DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
A trip to Maui for the woodblocks, Donnie Hawleywood gives a trim, John Wyatt is a marked man, remembering Eric Maaske, event promoter and tattoo artist Steve Peace answers the Big 10, Tennessee Dave's further adventures with Big John and Baba talks about tattoo show etiquette.

HIPSHOTS
Maury Englander visits New York City's San Genero Festival in Little Italy.

SUICIDE GIRLS
Sophie Suicide moved to Kansas, but her big-city tattoos went along with her.

READERS' GALLERY
Lots of mind-bending images from the best tattoo artists in the world.

FEATURES
GREG KULZ By Charles Gatewood
Always the innovator, San Francisco's Greg Kulz combines ancient traditions with modern technology to keep ahead of the pack in a crowded industry.

BURNING MAN-
Text and Photos by Tim Coleman
It's smack dab in the middle of the desert, there's thousands of shameless revelers and it's hotter than a two-dollar pistol. No problem for our fearless reporter. Bring 'em on. Bring on that Burning Man!

THE WORLD OF TATTOO
-Reviewed by Matty Jankowski
A fabulous visual feast. Excerpts and commentary from a wonderful new book, The World of Tattoo-An Illustrated History, by renowned author and tattoo historian Maarten Hesselt van Dinter.

THE EDMONTON TATTOO & ARTS FESTIVAL
By Bob Baxter, photos by Bernard Clark
A visit to the Great White North and another, well-planned, super-fabulous tattoo festival by the Canadian duo of Steve Peace and Ken LeBlanc.

COLUMNS
TRAVELIN' MICK
A long-overdue first-person excursion to the art and artists of Stockholm, Sweden.

SPOTLIGHT WITH DANIELLE
Danielle makes another pleasant discovery. This time it's Brian Ragusin at Keri Barba's Outer Limits in Anaheim.

Q&A WITH MATTY JANKOWSKI
There's no end to Matty's investigations. You just can't trick him up. Now, isn't that a-maze-ing?

TATTOO ART 101 WITH MADAME LAZONGA
A sober reminder of our responsibility to reflect on the meaning and messages our tattoos send to future generations.

OUR LIVING HISTORY WITH C.W. ELDRIDGE
Back in the day, when you got conked in the eye, all you had to do was visit a tattoo shop and make it vanish.