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Sunday, Sept. 18: Wizard's Hairspa 30th Anniversary Bash

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The Twang Junkies will join the party at The Swiss.

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Wizard's Hairspa celebrates 30 years of turning heads this year. In 1979, Mark Leibel opened Ozone Tonsorial Parlor in Tacoma's Stadium District, and co-owned Ozone II in Lakewood, which he later turned into Wizard's Hairspa.

In the early '90s, Leibel, his wife, Deborah, and Benno Waler opened Galleria on Broadway in downtown Tacoma. Terry Rishel - Chihuly's photographer for years - ran a photography studio in the back.

Sunday, Wizard's Hairspa will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a bash featuring live music, silent auction and a raffle. Schedule to perform are bluegrass band The Graham Crackers, country bands Eddie Gillan's Lovechild and Twang Junkies, blues band Big Nasty, Leibel's band The Blonds and guests. It's rumored one of the guests might be Wizard's Hairspa stylist and singer Denny Porter (Blue Baboons, Running With Scissors).

Money collected from the $5 donation admission fee and silent auction will benefit the Coalition: HUMAnE Spay and Neuter Clinic. The clinic's mission is to promote and provide low cost spay and neuter services for pet cats and dogs, as well as feral cats in an attempt to stop the needless killing of companion animals due to overpopulation.

"This local clinic makes a difference and the money we raise will go directly to the cause, instead of getting eaten up by administration," says Leibel.

Sunday's party has fun written all over it.

Wizard's Hairspa 30th Anniversary Party

Sunday, Sept. 18, 3-10 p.m., $5 donation
The Swiss, 1904 S. Jefferson Ave., Tacoma
253.588.5544

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