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Brown Betty Dessert Boutiques Donates Gourmet Selections for The Grooming...
Brown Betty Dessert Boutique is donating cupcakes to our wine and beer fundraiser. I am a sucker for cake; especially cupcakes. Blame my mother who is a master baker. So when Norrinda Brown Hayat,...
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Checklist for Our Wine & Beer Tasting that is Just Days Away
Wine and Beer Tasting fundraiser on May 18 in Newark, NJ 131 Brunswick Street for The Grooming Blueprint, a campaign by Seventy Sixes Barbershop Lagers, pale ales and stouts.Check. Pinot, Merlot and...
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Newark-Based Shabazz Fruit Cola Donates to the Grooming Blueprint
Frankie Shabazz founder of Shabazz Fruit Cola will be donating five cases of soft drinks for our wine and beer tasting. This will add to our non-alcoholic beverages. Last week I got a response from one...
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Be Inspired, Be Courageous, Show Up
Our “Central Park” in Newark is called Weequahic. It is known for its miles of jogging and walking paths, fishing, golf courses, cherry blossom trees, skating rinks, football and soccer fields. In the...
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Great Evening at The Grooming Blueprint Wine & Beer Fundraiser
The Grooming Blueprint founders, Kaia Shivers and Duane Reed enjoy their evening. Duane Reed is owner of Seventy Sixes barbershop. Our first wine and beer fundraiser was spectacular. No, it was...
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Seventy Sixes Participation in Newark Small Business Week
Seventy Sixes is participating in Newark Small Business Week sponsored by Newark Pulse. This year, Newark Small Business Week will be hosting workshops in the city, and also highlight locally-owned...
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Fatherhood Buzz and FREE Ice Cream, Saturday June 15
Join us for some great dialogue and ice cream in celebration of fathers. In conjunction with our program, The Grooming Blueprint, we will be celebrating Father’s Day this Saturday, June 15 with FREE...
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REMINDER: Fatherhood Buzz and FREE Ice Cream Today @ Seventy Sixes
Join us for some great dialogue and ice cream in celebration of fathers. In conjunction with our program, The Grooming Blueprint, we will be celebrating Father’s Day this Saturday, June 15 with FREE...
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Seven Reasons to Buy & Shop Locally
1. Preserves and encourages communities to maintain their own character and personality. Small and local businesses are customized ventures void of franchise stamps. That means you will experience a...
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End of the School Year Ice Cream Bash w/ the Taharka Bros!
Seventy Sixes is hosting a Newark summer kick off ice cream party and the Taharka Bros of B-More will be giving away their ice cream in person. Friday, June 21 from 12 – 3 PM in front of our shop, 11...
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Give Back, Get FRESh Summer Begins
The first group of young men for The Grooming Blueprint are from JFK school. These group of teens brightened our day two weeks ago as they talked about summer plans. Rico, Joe and Thomas are...
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JFK visits Seventy Sixes for the Grooming Blueprint Initiative
Here is a short video highlighting participants in The Grooming Blueprint along with our theme song, “Been Around the World” written and performed by Lucky One aka Duane Reed. All the children that...
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How I Got Into Hair Systems
Duane Reed of Seventy Sixes showing a hair systems piece. Every now and again people ask me, “D, what’s a hair system?” I tell them “hair system* is another name for a toupee or a partial wig for men.”...
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Recalibration
Recalibration This winter has been brutal on everyone. The snow, the cold, the potholes in the street, the winter vortex, the pipes breaking, the high heat bills and more snow. Some days I holler, but...
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Bigen Hair Dye Revisited: Find Healthier Options
In 2011, I posted a blog about my experiences with Bigen dye, a popular, inexpensive hair dye used in African American barbershops and salons. I didn’t know that, that would be my most popular post....
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Winter Beer Gut
Spring Training First, let me say that my wife let me put this picture up. She rolled her eyes when I posted it on my Facebook page and I think she took it down. Or maybe it just magically disappeared...
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Mid-Summer Check In
Time flies gets faster in the summer. It is the middle of the season, but the dust of new changes are just settling at the shop. The good news is that there is good news; maybe I should say great news....
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Learning Reciprocity
rec·i·proc·i·ty /ˌresəˈpräsətē/ noun: reciprocity the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit, especially privileges granted by one country or organization to another. Do you...
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Fall Rituals + Open Doors = Beer & Wine Tasting, Oct. 17 @ 5PM
Seventy Sixes Wine & Beer Tasting, October 17, 2014 from 5 – 8 PM. An Open Doors Alternative. FREE EVENT. The fall season almost always magnifies personal and city-wide rituals. For me, the year...
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Autumn Check Up
Seventy Sixes Owner Duane Reed Cuts Client Autumn equinox rolled around and something happened in my life that is making me write. My grandmother passed on the equinox and her transition made me think...
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