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...Bank of America, she said: “It was great fun. It was stimulating, you could hang out in for hours. You could always bet that there was an argument going on of some kind.”Across the street from Grolier’s was a barbershop. “As a teenager, I learned to read the clock backwards because there was a mirror in our store through which you could see the clock in the barber shop across the street,” Solano said.When she became the store’s owner, she renovated...
Across the street from Grolier’s was a barbershop. “As a teenager, I learned to read the clock backwards because there was a mirror in our store through which you could see the clock in the barber shop across the street,” Solano said...
...idea, says R.J. Cutler (30 Days), an executive producer of the show along with rapper Ice Cube and Matt Alvarez (both of Barbershop), was to survey the color lines in a country that has largely shed overt racism. For six weeks a black family from Atlanta (Brian and Renee Sparks and their son Nick) and a white family from Santa Monica, Calif. (Carmen Wurgel, Bruno Marcotulli and daughter Rose), went out into society as members of the opposite race and spent their downtime, sans makeup, sharing a house...
Cube’s films, by and large, have embraced mainstream values while reinforcing the white-washed American master narrative. In “Barbershop,” for example, Cube plays the role of the titular shop’s owner. Throughout the movie, he assists his local police department in the capture of two petty criminals, thwarts a neighborhood loan shark, and forsakes his “childish” dream of building a home recording studio so that he can focus on keeping the barbershop solvent...
...decade in fashion can seem an eternity. "I'm more part of the periphery," Martin Grant told Time in 1996, about to open his first boutique in a former barbershop in the Rue des Rosiers. A few years before, the former Young Australian Designer of the Year had moved from Melbourne to Paris burned out by his early success. But in the 10 years since, Grant, 39, has calmly gone about his business, producing two collections a year with little more noise than the sound of his seamstress scissors. Along the way, his exquisite tailoring caught the eye of Vogue...