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Featured Tattoo Artist: Randi Polillo

  • Randi Polillo
  • December 22, 2011
We’re closing out 2011 with another gifted artist. In Randi Polillolies a diamond in the rough. He lends excerpts from his days in the tattoo...
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Featured tattoo artist: Danny Fugate

  • Danny Fugate
  • January 12, 2011
What characteristics make a great artist? Well, talent for one, have a passion for their craft, creativity, and more importantly the ability to put...
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Featured Tattoo Artist: Kyle Scarborough

  • Kyle Scarborough
  • November 16, 2010
Examiner’s featured artist of the week is Kyle Scarboroughof St. Louis Tattoo Company. He “loosely” defines his work as &ldquo...
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Reviewing a new crime drama: the forgotten

The forgotten has two big things going for it: the intense Christian Slater in the lead role, and an approach to the genre that we haven’t...
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Los Angeles or New York: does setting determine success?

Joshua Alston (in LAPD vs. NYPD, Newsweek, July 11) suggests that the lack of recent success for Los Angeles-based cop shows can be blamed on the...
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Southland's DNA evidence headlines a real LAPD problem

DNA. It seems almost magical: capable of instantly exonerating a suspect, demolishing an alibi, or identifying a killer. Perhaps because of that...
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Southland bolstered by realism, both intentional and coincidental

“Truth is stranger than fiction” sounds like a cliche, but it remains true enough to trouble many crime dramas. It is difficult to...
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