Brendan Buhler

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If it smells like Northern Italy, it must be Bellagio: Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010; Why do casinos smell like they do? No, not the smell of menthols, sticky drinks and desperation. That's everywhere. Rather, why does the Bellagio smell like the Bellagio and why does the Venetian smell like an old man who has been wearing the same cologne for 40 years and steadily adding more as his tolerance grows?
If it smells like Northern Italy, it must be Bellagio: Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010; The very real—and carefully researched—world of casino aromas
One-man welcoming committee a human diary for Vegas visitors: Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009; Rodderick Gray pushes wheelchairs through McCarran International Airport’s terminal D, following a loop that takes him from airplane gates to taxi stands to ticketing and around and around again, pushing for about 10 miles a day. He sweats through his uniform’s baseball caps until they shine, until he can’t wash his sweat out of the caps and he has to throw them out.
Red carpet rolled out of courtroom: 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: 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: 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.