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Las Vegas just cant stop, wont stop opening fried chicken restaurants whether served Nashville hot style, on a bun, or as a whole or half bird. The year alone brought Blue Hen Chicken Co., the new breakfast and lunch spot on the westside that specializes in breaded chicken thighs and chicken sandwiches with an egg or pickled chilies and peanut sauce. Over at Rainbow Boulevard and Washington Avenue, its Trasks Chicken & Fish and its south side of Chicago takes on chicken dinners in half and quarter birds, with white and dark meat. Wildly popular Daves Hot Chicken out of Los Angeles brings fast-casual hot chicken tenders and sliders across from Village Square with a second location already planned for the Grand Bazaar Shops.

Near UNLV, Angry Chickz brings lines waiting out the door for its roster of Nashville hot chicken while The Chicken Shack opened its ninth local outpost with a 10th on the way to North Las Vegas. Then theres Bun Bun Chicken in the northwest with hot, hot, hot, chicken and waffles.

At Resorts World on the Las Vegas Strip, chef Marcus Samuelsson, the James Beard Award-winning chef known for Red Rooster in Harlem, New York, opened his first restaurant in Las Vegas at Famous Foods Street Eats, serving sweet and spicy fried chicken, hot honey chicken and waffle, chicken wings, and mac n greens. Streetbird Las Vegas is just of 16 stalls at the food hall.

Sadly, newcomer Golden Bird Chicken out of Los Angeles already closed on the east side close to the intersection of Desert Inn and Pecos Road after opening in February.

More fried chicken is still on the way to the already crowded market. Legendary Chicago institution Harolds Chicken opened at 1381 W. Sunset Road in Henderson with its chicken dinners originally launched in 1953.

Already, Houstons Hot Chicken opened at the intersection of Green Valley and Pebble Road in Henderson with a roster of Nashville hot chicken with spice levels ranging from 1 to 10 in sandwiches, tenders, waffles, and loaded fries with, yes, fried chicken. The company already has plans to open at 1201 S. Main Street in the Arts District, as well as future locations in Summerlin and on Dean Martin Road.

Other newcomers on the way include Good Old Chicken, headed to Rhodes Ranch at 8130 W. Warm Springs Road, WhatNow Las Vegas reports. Andy Ko, who owns The Sparklings, is behind the project that slots in near Born & Raised.

Combining sweet and spicy Korean fried chicken with the heat of a Nashville hot sandwich, Oxnard, Californias Burnin Mouth plans to expand from its California food hall roots to a brick-and-mortar space on the westside. The new home of the self-described hottest chicken ever made heads to the Charleston Festival retail center, close to Torrey Pines Drive. The main attractions here bring the Nashville hot Coo Coo sandwich, topped with pickles, sauce, and coleslaw, and the Bang Bang, prepared with garlic soy or sweet chili sauces, topped with butter ranch, coleslaw, and pickles and the brands own version of comeback sauce.

Golden Chick plans to open 20 restaurants around the region with its house specialty of fried chicken pieces and tenders prepared with a secret marinade and batter mix. The Texas-based parent company plans to opens at the southeast corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and West Carey Avenue and at the intersection of Lamb and Lake Mead boulevards in Sunrise.

Finally, The Red Chickz plans to open 10 outposts of Nashville hot chicken restaurants in Nevada, according to Restaurant News. The restaurant serves tenders, wings, and sandwiches in heat levels from cool to inferno.

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Artists carry national flags during the opening ceremony of the Dubai Expo 2020, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, Sept. 30,2021.

By Isabel Debre, Associated Press

Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021 | 11:50 p.m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates After eight years of planning and billions of dollars in spending, the Middle East's first ever World Fair opened on Friday in Dubai, with hopes the months-long extravaganza draws both visitors and global attention to this desert-turned-dreamscape.

Named Expo 2020, the event was postponed by a year due to the outbreak of the coronavirus last year. While that could have an impact on how many people flock to the United Arab Emirates, the six-month-long exhibition offersDubai a momentous opportunityto showcase its unique East-meets-West appeal as a place where all are welcome for business.

Not long ago, the site of the 1,080 acre expo was barren desert. Less than a decade later, it is a buzzing futuristic landscape with robots, a new metro station, multi-million dollar pavilions and so-called districts with names like sustainability and opportunity all built, like much of the Gulf, by low-paid migrant workers.

