Tattoo Removal

Dear Answer Angel: I'm having a heated debate with a friend: Is it rude to keep your sunglasses on indoors? I say unless you have an eye condition that requires them, yes it is — especially in restaurants, at a friend's house, work, etc. She says...

Pretzels, tattoos, and gambling can save the U.S. economy. In "By the Numbers: How Americans Spend Their Money," Lucas Reilly reports that in 2011, Americans spent trillions shopping for all sorts of sine qua nons: $550 million on pretzels, $96 billion on...

Despite her ferocious adopted last name, TLC’s top tattoo maven Megan Massacre has the face (and hair color) of a rock ‘n' roll Disney Princess and the sweetly lilting voice to match. But the star of the network’s back-to-back Thursday...

Assemblyman Anthony Portantino is shepherding through the California Legislature a bill that would expand the pool of people eligible for state-facilitated, federally-funded tattoo removal services to include those tattooed for identification in human...

Steve Chapman's riff today on tattoos -- They're ugly, a form of self-mutilation masquerading as self-expression. As a way of showing your edgy, noncomformist personality, getting inked always seemed to me about as sensible as lopping off an ear. --...

Homeboy Diner, which opened this week, is the latest business venture of Homeboy Industries, a Los Angeles institution that supporters say has helped thousands of gang members quit lives of crime with counseling, tattoo removal and job training. As...

In time, tattoos will have the same acceptance as women coming into the workplace wearing pants instead of dresses, This is how society changes.....Richard Citrin, executive coach and career counselor quoted in today's story Is body art office-...

A roar of applause and cheers echoed through USC’s Bovard Auditorium as Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez and Father Gregory Boyle took the stage Sunday at the Festival of Books. The 1,235-seat venue was nearly full, the audience eagerly......

When Father Gregory Boyle began his work in East Los Angeles, the area had the most gang activity in all of Los Angeles. He wanted to provide young people with an alternative. Realizing that staying out of gangs involved both......

Nicole Richie is looking to get her tramp stamp removed in the first episode of her AOL Web series, "#CandidlyNicole." The show is the latest in original programming from AOL, which has 15 new deals for Web series featuring  Sarah Jessica Parker, Hank...

Terrible things are documented in the newspaper every day. A child kidnapped and assaulted. A family drowned. A 9-year-old girl forced to hike through the desert for help after surviving a car crash that killed her father. We read those stories and we...

Tattoos aren't just for outlaws anymore. Maybe they never were, but for years, popular culture suggested otherwise. Just think of the movies: Robert Mitchum's homicidal preacher in "The Night of the Hunter," with "Love" and "Hate" tattooed on his...