Bart Cameron

For the April issue of the Grapevine, we held a photo shoot with Mayor Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir. The shoot itself was a scramble, as we wanted a chance to show the mayor in the elements of Reykjavik, and we had limited time and budget. We scrapped our studio plans, and rushed our photographer Axel Sigurðarson and stylist Sigrún Ásta Jörgensen to city hall.

Six years after a sale to South Korean company Pearl Abyss, CCP has reached an agreement to bring control of the company back to Iceland. Originally sold to Pearl Abyss for 26 billion ISK, management has reported that they were able to buy control back for 15 billion ISK. The Reykjavík Grapevine originally reported on the 2018 sale to Pearl Abyss. At that time, the reported purchase price was 46 billion ISK.

There aren’t ten people on this island who would send a friend to look at Sun Voyager (Sólfar), the roadside art on the Sæbraut highway. I use the English title for it first, because, God bless Jón Gunnar Árnason, this isn’t for Icelanders. If it were, it would be in a museum, not along a highway that lacks any drainage, almost custom built for splashing mobs of tourists following strange Google results.