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Red carpet rolled out of courtroom
Treatment of Michael Jackson’s doctor after appearance before judge opens door for entire new cottage industry
Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
Showing an unprecedented level of creative initiative, the bailiffs at Clark County Family Court have launched a new tourism and job creation initiative: VIP justice.
Taxidermist says every customer has a story to tell
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
Do not say that Rick Smith stuffs dead animals. He mounts them. That’s what taxidermists do.
Google Maps glitch renames Henderson
Monday, Nov. 9, 2009
Welcome to fabulous Rochester, Nev. No, not the ghost town outside of Reno. And no, we didn’t mean Rochester, N.Y.
A DMV for barbering? Not here
Hair-cutter finds it isn’t just a matter of transferring license
Friday, Oct. 30, 2009
All Vernon Williamson wanted to do was what he’s done, off and on, for the past 46 years. He wanted to be a barber.
Pigeons are his mark, the city his foe
Man willing to take war with NLV over bird biz to TV, the Web or court
Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009
Nephi S. Oliva is a man of many passions. Chief among them, at the moment, are pigeons.
Timothy O'Grady, freelance journalist and author
Friday, Oct. 23, 2009
Timothy O’Grady is a freelance journalist and the author of six books.
Firefighters glad to train in shell of Fontainebleau
Monday, Oct. 19, 2009
During the next month, the wrecked economy is going to deliver an important public safety benefit: Las Vegas Valley fire fighters are getting a chance to train for one of the city’s worst nightmares, a high-rise hotel fire. And they’ll be doing in it in a real but unfinished high rise, the stalled Fontainebleau.

Even in recession, those with extravagant tastes are spending
Friday, Oct. 16, 2009
Every week, even in the midst of the recession, patrons of high-end Las Vegas restaurants indulge in one of the world’s most expensive and evanescent ingredients: truffles. Like so much about Las Vegas, truffles are an audacious triumph of decadence over geography. Truffles are the most regional of regional foods. Found primarily in Northern Italy, Croatia and France (and cultivated in Australia), truffles grow underground amid trees and must be hunted with hogs or dogs, animals whose powerful noses can locate the pungent fungi.
Scientist builds something like Google for the bricks of life
Engines for analyzing proteins may find targets for new AIDS drugs
Monday, Oct. 12, 2009
Martin Schiller, UNLV’s newest trophy hire, is primed to run research projects that will identify the targets for the next generation of HIV/AIDS drugs.
Incubators of infidelity, Vegas and the Internet
UNLV researcher studies cheating on the Web, which she says makes the whole world Sin City
Monday, Oct. 5, 2009
You would think Katherine Hertlein has an easy job. She’s studies infidelity and she’s in Las Vegas, two things that go together like threadbare sheets in a cheap motel room rented under a fake name.

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