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Shab Row Bistro Mixologist Alex Strange Shares His Ink and His Broadway Past
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"I wanted to keep it bold, so I mixed traditional Japanese imagery – butterflies, a geisha, the dragonhead, and cherry blossoms – with neo-traditional American tattooing."
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"It was inspired by an episode of No Reservations in which Anthony Bourdain created a graffiti artwork of a skull with crossed knives, which I switched out for martini glasses."
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"There’s a little piece of receipt tape in the bottom left corner where I was going to have the artist ink “Call me†or a fake phone number. But I had them keep it blank, so I could write down little notes for myself."
