Until recently, I was under the impression that making delicious homemade cake balls required some fancy kitchen equipment. My younger sister showed me otherwise with this simple recipe that only requir...

For many years, getting a tattoo meant going to a parlor, flipping through pages of standardized designs and letting some guy named T-Bone stick a needle in your arm. Now it involves collaborating with an artist who may just hold a degree, contributing to what some are calling the “art school generation” of tattoo professionals.Lee Leahy, owner of the Family Tattoo parlor at 2125 W. Belmont Ave., said many rising tattoo artist...

Black curtains hang from the ceiling by chains. Mirrors line the walls with black leather chairs placed around the room. Boxes containing flat-screens lay on the floor waiting to be hung. The room buzzes with the sound of a tattoo gun.That was the scene three weeks after the opening of the new tattoo shop downtown, which is aiming to be known as a "high-class" tattoo shop.  Along with that, it might also be getting its own r...