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barbershop

[bahr-ber-shop] / ˈbɑr bərˌʃɒp /


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He attended film school there in the early 1980s and started drawing acclaim since his thesis—Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads—made at 25 years old for $12,000.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

It's exciting work, said the owner of Bareknuckle Barbershop on Derry's Spencer Road.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2023

Bill Lee also scored an early Spike Lee short, “Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads,” the first student film to be showcased at Lincoln Center’s New Directors/New Films Festival, in 1983.

From New York Times • May 24, 2023

On a recent Saturday in January, he drove to Boyle Heights in the city’s Eastside to shoot a spray-painted image of Mary on the side of Valerio Family Barbershop.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2023

He didn’t live in Montgomery either; all he did was work at that automobile factory and sneak off places— nobody knew where—and hang around Tommy’s Barbershop.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison



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