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Category Archives: Iceland Symphony Orchestra


Something for February:
The You Don’t Mess with Spring Edition

A round-up of things to do in Iceland this February, as prepared by your sickly-white editors.

Tell darkness to “smell it… smell it… NOW TAKE IT!” 7-9 February at the Winter Lights Festival. Bring a flashlight.
Fight racism with hip-hop at Gauk á Stöng 1 February. Don’t expect to see many Spanish football loyalists.
The Iceland Symphony Orchestra performs […]

Something for the Weekend: The Local vs. Global Edition

A roundup of things to do in Reykjavík this weekend, prepared by your cosmopolitan editors.

Tonight, synchronize your watches as the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, complete with two male-choirs and one heroic bass, plays enough Wagner to make you want to invade Poland.
Balance the hormones Friday night at Café Cultura, where voluptious Icelandic women engage in Arabic […]

Something for the Weekend: Highbrow Edition

A round up of things to do in Reykjavík this weekend, prepared by your good-looking and oh-so culturally minded editors.

He’s back! Former General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Pizza Hut fan, Mikhail Gorbachev is back in Iceland this weekend. No Ronald Reagan this time, just a lot of people […]

If it’s Thursday, this must be Something for the Weekend

A roundup of things to do in Reykjavík this weekend, prepared by your lovely and very well connected editors.

Krzyztof Penderecki conducts the Iceland Symphony Orchestra tonight, playing Beethoven and himself, with soloist Florian Uhlig. Play the funky music, Krzyztof.
The Reykjavik Jazz Festival is in full, er, swing. If you can bear to wake up before […]