Brendan Buhler

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The showman behind the bar: Dorian Oldan practices long hours, risks injury to entertain tourists and compete with his peers; Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009; If you haven’t smashed a finger or cut yourself, Dorian Oldan says, you’re not working. At least not at his job. Oldan is a flair bartender — juggling bottles, rolling glasses down your arm, slinging garnishes.
Amid the decline, decadence for the feet: Monday, Jan. 5, 2009; “You have really good feet,” Sonja said.
She went back to filing, trimming, scrapping, sanding and buffing. Later, she would apply toner “to close the pores and make your feet look young,” Sonya explained. And nail polish.
Obama’s in, so they’re coming to Vegas: Republicans plan to ditch D.C. for the inauguration; Monday, Jan. 5, 2009; Finally, good news for Vegas! Oh, Republicans, you and us, we had a bad 2008. In Vegas, we saw foreclosed houses grow thick as flies on an overturned seafood truck and watched our tourism revenue drop like a hot rock through Jell-O. You, of course, were blamed by an ungrateful public for misadventure abroad and economic ruin at home and then hurled out of the executive branch like a hobo off a freight train and now the Other Guy’s poll numbers are ... Oh, sorry.
The jam band scene’s mellow master: Greg Serensits heads a local group that keeps the music alive, taking itself semi-seriously; Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008; Greg Serensits has been in Las Vegas since April Fool’s Day of 1995, but the real bad joke wasn’t played on him until 2000, when his favorite bar closed.
Santas on demand, direct to your door: Everything, they say, has a price — even Saint Nick; Thursday, Dec. 25, 2008; Say you don’t have a chimney. Or perhaps, as a jaded adult, you do not trust in the costumed melding of Nordic tradition and Christianity.
Lord of a dance: Tango master teaches the crisp moves along with his love, a former Cirque du Soleil performer; Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008; Marcos Questas has danced at the Olympia in Paris, the National Theater in London and Carnegie Hall in New York. He’s opened for Frank Sinatra and Tom Jones.
Desert dwellers (mostly) cheery in brief winter wonderland: Friday, Dec. 19, 2008; On Wednesday afternoon the mall’s Santa danced a jig in it, the hardware store sold plastic putty knives to scrape it off windshields and in the Christmas tree lot, the noble firs were, for once, naturally flocked.
Long commute worth it for the food alone: Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008; When Stacy Standley went to India, he didn’t know much about it. Little things, like which hemisphere it was in (the northern).
Driver’s ed for hard bargainers: UNLV professor with impressive resume teaches art of negotiation in rising program; Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008; UNLV’s law school has made an astonishing run in its young life -- 10 years old and it has cracked U.S. News and World Report’s top 100 -- but in one specialized area it has done even better, cracking the top 10.
His pitch: Invest here, now: Contrarian marketing Vegas homes to Californians as smart buys; Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008; At the height of the real estate madness a couple of years ago, the San Francisco Bay Area was littered with billboards and radio ads hyping real estate in Las Vegas.