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
  • Heroic Ratzy takes on the pervert priests

    “Paedophile priests – The wrath of the Pope” screamed the headline in La Repubblica last week, mirroring the general news coverage of Papa Ratzi’s stern words on the topic addr
  • Astroturf (II)

    Unilever’s public-spirited campaign to make women feel the need to purchase their beauty products continues. The latest manoeuvre is an interview on the subject of beauty and self-esteem with a
  • The Lost Kingdom, Part I

    When writing, or even reading, history there is always an inclination to interpret the past teleologically–that is to assess the importance of events according to how they contributed to some ap
  • How Capitalist is Poland? (II)

    This week’s Nie tells of the predicament of an Armenian small trader in Poland. In brief, he has been refused permission to continue residing in the country because, well yes, he is paying his o
  • Drug Crazed Parliamentarians Protect Privacy

    The story goes like this: Le Iene, an irreverent investigative/satirical programme (which given the restrictive nature of Italian TV is no mean feat), posing as a team from a fictional TV channel, out
  • 100% Italian

    Italian TV schedules have over the last four or five years fallen prey to the ‘reality’ format. The initial success of Grande Fratello [Big Brother] led executives in both the public (RAI)
  • Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr Lazarescu

    There was an advertisement for a mobile phone company before this film in the London cinema where I saw it. It presented a sequence of life-changing moments. A father stares from the screen and falter
  • Sucidava

    Southern Romania. On the buses that carry you between the small towns along the bank of the Danube a curious arrangement is in operation. At each stop the driver passes up and down the aisle collectin
  • Divine Comedy – Neil Hannon in interview

    Maybe Neil Hannon has lived a charmed life.Right now he's in London doing promotional work, appearing on Later with Jools Holland and the Jonathon Ross radio show, to promote his latest work unde