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Brush up on the brackets, the UNLV women’s team and local prep products as March Madness tips off.

What might the brand new Dollar Loan Center become for the Green Valley community?

Art of the Wild returns to Wynn, more stacked than ever before.

Spanish meets Italian at Amina by EDO, plus brunching at El Luchador’s Henderson outpost.

How big has the bankruptcy wave been for Nevadans during the pandemic? Not what you might think, local attorneys explain.

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VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS VS. FLORIDA PANTHERS 7:30 p.m., T-Mobile Arena, axs.com. Florida’s Jonathan Huberdeau (AP Photo)

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Lilly comes from a family of master storytellers; both her father and grandfather have the gift. Every night before bed, she explores a universe of their making—and over the course of a few nights at the Historic Fifth Street School, the doorway to that universe will open to audiences, too. A radio play-style production created by author Thomas Dudkiewicz and Dutch performance collective Urland, Bedtime Stories utilizes surround sound and other effects techniques to create a sense of the otherworldly, and to instill tension when “unforeseen event events throw these three generations into a twirling journey through both universes.” March 16-17 & 19, times vary, free, Historic Fifth Street School, bit.ly/3MvzScZ. –Geoff Carter

DIPLO 10:30 p.m., XS Nightclub, wynnsocial.com. CELTIC FEIS CELEBRATION 10:30 a.m., New York-New York, newyorknewyork. com/celticfeis.

JACK HARLOW With Faze Kaysan, 10 p.m., Zouk Nightclub, zoukgrouplv.com. STEVE AOKI 10:30 p.m., Hakkasan Nightclub, events. taogroup.com.

DENNIS BLAIR With Leonard Ouzts, Marsha Warfield, Gary Cannon, thru 3/20, 7 & 9:30 p.m., Comedy Cellar, ticketmaster.com. LOCO & JAM 10 p.m., Commonwealth, elationlv.com.

STEVE GILLESPIE Thru 3/20, 8 p.m., LA Comedy Club, tickets.thestrat.com. THEE MESS AROUNDS 10 p.m., Sand Dollar Lounge, thesanddollarlv.com.

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ART OF THE WILD Thru 3/21, times vary, XS Nightclub & Encore Beach Club, wynnsocial.com. FELIPE ESPARZA 10 p.m., Treasure Island Theatre, treasureisland.com. ILLENIUM With William Black, 10:30 p.m., Omnia Nightclub, events. taogroup.com.

KATY PERRY 8 p.m., & 3/19, Resorts World Theatre, axs.com. DANIEL TOSH 10 p.m., & 3/19, Mirage Theatre, mirage.mgmresorts. com. TIËSTO 10 p.m., Zouk Nightclub, zoukgrouplv.com. ANDRÉ RIEU & HIS JOHANN STRAUSS ORCHESTRA 8 p.m., T-Mobile Arena, axs.com.

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LUDACRIS 10 p.m., Drai’s Nightclub, draisgroup.com.

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TODRICK HALL 7 p.m., 24 Oxford, etix.com. (Courtesy)

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and the Vegas Golden Knights (if you want to buy a jersey, you can do so at vegasteamstore.com). The new arena seats 6,000 and will soon be the home of the Henderson Silver Knights hockey squad, too. Everything is aligned for the Valley’s newest pro sports team, the Vegas Knight Hawks of the Indoor Football League, who will host the Northern Arizona Wranglers for their first game ever. Canadian Football League veteran Mike Davis is your head coach and general manager, and roster standouts could include former UNLV team captain Gabriel McCoy at linebacker and Canyon Springs grad Kasey Allison at wide receiver. Indoor arena football is offense-focused and fast-paced, and fans will be close to the action at the new Henderson facility. The Knight Hawks could be another winning piece of the local pro sports picture. 7 p.m., $22-$80, Dollar Loan Center, axs.com. –Brock Radke

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KASKADE 10:30 p.m., Omnia Nightclub, events. taogroup.com. NEW EDITION With Charlie Wilson, Jodeci, 8 p.m., Michelob Ultra Arena, axs.com. NEW VISTA BREW’S BEST CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL 2 p.m., Downtown Summerlin, eventbrite.com.

