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).


Let’s Eat a Chicago Beef Sandwich in Burbank, Shall We?

by Tony Shea November 13, 2013

Joe Montegna turns 66 years old today, so to celebrate I decided to head over to his restaurant, Taste Chicago, which just happens to be less than mile from my house here in Burbank.

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The Hottest Woman in the World This Month (Tie) – Miley Cyrus and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Part 1 (NSFW)

by Tony Shea November 7, 2013

The voting surrounding The Hottest Woman in the World This Month has been heated as various folks here at Shea Magazine have made their respective cases. Our judges have had an astute eye lately as evidenced by the fact that Shea Magazine’s Hottest Woman in the World This Month from a few months back, Emily […]

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John Lennon – Who Knew? 5 Fun Facts

by Tony Shea October 10, 2013

Yesterday would have been the 73rd birthday of John Lennon. You probably know that he was a member of the Beatles (the most commercially and critically successful band of all time) along with Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. You probably also know that John Lennon was married to Yoko Ono. And you probably […]

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Phil Chevron RIP – The Radiators from Space

by Tony Shea October 9, 2013

Phil Chevron died yesterday at the age of 56. One of the luminaries of the Irish music scene, he was best known as the guitarist for the Pogues. Chevron also, however, founded the influential, if not precisely well known,  punk rock band The Radiators from Space – here delivering their rocking song “Television Screen”. **You […]

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Stunningly Surreal – the Art of Adam Stone

by Tony Shea September 28, 2013

Adam Stone is one of my very favorite artists in Los Angeles. His work never fails to bring a smile to my face and engage my intellect as I sort through his surreal creations and wonder what it all means. So I figured I would ask him. Below my interview with the always fascinating Adam Stone. […]

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I am a 43 Year Old Fashion Model – Deal with It

by Tony Shea September 24, 2013

All photos via Melanie Shelton for Tieroom These days, among other things, I am a catalog model on the side. I do slacks, shirts, hats, and ties as a customary rule. Occasionally suits are involved or umbrellas. Maybe a watch or a briefcase. My niche is middle age and for $650 dollars a day I’m […]

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Exxopolis – The Living Sculpture – Visits LA

by Tony Shea September 17, 2013

This past weekend my wife and I took our son to downtown Los Angeles to explore a living sculpture called Exxopolis, which had been erected on the front lawn of City Hall, and which at a distance looked like a giant bouncey house that you would typically find at a child’s birthday party.

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David Foster Wallace – Death is not the End

by Tony Shea September 12, 2013

Today marks the anniversary of the death of David Foster Wallace. One of America’s bright and shining literary stars of the last fifty years, Wallace committed suicide at the age of 46. He’s probably best known for the phone book sized novel Infinite Jest, which you have casually mentioned to friends with literary inclinations that […]

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The Burbank International Film Festival Kicks Off

by Tony Shea September 6, 2013

I have lived in Burbank for the last five years and I love it. I love that it feels like a small town despite the fact that it connects with Los Angeles on the other side of the hill. I love Burbank’s tree-lined streets, which are a welcome relief from Los Angeles’ asphalt hardscape. And […]

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Vaud and the Villains Get Ready for the Big Time – REVIEW

by Tony Shea August 31, 2013

Dan O’Day McClellan contributed to this article. Friday August 30, 2013 Ford Amphitheatre – Los Angeles, CA On a night that was as hot and humid as the swamplands of New Orleans, Vaud and the Villains torched the Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, launching themselves into the big leagues, or at least bigger leagues, for […]

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The Hottest Woman in the World – This Month – NSFW

by Tony Shea August 28, 2013

Beauty, like life, is transitory and fleeting. But somewhere along the way, each of us inhabits a perfect moment when we’re at our very best, the zenith of our development, as some small recompense for the fact that every single one of us is going to end up a corpse – most likely embalmed by […]

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REPLACEMENTS PLAY FIRST SHOW IN 22 YEARS!! [VIDEO]

by Tony Shea August 26, 2013

While Miley Cyrus was twerking at the VMA’s yesterday, the truly great, and greatly under appreciated, Replacements were playing their first show in 22 years yesterday at the Riot Fest in Toronto. On stage, original members Paul Westerberg, he of the immaculate rasp, and bassist Tommy Stinson were joined by Josh Freese on drums and […]

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Don’t Try This at the Multiplex – Nicolas Winding Refn

by Tony Shea August 21, 2013

“Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.” Nicolas Winding Refn Nicolas Winding Refn is hardly a household name, certainly in the United States. One suspects that his film-making sensibilities are too “European,” filled as they are with […]

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