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[tougarashi.livejournal.com]

so i recently moved to davis sq. from maine.

does anyone know a decent place to get a haircut? I am more of a barbershop type than a salon...but thought i would hear what you have to say.

Comments

[concrete.livejournal.com]

Walk up to Teele sq on the left side of Holland st, there is an old barbershop by Renee's.

[ron_newman]

I'm not especially picky, so I just go to Supercuts at Mass. and Rindge Aves.

[znhoward.livejournal.com]

Razor's is an independent, locally-owned and -operated barbershop. If you can handle watching whatever's on MTV for 20 minutes, you get a great haircut for $15. They're a walk from Davis - Highland Ave and Cherry St.

Check them out and support local business!

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Salon Cu in Ball Square.

[pushupstairs.livejournal.com]

the little barber shop inside the triangular intersection at Holland & Winter, across from Au Bon Pain. Ann Marie's or Marie Ann's, I think it's called. $10. run by two sisters. totally great.

[spatch]

I'm a barbershop kind of fellow too, and I frequent the barber shop right on Highland in Davis by the Middlesex bank. They usually have the old pictures or the aftershave bottles shaped like cars in the window. Plus there's a striped pole outside and everything. Cuts are $14.00 for big folks and you can talk about the Sox all you like.

[whitefire.livejournal.com]

I second this.

[fanw.livejournal.com]

Mario's is quite nice and sometimes Mario himself will give you a haircut. It's just a little ways up Holland.

[attackpenguin.livejournal.com]

I went to Mario's on Friday, great guys, awesome cut, $20 for guys.

[secretlyironic.livejournal.com]

I third it. Anne Marie's is great.

Similar shops, slightly further away: La Flamme in Harvard, "John's Barber Shop" on Prospect in Central, and the Kendall barber Shop on Main St. in Kendall Sq.... (all of them very close to the T). These last three do the whole "hot foam and straight razor on the back of the neck" deal, which depending on your view is scary or awesome or both.

[hissilliness.livejournal.com]

Salon style, but near-barbershop prices. I love them.

[inkscarred.livejournal.com]

second this

[darthcr1.livejournal.com]

My all-time favorite is the Kendall Sq. barbershop ($17 as I recall it), but they have this problematic insistence of only being open from 9-5, and only on weekdays. They do the straight razor detailing and when you're done they vacuum the hairs from your head, which to my mind is the COOLEST thing ever as haircuts go.

My current favorite is Charlie's Barbershop ($14) just outside of Porter Sq. (head down Mass. Ave toward Harvard Sq. and they're on the left. They're as good as Kendall, and use the straight razor, sadly no vacuum. On the upside they're open evenings and weekends.

LaFlamme? I know guys who swear by them, but the cut I got was pretty sub-average.

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i love how laidback the environment is in there and you can get a pop culture debate going with EVERYONE included.

that reminds me, i forgot to book an appointment for tomorrow. wuh wuh.

[wallacestreet.livejournal.com]

Fourth. Not only is Anne Marie's great, but Anne Marie herself is fantastic. Not only will you get a great haircut for $10 (tip generously, please), but you'll learn more about Somerville in your 30 minutes there than you would in months elsewhere. It's a riot and, as a bonus, she gives great haircuts. Go.

p.s. welcome to the neighborhood

[nowalmart.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Anne Marie and her sister are both really wonderful.

I once decided to grow my hair out a bit and they told me after one trim that if I decided the next week I wanted it back to its normal shorter length I should come back in and they would shorted it right up, no charge.

[dirty-devlin.livejournal.com]

Someone above mentioned the barbershop near Renee's. That's Alibrandi's. I think it's great for a buzzcut - $10. (I get mine cut short so I'm not sure how they'd do w/ a longer haircut.) But Mario's (as others have mentioned) is excellent too and only $20.