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The name of the exhibition is 3200 Gaucho Drive Las Vegas, NV 89169, but don’t enter that address into your Waze. With this Test Site Projects show (1551 S. Commerce Street!), Nima Abkenar does little short of curating an entire place of residence, albeit deconstructed. Representations of common home objects—a bookcase, a door—are translated into “life-size sculptural items” and summarily re-contextualized, Abkenar says. “These sculptural items carry a distinct notion of site, one which both represents the original site [that] the design was intended for and the new site [the gallery].” The artist will be on hand for the March 19 opening, 6-9 p.m. Viewing by appointment through April 16, free, Test Site Projects, testsiteprojects.com. –Geoff Carter

VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS VS. LOS ANGELES KINGS 1 p.m., T-Mobile Arena, axs.com.

LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC: BEETHOVEN & FRANK 7:30 p.m., Reynolds Hall, thesmithcenter.com. 50 CENT 10 p.m., Drai’s Nightclub, draisgroup.com. ZEDD 10 p.m., Zouk Nightclub, zoukgrouplv.com. DAUGHTRY With Tremonti, Lyell, 7 p.m., Theater at Virgin, axs.com. STARFIRE 9 p.m., Starbase, starbaselv.com. ORGY With Death Valley High, Black Satellite, 9 p.m., the Usual Place, brownpaper tickets.com. PATRICK DRONEY With Paris Jackson, 8 p.m., the Space, thespacelv.com. QUINN XCII 10:30 p.m., Light Nightclub, thelightvegas.com.

SAID THE SKY Anyone who has witnessed one of Trevor Christensen sets at Electric Daisy Carnival can attest that they’re an event best experienced under the stars. The Colorado-based DJ and producer, best known by his EDM moniker Said the Sky, fastens listeners into their feelings, weaving emotion into every satisfying bass drop and hair-raising chorus. Call it cathartic, or call it dance, but Christensen knows how to unburden a crowd. Expect to hear tunes drawn from his February LP Sentiment, which features The Maine and We the Kings, two throwback acts set to perform at October’s When We Were Young festival. March 19, 6 p.m., $40-$70, the Amp at Craig Ranch, seetickets.us. –Amber Sampson

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WAKA FLOCKA FLAME Noon, Daylight Beach, daylightvegas.com.

CHEAT CODES With Madds, 11 a.m., Ayu Dayclub, zoukgrouplv.com. JAMIE JONES With Marco Carolo, 10 p.m., Moonbeam at Ayu Moonbeam, zoukgrouplv.com.

MONDAYS DARK 8 p.m., the Space, mondaysdark.com.

DECENT CRIMINAL With Mercy Music, The Quitters, Lambs to Lions, 8 p.m., the Dive Bar, facebook. com/divebarlv.

WAVVES (DJ SET) With Night Weapons, 9 p.m., Berlin Bar, berlinlv.com.

PARTY FAVOR 11 a.m., Wet Republic, events.taogroup.com.

DEEP HOUSE BRUNCH 2 p.m., 18bin, 18binlv.com.

MARLON DASOUL 10 a.m., Azilo Ultra Pool, azilolasvegas.com. BRAD GARRETT With Kristin Key, Myles Weber, 8 p.m., Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club, mgmgrand. mgmresorts.com.

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As usually happens when something new and fresh appears, music writers stumbled over themselves trying to describe The Regrettes’ 2017 debut album Feel Your Feelings, Fool! We called it “pop-punk,” we called it “garage,” we called it “1960s girl group throwback.” We could’ve saved ourselves a lot of work if we’d simply called it “fun,” because that what this LA band is, in its every atom. Brooke Dickson, Genessa Gariano, Drew Thomsen and Lydia Night play with the energy of musician who only picked up their instruments yesterday, but with the skill and savvy of players who’ve been hammering away for years. Their songs—especially Feel Your Feelings’ sublime “Seashore” and the get-on-up rocker “California Friends”—positively radiate rock ’n’ roll fervor, and their rollicking version of Billy Idol’s “Dancing With Myself” will elevate you into a frenzy. 8 p.m., $25-45, 24 Oxford, etix.com. –Geoff Carter MUSTARD 10:30 p.m., Jewel Nightclub, events.taogroup. com. KABIR SINGH Thru 3/27, 8 p.m., LA Comedy Club, bestvegascomedy. com.

