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 [...]

Joseph Childress is a local folk musician who has played with folk/rock favorites  Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Vetiver and has toured with the Love Letter Band (Bad Weather California), Mariee Sioux, Messes, and Randazzo Robinson. What sets Childress apart is that his songs and lyrics have emotional honesty which cuts through much of the whimsical [...]

Wearing green to the office, watching people get drunk and sloppy at Irish pubs, and drinking green beer are all parts of the adult St. Patrick’s day for many people. After a couple of times doing these things they can get really dull. If you live in San Francisco, however, you totally are not pigeon [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]