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).


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Best Fall Ever! [PHOTOS}

by Tony Shea November 6, 2015

The Fall this year is the best that I can ever recall.

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The Human BEEing Will Bleed You White with Terror!

by Tony Shea October 31, 2015

This gem from 2002 has been called one of the best short films ever produced. A hilarious retro-horror film cooked up by Pie Fights Films, The Human BEEing is the story of a greedy boss and a mad scientist who try to turn their office of typists, in 1959 Los Angeles, into worker bees. The […]

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Lou Reed – Who Knew?

by Tony Shea October 27, 2015

Lou Reed died on this day back in 2013 at the age of 71. You probably know that Reed was a quintessential New Yorker and the frontman of the 60’s band the Velvet Underground, who were inducted into the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. You probably also know that he was a […]

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Chicks Dig Scars – The Life of Evel Knievel

by Tony Shea October 19, 2015

The great Evel Kneivel would have turned 77 last weekend. One of America’s ultimate badasses, Knievel died in 2007 at the age of 69. The pioneering godfather of extreme sports like the X-games, Knievel was a wild man living on the constant edge of death, stapled and sewn and bolted together like Frankenstein flying through the […]

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Let’s Go to Eisenberg’s – Shall We?

by Tony Shea October 18, 2015

Right now the New York is experiencing what I think of as perfect weather, cool enough in the early morning that you might see your breath and then warming into the 60’s as the day goes on. I was up and out early before the sun was up, tromping around the city. And I was […]

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Dee Dee Ramone – Who Knew?

by Tony Shea September 18, 2015

Today we celebrate the birthday of the late great Dee Dee Ramone, who would have turned 64 today. While you probably know that Dee Dee was the bassist of the legendary punk rock band the Ramones, here’s 8 things about him that you probably didn’t know. 1. Real Name:

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Mega-Mustaine – My Top 7 Megadeth Songs

by Tony Shea September 13, 2015

Dave Mustaine turns 54 today. Best known as the frontman for thrash superstars Megadeth for the last 30 years, Mustaine was the original lead guitarist in Metallica. He was fired from Metallica just before the band recorded their first album, owing to his legendary reputation for chronic alcoholism and drug abuse layered on top of […]

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UFO Over New York?

by Tony Shea September 12, 2015

I got up this morning at about 2 a.m., awoken by a strange dream. Somewhere around 5 a.m. I noticed that there was a strange round object in the sky. I thought at first it was the reflection of my computer off the window. But then something else strange happened, I felt an odd presence […]

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(NSFW) Nipple Pride Parade—New York [PHOTOS]

by Tony Shea August 24, 2015

Bare-breasted women and men took to the New York City streets yesterday to demand the same constitutional topless rights for all. Organized by GoTopless.org, Nipple Pride Parades were scheduled for dozens of cities across North America yesterday including New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and San Francisco.

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Me and Robin Williams – RIP

by Tony Shea August 11, 2015

Robin Williams died one year ago today. This article originally appeared on August 12, 2014. Robin Williams died yesterday from an apparent suicide at the age of 63. I met him once, at the Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah, back in 2002. At the time, I was a fledgling filmmaker. I had, along […]

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Summer Streets – NYC’s Biking Days of Summer [PHOTOS]

by Tony Shea August 9, 2015

If you missed out on yesterday’s Summer Streets event in New York City, not to worry. You still have one more chance to participate in NYC’s awesome day of biking, walking, rollerskating and all around pedestrian-friendly fun. New York’s annual Summer Streets wraps up next Saturday August 1, from 7 a.m. to 1p.m., so bring […]

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Let’s Go to MOMA Shall We? (NSFW) – PHOTOS

by Tony Shea August 5, 2015

New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), located in midtown Manhattan, features an absolutely astonishing collection of work from some of the most famous artists of all time, and includes a number of pieces that you might call “holy grails” of the art world like “The Starry Night” by Vincent Van Gogh, “Christina’s World” by […]

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The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience – Experience

by Tony Shea June 21, 2015

I decided to throw Jean-Paul Sartre a surprise birthday party just because I knew he would hate it. Surprise! He doesn’t look amused, and this amuses me.

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