Shamonica Magazine

If you’re up to date on the policy proposals being suggested by the new crop of GOP hopefuls, I’m sure that, like me,  you’ve noticed that things have veered from the usual soapbox diatribes about Family Values into the downright surreal. So, if I’ve got this right, women shouldn’t take birth control because it leads [...]

The Oscars are my Superbowl. Ever since I can remember, my family has gathered to watch the ceremonial distribution of the little gold men. It’s treated as a minor holiday, on par with Halloween. We’d crowd into my Grandmother’s living room and holler at the screen like true sportsfans “Oh my God girl! What the [...]

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 [...]

I Love Elle Decor. I love Architectural Digest. I love World of Interiors. I love it when they have pictures of beautiful rooms that are like puzzles. Like some genius scavenger hunt master has left clues for you, in the form of things that should not be in that particular room. Today we present a [...]

There’s a million reasons we should dislike Daphne Guinness. She’s heir to a vast beer fortune (guess which beer! guess!) in addition to being landed and titled gentry. She subsists on red bull and Ensure shakes and has allegedly exclaimed “I’ll eat when I’m dead.” But the Honorable Daphne Guinness, throughout all of her publicity stunts, [...]

In the world of mid 90′s haphazardly curated globetrotting bohemianized glamor, there is absolutely nothing that beats Bjork’s blue kitchen from Sophie Muller’s expertly directed music video for “Venus as a Boy.” Where to even begin? The tile, the wall color, the hot pink gold sequined sari curtains, the slightly worse-for-wear model ship (which also [...]