Encouraging signs of life, albeit from a 2001 show, from Evan Dando of the Lemonheads fame. Recorded live in Cambridge,Massachusetts.
Today, August 12 is the day I have slated for my final assault of the ‘Keyhole’ in British Columbia’s Kokanee Glacier Park. In a few hours I will find out whether months of training and meticulous planning (as well as well as several costly trips to the outdoor equipment store) have paid off. This is […]
Manchester United, more so than any other football club, is beset with icons. The legacy of Old Trafford is and always will be underpinned by the memories of those men who fought, and even died, for their cause. This is not to say that United are alone in this sentiment, for all teams have their […]
Oh my God, I can’t believe itI’ve never been this far away from home (Oh My God – Kaiser Chiefs) Could there be a better place than Rome to meet Peanut (Nick Baines), keyboardist and frequently designated spokesman of the Kaiser Chiefs? Though it may not seem it at once, it’s a city that could […]
It’s the dead end of the year, the last days of October when the summer feels like a distant memory. It’s the sort of dull, neutral day that neither entices you outside, nor menaces you to stay inside. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are inside a cold, damp, cavernous club booming through their soundcheck. Rifles, one […]
As the years pass and one’s tastes refine, it’s increasingly difficult to discover a book, a film or a record that moves you profoundly. But every now and again it happens, and with authors you would never have thought of… For example Ken Harvey, a forty-year old debut-writer from Boston, gay and published by a […]
I was anxious to meet Brendan Kennelly, the internationally renowned poet and for almost 40 years Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. Not only to conduct this interview with him for Three Monkeys, but finally to ask him the meaning of a phrase I had heard him use many years ago when I […]
Nobody really knows what the Neolithic Majorero people were up to when they scratched their enigmatic signs into the sacred mountain, but the impulse stirring at the back of their minds may well have to do with what we now understand as art. A few thousand years go by and the scene is still Fuerteventura, […]
Since Fallujah – the hidden massacre [Fallujah – la strage nascosta] was broadcast by RAI News 24, part of the Italian State Broadcaster, in early November of this year much has come to light about the second battle for Fallujah (initially named Operation Phantom Fury, later changed to Operation al-Fajr). In particular, after various denials […]