With ears stretched close to an inch, leaving a gaping hole in his earlobe, Matt Stempien stood proudly in front of hundreds of people ready to rock his performance. However, he wasn't on the stage of ...

When he opened his shop for piercing and tattooing across from the Ohio State University campus 13 years ago, Nick Wolak envisioned a market as wide-open as his earlobes. He had begun getting his ears ...