(NBC) – Say it’s free and they’ll line up outside the door. That’s exactly what took place at the trendy Bumble and Bumble hair salon on east 56th Street Tuesday. The line was packed with mostly women, and some men scattered here and there,...
They wanted to help, to do something to stop all that oil from caking the coast. So hundreds of people cut their ponytails and combed their cats, shaved their dogs and sheared their sheep and stuffed boxes and garbage bags full of thick, absorbent hair. Some shipped...
TORRINGTON—Sandy Towne, the owner of Groomingdales, of 1083 East Main Street, is looking for hair—dog hair, cat hair, horse hair, human hair. Groomingdales, a pet grooming shop has started collecting the hair from their clients to send in to Matter Of Trust where it...
I have always been fascinated by random Broadway marketing ideas. Before I started in the industry, I actually thought they were meant to (directly) sell tickets. Now I realize that they are primarily designed to garner publicity, thereby hopefully selling tickets...
WATERTOWN—“Your Haircut is a Life Saver” is the slogan on one of the posters of the national nonprofit ecological organization Matter of Trust, which has called upon the nation’s hair salons, groomers, wool and alpaca farmers and individuals to donate hair clippings...
A slobbering St. Bernard lumbers toward Laura McCartney, followed by a playful toy poodle and a blind Bichon shih tzu that bumps its way around a room. In their own way, animals were contributing to the cleanup of the large oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico after the...
