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Tattoo DesignsTattoo shop owner has ink in her veinsCandy Roberts is covered from head to toe with the marks of her trade. Every inch of her that's outside her clothing is inked with tattoos. And she assures you that the majority of the skin beneath her clothes is covered too. Roberts runs Baby Blues Tattoos, with two locations in Bradenton. She's a walking advertisement for her trade - a business and art she says is often misunderstood. "Everyone thinks tattoos are just for the kids or people who ride motorcycles," Roberts says. "But we have doctors, lawyers. Everyone is getting tattoos." Tattoo artists sometimes get a rap for being an unsavory crew. But Roberts runs her business in a responsible and ethical way, she says. "Every day of the week we have people who bring in their 14-, 15- and 16-year-old children to get them tattooed," Roberts says.
Kenya: From Hard Men to Corporate HeroesOrganised crime is big business in the Far East. And triads, as they are called in Chinese society, or the yakuza in Japan are some of the biggest business establishments you're likely to encounter, with membership running into tens of thousands.
When the bikini line turned to a battlelineChristopher Hitchens, hammer of Islamism, rationalist supernova, has just had a "back, sack and crack wax". Here he is in December's Vanity Fair, pudgy hands clasped in unlikely prayer pose, while a cadre of beauticians yank swatches of what seems to be shag-pile from the nethermost Pelt of the Hitch. Antiwar types might relish his agonised depilation diary "like being tortured for information that you do not possess, with intervals for a (incidentally very costly) sandpaper handjob" and wonder if it might afford him some deeper insight into activities inside Guantanamo. Yet, strangely, in submitting to this ritual for a feature on self-improvement to celebrate his recently acquired US citizenship (he also traded fag-stained British hat-pegs for twinkly Hollywood gnashers) Hitchens has stepped into a rare place where Islam and Western consumerism concurs.
`Tin Man' re-imagines `Wizard of Oz'Tattoo Designs: No dancing down the yellow brick road for Zooey Deschanel, star of Sci Fi Channel's new Emerald City adaptation, "Tin Man." And no warbling "Over the Rainbow" a la Judy Garland, either. "It's postmodern, more like Indiana Jones than a fairy tale," said Deschanel, whose Dorothy - the role immortalized by Garland in "The Wizard of Oz" - is a disaffected, motorcycle-riding waitress called DG. Based on L. Frank Baum's novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," which inspired the 1939 film classic, Sci Fi's six-hour "Tin Man" is not a musical but a brooding, special effects-driven fantasy. "The book was written in 1900 and its story still lives," said Robert Halmi Sr., one the executive producers. "It's a coming-of-age story," Deschanel said of the miniseries airing Dec.
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