Brendan Buhler

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One couple, two kids, 40 openings: With guarded hopes, they vie to help open hot dog stand on the Strip; Thursday, July 2, 2009; Steven Maples and his fiancee, Jennifer Rogers, are sitting in the back of a ballroom at Red Rock Resort, each waiting to be called for a brief job interview. Jennifer is holding their 2-year-old son, Peter, on her hip, his blond head resting on her chest. Steven is rocking their 9-month-old son, Kevin, in a car seat.
For UNLV professor, groundbreaking work in soil, water field: Tuesday, June 30, 2009; Dale Devitt is, as the joke goes, out standing in his field.
6-pound burrito enters bouts with eaters as heavy favorite: Friday, June 26, 2009; When the burrito leaves the kitchen, it’s announced over a public address system like a train arriving at a station or a boxer entering a ring.
Fighting expansion on Henderson's rural edge, inch at a time: Tuesday, June 23, 2009; Toxic waste dumps, hog farms, sex shops — these are the kinds of businesses that, when they announce they’re moving in, make neighborhoods rise up in revolt.
Zappos’ shy CEO has the company running on happiness: Tuesday, June 16, 2009; Tony Hsieh is the CEO of Zappos, an online shoe store that employs 1,300 people, half of them in Henderson. Last year Zappos had sales worth $1 billion. Hsieh regularly appears on the cover of business magazines. He’s been on Oprah.
Business success for dummies: With lots of humanoid help, Las Vegas Mannequins’ Alison Wainwright defies the recession; Tuesday, June 9, 2009; Alison Wainwright says children who look like mannequins are creepy in a horror-movie way, like the two little girls from “The Shining.” And likewise, she says, mannequins that look like children can make your flesh crawl like an electrified centipede.
TV weathermen lectured on misused term: ‘Monsoons’ do not fit definitions some use on television, expert admonishes; Friday, June 5, 2009; Let’s get it right this year. A monsoon is not a storm. It’s a season.
Imagine: No hunger in Vegas: Three Square co-founder is committed to that goal. She’s working tirelessly to make it happen; Tuesday, June 2, 2009; Julie Murray has in two years helped launch a centralized food bank for the Las Vegas Valley, taken it from her living room into a large warehouse and, in the middle of the fiercest recession in a generation, raised nearly $18 million to expand the food bank.
'Mistress of Sensuality' makes 'Zumanity' accessible: Friday, May 29, 2009; Christopher Kenney’s job description is “Mistress of Sensuality” in Cirque du Soleil’s “Zumanity” at New York-New York. The description really belongs to his drag creation and other self, Edie, an impossibly tall, black-haired throwback to 1960s chanteuses with long, slender (and large-kneed) legs.
Director has high hopes for Nevada Cancer Institute: Wednesday, May 27, 2009; As a doctor, John Ruckdeschel, the recently installed director of the Nevada Cancer Institute, is a clinical oncologist specializing in lung cancer.