Chris Monks

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• 5 Ice Wars

  The event more than lived up to its billing: it was full of sequins, bad white people's music, and the clashing of cultural ideologies.

  in Video — by Chris Monks — on Dec 02, 2002

• 4 Whither Miss World

  in Culture — by Chris Monks — on Nov 22, 2002

• 3 Dan Zanes Rocks

  in Music — by Chris Monks — on Nov 09, 2002

• 2 So Much Promise...then Coolio Guest Stars

  I want to like 'Robbery Homocide Division' something fierce. I admire its gritty-cool urban edge and the gruff charisma of the lead, Tom Sizemore. However...

  in Video — by Chris Monks — on Oct 29, 2002

• 1 Benny Hill Gets Shafted Yet Again

  The people chosen by the BBC's internet poll as The Most Famous Britons of All Time deserve to be in the top ten in some way, shape, or form, I guess. But given I vacationed in England for two weeks during the summer of 2000 and have eaten crumpets, I think my own list of most famous Brits is the definitive one.

  in Culture — by Chris Monks — on Oct 22, 2002