Brendan Buhler

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A shoulder, or two, to lean on: Small-business owners get together to share ideas, referrals; Friday, May 16, 2008; A mortgage broker, an electrician, a chiropractor and a funeral planner walk into a bar, but it’s not what you think. For one thing, the occasion is breakfast. For another thing, they came to talk about business, along with 14 other small-business people, no two of them in the same line of work.
The academics of party planning: The young man in this picture is in class. Really. A UNLV class on nightclub management. This was his final exam.; Saturday, May 10, 2008; Some final exams are different. Here’s one for a UNLV class. Throw a giant, adults-only pool party behind the MGM Grand featuring $5 mojitos, topless dancers from Scores-Las Vegas, a volleyball tournament and more.
True sign of the times: Vegas tips are slipping: Service workers report business is down, customers are less generous; Thursday, May 8, 2008; First-quarter room occupancy is down 1 percentage point, Boyd Gaming’s Las Vegas revenue is down 5 or 6 percent, MGM Mirage’s revenue is down 30 percent, and Stacy Taylor’s income is down 40 percent. And as part of the 10 percent of the Las Vegas labor force that earns tip income, she might be considered a barometer of the Las Vegas economy.
Search for suave turns up shorts, T’s: Good news for contestants: Clothes that make the man don’t have to be his; Tuesday, April 29, 2008; Sure, many of them looked snazzy in the multithousand-dollar loaner suits and some guys even posed in their own clothes, but did any of them have what it takes to succeed Frank Kelly, Esquire magazine’s Best Dressed Real Man in America (2007)?
‘Some are born great ... some have greatness thrust upon them’: Less than a second into 1946, she became the first Baby Boomer; Saturday, April 26, 2008; Kathleen Casey-Kirschling has a press agent because she was born. Or, more accurately, because of the importance of her birth moment.
Not exactly magic, but pretty unnatural: Liger on the Strip: Friday, April 18, 2008; Enter the liger. Yes, Las Vegas is getting a liger, potentially the most terrifying hybrid to stride the Strip since French-Canadian singer Celine Dion.
Foreclosure hits the big guys, too: Vacant Henderson house practically a steal at $2.35 million; Wednesday, April 16, 2008; With its lightly used 19 rooms — not counting the nine bathrooms, the studio-apartment-sized foyers and the six walk-in closets — and with its four fireplaces, three balconies, two wet bars, pool and spa, 821 Majestic Ridge Court really is what the ad says, a “luxury foreclosure.”
Just try trumping this: Latest Donald triumph feted by pols, glamour gals, industry bigwigs; Saturday, April 12, 2008; The new Trump International Hotel & Tower is the soul of class, cast in bronze, dipped in gold, placed on a marble pedestal and surrounded by mirrors. Which is to say, it and Donald Trump belong here. And judging by the reception he got Friday morning at the second opening of the building (this was the ribbon-cutting one), we seem to want him here.
A motivational speech for ‘Passion’ peddlers: ‘Chicken Soup’ creator offers ‘Secret’ to success: Wishing makes it so; Thursday, April 3, 2008; Jack Canfield, motivational speaker and millionaire creator of the best-selling “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series, takes the stage as New Age music plays and success slogans are projected on screens. A woman screams, “I love you!”
One planet, under pinball: In an increasingly divided and chaotic world, advocates pin their hopes on unifying, but waning, game; Tuesday, April 1, 2008; “I’m not suggesting that pinball is going to bring the world together,” Roger Sharpe says, right before he explains how pinball can bring the world together.