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Photos: Selections from Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed

Science Ink

By PHOENIX STAFF | December 28, 2011

READ: "Ink for eggheads" by Eugenia Williamson.

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Slideshow: Snowblind | Regeneration Tattoo
Artists Include: Cathy Johnson, Edwin Marquez, Brian Hemming, Daniel Bythewood and Brad Stevens
Cheap thrills
They say Dr. Lakra got his pen name from the doctor’s bag he carried around when he first began tattooing, two decades ago. “Lakra” puns on the Spanish word “lacra,” meaning scar or blemish, but it’s also slang for “delinquent” or “scumbag.”
Slideshow: Dr. Lakra at the ICA
Dr. Lakra at the ICA, showing through September 6, 2010
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Slideshow: Snowblind | Regeneration Tattoo
Artists Include: Cathy Johnson, Edwin Marquez, Brian Hemming, Daniel Bythewood and Brad Stevens
Cheap thrills
They say Dr. Lakra got his pen name from the doctor’s bag he carried around when he first began tattooing, two decades ago. “Lakra” puns on the Spanish word “lacra,” meaning scar or blemish, but it’s also slang for “delinquent” or “scumbag.”
Slideshow: Dr. Lakra at the ICA
Dr. Lakra at the ICA, showing through September 6, 2010
Photos: Boston Tattoo Convention
The Boston Tattoo Convention comes to the Sheraton Hotel on Labor Day weekend, September 3-6, 2010.
Four questions for a hypertext pioneer
As both an author and illustrator, Shelley Jackson has looked beyond the limitations of singular genres or techniques to create a novel style of work.
So you thought you were special
Reading Hannah Holmes's work is enlightening and entertaining — even when it's at its most depressing.
Photos: The Providence Phoenix Annual Best Awards Show
The Providence Phoenix gives out the Best Awards at the Met on April 20, 2011. Check out the winners here .
George Kimball, 1943-2011
George Kimball, Phoenix sports editor (back when there was such a thing) for nearly 10 years, Boston Herald columnist for 25 more, and truly one of the great boxing writers of our time, passed away last week at his home in New York City. He was 67.
Interview: Oliver Sacks, on The Mind's Eye
Over the past 40 years, since the publication of Migraine in 1970, neurologist Oliver Sacks has written 10 books and countless articles, examining what happens when specific parts of a human brain go haywire or stop working.
Photos: Scenes from the Boston Book Festival 2010
A horde of book lovers get lit in Copley Square. (Sweet owl tat on slide #12.)
Sam Costello is Rhode Island's king of dark comics
The farmer desperate to save his dying wife. The aging photographer trying to resurrect his career. The funeral director who goes to extreme measures to cut costs.
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