Organizers say 192 nations are represented at the expo. The U.S. pavilion will showcase a replica of the Space X Falcon 9 rocket. Italy's pavilion houses a 3-D replica of Michelangelos biblical hero, David, that is 17 feet high. Other attractions include an African food hall, a royal Egyptian mummy, concerts and performances from around the world, and the option to dine on a $500 three-course meal with glow-in-the-dark cuisine.

Since first making a splash in London in 1851, world fairs have long been an opportunity for nations to meet, exchange ideas, showcase inventions, promote culture and build business ties.

For more than a century, these global exhibitions have captured the imagination and showcased some of humanitys most important innovations. The first World Fair held in the United States in 1876 debuted Alexander Graham Bells telephone, the typewriter, a mechanical calculator and Heinz Ketchup. Held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that fair attracted nearly 10 million people at a time when the entire U.S. population was estimated to be just 40 million. One of its main buildings, Memorial Hall, is now a museum.

Other fairs showcased inventions like the sewing machine, the elevator, carbonated soda, the Ferris wheel and, in 1939 in New York, the television. People journeyed far for the chance at a glimpse of the world in ways they couldnt otherwise access.

This year's expo is happening amid a global pandemic, when untold numbers are still working and studying remotely and connecting to the world virtually. It's unclear how many visitors Dubai can attract, and how much the expo will stimulate its tourism-driven economy.

To enter the expo site, visitors will need to show a negative PCR test or proof of COVID-19 vaccination.

So what is a World Fair in this not-quite-post-pandemic year of 2021?

Dubai's ruler and the force behind the emirate's transformation, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, says Expo 2020 is a chance to showcase the best of human excellence.

It offers a platform to forge a united worldwide effort to build a more sustainable and prosperous future for all of mankind, he told guests at theexpo's opening ceremonyThursday night.

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, crown prince and de-facto ruler of the UAEs seat of power, Abu Dhabi, used his speech to emphasize the ethos of this land as a meeting point for cultures and tolerance.

Whether Iran or Israel, every nation is welcome at Dubai's expo.

Human Rights Watch, however, says organizers are promoting an inaccurate image of the UAE as an open and tolerant country for public relations purposes. Instead, it said in a scathing report that abusive authorities forcefully bar all peaceful criticism and dissent in the country, jailing activists and carrying out pervasive domestic surveillance programs.

The UAE has embarked on a decades-long effort to whitewash its reputation on the international stage, the rights group said.

The expo site will attempt to dazzle visitors with a centerpiece dome, marketed as the worlds largest 360-degree projection screen. Its construction required 8.5 miles of steel.

Some World Fair structures remain iconic markers of the human journey and our industrial evolution. None more so than the Eiffel Tower, which was constructed in Paris, not only to be the tallest structure in the world at the time, but to serve as the entrance to the 1889 World Fair. Millions are still drawn to this marvel of wrought-iron lattice work whose image today floods social media feeds.

The Space Needle in Seattle, Washington, built for the 1962 World Fair, is another structure with continued prominence and allure.

While most fairs were held in Europe and the United States, none have been hosted in the Middle East until now.

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The Kansas City Chiefs have been the most backed team in the NFL since Patrick Mahomes took over at quarterback four seasons ago largely for good reason.

The back-to-back AFC champions had been the most profitable team to wager on over the previous three seasons, which helped to build a devoted following in the betting public. But the popularity is backfiring now.

Kansas City is one of four teams sitting 0-3 against the spread early in the 2021-22 season alongside the lowly New York Jets, Jacksonville Jaguars and Washington Football Team after back-to-back outright upset losses the last two weeks. The Chiefs have failed to cover by an average of six points per game.

Their drop from the top of the betting market has been as precipitous as its been unexpected. No one expected Kansas City not to win the AFC West this year, but now sitting in last place, the odds at Circa Sports imply its more likely they dont win the division.

Kansas City is available at +109 (risking $1 to win $1.09) to win the AFC West with the no price at -139 (risking $1.39 to win $1) implying less than a 46% chance they prevail after adjusting for the houses hold percentage.

Kansas City has hurt Talking Points record, too. Although I had Baltimore in the Week 2 upset, the Chiefs failed to cover for the column both in last weeks 30-24 loss to the Chargers and a 33-29 Week 1 win over the Browns.

