Tiffany Brown

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Four bullets later: Friday, May 14, 2010; Three years after being paralyzed in a shooting at Minxx strip club in 2007, guitarist Tom Urbanski takes to the stage again.
Playing the pain away: Friday, May 14, 2010; “I go into days where I go into funks ... and the pain gets so bad. I go and I grab my guitar and I can put an old CD on and just jam along with it, and I just zone out and go into another world. And pain, pain goes away,” Tom Urbanski says.
Calling in the big guns for avalanche prevention: Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010; On Mt. Charleston, a World War II-era howitzer is charged with keeping slopes safe.
Safety team at Mount Charleston uses Army artillery to clear snow for skiers: Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010; The World War II-era 105 mm howitzer visibly launches 4.8 pounds of composition B high-explosive ammunition toward the slopes of Mount Charleston, leaving a cloud of smoke and the pungent smell of gun powder mixing with falling snow. The men pause in silence, all heads turned to the mountain. Ten seconds later comes the thunderous explosion of the shell exploding on impact.
Tiffany Brown - Life is in the details: Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009; It’s been said that life is in the details. As a photographer in a world so hurried, in a city as visually overindulgent as Las Vegas, it’s the close examination that often allows me to discover overlooked gems, a more focused approach to the eye-candy around us. And I hope these pictures offer readers a different way of seeing the ordinary.
11:11:11 a.m.: Right on time for good fortune: Thursday, April 30, 2009; This wall of clocks at the National Association of Broadcasters show at the Las Vegas Convention Center last week brought to mind that superstition of making a wish when a digital clock reads all one number.
Photo: A mural of a different sort: Wednesday, March 25, 2009; Shane Salyards of Garden City, Mo., a gaffer, or electrician, with the reality show “Extreme Home Makeover,” takes a break for a treat from an ice cream truck with other crew members and volunteers in the Las Vegas arts district.
Sights Unseen: Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009; After almost two years of presidential campaign coverage I thought it appropriate to pull out a few of my politically themed pictures from the 100,000 or so images that I shot for the Sun -- and on my own time -- in 2008.
Santa Claus pauses for a tuneup: Friday, Dec. 19, 2008; Ol’ Saint Nick and his elves navigate a parking lot after the big fella’s medical exam Tuesday morning at Humana Guidance Center in Henderson.
A start-gun wedding: Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008; Kymmith Handy carries his bride, Vikki Richardson, after finishing the Las Vegas Half Marathon.