Omar, the guy who runs the copy shop around the corner from my house.

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And in November and December, the NFT is screening the films of Hollywood star James Stewart, including Harvey, It's a Wonderful Life, The Shop Around the Corner, The Philadelphia Story and Vertigo.

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With a pencil moustache and hennaed comb-over, the owner, David Wong, presides from a desk in the corner, eyes darting around the shop as his underlings measure, consult and jawbone with the customers.

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The winner of my informal poll on where to get the best ice cream was nearly unanimously Juice Bar (12 Broad Street, 508-228-5799), a small corner shop in Nantucket town that deservedly has a line snaking out its door and around the corner during high season.

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That created a stir in Sam's Barber Shop, tucked into a strip shopping center around the corner from City Hall.

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