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THE RISE AND FALL OF EL CHAPO 7 p.m., the Mob Museum, themobmuseum.org.

GREG MORTON With Heath Harrison, Adam Freeman, 3/21-3/27, 8:30 & 10:30 p.m., Laugh Factory, troplv.com.

SAMMY HAGAR & FRIENDS 9 p.m., Strat Theater, tickets.thestrat.com. FERGIE 10:30 p.m., Library at Marquee Nightclub, events. taogroup.com. FRANKIE PACE 6 p.m., the Nevada Room, vegasnevada rooms.com.

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How better to celebrate Women’s History Month than with this female-forward dance group from Mexico City? Dancer and choreographer Amalia Hernández founded the company in 1952, swirling her influences— formal ballet, Spanish flamenco, modern dance and more—into a new style: baile folklorico. With its brilliant movements, music and elaborate costumes, Ballet Folklórico has become one of the most recognized traditional dance companies around. 7:30 p.m., $19-$79, Reynolds Hall, thesmithcenter.com. –Evelyn Mateos

SILK SONIC & 3/18-3/19, 9 p.m., Dolby Live, ticketmaster.com.

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What makes the Arts District the right spot for the English Hotel? As Vegas people, when you

have friends visiting you, you want to show them your Downtown, not a strip mall in Summerlin or Henderson, where they build the same thing. There’s no character. In Los Angeles, you want to go to Venice Beach. Manhattan Beach? Eh. Malibu? Eh. But Venice Beach? It’s culture. We’re the only place that has culture and all this art. … Convention people are 10 minutes away. Fremont’s 10 minutes away. We have it all, location-wise. The English Hotel has a very sleek, modern look; the glass walls stand out. What was behind the design concept? I moved to New York from China in 1998. Like all the immigrants, you land in New York, and New York is in your heart forever. So when I built it, I was thinking very New York style. If you look at our building, it’s steel, concrete, glass and aluminum, no cheap wood or stucco. You’ll only see this type of building in New York and big cities. … Pepper Club is also New York-style, because in New York, everything is called a club. A lot of the restaurants are called clubs. That’s the experience we wanted to bring to Vegas. As a developer, what do you foresee happening for the En-

glish Hotel and the surrounding area in the next three years? Three years from today … I think we’ll have very nice, lean luxury apartments, all studios. I want to create a co-living and co-working space. I want the artists who helped create this place to be able to afford to stay with us and not get pushed out. I want the people who work for the English Hotel to be able to afford to stay here, instead of driving 30 minutes to somewhere else. They won’t even need a car, because here’s your work and here’s your home within walking distance of the neighborhood. I’d also like to have some luxury-style hostel, and draw in more of what I call “workation” tech travelers to the community. How did the challenges of your upbringing in China shape your career? Growing up in inner Mongolia, it was so poor. There were like 20 families in a village. It was in between China and Mongolia, so it was pretty much like no man’s land. No running water or electricity until I was 8 years old. We’d eat whatever we’d grown. At the time, China had what it called a One Child Policy, so everyone wanted boys. But my parents were not like that. My father’s a teacher, and I grew up loved. … But

(Left) Weina Zhang in an English Hotel room; (below) The English Hotel pool (Wade Vandervort/Staff)

my neighbors, they wanted boys, but they kept producing girls. And the Chinese Communist government kept taking all their assets. They stopped at five girls. They were all smart but only two got an opportunity to get into education; the rest had to drop out, because they couldn’t afford it. That’s why I set up the Zetian Children’s Foundation in 2007. My goal was to help the girls get education and it could change the whole family. My mother was one of nine children. So out of the nine siblings, four girls were illiterate, and the boys got an opportunity to get education. My mother, ever since I could remember, always said, “You need to go to school; you need to get a college degree and change my life.” She didn’t even mention change your life, she was like change my life (laughs). Somehow she knew I could. So since I was 19, they never worked. I moved my family from poverty to Shenzhen, which sits next to Hong Kong. I bought my mom a condo, it was worth $1.3 million by the day she passed away. She got an ocean view on the 18th floor. She said, “I have the best daughter in the world.” Considering your success, what advice can you give to other young businesswomen? The most important thing is to forget you’re a woman. Don’t play the woman card until you’re successful. If you play the card before you ever get there, you cannot prove yourself, and no one will care. I don’t care about your color. I don’t care if you’re a man, woman, dog or camel. If you can perform, I’ll hire you. Every CEO wants someone who can perform. I’ll give you a job as a developer, not because of how you look, but because you can perform. Forget you’re a woman and just get into what you do.

