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August 2011

August 2011

  • Hydeia Broadbent found that being the face of AIDS awareness is inspiring — and intense. Then there’s her life behind the scenes.
  • Art and fashion: tied at the hip bone-corset Concept store BluNoir, opening early September at Tivoli Village in Summerlin, promises to be more European salon than West Coast boutique — although you’ll find plenty of celebrity favorite brands such as Autumn Cashmere, Rory Beca, Adriano Goldschmied and Hollywood-made Gypsy05. Stocking a roster of international brands that might prove intimidating to other retailers should come naturally for Sarbonne-educated and Paris-raised founder Anais Leigh, who plans to import what in many cases are the first State-side offerings of well-loved European (mostly French) brands.
  • The pamperer Dr. Adashek understands that small things matter in big events like childbirth Dr.
  • The code-breaker Colleen Morris hopes to improve the lives of children by studying their genes It’s obvious that Dr. Colleen Morris is Nevada’s first and only pediatric geneticist: The mountains of files that line her offices attest to the amount of information she and her team must sift through in her quest to identify and treat children with genetic disorders.
  • The puzzle-solver Cracking open medical mysteries requires a broad perspective like Dr. Wierman’s “I like the mystery cases,” Dr.
  • Our favorite recent dishes that have us coming back for seconds Hamburger at P.J.
  • The invisible man behind the legendary, eight-pound torta — and other wonders — at Las Famosas de Jose If you want to find the famous Jose from Las Famosas de Jose, you’re going to have a hard time. For one, the famous Jose is actually a restaurateur named Fernando Rojas.
  • Correction: The Nevada SPCA operates a no-kill animal shelter, and would have accepted a rooster at its sanctuary. This fact was incorrect in an article ("Gives you wings," August).
  • The BLM report making a splash You don’t imagine a 4,000-page doorstop of a government report making a splash, but this one is: The Bureau of Land Management’s June draft report on the possible environmental effects of the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s proposed pipeline plan. In case you’ve been living under a mesquite tree: As drought insurance, the authority wants to build a more than 300-mile network of pipes into central-eastern Nevada to send water to the Las Vegas Valley.
  • Maybe Frank Gehry is to blame. Surely you’ve driven by the architect’s stately, imposing meringue of stainless steel that houses the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.