Mountain lions, barbershops and Vox, oh my!
By Lauren Zima
Bigfoot. The Loch Ness monster. Area 51. As a child I was enthralled by legends and lore — I pored over books about the Bermuda Triangle, and I loved the Indiana Jones movies. My juvenile obsession with these monster myths reared its dorky head when I read our feature on mountain lions in Missouri: Are they real? Could they be in your back yard? Use your cat-like reflexes to discover what’s fact versus fiction.
Another childhood quirk: I hated getting my hair cut. I loved my long (we’re talking past-my-waist long) hair, and looking back at pictures of myself, I wonder why my mother allowed me to resemble Cousin Itt so closely. I clearly could’ve used the razor-sharp wit and classic cuts offered by the local barbershops profiled in our feature. Of course, I might have felt a bit out of place. For these old-school barbers, theirs is a man’s world.
Other businesses turn a focus beyond Columbia’s residents: We have a story on local efforts to raise money for relief in Haiti. Oftentimes it’s the true stories that are the most fascinating.
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