Archive of Tony Shea ( Editor-in-Chief, New York)

Tony Shea is based in New York, having recently moved from Los Angeles after more than a decade on the sunny coast. His short films have won numerous awards and screened at major festivals around the world including Comic-Con. As a musician, he is the lead singer for Los Angeles rock n’ roll band Candygram For Mongo (C4M) candygramformongo.com who has been a featured artist on Clear Channel Radio’s Discover New Music Program and whose songs have been heard on Battlestar Gallactica (Syfy Channel) and Unhitched (Fox) among other shows and films.

Tony has contributed 236 brilliant piece(s).


In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida – Iron Butterfly

by Tony Shea January 9, 2014

  My recent visit to the Cathederal of Our lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, got me thinking – man I wonder what In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by psychedelic godfathers Iron Butterfly would sound like coming though those pipes. You should like Shea Magazine on Facebook to see more of our curated content.

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The Best of Woody Allen – Number 10

by Tony Shea January 9, 2014

10. Annie Hall Film critic Roger Ebert called Annie Hall “just about everyone’s favorite Wood Allen Movie.” But it’s not mine – perhaps because it is so well known. That said, the film won the 1978 Oscar for Best Picture, becoming the only modern era comedy to do so, beating out Star Wars for the […]

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An Architectural Tour of Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Downtown Los Angeles (PHOTOS)

by Tony Shea January 9, 2014

From the outside, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles reminds me most of that other more notorious downtown landmark, the Twin Towers Correctional Facility.

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POEM – Zeus

by Tony Shea January 8, 2014

image via www.thegrumpyowl.com When I was a kid there was a gorilla at the zoo who smoked cigarettes for the public amusement, like an act from the old time medicine shows, beside the woman with the accessory breast and the man who could fit inside a bread box.

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Saving Mr. Banks – Review

by Tony Shea January 2, 2014

Saving Mr Banks, which is about the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that went on so Walt Disney could secure the rights to P.L. Traver’s book, Mary Poppins, may be the worst titled film of the year, since unless you are well schooled in the world of Mary Poppins those words mean absolutely nothing to you. I actually […]

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Postcards from Burbank – Christmas 2013 [PHOTOS]

by Tony Shea December 25, 2013

Burbank loves Christmas!  Between all the set designers and builders and other creative folks who live here on the other side of the hill from Hollywood, Burbank blows Christmas out. Florence St. particularly threatens to drain the grid since all the neighbors along this street seem to have entered into an alliance to be visible […]

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Ho Ho Ho – Very Fisticuffs!

by Tony Shea December 25, 2013

Now that the last of the 90 degree days are behind us here in LA (fingers crossed) and darkness, cool cloudy days, and even occasional precipitation have come to Los Angeles, I am now ready to savor HOCKEY – glorious hockey in all its bone crushing, fist breaking, teeth loosening glory. Hockey’s like a pinball […]

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The Hottest Woman in the World This Month (Tie) – Miley Cyrus and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Part 2 (NSFW)

by Tony Shea December 17, 2013

Earlier Shea Magazine brought you PART ONE of The Hottest Woman in the World This Month featuring American pop superstar Miley Cyrus, who has inspired a moderate amount of ire in the United States recently with her provocative sexual displays and earned the censure of Irish singer Sinead O’Connor. Today in part two, we look […]

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[Song] of the Day – Red Eyes – The War On Drugs

by Tony Shea December 12, 2013

  Though The War on Drugs have been around since 2005, I only first heard this band this morning on KCRW‘s Morning Becomes Eclectic when I was driving around in my car. This indie  band from Philadelphia is set to release their third album, Lost in a Dream, in March of next year and  reminiscent […]

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Benny Hill – The Fastest Milkman in the West

by Tony Shea December 11, 2013

Perhaps almost unbelievably, this song was Number 1 on the UK Singles Chart on this day back in 1971. Benny Hill, beyond being one of England’s legendary funnymen with his singular brand of nudie slapstick, was a milkman in his real life. Who knew? **You should like Shea Magazine on Facebook HERE!**

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[Song] of the Day – REM – Driver 8

by Tony Shea December 7, 2013

Peter Buck celebrates his 57th birthday this week. REM’s ax-man extraordinaire for more than 30 years, Buck has a singular style that earned him the 94th spot on Rolling Stones list of 100 Greatest Guitarists. From REM’s third album Fables of the Reconstruction released in 1985. Mike Mills, REM’s bassist and background vocalist, grabs a […]

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Kaboom! [Video]

by Tony Shea November 25, 2013

It was on this day back in 1867 that Swedish chemist/inventor Alfred Nobel (he of the Nobel Peace Prize) patented dynamite. Deadly for sure. But boy is it fun! **You should like Shea Magazine on Facebook HERE!**

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In Praise of Paul Bowles

by Tony Shea November 18, 2013

Today marks the anniversary of the death of American expatriate writer Paul Bowles. While typically not as well known as certain of his contemporaries, including Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Albert Camus, Bowles surely ranks of one of the best. Bowles straddled a literary fence between the world of the Beatniks and the French Existentialists, […]

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