Live Q&A with fans

Members of the world famous Icelandic band Sigur Rós will answer questions from fans on Reddit.com tomorrow, January 24th at 3pm EST (noon PST, 8pm GMT).

You will be able to  ask the band whatever you want, on the understanding that they will do their best to answer honestly.

Population in the Faroe Islands is decreasing steadily. Many think that's the biggest social problem of the islands. Over the last 4 years, 300 fewer people have moved to the Islands than from them. And the Faroe Islands only have a population of less than 48,000 people. If nothing is done, it is predicted that they will be only 42,000 in 30 years and 37,000 in 40 years. But Mayor of Reykjavík, Jon Gnarr, has a solution.

Jon Gnarr, the mayor of Reykjavik, is running for parliament for the party Bright Future (Icelandic: Björt Framtíð). He is in 5th place on the list of candidates for the Reykjavik-North constituency. According to recent polls the party has around 8 - 9% support, enough to pass the 5% election threshold, but not enough to get Jon Gnarr elected.

Wants to get to know other neighborhoods

Jon Gnarr, Mayor of Reykjavik, is known to be unorthodox and willing to experiment with almost anything. This time he has decided to move the Mayor's office, his secretary and other assistants, to a neighborhood pretty far from the center of Reykjavik. The purpose of it all, as his office announced, is to get to know the extensive operation that the City runs in Breiðholt, the highest populated neighborhood in Reykjavik.

The Mayor of Reykjavik, Jon Gnarr, says that he will not give up until he gets his name legally recognized as a family name. His birth name is Jón Gunnar Kristinsson but he legally changed his name in 2005 to Jón Gnarr Kristinsson.

Mr. Jon Gnarr, the mayor of Reykjavik, said at a city board meeting yesterday that he likes hash joints. He was talking about his visit to Denver, Colorado, which is Reykjavik's sister city. Mr. Gnarr talked favorably about the joints and said that they enhanced job creation.

Jacob Bundsgaard, Mayor of Aarhus Denmark, says that he really likes Jón Gnarr's idea to move his office, temporarily, to a suburb of the city that is for example the part of the city with the most immigrants. News of Iceland reported on the matter HERE. The Mayor of Aarhus could imagine doing something similar and move his office out of the city.

The Best Party and the Social Democratic Alliance have formed the majority in Reykjavik city for 1000 days today. Jon Gnarr, the mayor of Reykjavik, is the chairman of the Best Party. Mr. Dagur B. Eggertsson is a member of the city council for the Social Democratic Alliance.

As we reported earlier, Icelandic MP (Vigdis Hauksdottir) does not want Iceland to pay development aid (read more HERE). Editor at Fréttablaðið newspaper, Ólafur Þ. Stephensen, wrote an editorial in the paper today about the matter.

Jón Gnarr has now been the Mayor of Reykjavík for 1000 days, longer than the 7 last mayors before him. He has been accused of not taking his job seriously, being a comedian and all. But Jón still sits tight. He is proud of his contribution as mayor.