DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
Hanging around in the Philippines, The Skull Project, so long to the Mad Hatter's, Dana remembers the Big Three, the monks at Wat Pran Prah, Gatewood's ten favorite tattoo books, Val reports from the Big Apple and Lark Tattoo's Bruce Kaplan answers the Big 10.

HIPSHOTS
Maury Englander cruises the third annual Indian Larry's Grease Monkey Memorial Block Party.

SKIN&INK DOLLS
With Jeff Davidson
Jessica thinks eighty-year-olds with ink are cool.

READERS' GALLERY
Many photos reach the mailbox, but only the best make it to the gallery.

FEATURES
TITI: SPIRIT TATTOOS OF THE MENTAWAI SHAMAN
By Lars Krutak
The magical tattoos of the Mentawai, deep in the interior of the isolated jungle paradise of Siberut Island, some sixty miles west of Padang, Indonesia.

MASTERS OF TATTOO PHOTOGRAPHY?RICHARD TODD
By Tim Coleman
In the first of a series, it's up close and personal with Richard Todd, one of tattoo's most talented, dynamic and successful photographers.

BIG WINNER IN VEGAS—ROBERT PHO
By Bob Baxter
He got there the hard way, but Robert Pho has the winning combination in Sin City.

DON DEATON LEGENDS POSTER
It's the old sea tramp himself, Don Deaton, Portland, Oregon's answer to Elzie Crisler Segar (look it up on Wikipedia).

COLUMNS
TRAVELIN' MICK
Mick has too much fun at the first-ever Styrian Tattoo & Hotrod Show at the Forum Kloster, a former Dominican monastery in the tiny village of Gleisdorf.

SPOTLIGHT WITH DANIELLE
Dani talks with Jason Kelly of Timeless Tattoo in Atlanta, Georgia.

Q&A WITH MATTY JANKOWSKI
As usual, Matty gives us a universe of information?all about stars.

TATTOO ART 101 WITH MR. G
An absolutely brilliant view of the history and development of the modern-day tattoo machine.

OUR LIVING HISTORY WITH C.W. ELDRIDGE
Chuck talks about the Red Cross and (who would ever have guessed) an interesting lawsuit.

BAKATY'S WORLD WITH MIKE BAKATY
Hey, what's with getting lousy tattoos just because…?