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eina Zhang can’t remember a time when she didn’t work for herself. The Las Vegas-based entrepreneur launched her career selling shoes in rural China as a teenager before eventually joining the tourism and hospitality industry. At 22, she was labeled one of the most successful businesswomen in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, according to a 2009 Las Vegas Sun article. Zhang got into the development and construction industry when she moved to the U.S., founding Zetian Systems and Z Glass, two companies that have worked on projects for Fontainebleau Las Vegas and New York’s One World Trade Center. In 2018, Zhang and her business partner Anna Olin created Z Life Co., the real estate development company behind the English Hotel, the Arts District’s first boutique hotel—or as Zhang sees it, her “proof of concept.” “I call this zero to one, to prove what I can do as far as the quality, the cost and the schedule,” she says. Zhang didn’t have any investors yet when the idea for the English Hotel began to come into focus. But to prove her dedication, “I sold all my assets. I sold my mansion in Spanish Hills. I sold my penthouse in San Francisco. I sold all the real estate and went all-in to build this hotel.” Award-winning architect Brett Robillard helped design the 74room hotel, which opened earlier this month, and Zhang says she’s already seeing high occupancy and visitors frequenting Todd English’s Pepper Club, a Mediterranean/ Japanese fusion restaurant named after the celebrity chef’s dog. The Weekly caught up with Zhang to discuss the hardships that made her the entrepreneur she is today, and why a boutique hotel belongs in the Arts District.

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be his “best asset” to fit with the strengths of Timme, Holmgren and the rest of the Bulldogs. No one really knew what to expect of his production coming into this season, but Strawther began thriving from the first game. He was the Bulldogs’ leading scorer through the first month of the season, a stretch that saw him combine for 32 points in a pair of high-profile, neutral-site games at T-Mobile Arena in late November—an 8363 win over UCLA and an 84-81 loss to Duke. Strawther continued to play his best in front of friends and family in his hometown in early March, when he led Gonzaga to a West Coast Conference tournament championship at Orleans Arena. Bulldogs coach Mark Few credited Strawther for keeping the team afloat during a firsthalf “lull” in the championship game against St. Mary’s, which had upset Gonzaga 10 days earlier at the end of the regular season, praising his progression. “Julian has been on some great runs, especially thinking back to how he played against Duke,” Few said. Strawther had a team-high 20 points against the Blue Devils, looking not the least bit outmanned matching up against surefire top NBA Draft picks like Paolo Banchero and Wendell Moore. Strawther has since shot up draft boards, too, now sitting as a late first-round pick in some mocks. Strawther says he’s not really thinking about that yet, not with the NCAA Tournament looming. “This season has meant a lot, especially coming off last year, having to wait my turn, sit on the bench and put the work in,” Strawther said. “Being able to come out here and have the opportunity to show all the preparation I put has been big for me.”

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FRANKIE COLLINS, MICHIGAN The freshman guard out of Coronado High provides ball-handling ability off the bench and averages 2.5 points, 1.5 rebounds and 1.4 points per game. First game: No. 11 seed Michigan plays No. 6 seed Colorado State at 9:15 a.m. on March 18 on CBS. WILL MCCLENDON, UCLA The freshman guard out of Bishop Gorman should be visible on the bench where he’s sitting out as a redshirt after injuring his knee but should be a big part of the Bruins’ plans in future years. First game: No. 4 seed UCLA plays No. 13 seed Akron at 6:50 p.m. on March 18 on TBS. MWANI WILKINSON, LSU The sophomore forward out of Bishop Gorman High started 29 of 33 games, contributing to the Tigers’ defense-first mentality and averaging 3.9 points per game. First game: No. 6 seed LSU plays No. 11 seed Iowa State at 4:20 p.m. on March 18 on TBS. –Ray Brewer

