Jón Gnarr's The Outlaw is not for the faint of heart. The final installment in the memoir trilogy by the former mayor of Reykjavík, Iceland, is a worthwhile endeavor, but even the most zealous readers ...

The story of Jón Gnarr, who in 2010 was elected mayor of Iceland's capital and largest city, Reykjavík, could be mistaken for a story from EVE Online , the sandbox MMO created by Icelandic developer ...

(Above: Edel Howlin poses with comedian Jon Gnarr, who once served as the mayor of Iceland’s biggest city.) It’s not that surprising to find all sorts of interesting people rolling through Houston. It ...

The Pirate, the second installment of Jón Gnarr's childhood memoir trilogy, is essentially an Icelandic-punk version of Catcher in the Rye. Rather than Holden Caulfield wandering the streets of New ...

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Iceland was in the throes of a financial collapse that began in 2008, one that makes America’s troubles look like a bad night at a poker table. In 2009, a man named Jon Gnarr, a man who had made his ...

(Above: Houston Public Media’s Edel Howlin poses in 2015 with comedian Jon Gnarr, who once served as the mayor of Iceland’s biggest city.) It’s not that surprising to find all sorts of interesting ...

Reporting from REYKJAVIK, Iceland — A hair and makeup artist was applying some last-minute touches to Jón Gnarr. With stiffly moussed hair and a crisply ironed shirt, the Icelandic man was looking ...

EXCLUSIVE: Baltasar Kormakur‘s Everest recently crossed $200M at the worldwide box office, a personal record. But the helmer notoriously likes to keep one foot in his home country of Iceland while ...

In mid-2009 Jon Gnarr was an Icelandic comedian and punk-rock singer far removed from any political aspirations or office. By mid-2010, however, he was Mayor of Iceland’s capital and largest city, ...

"How are you meant to behave?" asks Jón Gnarr in his autobiographical novel The Indian. "What are these invisible rules that I don't know? What is 'normal'?" It's possible that Gnarr, the punk rocker ...

It's sounds like a great premise for a TV show: Take a 40-something anarchist punk comedian who, against all odds, finds himself elected mayor of a major city. Believe it or not, this story is Jon ...