Shamonica Magazine

Buying a computer is super easy! You just browse through the Apple Store website and click on a few buttons and put in your credit card info, right? Well its easy to buy a computer but not always clear what  you are getting for the money you spend. There are Mac people, PC people, and [...]

We’ve all seen those house redecorating shows out there, like Trading Spaces, where people redecorate each others homes or rooms in a style that the owner should like. But what if you were to redecorate a room in someone’s home without their permission? What if you intentionally made it into something that the person living [...]

Letting go of clothes that you have accumulated over the years is often a painful and sometimes embarrassing experience. As you sift through piles of things you own that just never quite fit, or you’ve “out grown” since college, or are just plain ugly, you must remember not to blame yourself, but rather to just [...]

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 [...]

“Pancakes. A lot of pancakes,” answers the character Leslie, when grilled by her fiance’s jealous sister in the 1997 film adaptation of the play House of Yes. When I think of pot pies, I think of this scene. I did in fact eat a lot of pot pies, and fish sticks, and casseroles growing up. [...]

Step One: Call in sick. Cost: Wages for one day if you are not compensated for sick days Step Two: Dash to the airport and buy a ticket to Chicago. (Note: LIVE IT! does not recommend doing this in the Winter) Cost: $411.40 on Virgin America (Yes, we’re flying coach. You’ll see why below) Step [...]