How To Use Barbershop In A Sentence

  • From barbershop quartets to gospel close-harmony groups to doo-wop to the kooky a cappella experiments, vocals-only pop music has a long history.
  • Twenty years ago, grooming meant a fifteen minute visit to the corner barbershop and a splash of Aqua Velva.
  • But then, Johnson is a multitalented guy: Known for writing plays such as "Hambone" and "Runaway Home" (both mounted at the Studio Theatre earlier this decade), he's also an actor, with credits that range from August Wilson's work to the film "Barbershop 2. Theater review of 'Sanctified' at the Lincoln Theatre
  • I like old fashioned barbershops - currently I go to one that hasn't changed since the 40's (including the barbers) and is located opposite the Bank of America on Pine St. in San Francisco.
  • Nevada City was an authentic old western town with a music hall, blacksmith shop, barbershop, saloons, and a saddler. Miles to Go
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  • Barbershop singing originated in the US at the turn of the last century, when quartets would sing in real barbers' shops.
  • However, we have actually served a more diverse ethnic group patronizing these barbershops, including men of African, West Indian, Bahamian, Haitian, and Jamaican heritages.
  • Hip-hop's barbershop quartet, Jurassic Five, returns with Power in Numbers two years after their decent full-length debut, Quality Control.
  • On the other side of the diner from the barbershop was the third business in the building, Harry's Lock and Key. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
  • At times, the record conjures up the image of nine men in carnival masks performing barbershop harmonies.
  • ‘Come on if you think you can take us,’ it goes, with razor-sharp barbershop harmonies.
  • Future programmes will explore every reach of the choral repertoire, including gospel, liturgical, male-voice, barbershop and other styles from around the world.
  • His harmony parts for the ‘Gentlemen of the Ensemble’ frame the 1906 tune in perfect barbershop style.
  • Despite the poor results, several people with knowledge of the matter said the idea to put the undercover officer in the barbershop was a good one. NYT > Home Page
  • The barbershop is a place where you can feel free to have this kind of discussion and opinion. 'Barbershop' Brouhaha
  • I'm going to the barbershop to get a trim.
  • Where you might be able to catch her singing if you have no patience for barbershop harmonies: At Vocalz on Crescent doing the karaoke thing.
  • From the barbershops to newsrooms to college classrooms, the issue of Black prominence in sports and social activism gets aired frequently, according to observers.
  • When Mark Brown wrote the script, these were conversations he'd heard in barbershops before.
  • Four singers from Bolton helped a top ladies' barbershop group win the European Barbershop Singing Championships in Holland.
  • Barbershop singing originated in the US at the turn of the last century, when quartets would sing in real barbers' shops.
  • In addition to the established barbershops, some enterprising individuals, armed with just shears and comb, offered haircutting services out of their homes.
  • Even the barbershop, a well-defined space, with its emphasis on male bonding and brotherliness, is limited in its role in bringing about solidarity.
  • There were ballrooms, three dining rooms, a social hall, beauty and barbershops, four bars, a Grand Salon and other entertainment salons.
  • He has a barbershop, beauty shop and nail salon and plans to add a deli, coffee shop and ice cream parlor.
  • Community-focused businesses like barbershops and post offices are scattered throughout the ground floors of various buildings as well, to encourage mingling.
  • Before the two of them left for the barbershop, Myrna Louise took her son aside and talked to him, telling him how he should behave. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
  • He has a barbershop, beauty shop and nail salon and plans to add a deli, coffee shop and ice cream parlor.
  • They were then entertained by Grand Parade, an award winning barbershop quartet made up of four singers from various parts of the world who gave a wonderful performance to a very appreciative audience.
  • I live in the suburbs surrounded by salons and barbershops.
  • In it, Bearden alternates between the commotion of Harlem -- street cars and barbershops, friends congregating on the corner -- and our quietest possible moments on earth -- through one of the building's windows, a couple makes love; through another, a man sits by himself on the backstairs. Bobby Elliott: New York's Centennial Celebration of Romare Bearden (1911 - 1988)
  • These intervention programs make use of lay leadership in churches, schools, beauty salons, barbershops, tattoo and body piercing salons, and laundromats.
  • Let's face it...on the surface, the biggest thing happening in this town is the "Kanawha Kordsmen Barbershop Chorus" performing tonight at the "Clay Center for the Arts," & the town's motto is Latin for "Hey, we just got cable! LOSTCasts 55: The Brig
  • For some reason, this article in yesterdays Times-Picayune on the appearance of improvised, outdoor barbershops in the city makes me extremely happy: Making 'doMy favorite quote? Speaking of Barbershops...
  • Also underplayed by the media, but probably a hot topic in black barbershops, was another Census report last week.
  • Swell stuff for those who prefer their melancholy with a beat and some barbershop harmony.
  • Let us do it instead of wasting money in shebeens and taverns, saloons, barbershop and cosmetic shops.
  • Rosales stopped at a barbershop in downtown Glendale, a suburb west of Phoenix.
  • They were talking about it in the barbershops and on the corners.
