Three Monkeys Online

A Curious, Alternative Magazine

Slovenia

  • Ljubljana

    Ljubljana is one of Europe's coolest capital cities, famed for its castle, beautiful bridges, vibran
  • Black is the New Green

    Now I have an environmental as well as an aesthetic justification for the somewhat crepuscular vibe at The Monkey’s Typewriter.Click here for the “low-wattage” palette.(Thanks to Cat
  • Stamp of approval for clean energy (impure women kept at a distance)

    Right-on left-winger Fausto Bertinotti, member of the Rifondazione Comunista party and currently elected speaker of the lower chamber of deputies in Italy, during the week popped on a visit to the mai
  • Feelings, democratic feelings (with emphasis)

    Silvio was in St. Petersburg the weekend that his buddy Vladimir Putin decided to take preventative measures against opposition protesters. His verdict? Illegal protests that the police had to clear i
  • The Computer Says “Nie”

    True story: an Irish friend of mine went to the bank in Gdańsk for a loan. Everything went swimmingly until it was time to type in his PESEL, the Polish equivalent of a social security number. My fri
  • Leech Farms

    Romuald Rytwiński, director general of GM Opel in Poland: “The situation is still far from normal. 600 or 700,000 new cars should be selling on the Polish market [every year], not 200 or 300,00
  • Death and Tabloids

    It is probably tempting fate to use the words “new low” and “tabloid” in the same sentence but I cannot resist: Polish tabloid Fakt has hit a new low. Their animatronic reconst
  • The Reign of the Oligarchs

    As the great and the good (as well as John Major) filed into Moscow’s reconstructed Christ the Saviour cathedral to pay their last respects to Boris Yeltsin, the debate over the legacy of Russia
  • Budget Vodka

    How much money would the marketing department of a posh vodka manufacturer have to spend on translating their slogan into English would you think? Maybe ten, twenty euros? Surely enough, anyway, to av
  • Air Show

    The New York Times website offers a beguiling multimedia feature on the enigmatic patterns formed by huge flocks of starlings that gather in the skies above Rome during Autumn and Winter. The final ph