The season total record picking every game against the spread now stands at 25-23 after going 8-8 a week ago, though 6-2 on plays.

Read below for picks of every Week 3 game, separated into three confidence categories and listed in rough order of confidence. Lines are the best currently available in Las Vegas on the chosen side.

Plays (11-8)

Seattle Seahawks +3 at San Francisco 49ers Lets hesitate a little before pushing the panic button on Seattle. The Seahawks outgained both the Vikings and Titans by 1.5 yards per play despite losses over the past two weeks. This is a tremendous buy-low spot against a 49ers team with mounting injuries.

Denver Broncos pickem vs. Baltimore Ravens Historically, blowing out bad teams is a better indicator of future success than winning close games against good teams. So, no, the Broncos weak strength of schedule is not a major concern considering what theyve done in winning every game by double digits. Empower Field at Mile High also presents one of the best home-field advantages in the league.

Dallas Cowboys -4.5 vs. Carolina Panthers Theres been so much negative talk about the Broncos strength of schedule, and yet so little about an equally noticeable red flag on the Panthers slate. Anointing a Panthers defense thats faced two rookie quarterbacks (the Jets' Zach Wilson and Texans' Davis Mills) and a Saints team averaging 4.3 yards per play feels a little premature. The Cowboys offensive explosiveness should provide a rude awakening.

Las Vegas Raiders +3.5 at Los Angeles Chargers The Chargers have outperformed their actual efficiency numbers with a pair of virtual coin-flip wins. It sounds weird to say given recent reputations, but the Raiders probably have the best defense the Chargers have encountered so far to make taking the half-point hook unavoidable.

Minnesota Vikings +2.5 vs. Cleveland Browns Money has been flowing in on Cleveland ever since Monday morning to give me some pause, but I had these teams even coming into the season and Minnesota has been just as impressive against a tougher schedule. The Vikings and Browns are virtually tied through three games by EPA (expected points added) per play.

Leans (7-8)

Atlanta Falcons +1.5 vs. Washington Football Team Washington has been more efficient through three games, but priors coming into the season should still hold plenty of weight in Week 4 and Atlanta projected as the more talented team. It may just be taking a few weeks for first-time head coach Arthur Smith to settle in. Im exercising some caution here as this is another example of the market moving against me.

Detroit Lions +3 at Chicago Bears This number would need to get back to 3.5 to be a play, and that's not going to happen with it trending the other way. Detroit has clearly played better than Chicago early in the season, though. The Bears problems looked like they needed more than a week to be fixed in last weeks 26-6 loss to the Browns where they gained 47 total yards.

Philadelphia Eagles +7.5 vs. Kansas City Chiefs This is less of a sell on the Chiefs, which should still be fine long-term, than a buy on the Eagles. Philadelphias underlying numbers including a 1.8 net yards per play are better than its 1-2 record indicates and a lot better than the impression the 41-21 loss to Dallas on Monday Night Football left.

Arizona Cardinals +5 at Los Angeles Rams My biggest betting regret of the early week is not jumping on Arizona +6. The Cardinals may still be worth a smaller wager at this price, however, as theyve been more efficient than the Rams on both offense and defense on a per-play basis.

New England Patriots +7 vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers The Buccaneers tax remains in full effect as its difficult to justify this number being any higher than 6 statistically. Tampa Bay would be winless against its consistently inflated spreads if it wasnt for a pair of late-game interception returns in a 48-25 win over the Falcons.

Jacksonville Jaguars +7.5 at Cincinnati Bengals Cincinnati hasnt laid this many points since 2017, two years before current coach Zac Taylor was at the helm. And thats because the Bengals have no business laying this many points to anyone. Theyre getting too much credit for a fortunate win over the Vikings and a smothering of a severely injured Steelers team.

Green Bay Packers -6.5 vs. Pittsburgh Steelers A number of the Steelers best players including but not limited to T.J. Watt, Alex Highsmith and JuJu Smith-Schuster are listed as questionable for this game. Its hard to justify a play on Pittsburgh unless several of them are confirmed as playing, and even then, nothing less than +7 should be considered against a Green Bay team hitting its stride.

