Spencer Lebowitz, with a pair of scissors and comb in hand, stood over his canvas of the hour – a woman with short, wet blonde locks. “What I do for a living? I make people feel good about themselves,” he said. “Right away.”
It was the evening of January 15 – the first Manhattan Beach city council meeting of 2008.
An army of about 35 elementary school kids, then known as Planet Pals but now called Grades of Green, lined up at City Hall.