Chantal Corcoran
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Recent Articles
Pouring Puck
April 16th, 2013
Wine has long been associated with miracles. Still, it’s hard to imagine a wine that actually preserves memory, but in a way, that’s what Wolfgang Puck’s wines do.
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Grains of Truth
Poppy Den nourishes Relyn Timbal’s passion for sake
February 28th, 2013
Growing up in Hawaii, Relyn Timbal fell in love with the Japanese culture that pervades her homeland. At Kamehameha Schools, the private college prep she attended from kindergarten through high school, she chose Japanese as her language elective, hoping this would lead to class trips across the Pacific.
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Andres Ramirez
The Instrument of Change
January 24th, 2013
If you can sell a candidate, Andres Ramirez says, you can sell an issue. And if you can sell an issue, selling a product is easy, which is why major corporations have recently turned to hiring political consultants—like Ramirez, vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee’s Hispanic Caucus—to advise them on marketing strategies.
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Susie Lee
The Education Investor
January 24th, 2013
It’s hard to find a silver lining to the recession that has battered the country, but Susie Lee, the board president of Communities in Schools, thinks that hard times have helped reset our schools’ priorities. “It has been an opportunity to focus on what drives the vitality of a community, and, quite honestly, it’s the education of young people. The State of Nevada has woken up to realize that, not only money, but an investment of time and resources into the education of our young is what is going to improve our state.”
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Capitalist Conscience
December 13th, 2012
Hard-driving 31-year-old entrepreneur Justin Anderson makes no apologies for unfettered capitalism—after all, this is a man who named his contracting firm, Galt Development, for the hero of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. But he also understands that people get left behind—and he’s devoted a big part of his life to helping them.
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Librarian With a Future
December 6th, 2012
“We have an outstanding library system here,” says Tim McDonald—he speaks in hushed tones; eight years working in a library will do that to a person—“it’s a place to really enrich your life in a lot of ways.”
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The Summer Our House Went Lousy
Warning: The following may cause itching
August 23rd, 2012
It was almost spring break, and our family had been infested since Christmas, when my third-grader—the youngest of our three children—brought it home from a sleepover. Unfortunately, it took us two weeks to discover she had pediculosis (lice), by which time it was already a thriving case—a couple of dozen nits, visible to the naked eye. We set straight to work to keep the little buggers from spreading. “I’ll get the heads,” I told my husband, “you get the beds.”
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For Dogs, a Ruff Summer
August 9th, 2012
As difficult as summer is for Las Vegans with seasonal allergies, the pollen blowing about the Valley can make man’s best friend downright miserable. These environmental allergies are not new, but workers at several veterinary hospitals say they are seeing an increase in allergy cases—though it’s not clear why. “I feel like every year I’m telling people, ‘Allergies are really bad this year,’” says Christiano Fontes, a veterinarian with Sunridge Animal Hospital in Henderson.
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A Rat’s Tale
Ex-mobster Sal Polisi turns his story of sin and redemption into a book and play
July 19th, 2012
The Sinatra Club was an after-hours gambling joint in Queens, where members of all five New York Families would gather to drink, play cards and plan heists in the 1970s—glorious times for the mob. It is also the setting in which the gangster who ran the club, Sal Polisi, a.k.a. Sally Ubatz, would befriend a young Gambino soldier, Johnny Boy Gotti. Fifteen years later, he would “flip” to testify against Gotti in court.
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