Guesses (7-7)

New York Jets +7.5 vs. Tennessee Titans There are still a couple 7.5s hanging around town, which might just be worth taking. Tennessee -7 is the fair price, as it should win, but has a pass defense so bad that even struggling New York rookie quarterback Zach Wilson should be able to find some success.

Miami Dolphins -1.5 vs. Indianapolis Colts This might be the most evenly-matched game of the week with both teams right around -1.5 net yards per play. But Miami typically has a larger home-field advantage this time of the year with the muggy, and in Sundays case, potentially rainy, weather that should make it at least -2.5 on the point spread.

Buffalo Bills -15.5 vs. Houston Texans Ive lost too many games picking against the Bills in this column over the last few years. Buffalo might be the most well-coached team in the league, an edge that neither myself nor the market have fully accounted for in the past. Whenever theres a tightly-lined, coin-flip spread like this going forward, Im backing Buffalo.

New York Giants +8 at New Orleans Saints New Orleans only deserves to be favored by this much if Caesars Superdome accounts for one of the biggest home-field advantages in the league. It hasnt held that large of an edge in recent seasons, but Im not ready to write it off in this situation. Im just also not ready to pay a premium.

Case Keefer can be reached at 702-948-2790 or [emailprotected]. Follow Case on Twitter at twitter.com/casekeefer.

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As of the fourth anniversary of the deadly mass shooting on the Strip, nearly all victims have received their portion of an $800 million settlement.

All of our clients have received their money, said Robert Eglet, one of the lead attorneys for the plaintiffs. The vast majority of the other attorneys have also gotten their disbursements to their clients.

Eglet is lead counsel for the law firm Eglet Adams of Las Vegas, which represents more than half of the 4,400 plaintiffs involved in the litigation. The cases that are held up involve emotional distress or post-traumatic stress disorder and should be disbursed soon, he said.

Thousands of people attended the Route 91 Harvest festival in 2017, when a gunman shot into the crowd from the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay. Hundreds were injured, and 60people died from their injuries.

The 225-page civil complaint asserted several claims against MGM Resorts International, including negligence, wrongful death and liability in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

The $800 million settlement with MGM Resorts owner of Mandalay Bay and the festival grounds where the outdoor country music concert was held was first announced in 2019 and approved last year.

As part of the settlement, MGM Resorts acknowledged no liability and paid $49 million, while the remainder of the settlement comes from insurance coverage.

More than 50 percent of the claimants are from California and Nevada, lawyers have said. Others came from at least eight different states. All were seeking compensation for a range of physical and psychological injuries.

Retired Nevada Judge Jennifer Togliatti and retired California Judge Louis Meisinger oversaw settlement disbursements, with help from Virginia-based claims management legal firm BrownGreer.

The settlement amounts varied on several factors, including age, the number of dependents, type of injuries, previous and future medical treatment, and ability to work, according to Eglet. His firm recently donated $50,000 to the memorial that is being put up near the concert site.

Tomorrow is the four-year anniversary of the tragic event, Eglet said Thursday. Hopefully this provides them some closure.

The last part to finalize is the gunmans estate, which is estimated to be worth about $1 million. Probate attorney Alice Denton said Thursday that the case is still in limbo, with another hearing set for January.

The issue at hand is the destruction of the gunmans weapons.

An anonymous donor from California has offered to cover their $62,500 value if they were destroyed.

Contact Briana Erickson at berickson@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-5244. Follow @ByBrianaE on Twitter.

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Most people visiting Las Vegas dont know about the tunnels.

Tourists from all over the world stroll up and down the Strip, shopping and eating and gambling until morning is night and night is morning and they leave never learning about the community of people living in the massive tunnels directly beneath their feet.

Plenty of locals have heard of the tunnels, but mentioning it to your server at a restaurant or the porter carrying your luggage still elicits mostly confused looks.

Because Americas most decadent city was built in a desert prone to occasional downpours and flash floods, Las Vegas has an elaborate maze of tunnels hundreds of miles in total to capture and redirect that water. There are entrances to these tunnels all over town, including next to some of the biggest, most popular casino resorts. Tunnels run under or past Caesars Palace, the Rio, the Flamingo and the Orleans. Some tunnels are only four or five feet tall, but many are cavernous: 15 feet or more from top to bottom. Theyre often damp and dank, devoid entirely of light for long stretches a sharp contrast to all the bright signs that glow around the clock aboveground.

