People get tattoos of the darndest things, but still, this tat that New York Shitty recently spotted in the wild is worth noting! Yes, people, that is R2D2 stylized as the Virgin of Guadalupe being held up by C3PO. And yes, it is awesome. more ›

A 64-year-old Bulgarian immigrant and Hoboken, NJ resident is fighting the local bureaucracy over what he calls an "unconstitutional and irrelevant ticket" for disorderly conduct on a PATH train. And it stems from looking at a heavily tattooed woman. more ›

Does anyone care about small businesses anymore? Or have we completely transformed into a Socialist state precisely as Brother Beck warned? First they took away the ingenious MetroCard innovator. Now, CBS reports that a 17-year-old Suffolk County girl was arrested for running a tattoo and piercing parlor out of her bedroom. Authorities are claiming that Carisma Thompson-Pike advertised her skills on Facebook, and charged $5 to $200 for her services. more ›

America can't wait to point and laugh at Ed Helms's tattooed face in the Hangover II, but a litigious tattoo artist could make that laughter die if a judge grants his motion for an injunction halting the movie's release. Next week a federal court will consider the case brought by S. Victor Whitmill, a tattoo artist who created Mike Tyson's face tattoo, which, in the sequel, is replicated on Helms. It's that replica that Whitmill calls copyright infringement, and he demands satisfaction. more ›

As if the graffiti and anti-hipster sentiments weren't enough to prove that Staten Island may indeed be Williamsburg II, the borough is raising the bar by opening up NYC's first ever tattoo museum! How hip is that? It's set to open this summer in a space above one-named local Dozer's Island Tattoo shop. The SI Advance notes that the plan is "to create three tableaux in the 500-square foot space, with automated mannequins depicting tattooing methods. Video and sound elements will add explanation and atmosphere to each scene." Other relics and photographs of the hundreds of firefighters who came in for their official commemorative WTC tattoos will also be on display. As a nice side note: All money from each of those tattoos has been given to firefighters and their families. Dozer is sure to be the main attraction of the museum, however, along with his 6-year-old son, who the paper claims is "an aspiring gynecologist." more ›

We talked to someone who was at the Knicks game in Boston Thursday night and he told us he saw something he'd never seen at a sporting event before––a fan ripping off his team's jersey and throwing it onto the court in disgust. The Boston crowd loved it. The gesture came as the Knicks were trailing the Celtics by 50 points in what would come as the team's second-worst scoring performance in the history of... more ›