LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Everybody's got an opinion.

DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
Dana covets the infamous Tuttle T-shirt, resident anthropologist Lars Krutak unravels the secrets of Chinese Li tattoos, Skin City in St. Pete, remembering the incomparable Vali Myers, New Orleans' Annette LaRue answers The Big 10 and Val Rivera dishes the dirt.

HIPSHOTS
Maury Englander snoops and shoots on St. Mark's Place.

SKIN&INK DOLLS
With Jeff Davidson
Meet Julie, a California girl with definite likes and dislikes.

READERS' GALLERY
The top of the crop from the monthly mailbag.

FEATURES
TATTOO ARCHIVE—AMERICA'S EXCITING,
NEW TATTOO MUSEUM

By Bob Baxter with Photographs by Bernard Clark
At the end of a week-long odyssey, the SKIN&INK crew arrives in Winston-Salem, the spiffy new home of Tattoo Archive and the Paul Rogers Tattoo Research Center.

TATTOOS & BLUES IN TUCSON
By Bob Baxter with photos by Bernard Clark
SKIN&INK visits Bert Rodriguez and his first-annual ink and music show in Arizona.

SPECIAL 16-PAGE OUTSERT
13 TOP WOMEN TATTOOISTS

By Tim Coleman
Tattooing is not just a game for men anymore. Here's a baker's dozen of some of the most talented, most important female tattoo artists of today.

COLUMNS
OUR LIVING HISTORY WITH C.W. ELDRIDGE

Just because the big ships shifted to steam doesn't mean they dropped their sails.

TRAVELIN' MICK
The Berlin Tattoo Convention moved from Huxley's to the Arena, and Mick was there.

SPOTLIGHT WITH DANIELLE
Dani interviews Brian Bruno from Absolute Art Tattoo in Richmond, Virginia.

Q&A WITH MATTY JANKOWSKI
Heat up your hotrods and stick out your arms, it's pinstriping time in the old town tonight.

SHANGHAI KATE'S COLUMN
Kate remembers her first tattoo and a run-in with a skunk named Stinky.