Brendan Buhler

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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.
Happy (already) holidays — and shopping: On the heels of summer heat, ailing retailers gear up for Yuletide cheer and spending; Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009; The plastic Christmas trees appeared in Costco and Lowe’s just after Labor Day, when the daily high temperatures in Las Vegas still topped 100. If there’s such a thing as a “war on Christmas,” it’s time to surrender.
It isn’t marriage, but partners now have rights they’ve long sought: Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009; They’ve been together for over nine years. Most of their time revolves around the kids: dropping off, picking up, going to games and recitals, meeting with teachers, reminding about chores and nursing colds. In the evenings, their family has dinner together and yet they still find time for just the two of them, to laugh and tease and flirt and say, “I love you.”
And today, Carline Banegas and Jodie Dearborn will be one of nearly 700 couples receiving Nevada’s first domestic partnership certificates.
Scientist works in her field, out of her element: UNLV associate dean of hotel college ... studies rice ... from the desert; Friday, Sept. 25, 2009; Christine Bergman is an established laboratory scientist specializing in rice and considers herself part of the slow food movement, an advocate for environmentally responsible food that is local, sustainable and healthy.