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Last year’s NCAA Tournament was equal parts exhilarating and exasperating for then-Gonzaga freshman Julian Strawther. On the one hand, the local native had a front-row seat to watch one of the most statistically dominant teams in college basketball history make a run all the way to the national championship game. On the other, rooting on his teammates while sitting on the bench for all but 14 total minutes of garbage time wasn’t what Liberty High’s alltime leading scorer had in mind upon committing to Gonzaga as a prized recruit. “It was difficult not being on the court after always being used to playing the whole game,” Strawther tells the Weekly during a recent phone interview, “but at the end of the day, I had to keep that glasshalf-full mentality knowing this coaching staff is great and had plans for me. “They would say, ‘You’re going to be a big part of the team next year and contribute.’ I just made sure I put in the work, so I could put myself in the best spot possible to do that.” Strawther has fully succeeded in that objective. He’s now a key piece of Gonzaga’s starting lineup as the Bulldogs look to avenge last year’s upset loss to Baylor in the championship game by winning the first national title in school history. Gonzaga enters the tournament as the overall No. 1 seed for the second straight year and the betting favorite to win the title at +275 (i.e. risking $100 to win $275)—in large part because of Strawther’s rise in the backcourt. Gonzaga’s first game will come against No. 16 seed Georgia State on March 17 in Portland, a 1:15 p.m. game set to be shown on TNT.

The Bulldogs’ offense runs through big men Drew Timme and Chet Holmgren, but Strawther has been Gonzaga’s breakout star on the perimeter and third-leading scorer at 12.3 points per game. “It’s a whole different mindset now that I’m a starter, a main piece of the team,” the sophomore says of his mentality entering this year’s tournament. “Last year, I was just making sure I was being the best teammate I could be, the best cheerleader I could be. Now I’ve got to make sure I’m performing for the team, because this is elimination basketball.” Though Strawther’s path to playing time might not sound all that unusual, it’s becoming increasingly rare in the basketball’s modern age. Players of his caliber typically get on the floor right away, and if they don’t, they often transfer to a new team, given the NCAA’s ever-more-flexible eligibility rules. But Strawther says he never felt tempted to leave Spokane, Washington. He knew it was where he was meant to be as soon as he arrived on campus, even if it didn’t go as smoothly as he’d anticipated. He spent the first part of 2020’s pandemic shutdown getting into the best shape of his life in preparation for the move and a chance to make an immediate impact at Gonzaga. But, he recalls, his first summer workouts alongside teammates like Jalen Suggs and Corey Kispert—now both in the NBA— were humbling. “I was trying things that I used to do in high school, and there were moments where I was like, ‘OK, this doesn’t work here,’” Strawther says. Strawther couldn’t overpower or outmaneuver teammates who led Gonzaga to a 30-0 record before the Baylor loss the way he did against local prep competition. He says he needed to “simplify” his game more than diversify it, so that’s how he spent the next year. He put in the most work on his jump shot, knowing it needed to

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The UNLV women’s basketball team earned its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2002 by winning the Mountain West Conference tournament earlier this month. Now it will look for its first tournament victory since 1991 at 7 p.m. on March 19 as a No. 13 seed taking on No. 4 seed Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, in a game broadcast on ESPN2. ¶ Here are five reasons to be excited about the UNLV women’s return to the tournament.

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THEY PLAY A CROWD-PLEASING STYLE. This isn’t an undertalented No. 13 seed that’s going to let the air out of the ball, drain the clock and hope to drag No. 4 seed Arizona into a rock fight. As it has all season, UNLV will push the pace, run a high-powered offense and shoot its shot. UNLV averaged 75.6 points per game this season, making it the 19th-highest-scoring team in the nation. Three players average in double figures, and two others came in at nine points per game in conference play, so there are multiple threats on the floor at all times. Junior forward Desi-Rae Young does her work inside (15.1 points), and junior guard Essence Booker runs things on the perimeter (15.6 points). That’s a tough matchup combo for any opponent, even Arizona and its 43rd-ranked defense (56.8 points per game). UNLV head coach Lindy La Rocque sounds confident UNLV’s offensive attack will give it a chance at pulling an upset on Saturday. “Offensively, we want to get in transition and score a lot of points,” La Rocque says. “I don’t know exactly what the game plan is going to be yet, but we’re going to have a good one, and we’re going to go out there and give it our best shot.”

