.CONTENTS - MARCH 2003
DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
The man who dogged Bill Clinton, Ken
Starr, defends our right to tattoo, Mike Malone has a black eye, an Ed Hardy dragon update, stargazing at ManWoman's new autobiography, Horitaka in a State of Grace, oms and stars with Terisa Green, Mike Belzel's amazing tattoo-flash envelopes, Tennessee Dave remembers the con games and Jeff Rassier answers the Big 10.
HIPSHOTS
Ronan Spelman runs into some tattooed locals on Melrose Avenue.
TATTOO ARTISTS AND THEIR RIDES
San Diego's Fip Buchanan makes us hyperventilate over his '49 Merc.
READERS' GALLERY
Another mailbag full of photos gets whittled down to just a fabulous few.
FEATURES
EXCLUSIVE PHOTO REPORT!―?
ROLLING STONE TATTOO NATION
Our own private preview of the best-ever collection of tattooed rock icons and celebrities from the pages of America's favorite counterculture tabloid.
THE ULTIMATE TATTOO CONVENTION―?PAUL BOOTH'S TATTOO THE EARTH by Dianne Mansfield and Leo Zulueta
Did
the Chicago and Oakland events live up to all the hoopla? A play-by-play report by two key participants in the event we've been hearing so much about the last couple of years.
A CONVERSATION WITH SCOTT SYLVIA
Jesse Tuesday questions the Bay Area's resident power artist and potty
mouth, Temple Tattoo's Scott Sylvia.
A VISIT WITH SHOTSIE GORMAN―?TATTOO'S GENTLE GIANT by Charles Gatewood
The life and times of tattoo's greatest tattooist-painter-crusador-writer-watercolorist-poet-psychologist-anthropol ogist-publisher-sculptor-doting father-philosopher-astronaut
and, for all we know, brain surgeon, the miracle man from Wayne, New Jersey, Shotsie the Magnificent.
COLUMNS
OUR LIVING HISTORY WITH C.W. ELDRIDGE
Our resident researcher honors the actor Rod Steiger and the movie that endeared him to us all, The Illustrated Man.
DIGGIN' THE DIRT WITH HOLLY
Our one-and-only baby buttercup checks in at Hollywood's famous Inkslingers Ball.
SPOTLIGHT WITH DANIELLE
Danielle needs a translator to interview the hot new Spanish sensation Robert Hernandez, all the way from Madrid.
TRAVELIN' MICK
Always ready to give folks a second chance, our resident pathfinder spends quality time with the longhouse lads, those amazing Ibans.
Q&A WITH MATTY JANKOWSKI
Protect the women and children! It's all about those nautical nasties, the peg-leggers with the bad attitudes―?pirates..