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
  • Business is business

    Nie reveals that one of the creditors of the Academic Clinical Hospital in Wrocław, one of the hospitals facing the bailiffs, is a company called Greenhouse. The big cheese here is one Tomasz Tokarsk
  • Numbers

    Average Polish pay, 1997: 1,000 zł Average Polish pay, 2005: 2,500 zł Mimimum wage: currently about 935 zł (Some organisations define poverty as an income of less than half the national average.)
  • Keeping a Grip

    Advertisers are easy enough targets at the best of times: a car manufacturer is trying to persuade gullible Poles that its new car can see around corners. (Cretinous slogan: “C’mon”
  • What makes for responsible government

    The centre-right opposition parties could scarcely contain their glee last night, as special panel shows were hastily put together to discuss the unfolding crisis. And who could blame them. A consiste
  • And the answer is…

    While Berlusconi was in power, particularly for the second time, the usual question asked by non-Italians, was ‘how could you have voted for such a government?’, headed by a man with a sha
  • Prodi's Government Falls – Mediaset Share Prices Rise

    Romano Prodi’s government has fallen, having lost a vote in the senate on a proposed renewal of Italy’s mission in Afghanistan. It’s unclear exactly what will happen – as consu
  • The Comfort of Conspiracies

    The children of the movies have seen our world destroyed a hundred times--we can accept the apocalypse, even guiltily savour it, but we want the smouldering ruins to have grandeur.
  • The Tragedy of Big Brother

    Fabio Fazio, presnter of the talk show Che tempo che fa, interviewing Eduardo Sanguineti, one of Italy’s leading poets, asked the sixty-million dollar question: Are reality-shows, like Big Broth
  • Free Legal Aid

    Brilliant. Cesare Previti, lawyer and one-time right-hand man of Berlusconi, sentenced to five years for his role in corrupting a judge during one of Berlusconi’s many trials and tribulations, h