How the Owner of a Doggie Day Spa Spends His Sundays
Brian Taylor runs the business out of his home, but he has also started a mobile service, which has grown popular during the pandemic.
Brian Taylor grooming Teddy, a goldendoodle, at his home studio in Harlem. Credit.Kirsten Luce for The New York Times
By Alyson Krueger
April 30, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
When Brian Taylor grooms his canine clients, sometimes he transforms their fur into all kinds of colors and shapes. “It’s just like hair,” he said. “Artists can turn hair into anything people want, and that’s what I do for dogs.”
VHS and Chill
Frustrated and bored during the pandemic, a barber from Des Moines built an old-school video store in his basement. Just don’t forget to rewind.
April 27, 2021, 6:00 a.m. ET
Some planted a garden during the pandemic, others decluttered their closets. Brian Hogan, a father of two in suburban Des Moines, Iowa, built a video store in his basement. It was an act of pure whimsy, undertaken “out of necessity and boredom,” Mr. Hogan said.
Last fall, Mr. Hogan was fairly miserable. He’d had some health problems over the summer. The pandemic all but obliterated business at his barbershop. To top it off, his favorite local video store, Video Warehouse, where he had spent countless hours growing up, announced it was going out of business after 34 years.