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Transparency Full schedule inside www.grapevine.is THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIFE, TRAVEL & ENTERTAINMENT IN ICELAND IN THE ISSUE Issue 2 • 2011 • February 4 - March 10 2011 + COMPLETE CITY LISTINGS - INSIDE! SHOPPING DAIRY #CABLEGATE MUSIC TRAVEL What will we do Skyr gets Siggi'd Greatest hits... The Sugarcubes: Snowboarding, without Havarí? did they world dominate glacier hiking: NICE! or die? Transparency WIKILEAKS IS NOT THE POINT! The info-wars have begun, and Iceland is begging to be the legislative battleground. Indeed, the so-called info-wars are raging, and Iceland is getting a piece of the action. Learn the story of Iceland's tryst with WikiLeaks and their love-child, the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, whose plan to make the country into a transparency and information haven might put us back on the map. PAGE 10 The Reykjavík Grapevine Issue 2 — 2011 THE REYKJAVÍK GRAPEVINE Hafnarstræti 15, 101 Reykjavík 2 www.grapevine.is [email protected] Editorial | Haukur S. Magnússon Published by Fröken ehf. www.froken.is Member of the Icelandic Travel Industry Association SOME WWW.GRAPEVINE.IS EXCLUSIVES www.saf.is Haukur’s 36th Editorial Printed by Landsprent ehf. in 25.000 copies. ‘Cuz we can’t possibly fit all this awesome stuff on FUCK YOU, NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL SECTION our pages EDITOR: Haukur S Magnússon / [email protected] But not really. More like: fuck all of us. -What is Crealism? JOURNALIST: Interview with Luis de Miranda, father of the ‘Creal- Anna Andersen / [email protected] A regular day at Grapevine HQ entails lots of trying devaluation of the krona that followed the country’s ism’ movement. EDITORIAL: 2008 financial crisis, the breathtakingly beautiful is- -Jónsi GOES LIVE +354 540 3600 / [email protected] to keep folks happy, at least trying to avoid angering - show review ADVERTISING: them. 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Shouldn’t they at least pretend to be down James Crugnale Bogi Bjarnason as is the style in Iceland (c’mon, that was a joke. Light- about it?” I mumbled to myself. Birkir Fjalar Viðarsson en up!). Filled with righteous indignation, I angrily closed Eiríkur Kristjánsson In any case, I was working on something or other the tab on my browser and clicked through to a link EDITORIAL INTERNS: the other day when I got one of those emails. This one someone posted had posted on Facebook. “APPLE’S Alda Kravec / [email protected] was from ‘concert hall and conference centre’ Harpa’s CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY”, the link said, and it Sindri Eldon / [email protected] recently appointed PR representative, enquiring wheth- took me to a story about workers at the FOXCONN fac- TRACK OF Steve Ganey / [email protected] THE ISSUE er we wouldn’t like to publicise the house a bit, as it was tory in Shenzhen, China, and how they suffer abuse, ON-LINE NewS EDITOR opening soon and all. “Sure,” I responded, “maybe a bit injury and insane work hours so we can save money on Download your free track at Paul Nikolov / [email protected] closer to when it opens this spring, though, as we are sexy designer electronics. grapevine.is ART DIRecTOR: Hörður Kristbjörnsson / [email protected] running a really short issue in February.” I read about the inhumane conditions at the factory DESIGN: She replied saying that was fine, but it would be where my MacBook and iPod were made by workers as Páll Hilmarsson / [email protected] cool getting something on our website at least. 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