For hundreds of people, these tunnels are home. These are Americas forgotten, those left behind in a country with an ever-growing gap between the haves and have nots.

Some are transient temporary occupants moving in and out every few weeks. But several tunnels have become small, off-the-map communities. Theres no fresh water, and the only electricity comes from batteries, but people have still managed to piece together meager, ersatz apartments inside the industrial-sized, concrete-walled waterways. Some have lived down here for a decade or more. Each occupied tunnel has its own customs and rituals and unofficial leaders.

For those who want help leaving, there is one man who regularly descends into the tunnels. His name is Paul Vautrinot. He knows what the people down here need because the first person he helped out of the tunnels was himself.

And even for those who dont want to leave, or are afraid to leave, to return to a terrestrial plane that was far more traumatic and harrowing than anything they see down here, Vautrinot still helps. He offers food, water, batteries, clean socks, new flashlights. His philosophy on service is simple: He will help those who need it most, and meet them where they are, judgment free. Today help might mean just surviving, but tomorrow, or a day years from now, it may mean climbing out of the darkness.

Every night, roughly 200,000 Americans sleep in public places because they dont have a home. They crowd into shelters, pitch tents near I-15 in Salt Lake City, sleep under bridges in towns like Missoula, Montana, or in the doorways of office buildings in Dallas and New York City.

The pandemic has only exacerbated the growing crisis. And yet weve come to accept it. Its easier to look away, to ignore the problem. In Las Vegas, these people are literally hidden from sight; theyre sleeping under our feet.

Rather than avert his eyes, or forgetting those he left behind, Vautrinot has made a habit of returning to the tunnels every few months.

Vautrinot is 34, with arm and neck tattoos peeking out from his clean polo shirt ever-present reminders of the changes hes made in life. Today hes the executive director of Shine A Light, a nonprofit outreach program dedicated to helping the people who live in the tunnels. Shine A Light helps dozens of people every year with housing, drug counseling and job training.

Nearly everyone in the tunnels lives with some sort of addiction, but many have also gathered enough discarded items from above to carve out some semblance of a home. They have beds with bed frames, tables with chairs, coolers and bicycles and barbecue grills all pulled from curbs or dumpsters. A lot of the beds and bookcases sit on homemade stilts a foot or two off the ground, because when the water comes through, it comes fast and hard, and sometimes it sweeps away everything it touches.

Of course, the tunnels can be dangerous when its not raining, too. There are knives and guns and irrational people down every shaft. Some sleep burrowed into the smaller concrete pipes that shoot off of the main tunnels. Some residents are hiding from the law. Some are hiding from pimps. Some from their own parents.

But among the regular inhabitants of these same tunnels, theres also an explicit culture of sharing, a notion that they are often in this situation together. Down here, your life might depend on your neighbors.

Not many people know these tunnels better than Vautrinot. If he needs to, he can speed through this labyrinth of connecting flood channels on a bike in pitch darkness.

He knows almost every split, every turn, every camp and community.

Call me when youre ready, he tells people as he hands out supplies. Well come get you.

Most people dont call. Most people are busy getting by down here.

On a sunny day in late spring, a man who goes by the name Victory is using a wide black broom to sweep rancid water and trash out of the tunnel where he lives. Hes the de facto mayor in a set of tunnels near Caesars.

He warns the people in his tunnel not to stray too far from the entrance, because hes seen people get swept away in the dark-water waves that course through. When youre far enough in, you cant hear the rain. The first sounds are usually the echoes of jumbling barrels and the clatter of random debris loosened by the surging flood. By the time you hear people screaming Water! it might already be too late.

The water gets this high, Victory says, lifting his hand to the middle of his abdomen. High enough to drown someone if they dont wake up in time.

In a tunnel by the Flamingo, a man in his 50s named Philip is smoking a cigarette and sipping a Natural Light. Rays of sunlight coming through a nearby grate illuminate the thin line of twirling smoke from his cigarette. He thinks everyone should experience homelessness at some point. He thinks it would help everyone appreciate the value of clean water and access to electricity. The luxury of a safe bed. What you need to survive in this world.

It would teach you everything about life, he says.

