Recently, I decided to make the biggest life commitment a woman my age can make. No, not marriage... getting a tattoo. Like myself, many people get their first tattoos in college and it seems like nowadays, more and more people are taking the plunge and...

On West Lincoln Highway, a new tattoo shop has emerged: DeKalb Tattoo Company, which opened Tuesday.DeKalb Tattoo Company, 817 W. Lincoln Highway, will join DeKalb’s other two tattoo shops, Out On A Whim and Proton Tattoo. Nick Misitano, owner of DeKalb...

“I was just lucky.”That’s how a local reality TV star would describe the journey that’s brought him to where he is.Chris May, owner of Proton Tattoo, 120 S. Fourth St., is a contestant on Spike TV’s “Ink Master,” a tattoo competition reality...

Trent Eaves is not afraid to show his Huskie Pride. The senior communications major decided to challenge that school spirit with a post on Twitter: “If this tweet gets 1000 RT’s I will get a huskie tattoo’d on my butt,” Eaves tweeted. Eaves took...

DeKalb police arrested Anthony Phillips, 22, of DeKalb, on Saturday regarding a robbery occurring at approximately 5 a.m. Friday in the 900 block of Greenbrier Road. DeKalb Lt. Jason Leverton said there was a male and a female walking together and when...

Tattoos have permanence. Of course I mean this in a literal sense, but the physical longevity of body art also serves as an apt metaphor for the time it has spent as a cultural mainstay across the globe. Tattoo: An American Evolution and Inked: Tattoo...