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Featured bartender: Jason Burczyk from Ten Bells

Published May 1, 2013

Recently, we stopped by Ten Bells to chat with Jason Burczyk about bourbon, tattoos, music, his hatred of sports and what it's like being an identical twin.

The Parlor bar breathes new life into iconic space

Published July 25, 2012

Lenny Jenkins has never owned a bar nor has he worked in a bar, but one would never know it when observing him in action at his brand new, dream-come-true venture called The Parlor, 1517 S. 2nd St. He recently opened the bar in the former Bomb Shelter and, before that, Monkey Bar space.

Tattoos and sun exposure: a losing combination

Published July 22, 2012

At this point, most people know overexposure to the sun is harmful to your skin, but it's even tougher on tattoos. Ultraviolet light deeply dulls the vibrancy of the ink colors and makes relatively new tattoos look more like grandpa's weathered Navy tat. Local tattoo artists weigh in with their advice on how to keep skin ink vibrant.

Tattoo your nickname?

Published Oct. 1, 2011

Last weekend John Leaf went to the Milwaukee Tattoo Festival at State Fair Park, expecting to find out that having your nickname tattooed somewhere would likely be popular. It was ... 10 or 15 years ago.

Literary tattoos fuse flesh and fiction

Published Jan. 19, 2011

Recently, the tattoo world's sub-genre of literary tattoos garnered limelight through Web sites like Contrariwise.org and a book called "Literary Tattoos from Bookworms World Wide." Here are numerous Milwaukee people with lit tats along with commentary from a local artist.

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