So I've never been a fan

Of Jennifer 8. Lee (don't get me started on the "8") but where were the editors in this lede? (all credit fot this post goes to Gawker - just lighting my own little signal fire between Minas Tirith and Rohan)

On Broadway, the beauty-salon drama "Steel Magnolias" opened this month to mixed reviews. But in the real salons that tend to the city's countless cornrows and braids and weaves and other styles, there is a frighteningly real drama unfolding with a different sort of steel: the kind that is pulled out of a robber's pocket and pointed at the woman nearest the cash drawer.

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