Stars and Stripes • May 1, 2008 Giuseppe Muré sits in his barber shop at Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany. For the past two months, AAFES has paid Muré less money than is in his contract.

Fondrenites may have noticed a new addition to the neighborhood: a small spinning pole with red and blue stripes. Is it a bird, a plane? No, it's the barber pole for Eddie Outlaw and Justin ...

RED AND FRIGHT This is the pretty morbid reason why barber poles are traditionally painted with red and white stripes… and it’s got nothing to do with patriotism ...

There are many reasons why ticking stripes have prevailed through eras of design. The close proximity of the stripes makes them more subtle than barber-shop, Breton, or circus tent-inspired ...

Lance Cpl. Athanasios Genos, 22, a combat correspondent for the 2nd Marine Division out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., takes a break for a haircut and massage at the Turkish-run Marine Express barber at ...

The red, white and (sometimes) blue stripes on barber poles reflect that history. As early as A.D. 1000, barber-surgeons' work began appearing in monasteries, according to the Encyclopedia of ...

William Marvy didn't invent the barber pole (its red and white stripes date back to 11th-century Europe, when barbers were also surgeons and would hang their bloody bandages out to dry; the blue ...

Earning stripes: N.B. law would restrict use of barber's pole A Saint John Liberal member of the legislature is in a lather over who gets to use the iconic image of the barber's pole.

GLENS FALLS — Russ Barber has competed in international hot air balloon events plenty of times. But his “Stars & Stripes” balloon with a huge “I Love New York” ban… ...

Remember the Kensington resident who pissed off her neighbourhood by painting her three-storey Georgian house in barber-shop stripes? Well, the candy house is back in the news again after its ...