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Watch an audio slideshow of how traditional Icelandic rhubarb stew is made. Rhubarb is one of the few vegetables that grows effortlessly in Iceland and for that reason it used to be a highly-valued addition to the traditional diet of fish and lamb.
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Reykjavík Fashion Festival 2013 came to a close on Saturday with a series of fashion shows at Harpa concert and conference center.
From the ELLA show. Photo: Zoë Robert/Iceland Review.
At the opening of the festival at Hotel Borg in downtown Reykjavík on Thursday evening, President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson paid tribute to the success of Icelandic designers and referenced the country’s landscape and natural phenomena as inspiration.
Guðmundur Jörundsson of JÖR by GUÐMUNDUR JÖRUNDSSON received an export award worth ISK 500,000 (USD 3,980, EUR 3,065) from DHL in Iceland and graduate student in fashion design at the Iceland Academy of the Arts Ásgrímur Már Friðriksson a recognition award from Coca-Cola Light in Iceland.
Designers who showcased their work on Saturday were Andersen & Lauth, REY, Huginn Muninn, Farmers Market, JÖR by GUÐMUNDUR JÖRUNDSSON, ELLA and Mundi 66º NORTH.
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Leader of the Progressive Party, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, who held the mandate to lead coalition talks, presented the government agreement between the Progressive Party and Independence Party to the President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson at the presidential residence Bessastaðir this morning.
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The chairmen of the Independence Party and Progressive Party, Bjarni Benediktsson and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, formally presented the government agreement to the public at a press conference shortly after 11 am this morning.
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The party council of the Independence Party and central committee of the Progressive Party unanimously accepted the government agreement negotiated by their respective chairmen, Bjarni Benediktsson and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, yesterday evening.
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Icelandic mountaineer Ingólfur Geir Gissurarson made it up the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Everest at 8,848 meters, by the South East Ridge at 1 am Icelandic time last night. At 50, he is the fifth and oldest Icelander to make the climb.
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The 2013 April-May issue of Iceland Review & Atlantica has been released. Packed with informative and entertaining stories, highlights include an interview with outgoing Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir and the people who know her best, a photo essay of ice caves in Europe’s largest glacier and a colorful feature on life in the West Fjords.
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REVIEWS
The 11th Reykjavík Shorts & Docs. Catch it while it lasts!
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Artist couple Nína Ivanova and Ómar Smári Kristinsson explain why they decided to settle in the West Fjords’ capital.
Reykjavík Queer Choir’s annual spring concert takes place on Friday, May 24.
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