9 AugHBO is already in Iceland preparing for season 4 of True Detective: Night Country that will be shot here. The popular series was given the green light last May with a likely premiere in 2023. First the scene locations need to be found and a lot of preparation before the actual shooting takes place.
6 AugThe Pride Parade starts at Hallgrímskirkja at 2 o'clock today and ends up in Hljómskálagarður where there will be an outdoor concert to celebrate.
2 AugVignir Elvar Lund and Matthías Jökulsson are twelve years old and already doing business. Last weekend, when the biggest outdoor festival in the Westman Islands took place there were thousands of people partying. So the friends decided to make their evening count for something money-wise and decided to walk around the area and sell condoms.
22 Jul"My health is good, although it is in line with my age. A few days ago I got my driving licence renewed and I am very happy about being able to get about in the car.
21 JulThe actors Ben Stiller and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson seemed very happy meeting each other in Stykkishólmur recently. Stiller posted a video of them meeting.
18 JulThe siblings Sigfús Sigurðsson and Bryndís Sigurðardóttir are the oldest living siblings in Iceland, but their combined age is 203 years and 8 months, according to Jónas Ragnarsson, who is the moderator of the Facebook website "Langlífi" (Long life).
17 JulA new Icelandic film will premiere next Wednesday called Redux (Þrot in Icelandic). The filmmaker is Heimir Bjarnason and it is his first feature film.
15 JulThe writer and filmmaker Sarah Thomas lived in Iceland for a decade and now she has written her memoirs from her stay in the Westfjords in the book The Raven's Nest that was published recently.
14 JulDowntown Reykjavík is packed, especially the square Ingólfstorg, named after Ingólfur Arnarson, usally seen as the first nordic settler in Iceland. The reason why is that the Icelandic female football team is playing in the UEFA Women's EURO in Manchester, England.
11 JulThe Grandmasters Helgi Ólafsson and Jóhann Hjartarson are certain that the chess table that Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky used when playing the 7.-21st chess matches in the World Chess Championship, or what Icelanders call the Chessbattle of the Century, in Reykjavík in July 1972.
10 Jul"The excitement is growing," said Ingibjörg María Guðmundsdóttir and Örn Torfason, the parents of Guðrún Arnardóttir who is a defender on the Icelandic National Women's team in football. The parents were talking to a sports' journalist from mbl.is at the Fanzone of the Icelandic team at the Piccadilly Gardens in the center of Manchester today.
26 JunThe couple Jón Þorsteinn Sigurðsson and Svetlana Veschagina got married last summer and had planned a second wedding party on their first year anniversary so her family could attend.
20 JunToday is the World Refugee Day, but it is celebrated annjually on the 20th of June. The Amnesty International Youth Movement has organized a "Story Sharing Café" to celebrate the day and it will be held in Mál og menning on Laugavegur 18 at 19 PM tonight.
17 JunToday is Iceland’s National Day and it will be celebrated all over the country, but in 1944 Iceland gained independence from Denmark and the Republic of Iceland was founded on 17th of June 1944.
16 JunThe Icelander Guðmundur Felix Grétarsson underwent the first double arm and shoulder transplant in the world and it is now 17 months since his 15 hour operation in Lyon in France. Last Friday Grétarsson appeared on the TV show Good Morning Britain to talk about his operation and his recovery after this miraculous operation. His wife, Sylwia Gretarsson Nowakowska,was with him on the set.
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