Bayview Corner salon donates hair for oil spill – May 2010

Water and oil don’t mix. But oil and hair do. Brittney DeMartini, owner of La Salon Bella at Bayview Corner, has joined a growing army of clippers across the country who are sending out boxes of shorn locks to help clean up the massive oil spill off America’s southern...

Hair Needed – May 2010

Help with the BP Oil Spill Cleanup For more than a month, millions of gallons of crude have been leaking from an undersea oil well into the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to the people killed when BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, the disaster is killing sea life. The...

HAIR Joins Oil Spill Efforts With “CUT IN” – May 2010

HAIR is cutting for a cause! Producers of the Tony Award-winning musical announced today that the show is partnering with Bumble and bumble to throw a “CUT-IN” on Monday, May 24 from 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. at Bumble and bumble’s Uptown location (146...
Hair Today, Oil Gone Tomorrow?

Hair Today, Oil Gone Tomorrow?

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 today. The line was packed with mostly women, and some men scattered here and there, waiting for their free haircut and a...

In this Crisis, Philanthropy Spills Over in the Keys – May 2010

he constant buzz surrounding the latest oil-spill updates is a déjà vu of circumstances surrounding an impending hurricane. As with a hurricane, it’s too early to know for sure how profound the impact of the spill will be in the Keys but it is never too early...

Lending a helping ‘strand’ to the gulf clean up – May 2010

Nearly a month after an explosion on the drilling rig Deep Horizon, in the Gulf of Mexico, oil is continuing to spill into the gulf at an alarming rate. Containment booms are being set in place to control the spread of the oil slick and other methods are being pursued...