A man dressed in a powder-blue shirt and jeans squints briefly as he leans over a boy's head, studying his hair for symmetry. The boy sits in a well-worn brown leather barber's chair, fresh clippings of hair slide down a smooth cloth resembling a large plastic cape encircling his small shoulders.

The steady buzz from the electric clippers in the barber's hand hangs in the air, mixing with the chatter of several customers bickering excitedly about the future of Lute Olson's Wildcats. [Read article]