See Your Ink in Print Contest
May 16 Deadline!
We know the best art in Long Beach isn’t found only in the city’s galleries—it’s on your body.
That’s why we’re celebrating the beauty of tattooed people with our First-Ever Large Body Work Contest.
We’re looking for tattoo artists and their human canvases.
Tattoo artists, this is your chance to let [...]

Tattoo gurus Rick Walters–longtime manager of Bert Grimm’s World Famous Tattoo–and Inked reality TV show star Thomas Pendelton, a tattooist himself, were in town today filming a future episode of Pendelton’s new A&E TV show.

What happens when Long Beach ink-slinger Kari Barba doesn’t like her own tattoos any more? She has them lasered away

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
Tattoo artists are their own best advertisements, because they’re almost always rakishly tattooed. But what happens when one of them makes a bad choice? Every tattoo artist is 19 once. What happens to [...]