Vautrinot lived in the tunnels for three years. His story down here wasnt all that unusual. He grew up in Las Vegas. His mother was an addict. He experimented with drugs as a teenager, then at 18, the daughter of a prominent local businessman offered him opium and that started his journey with heroin.

A year later, he was living on the streets. He was panhandling at an In-N-Out Burger one day when a group of older guys invited him down to their tunnel. Some of them had lived there for nearly a decade. They had a fire pit, a cooler full of cold beer, a surprising amount of furniture. They gave him a thin mattress, a bed and a nightstand.

At first, his bed was closest to the entrance the newest persons always is and it was his responsibility to signal back to the others when someone was approaching. (They had a special sound for police.) He learned that there were codes, mutually agreed upon rules. Break the code and you might come back one day to find your stuff has been set on fire what constitutes an eviction notice in the tunnels.

After six months, they recruited someone new and Vautrinot moved deep into the tunnel, settling into his new life. He explored the labyrinthine maze on his bike, made friends, even had a few relationships.

Eventually he started dealing drugs out of his tunnel. He had an elaborate scheme: Hed meet buyers at different grates all over town, take the money through the bars, pass the drugs back in return, then speed back off into the darkness below.

But his dealing drew more people, more attention, and within a few years hed run off all of the veterans who had taken him in. After three years down here, it all just became too much. The interpersonal drama, the running from police, the dope-sick feeling hed get when he needed to use. When he got arrested on some outstanding warrants, he decided to enter drug court, get sober and get a regular job at the car wash above the tunnel where he used to live.

Then Vautrinot started volunteering at Shine A Light. When its founder decided to move to Central America a few years ago, he asked Vautrinot if hed keep the organization running.

So Vautrinot has seen people come and go, good people, characters he came to appreciate over the years. Some have moved to different cities. Some have been arrested. Some have gotten clean. Some he knows are dead, and some will be back down here soon enough.

And yet, no matter how dark and bleak things get, something pulls Vautrinot back underground, to lend a hand wherever he can.

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% of Offensive Plays run inside of the red zone through three weeks:

David (@cheda7) Now the Sun Sentinel is getting in the act of declaring the Dolphins took the wrong QB over Herbert. Isnt it still too soon to make that judgment? Seems they are ready to put him in the HOF.

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LAS VEGAS (KTNV) If you think Las Vegas is a trip, Kat Tatz is inviting you to go deeper down the rabbit hole.

The homegrown artist recently won Park West Gallery's first-ever Made in Vegas art competition, beating out nearly 500 impressive submissions.

And true to its name, Tatz is a longtime Vegas local inspired by the city where she grew up.

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Bringing the Fantasy to the Reality

"With all the neon signs, I mean, that's the first thing that I remember when my mom drove me into Vegas when I was four," she recalled. "The turquoise color of Caesars Palace was unbelievable. It was night."

"I use that color in a lot of my paintings now," she said. "Even to this day. It's like one of my favorites."

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A common theme in her work? Lewis Carroll's fantasy tale "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."

"A lot of my paintings depict a different viewpoint of Alice in Wonderland. Like, I'll have her a lot of times transitioning," she explained.

In the piece below and to the far right, for example, Tatz says she painted Alice transitioning into the White Rabbit. "She's growing the fur and she has the ears coming down, but she's still Alice."

Tatz's style is broad and her work uses a wide range of techniques.

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"I do pop surrealism art, lowbrow art, I kind of like the fantasy and a lot of impressionism as well. So I like to change up a bit when I get bored," she said with a laugh.

Just look at her submissions for the Made in Vegas competition.

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The portrait of Stevie Nicks, on the far left, could almost have been painted by someone else when compared to the two "Alice in Wonderland" pieces on the right. It was not, of course. All three were made by Tatz.

In one of her submissions, centered above, the painting continues from the canvas onto the frame.

"I like to take the fantasy and bring it out to the reality, which is the frame to me," she said. "It gives me an opportunity to tell another story that's separate from the painting."

A Hospital Stay

When she submitted her work for Made in Vegas, she says it didn't go down as you might assume.

"You're gonna laugh," Kaz said with a smile. "I had a hospital stay a couple of months ago." (At this point, I can't say I was laughing just yet.)

"You know, I was so out of it and I was scrolling through Facebook because there's nothing else to do," she chuckled. "And I saw the Made in Vegas art competition."

