He now gets a perm every time he visits his barber in downtown Manhattan. Perms, or the permanent wave, have been a fixture of American culture since the late 19th century and reached peak ...

Led by radio-conquering singles "Freewill" and "The Spirit of Radio," Rush's 1980 album Permanent Waves helped launch the Canadian trio into rock's top tier of arena-fillers. How much the cover ...

That day has arrived for perms. Hair salons across metro Detroit are seeing a blast from the past with the return of the permanent wave, a chemical process that turns straight hair curly.

Thus the permanent wave was born. Not content with his triumph, Nessler was busy on many another front. He patented more than a score of hairdressing devices (curlers, solutions, testing machines ...