  • Before the two of them left for the barbershop, Myrna Louise took her son aside and talked to him, telling him how he should behave. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
  • Women apparently began performing in barbershop style in the 1930s & 1940s.
  • Released in 2001, their first single, Shadows Fall, opens with a loping reggae rhythm topped off with barbershop quartet harmonies, before unexpectedly exploding into big-band jazz.
  • He has previously located and recorded the remarkable details of the vernacular: truck-stop pool tables, barbershops and an entire nation of baseball parks.
  • In both fallen cities, people lined up at barbershops to shave their once-mandatory beards.
  • There were ballrooms, three dining rooms, a social hall, beauty and barbershops, four bars, a Grand Salon and other entertainment salons.
  • Adam’s ears were perpetually red-hot, like someone who seems to have just come back from the barbershop, and he was a jiggler; a crossed leg often went flapping like a wing, and if a pencil happened to make its way into his hand, it would soon be put into service tapping out a rhythm that no one in the otherwise silent coffee shop or classroom wanted to hear. Surrender, Dorothy
  • Buy the full set and marvel as they perform barbershop style - perfect for that distinctive housewarming.
  • Letters CARPETS are fadedly spelled onto brick-walled structures; now a painted sign reads St. Bernard Barbershop. Julie Fefferman: Holiday in St. Bernard
  • Bookmaking and policy syndicates were often backed by Irish Americans in saloons, barbershops, and other neighborhood outlets, so that syndicate backers became important local political figures.
  • As anyone who's been to an African-American barbershop knows, the conversation flows freely.
  • As well as the music, the barbershop chorus will also hold a raffle in The Strand to raise funds for equipment and uniforms for the coming year.
  • On February 28 a large crowd estimated at 1200 people gathered in the park for easy listening music including barbershop singing groups.
  • Beauty salons and barbershops entice potential customers with colorful portraits of well-coifed heads that look more like art pieces than hairstyles.
  • Access to public services and facilities like restaurants, theaters, barbershops, and swimming pools was routinely denied them.
  • These intervention programs make use of lay leadership in churches, schools, beauty salons, barbershops, tattoo and body piercing salons, and laundromats.
  • It was the kind of music you'd hear in music halls, saloons, whorehouses, or barbershops.
  • Rosales stopped at a barbershop in downtown Glendale, a suburb west of Phoenix.
  • When the hero goes back in time the same garage is shown as sparkling clean and attended by a bevy of service attendants who, if I've remembered this right, sing in harmony like a barbershop quartet.
  • Next beyond the barbershop, which is two doors beyond the general store and postoffice, was a little one-story building, weather-beaten and badly in need of paint. Thankful's Inheritance
  • The practise of harmonising popular tunes by ear became popular throughout the 1920s in places where men met up regularly – in barbershops, for instance, although the style was also referred to as "kerbstone harmony". The secret of barbershop: harmonise, project – and smile!
  • He pedals to the barbershop, to his doctor appointments, to visit his friends and go out to lunch.
  • Also appearing are the Wellingtones, a local male barbershop chorus.
  • For almost a century, ‘Down in Jungle Town’ has been a favorite with barbershop quartets because it permits close harmony at a rapid tempo.
  • Sell your music at flea markets, barbershops, beauty salons, birthday parties, car washes, and any place you think people will buy it.
  • Its sidewalks are inlaid with large musical notes, and a collage of the Junction's musical history adorns the side of a barbershop that years ago was one of the Junction's favorite juke joints.
  • But my barbershop is actually a salon in disguise, and all the manly men have taken to services once reserved for women like ducks to water. Archive 2003-09-01
  • I have been carrying these photos around to various barbershops in San Francisco and saying, ‘Give me this haircut,’ and getting disastrous results.
  • he joined a barbershop quartet
  • Their first single opens with a loping reggae rhythm topped off with barbershop quartet harmonies, before unexpectedly exploding into big-band jazz.
  • Monthly quality assurance inspections and assessments were made of dining facilities, water-production sites, ice plants, detention cells, barbershops, and base camps.
  • The overdubs on Young Liars and Desperate Youth create the illusion of four or five voices where there are usually one or two, hence the doo-wop and even barbershop comparisons.
  • Homer, Strange, and Marty the Mysterious Milkman, are busy sampling all the party treats, as the Merry Calypso Singers treat everyone to barbershop quartet music.
  • Around 150 people enjoyed a performance by jazz quartet John Currie's Hot Stuff and barbershop singers the Ringtones in the grounds of Peter's Shrivenham Road home.
  • As a result, black businesses were typically small service sector activities such as dressmaking, poolrooms, grocery stores, restaurants and barbershops.
  • To tell you the truth, George's tales of his barbershop are the funniest ones I've heard, in my opinion. Archive 2005-10-09
  • It's the spirituality and soul of the blues filtered through barbershop harmonies, but accompanied in counterpoint by dehumanized pulses and drones.
  • The station has already booked Chinese lion dancers, steel pans, reggae and gospel artists as well as barbershop singers and classical musicians and wants to hear from all kinds of other performers to take part.
  • So barbershops and the number of barbers necessary for a given number of troops became a part of the camp support equation.

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