Cover: Pain's Addiction
High numbers of repeat customers filling tattoo studios raise the question: Are tattoos addicting? Experts say all the ingredients are there.

News: Nüz
Parking garage art installation celebrates car culture.

Bruce Bratton: Del Mar Theatre update; Boardwalk parking solutions; this week's movies and theater productions.

Work: Books Are Dangerous.

Glass Plates: Philip Glass' minimalist musical setting for the early photos of Eadweard Muybridge forms centerpiece of Cabrillo Music Festival.

Sights & Sounds: Smoke and lighting effects obscured the humans at Crystal Method show.

Oral Outrage: Food disappointments can rank right up there with lousy sex and an IRS audit--we'd like to share a few of ours with you.

Potente Energy: Franka Potente runs from fate in 'The Princess and the Warrior.'

A Way to Dusty Death: Shakespeare Santa Cruz's 'Macbeth' is full of sound and fury--and some of the finest examples of the English language.

Scarred for Married Life: Bay Shore's 'Woolf' gets dysfunctional, and not without a few rough edges.