Barbershop

Two men confronted another man in an Essex barbershop Wednesday afternoon and shot him, police said. Baltimore County police responded at 2:34 p.m. to the business in the 600 block of S. Marlyn Ave., near Homberg Street and Deep Creek. A 39-year-old man had been injured and he has been taken to an area hospital for treatment. His injuries were not life threatening. The motive for the shooting is still under investigation, police said. Police placed schools in the area on alert status as a precautionary measure.

A 39-year-old man was wounded after a gunman opened fire in a Northeast Baltimore barbershop early Friday, police said. Officers responding to a report of a shooting in the 4300 block of Belair Rd. around 12:30 a.m. found the victim in a rear bathroom suffering from a gunshot wound to his left leg, a police spokesman said. Witnesses told police that a man in a grey hooded sweatshirt ran inside the Cutz 4 Kingz Barbershop and fired at least once. It was unclear if the victim was an employee or a customer — a man who answered the phone at the barbershop hung up on a reporter — but police said he was expected to survive his injuries.

A man was shot several times Thursday afternoon at an Old Town Mall barber shop but was expected to survive, police said. Police tape whipped in the wind as crime scene technicians inspected the inside of the Oldtown Flava Barber Shop, where police spokesman Jeremy Silbert said officers were notified at about 12:05 p.m. that a man had been shot. The barbershop is one of several in a short stretch of the downtown East Baltimore outdoor mall in the 600 block of Aisquith St. Police had no additional details, including the man's age or a motive.

Two men confronted another man in an Essex barbershop Wednesday afternoon and shot him, police said. Baltimore County police responded at 2:34 p.m. to the business in the 600 block of S. Marlyn Ave., near Homberg Street and Deep Creek. A 39-year-old man had been injured and he has been taken to an area hospital for treatment. His injuries were not life threatening. The motive for the shooting is still under investigation, police said. Police placed schools in the area on alert status as a precautionary measure.

The classic sounds of four-part harmony will fill the halls at Martin Spalding High School Saturday when the Sons of the Severn Barbershop Chorus present "We Deliver."The curtain goes up at 8 p.m. Saturday. The musical comedy combines an original script by director Dave Forceland with the music of some of America's favorite songwriters.Joining the group will be performers from the Bay Country Gentlemen, Risky Business and Greenway Station. All of the singers belong to The Society for the Preservation of Barbershop Quartet Singers in America, a nation-wide organization with over 30,000 members.

The county Board of Zoning Appeals has approved a request by Marilyn E. Cross of 832 Frizzellburg Road for a one-chair barbershop in her home.Cross would be the sole owner and operator of the conditional-use barbershop. No one spoke in opposition to the request at a hearing July 24.Cross, a licensed barber, will take clients by appointment only during business hours. She plans to provide adequate parking and upgrade her driveway to comply with zoning regulations.FireTaneytown: Firefighters responded for an investigation in the 500 block of Trevanion Terrace at 11: 51 a.m. Monday.

WASHINGTON -- If you didn't know better, you might think that our most prominent black leaders were running out of serious causes to protest. That might explain why the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton, among some others, decided to pick on one of the most thoughtful comedies about African-Americans that African-Americans in Hollywood have ever produced. I expected to put off seeing the new hit movie Barbershop until it came out on videotape. Movies are too big of a project, requiring too much planning and money, to be taken on capriciously in my family.

Someone broke into a Cape Saint Claire barbershop Tuesday and stole an empty cash register, county police said.Officer Andrew Albach said he was patrolling Cape Saint Claire about 6 a.m., when a citizen flagged him down and told him the front door of the Cape Barber Shop in the 1300 block of Cape Saint Claire Road was open.Albach went to the store and found no witnesses to the crime, but an employee of the barbershop arrived minutes later and contacted owner William Davis of the 300 block of Highland Drive in Edgewater.

The Heart of Maryland Barbershop Chorus will give two performances at River Hill High School in Clarksville for its annual fundraising concert at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sept. 17. Audiences will be treated to a program of barbershop classics, show tunes and patriotic songs. The program will also feature a number of quartets, including the Ringers, All in Accord and the River Hill High School barbershop quartet. The Heart of Maryland Barbershop Chorus has entertained audiences at Orioles games and Flag Day festivities at Fort McHenry, and it is to compete at the Mid-Atlantic Division of Barbershop Choruses in October in Wildwood, N.J. Tickets for the Sept.

