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Arthur Goldman, 73, of Germantown, owner of a hair salon there, died of pulmonary failure Tuesday at Roxborough Memorial Hospital. A 1954 graduate of Simon Gratz High School, Mr. Goldman took business administration classes at Temple University for a few years before leaving. In 1968, he opened his salon, King Arthur's Court, in the lobby of the Hathaway House, an apartment building on Chelten Avenue near Wissahickon Avenue. In the late 1970s, Mr. Goldman renamed it Arthur's Hair Designers, which by then had a racially integrated staff and clientele, said his son, Peter.

A makeover for most American women doesn't involve a stint on the reality show Extreme Makeover, for which contestants undergo fairy-tale metamorphoses valued at the price of an executive home. No, most of us don't spend megabucks on lid lifts, tummy tucks and dental work that render us perfect strangers to family and friends. However, we may easily spend $100 a month visiting our favorite hair salon for color, cuts and styling that transform our everyday hairdos into Vanity Fair coifs.

Gloucester Township police are searching for a man caught on surveillance video breaking into Sun Island Tanning on Berlin Cross Keys Road over the weekend. Police say a thin-built man wearing a skull cap and bandana covering his face broke into the salon through the front door 2:10 a.m. Saturday. The video shows the thief heading directly to a cash register where he stole an undisclosed amount of money. Dressed in black, he wore a back pack and work gloves. Police are asking anyone with information to call 856-228-4500; or, leave a message on the Gloucester Township anonymous tip line at 856-842-5560.

A 33-year-old woman who ran a hair salon in East Falls was shot to death yesterday morning by her live-in boyfriend at their North Philadelphia home, police said. James Glover, 55, shot Suzanne Harrison at least twice with a five-shot revolver about 8 a.m. in the second-floor bedroom of their rowhouse in the 3000 block of North Bambrey Street, said Homicide Capt. Stephen Glenn. Glover, who reportedly worked as a barber at a shop on Lehigh Avenue, was still in the house when police arrived.

Phyllis and Victor Freeman want to spread the word of the Lord. Their hook is haircuts. The couple opened their newest venture - and christened it Divine Touch - six months ago. The rules are posted on the white walls of the salon: no cursing, and no smoking. On a glass table, a Bible is opened to Psalms. Booklets of verses are just a hand-grab away. Take 'em or leave 'em. The Freemans say they don't want to push religion. Divine Touch has struggled in a depressed neighborhood and unsteady business district of Paulsboro, one of Gloucester County's poorest municipalities.

Homicide detectives are making a fresh push in their probe of a Southwest Philadelphia mother's March execution and have begun canvassing the victim's neighborhood with a new composite drawing of her hit man. Based on new information provided by people already questioned about the March 6 murder of Donna Willard, police believe the killer was accompanied by another man who waited behind the wheel of a large, dark-colored car. Willard, 34,...

Nothing like a coup to put life in perspective. "Politics is important," said Era Alevsky, 36, a manicurist from the Ukraine. "But you have to take care to be beautiful, too. " The talk these days is of glasnost and manicures at Shideh's, a nail and skin salon on 18th Street near Sansom. There, four Soviet emigres file, buff and polish nails while keeping a scorecard of who's who and what's what in the Kremlin. Much of the talk at lunchtime yesterday, before news of the coup's failure, was comparing the sudden and mysterious health problems of the self-proclaimed Soviet leaders.

A Philadelphia woman died at the hands of an unknown assailant Monday in the Bucks County nail shop that she owned, according to police. Annie Huynh, 30, was found dead after police went to the store, Kim's Nails, when employees arrived there about 9:20 a.m. and found the business still locked. Police would not say where Huynh's body was found in the store, which is in the Pike Plaza Shopping Center, on Second Street Pike in Upper Southampton Township. No obvious signs of trauma were visible on her body, and it was only after an autopsy was completed Monday night that Huynh's death was declared a homicide, said Upper Southampton Police Chief Ron MacPherson.

Anthony Rulli has built a reputation for taming tresses, but now the South Jersey stylist is on the cutting edge. He's behind the wheel of a mobile hair salon, offering door-to-door service for kids and adults of all ages. Cuts, blow-dries and perms available - by appointment only. Rulli is the owner and operator of Hair I Go, a tiny hair cuttery packed into a 30-foot white Winnebago. The business just may be the first of its kind in the region. The only competitor known to Rulli is on the West Coast.

