A number of fans now have a permanent reminder of D.C.’s sporting prowess on their skin.
“People have a lot of pride here, and we want to show it off.”
For years, Sherwood had been promising to get tatted in exchange for a sizable donation to WAMU.
The fifth annual DC Tattoo Expo was this weekend and we stopped by to snap some pictures.
Leaders and legislators at cities around the world tackle their problems in many different ways, and there’s always space for D.C. to learn (or not). Should D.C. follow Boston’s lead in publicly promoting helmet use?
If you’re a barber in the District, you have to be licensed and regulated by a city board. But if you’re a tattoo artist or piercer, you’re in the clear — currently, the District remains one of the last places in the country in which tattooing and piercing are wholly unregulated. That looks like it will soon change, but how dramatic the change will be is yet to be determined.
As we reported yesterday, the District remains one of the few places in the country where tattooing and piercing are unlicensed and largely unregulated, a libertarian reality that seems to buck the city’s reputation for being heavy on government regulations. That could change as early as this fall.
In the District, license requirements and regulations come either through the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs or the D.C. Department of Health, both with their related boards and commissions — except when it comes to someone who wants to permanently ink your skin or poke holes through it.
To D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, they were the “tattooed people.” But to the hundreds of residents that showed up in Dupont Circle yesterday to show off their D.C. flag tattoos, they were simply proud of their city and willing to show it.
Part celebration of the District’s hometown pride and part protest of the city’s longstanding second-class status, organizers of DC Flag Tattoo Day: Flag Day in the Flesh have put the word out to anyone who has a stars-and-bars tattoo — and even those who don’t — to gather at Dupont Circle at 6 p.m. tomorrow.