I DECIDED TO beat the Holy Week rush by weaving through a sidewalk full of schoolchildren and taking a seat in Rick Citrano's well-lighted Highlandtown barbershop. You'd never call this place a "salon" or a "cuttery." It's pretty much your father's barbershop. Rick gives a no-nonsense haircut for $9. I arrived just as Rick was brushing the trimmings from an elderly man with orange-and-gray hair and preparing to clean up a young man who wanted his brown hair to be as trim as his brown beard.

The death of a 68-year-old woman, who died of complications from injuries suffered when she was set on fire by her son, has been added to Baltimore's homicide total, while detectives were investigating two weekend shootings.  Police said Audrey Collins died in September from injuries suffered in May when her son, Genesis, set himself on fire and jumped onto her at their home in the 3800 block of Cottage Ave. in Northwest Baltimore. Genesis Collins Jr., who police say poured gasoline on his own head, survived the incident and is awaiting trial after being charged in June.

As the owner of a small business in Annapolis, Patti Platt always felt so frazzled and busy that she couldn't imagine taking even one night away to gain a little perspective. Hers, she says, was a life out of sync — or, more aptly, a life out of tune. Then she decided to join the Chesapeake Harmony Chorus. "I used to think there was no way I could make time for something like this," said Platt, 58, as she cheerfully shed her overcoat, did a few vocal warm-up exercises and stepped into a circle of 15 women for a two-hour session of barbershop-style harmonizing Wednesday evening.

A man, who was shot in the head at an East Baltimore barbershop about 7 p.m. Wednesday, remains in critical condition at an area hospital, police said. Homicide detectives are investigating because of the seriousness of the injury, said Detective Nicole Monroe, a Baltimore Police spokeswoman. Police found the victim, who will turn 32 Friday, sitting outside the Upclose Barbershop in the 2200 block of Harford Road, Monroe said. The business sits on the border of the East Baltimore Midway and Darley Park neighborhoods.

A man was shot in the head in an East Baltimore barbershop just before 7 p.m. Wednesday, police said. Homicide detectives are investigating because of the seriousness of the injury, said Detective Nicole Monroe, a Baltimore Police spokeswoman. The man was taken to a nearby hospital and was in critical condition as of 9:30 p.m., she said. The shop is in the 2200 block of Harford Road, Monroe said. It is on the border of the East Baltimore Midway and Darley Park neighborhoods.

Inez Alice Chappell, a former Pennsylvania Avenue manicurist and thoroughbred racing fan, died Nov. 2 of heart failure at Seasons Hospice at Northwest Hospital Center. The Northwest Baltimore resident was 86. The daughter of an a-rab and a homemaker, Miss Chappell was born and raised in West Baltimore and Harlem Park. She was a 1943 graduate of the old Frederick Douglass High School and Cortez Peters Business School. For more than two decades, Miss Chappell worked as a manicurist at Pennsylvania Avenue barbershops.

A man was shot several times Thursday afternoon at an Old Town Mall barber shop but was expected to survive, police said. Police tape whipped in the wind as crime scene technicians inspected the inside of the Oldtown Flava Barber Shop, where police spokesman Jeremy Silbert said officers were notified at about 12:05 p.m. that a man had been shot. The barbershop is one of several in a short stretch of the downtown East Baltimore outdoor mall in the 600 block of Aisquith St. Police had no additional details, including the man's age or a motive.

"BARBERSHOP singing is like ice skating," says Nancy Harring, manager of the women's barbershop chorus Chesapeake Harmony. "You have to learn to do a single jump before you can try a double or a triple." That's why members of the 2-year-old organization - the subject of this column in March - are so excited about their ranking in the annual barbershop competition at Ocean City Convention Center. Chesapeake Harmony finished in 12th place among 21 choruses from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey.

WASHINGTON -- In an act of shear politics, the House of Representatives trimmed its perquisites yesterday by sharply raising prices at its tax-subsidized barbershop.A House administration subcommittee doubled the tab for a basic haircut from $5 to $10 and bumped the bill for a shoeshine from 75 cents to $2 in the barbershop's first round of price increases since 1979.The action comes at a time when polls show voters are in a political lather over congressional benefits. An outcry arose recently over revelations that House members had bounced 8,000 checks at their cooperative bank and owed more than $300,000 at the House restaurant.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun Semmes Guest "Buck" Walsh, a retired Monumental Corp. executive who enjoyed singing, died Friday of a brain tumor at his Owings Mills home. He was 84. Mr. Walsh, the son of a career naval officer and a homemaker, was born and raised in Annapolis. He was a 1943 graduate of Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1946 in civil engineering from Yale University and a master's degree in business from Harvard Business School in 1950.