The Erotic Literary Salon pounds with words, those words, the ones not usually uttered in polite company - or in private without a blush. But few at the Bohemian Absinthe Lounge at Time, a restaurant-bar at 13th and Sansom Streets, look particularly shocked. Not Lou Ludovici, 70, of Fox Chase, a commercial radio engineer in the middle of a divorce. Nor Rachel Fogletto, 24, a social work student at the University of Pennsylvania who's interested in "anything on the taboo side.

Councilman William Greenlee hopes not to get burnt Thursday when his indoor-tanning bill comes up for a vote. Citing what he called "a preponderance of evidence" that indoor tanning greatly raises one's risk of developing skin cancer, Greenlee has introduced a bill that would restrict minors from using indoor-tanning facilities in Philadelphia without parental permission. The measure would also prohibit those younger than 14 from using commercial tanning beds and other ultraviolet-emitting equipment without a doctor's permission.

LAST WEEK, City Council dealt with zoning issues and discussed looming school closures, but on Thursday the legislative body takes on a new controversial issue: tanning beds. The indoor-tanning industry has come under fire recently after the American Suntanning Association tried to dispute that tanning raises the risk of skin cancer. To make indoor tanning aficionados aware of the risks, Councilman Bill Greenlee will introduce a bill that would require a minor to be accompanied by an adult when tanning at a salon.

Members of a violent gang that staged home invasions at the residences of five Asian business owners were sentenced Tuesday in Philadelphia. The gang targeted the nail salon owners in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, said Robert Livermore, Assistant U.S. Attorney. Several of the gang members, including Thach Van Nguyen, 34, of Wall Township, N.J., had formerly worked in the nail salon business. "He knew three of the owners and had been to their homes," Livermore said.

Philadelphia police are searching for the gunman who was caught on surveillance video during two violent West Philadelphia nail salon stick-ups. A store camera appears to have caught a clean shot of the man, Lt. John Walker of Southwest Detectives said. Around 11 a.m. Thursday, the gunman burst into the Myly Nail Salon on the 6200 block Lansdowne Avenue and pointed a small handgun at the store owner as she was working on a customer. He told the woman "to shut up unless you want to die," Walker said, before fleeing with $100.

Philadelphia Police are searching for a suspect caught on surveillance camera during two violent West Philadelphia nail salon stick-ups. A store surveillance camera appears to have caught a clean shot of the suspect in the two hold-ups, said Lt. John Walker, of Southwest Detectives. Around 11 a.m., Thursday, the gunmen burst into the Myly Nail Salon on the 6200 block Lansdowne Avenue, and put a small black handgun to the store owner as she was working on a customer. The gunman told the woman "to shut up unless you want to die," Walker said, before fleeing with $100.

At this summer camp, no one will be shooting arrows, riding horses, or throwing pottery. When it's "salon camp," days are filled with facials, mani-pedis, hairstyling, and makeup.   The seven girls enrolled in this one-week camp, held throughout the summer in the air-conditioned confines of the Hairs to You Salon in Bala Cynwyd, are loving the lessons from the pros and practicing on one another. No one here aspires to be a cosmetologist, but getting the skinny on tween and teen pastimes such as pampering and makeovers is a dress-up dream for the campers.

The more things change elsewhere, the more they seem to stay the same in Philadelphia. So it should come as no surprise that the grand dining room at Le Bec-Fin, designed in 1983 to evoke the sumptuous Paris salons of the ancien regime, was given just the lightest of makeovers by its new owner for its much-anticipated reopening this week. The forest of delicate, bone-white paneling remains in place on the walls, culminating at the ceiling in an intricate band of molding frosted with real gilt.

Long before Groupon, mobile apps, and businesses' embrace of the Internet as an advertising tool, Anthony Rossano became a salon owner. That was nearly 23 years ago, when the hair-care industry was a modest world. Considering themselves artists, stylists were repulsed by the idea of marketing for customers. After all, did Andrew Wyeth or Pablo Picasso take out ads to attract buyers for their creations? So Rossano made a lot of hairs stand on end when he went from hands-off investor to operator of the chic Thomas Bernard's salon in Cherry Hill - now known as Bernard's Salon & Spa - when its namesake died in 1990.

A police cruiser crashed into a hair salon Friday night in the Elmwood section of Southwest Philadelphia, leaving one officer hospitalized, police said. The cruiser was traveling west on Buist Avenue at Massey Street about 7:30 p.m. when a vehicle in front of it attempted a sudden U-turn, police said. The cruiser swerved to avoid the turning vehicle and crashed into the front of the salon. One officer suffered a possible broken arm and neck pain, and was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in stable condition.