Reykjavik
Icelanders Now Totally Bereft Of McDonalds, Americans Still Not So Much
© Hinrik Icelanders this week are waking up to a bleak McDonald’s-less dystopia. The ubiquitous global chain no longer exists in the increasingly impoverished nation, where a near-total economic collapse has made it too expensive to import McDonald’s products. The island’s three Reykjavik branches, the oldest of which opened 16 years ago, closed for the [...]
Remembering John Lennon: Still Imagining Peace
Close to 27 years after his death, John Lennon has been immortalized in a work of art designed by Yoko Ono and installed in Reykjavik, Iceland. The art work called the Imagine Peace Tower comprises a wishing well from which a tall tower of light shoots out to touch the sky. The surrounding ground bears [...]








