Exactly 124 years ago Southend welcomed its first professional tattoo artist who set up shop in the town, eager to put his ink stamp on the bodies of men, women and possibly sometimes even children.

It’s all for the Rep’s latest mainstage production, “Clyde’s,” which is set in a truck stop sandwich shop. Written by Pulitzer Prize–winner Lynn Nottage, the show centers on four formerly incarcerated ...

A heavily tattooed woman recently vented online about TJ Maxx rejecting her for a retail position in one of its stores.