"Right then, I'm like so delirious, right? But I'm applying for it." It was at this moment when she sent in her three pictures of choice.

"When I got accepted and they told me that I was one of the ten finalists," Katz said holding back laughter, "I couldn't remember what I sent in! I was so out of it."

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Over and Over and Over and Over

Another thing about Tatz, she's largely self-taught and has been practicing for decades.

"My dad and my mom got divorced when I was four, so he very rarely came to see me," she said. "But the one memory that I do have is he taught me how, at four years old, how to measure out a face, and what the dimensions were and how to line it out."

"Then, when he left--I had a hero worship on him by the way--when he left, I just did that over and over and over and over."

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Her mom was also an artist.

"My mom was a doll sculpture, so she would make porcelain dolls and compete in competitions," she said. "She always won."

Tatz studied at UNLV and has received additional formal training by attending artist workshops around the country, which overlaps with another passion of hers.

"I like to travel. That's like my favorite thing."

She even has an international presence with work on view at Art Space & Design in Canada.

She also has work featured at Las Laguna Gallery in Laguna Beach, California.

Closer to home, you can find her work at Animazing Gallery inside the Grand Canal Shoppes at the Venetian, ART2art Gallery inside Tivoli Village, inside Allegiant Stadium and of course at Park West Gallery inside the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace.

The Pandemic

Tatz used to have her own gallery, Wonderland Gallery, which she owned for several years.

"I feel like I learned so much from owning a gallery."

But then, COVID-19 hit Las Vegas right as her lease was up. She didn't renew.

"I got really lucky," she said. "It just worked out. I'm starting to turn around."

Tatz says business actually got busier when she increased her online presence after closing the brick-and-mortar location down.

"I kept the name because I love--even my website--I love it. WonderlandGallery.com."

The pandemic, only emphasizing one of the reasons Tatz says art is so important for society.

"I think that art is incredibly historical in a way," she said. "It shows where the current trends are."

If you look closely at one of her Park West paintings, you'll find characters of "Alice in Wonderland" wearing masks, the White Rabbit, dangling his from his fingers.

Where to Find Her Work

You can follow Kat Tatz on Instagram at @kattatz. Find her artwork here:

Learn more about Tatz's work at WonderLandGallery.com.

This story is from our "Las Vegas Art Scene" segment in our newly-launched dedicated digital show "How to Vegas." Watch "How to Vegas" at 10:30 p.m. on Fridays -- and throughout the weekend -- using the KTNV app on your favorite streaming device.

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Analyst sentiment on Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts continues to deteriorate over concerns that impending casino concession renewals in Macau will be more onerous.

However, stocks of U.S. casino companies with ties to Macau were mixed Friday morning. Las Vegas Sands (ticker: LVS) was up 1% in early trading; Wynn (WYNN) was off 0.6%; and MGM Resorts International (MGM) up about 1%.

The casino concessions allowing companies to operate in Macau are set to expire next June. Earlier this week, members of the Macau government said that they were beginning the process of reviewing the concession renewals and examining a law that oversees that business. The Macau government said in part that by revising the law, it expects to strengthen supervision of the holders of those casino concessions.

Against this backdrop, Jefferies analyst David Katz on Friday downgraded Las Vegas Sands to Hold from Buy, partly owing to the pending uncertainties around the Macau concession and its growth and return prospect.

For U.S. investors, one of the biggest concerns about these companies is that the new concessions will be much less favorable in terms of taxes, capital spending mandates and local ownership requirements, among other things.

While Las Vegas Sands and Wynn are both based in Las Vegas, more than half of their revenues come from Macau in normal times. Macau is the worlds largest gambling market.

In his note downgrading Las Vegas Sands, Katz also cited the persistent restrictions from Covid, which could continue in a zero-tolerance context.

He already had a Hold rating on Wynn but lowered his estimates and dropped his price target to $83 from $104.

The recent developments in Macau around concession renewals implied tighter restrictions on the gaming industry going forward, Katz wrote.

The stock closed at $84.37 on Thursday, down about 17% for the week. Las Vegas Sands was off about 10%.

MGM Resorts International , which has a presence in Macau but is more focused on U.S. properties, was down about 2% this week through Thursday.

Write to Lawrence C. Strauss at lawrence.strauss@barrons.com

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