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Friday, April 26
Lakeview resident Marco Paiz is making his torso available for tattoo practice. The Sun-Times reports that "he's open to an artist's ideas -- as long as they don't include swastikas, Satanic symbols or 'something totally crazy.'" You mean crazy like offering your torso to tattoo artists for free?