Shamonica Magazine

From the outside 3020 Laguna looks like something under construction, about to be demolished, or abandoned. That is partially true. 3020 Laguna Street is a small house in the trendy, Cow Hollow neighborhood. The property was slated to be demolished and the owner, Amir Mortazavi, had some ideas about making good use of it before [...]

Dear Shamonica readers: Illustrator Tessa Brunton and I are collaborating on a series of mini comics about food. If you’d like to share your recipes and, more importantly, the stories behind them, we’d love to re-tell them through the magical medium of comics and illustration. Contact Tessa Brunton at: acannonloose@gmail.com, or me, at amity@shamonica.com and [...]

I LOVE objectification. I am basically checking everybody out all the time. Regardless of sex or gender. I am like a randy teenage boy and a middle-aged female vampire all rolled into one. Also, as I like to say because it is very true: I am a gay bear, trapped in a woman’s body. It isn’t [...]

Love it or loathe it Valentines Day is totally a THING. With the socially enforced mandatory demonstration of romantic affection, not to mention the profits companies such as Hallmark and Sees Candy make off of said enforced mandatory demonstrations, it’s easy to understand why so many ladies and gentlemen are truly “meh” over v-day. It [...]

Imagine walking through a Scottish graveyard in the mid-morning, still slightly damp with rain, as you hold a vintage polaroid camera in one hand and a wicker picnic basket, circa 1972 in the other. That is the image that Spell evokes. The recipe for the Spell is one part cover band, two parts Vishti Bunyan [...]

Whew! I just got back from an hour of Iyengar and I can’t feel my left arm! Just kidding. I feel fucking amazing. You know why? Because I seriously just took a Hatha flow class you guys, and my body loves me for it. To me, yoga feels better than a back massage. To practice [...]