JOURNALISM BY VINCENZO RAVINA

Tattoo Regulations Story (July 31, 2008)



Laura Dawe is a stick-and-poke artist.
She tattoos out of her apartment with
a sewing needle and thread. Dawe says
she prefers the sewing needle to the
professional tattoo gun, which "changes
the experience." The stick-and-poke is
more real, she says.




Bedbugs Story (August 14, 2008)



"It's like getting bit by a mosquito,
only it lasts for over a week and is
10 times itchier," Kris Figueroa says,
talking about bedbug bites. "I did my
best not to scratch them, but it was
almost impossible, really. My roommate
scratched all over hers and now is covered
in scars." The tiny blood-sucking insects
were in Figueroa's Ocean Towers apartment
and they're popping up all over HRM.




Bandwidth Throttling Story (September 20, 2007)



Even the information superhighway
has speed limits - limits that are enforced
without you even knowing about it.
It's called "traffic shaping" and most
internet service providers have some
form of it in place.