New marital law in Iceland
29.6.2010 00:00:00
 Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir is among the first Icelanders to marry on the basis on a new marital law which permits two people of the same sex to be lawfully wed, giving homosexual people the same rights as heterosexuals to be married within congregations or by district commissioners.
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Inspired by Iceland
2.6.2010
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Icelandic Faust to be staged in London
10.5.2010
Vesturport, an Icelandic theater company, has for some time shown Goethe's Faust. This production includes music by Nick Cave, and is directed by Gísli Örn Garðarsson. Vesturport's Faust has now been chosen to be staged in the renowned Young Vic theater in London next fall.
The play will be premiered in October and run for six weeks, seven times every week. This is al
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Iceland Airwaves announces first batch of bands
11.5.2010
The Iceland Airwaves music festival, which is an annual event here in Iceland, will take place next October. A small news release from the festivals website announces the first bands that are confirmed for the festival this years, and that some tickets are available right now. Get them while they're hot!
A text from the Iceland Airwaves website:
"Iceland Airwaves 2010 is on an
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Little Lambs in Reykjavik
10.5.2010
The sheeps of the Reykjavik Zoo & Family Park have begun giving birth to lambs this summer. The sheep Yggla was the first to have two little lambs last night, one spotted and one black. The father, Mjolnir, is expecting to have more lambs as there are nine sheeps in the park, all of which are pregnant. According to the park, the last births should be sometime in the end of the month, around t
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