DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
The Seattle Erotic Art Festival, a tattooed dog-collar maker, everything you should know about autoclave sterilization, Aaron Bell in Stockholm and Rodney Raines answers the Big 10.

HIPSHOTS
Maury Englander hobnobs with the elite at Manhattan's Indian Larry block party.

SKIN&INK DOLLS
Jeff Davidson brings us the ever-lovely Denie and her life-changing tattoos.

READERS' GALLERY
Once again, this is the place where the best in the business show off their latest work.

FEATURES
SECOND ANNUAL GREATER KENTUCKY TATTOO & PIERCING CONVENTION
By Bob Baxter with photos by Bernard Clark
Three days at a hometown tattoo event in the heart of Kentucky's fabled horse country, a couple miles from Man O' War Boulevard.

COME HELL OR HIGH WATER-A DATE WITH KATRINA
By Lisa Marie with Matty Jankowski
A sobering homecoming, as Matty and Lisa Marie visit their old stomping grounds and the brave tattoo shops along the path of hurricane Katrina.

"MY NAME IS DANA, AND I'M A COLLECTAHOLIC!"
-A TREASURY OF TATTOO HISTORY
Commentary by C.W. Eldridge
with photographs by Bernard Clark
A rare look at a world-class collection of tattoo memorabilia from one of the industry's most beloved artists and keepers of the faith, Cincinnati, Ohio's Dana Brunson.

AMSTERDAM TATTOO CONVENTION 2006
By Rik van Boeckel
with photographs by Fred Rohde
A trip to the ever-expanding and always colorful international tattoo event at the RAI in the Netherlands.

COLUMNS
TRAVELIN' MICK
Mick travels to Bali for a one-way ticket to the tattooed tribes of Sumba.

SPOTLIGHT WITH DANIELLE
A feature-length visit with the incomparable Irishman, Gentleman Mark Mahoney, at the Shamrock Social Club, Hollywood's undisputed home of black and gray.

Q&A WITH MATTY JANKOWSKI
An inspiring look at prosthetics for people who may have lost a limb but not their love of tattoos.

TATTOO ART 101 WITH MADAME LAZONGA
Got some ink you hate? No worries. Vyvyn talks about selecting just the right artist for a cover-up.

OUR LIVING HISTORY WITH C.W. ELDRIDGE
Remembering "Iwo Jima" Eddie Lynch, the tattooist with Joe Rosenthal's prize-winning photograph on his back.