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This time, the buzz is positive as barber works on Skid Row
Los Angeles Times
|November 27, 2025
His Main St. shop was involved in a flap with homeless people. Now he's serving them.
Shalom Styles woke up around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday to pick up his barbers from his downtown business and start cutting hair at Los Angeles Mission in Skid Row.
By 9 a.m., he'd shaved and shaped up more than 100 heads of hair, he said.
"It feels good. I'm happy I can do this, do the right thing," said Styles, whose store got some unwanted attention in May when the building owner that leases to him started blasting the children's song "Baby Shark" from their Main Street building to deter homeless people from staying in the area.
Styles has been cutting hair since he was 13 in New York, he said, and was looking forward to the morning trip to the shelter to give some free cuts before a host of city leaders stopped by for a Thanksgiving giveaway for Skid Row's residents.
The event was also part of a way for him and his staff to give back in the wake of [See Barber, B5]
This story is from the November 27, 2025 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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