ehrm...) and those drunk kids that kept whole of Iceland for that matter – and as yelling outside our office window last we are very interested in promoting and night. supporting our local culture, we aim to publicize and give space to as many of Hats, y’all! them as possible. Which isn’t always easy when you’ve The Reykjavík Grapevine Contributing Writers: Marketing Director: The Reykjavík Grapevine is published 18 Hafnarstræti 15, 101 Reykjavík Sigurður K Kristinsson Jón Trausti Sigurðarson times a year by Fröken ltd. Monthly from YOUR FREE COPY THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIFE, TRAVEL & ENTERTAINMENT IN ICELAND www.grapevine.is [email protected] [email protected] November through April, and fortnightly Issue No 6 – May 22 - June 4 – 2009 www.grapevine.is + COMPLETE CITY LISTINGS - INSIDE! 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