Three Monkeys Online

A Curious, Alternative Magazine

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  • Aromatic pork chops

    There are thousands of different ways to marinate and aromatise pork meat. This is a quick and reasonably cheap one. I love to accompany them with potato puree and green, steamed or boiled vegetables (ruby chard for instance or spinach). What you need (for 2 people): 2 chops (approx 170 gr. each) 1 clove of […]

  • 2005 The Six Nations Competition – an overview.

    Rugby is not a popular sport in Ireland. It ranks well below soccer, Gaelic football, and hurling both in terms of support and participation. At club level, it is confined to Limerick city, certain areas of Dublin around the fee-paying schools, and the occasional pocket around the country. Yet at this time of year, the […]

  • Where do the songs come from? Polly Paulusma in interview.

    “It's a funny old thing”, says Polly Paulusma, talking about the urge to write songs. Paulusma, who started learning the piano at the tender age of three, wrote her first song at the age of ten. Very young, I suggest, to which she furrows her brows slightly and responds “I think a lot of people […]

  • The Holy Bible – Manic Street Preachers ten years on.

    To understand the full significance of the 10th anniversary re-issue of The Holy Bible it is important to know some of the back story of the band who produced such an iconic album. Nobody knew quite what to make of the Manic Street Preachers when they first burst out of the Welsh Valleys and on […]

  • America: From Colony to Superpower. Part III: 1929-1960

    The Emergence of Franklin D. Roosevelt In one week the nation, which had lost confidence in everything and everybody, has regained confidence in the government and in itself Walter Lippmann on the impact of the new Democratic government, 19321 The question of how to recover from the 1929 crash consumed all American politicians. The financial […]

  • The Human Side of Occupation. Suad Amiry, author of Sharon and my Mother-in-Law in interview

    “Thank God she hasn't (her son did!)” says Suad Amiry, with characteristic humour when asked if her mother-in-law has read her critically acclaimed Ramallah diaries, entitled Sharon and my Mother-in-Law. The book arose out of a form of email therapy, as Amir tried to stay sane cooped up with her Mother-in-Law, with Sharon's army on […]

  • howard kunstler peak oil and architecture

    Chaos in the City. Architecture, Modernism and Peak Oil Production – James Kunstler in Interview

    Some people seem to take pleasure in boasting about how long it takes them to drive to work. Like the Yorkshire men in the Monty Python sketch, they get up half an hour before going to bed the night before in order to arrive at work on time in the morning. They live, for the […]

  • ”Iraq’s Perilous Election and the Need for Exit Strategies”

    Just two weeks from Iraq’s general elections that decide who will sit on the 275-member national assembly, Baghdad’s course toward that end grows more perilous each day. Attacks on U.S. forces have grown deadlier; ambushes of Iraq’s budding security forces are increasingly successful; the marginal stability that presently exists is being further threatened by the […]

  • New Year's Eve

    New Year’s Eve celebrations across Italy are being hastily changed, from traditional noisy and riotous affairs to quiet vigil like ceremonies, to show respect for the victims of the South East Asia Tsunami disaster. Here in Bologna, for example, the city council have cancelled all fireworks and are urging the public to follow suit. The […]