THEY HAVE A LOCAL FOUNDATION. Booker is a Spring Valley High grad who committed to UNR out of high school before transferring to Ball State and then to UNLV last offseason. Now, the junior is back home and playing terrific ball, leading the team in scoring, assists (3.8 per game) and steals (1.5). Young, UNLV’s second-leading scorer and top rebounder (8.4 per game), is a Desert Oasis High product, while starting guard Justice Ethridge was the Gatorade National Player of the Year as a senior at Centennial in 2017-18. Booker, who took home Mountain West tournament MVP honors after averaging 17.3 points and 4.7 assists over three games, has become a leader among the band of locals. Her fearless approach to the NCAA Tournament is surely rubbing off on her teammates. “We think we can beat anyone,” Booker says. “We believe we can win, especially this first round. We’ve got to take it one game at a time, but we’re definitely confident going into this tournament.”

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THEY CAN RAIN 3-POINTERS. The Scarlet and Gray shot 35.8% from long distance this season, good for 20th in the nation. Between Alyssa Durazo-Frescas (43.4%), Booker (37.7%) and Khayla Rooks (34.0%), UNLV can seriously stretch a defense to its breaking point. In a tournament setting, the 3-point shot can be the great equalizer. If UNLV is hitting on Saturday, things could get very interesting for the underdogs.

COACHING COUNTS. La Rocque has something special going at UNLV, as evidenced by her phenomenal record through her first two years as coach (41-15 overall, 28-8 in the Mountain West). In terms of recruiting, teaching, roster management, Xs and Os and game management—all the things that constitute running a college hoops program—La Rocque has been a slam dunk. Her most recent masterstroke? Cribbing an out-ofbounds play from the Arizona playbook and using it late in the MWC championship game to free up Booker for a dagger shot that clinched UNLV’s tourney bid. Expect La Rocque to have something novel up her sleeve as she drives her squad in pursuit of an NCAA win that mark be a true milestone for the program. “We’re not just going to be happy to be here,” La Rocque says. “We want to execute. We want to put a great game plan together, because we want to win.”

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THERE’S MAGIC IN THE AIR. This hasn’t just been a successful season for UNLV. From an 11-3 start in nonconference play to a 12-game winning streak in January and February, a Mountain West regular season title and then a three-day romp to the conference tournament championship, this campaign is turning into something more. Something … magical. That energy was apparent at the team’s watch party for the NCAA Tournament selection show. The players and coaches cheered as their game was announced, exchanged hugs and then began thinking about what it will take to pull off the upset. Booker is setting the tone this week. “Obviously, going into this next game we’re the underdogs, but I don’t think we’re going to play like one at all,” Booker says. Knocking off a ranked team, stocked with top recruits, in its own building, in front of what’s sure to be a partisan crowd might seem like a monumental task. But this UNLV team believes. “We know we’re not going to be the biggest team, we know we’re not going to be the fastest team or maybe not the most skilled, but we’re going to have to play together and leave it all out on the court,” Rooks says. “That’s what it’s going to take.”

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! UNLV guard Justice Ethridge (Steve Marcus/Staff)

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After turning around women’s basketball at Arizona, Centennial grad Sam Thomas takes her final shot

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BY CASE KEEFER Sam Thomas did nothing but win early in her basketball career. She captured state championships all four years in high school—the last two locally at Centennial High after transferring in from Marian High in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan—and earned USA Today Player of the Year honors as a senior in 2016. So after all that success, some eyebrows raised when Thomas committed to a thenbottom-rung collegiate team at the University of Arizona—a choice that only seemed stranger when the Wildcats continued struggling during Thomas’ freshman season. Even Thomas began second-guessing her pick, Arizona coach Adia Barnes remembers. “She almost left as a freshman, because she had never lost so much,” Barnes recalled at a recent news conference. “We had won six games that year—[just] two games in the Pac-12—so I remember she was

crying and miserable.” Thomas says she never seriously considered transferring, though, because she believed in then first-year coach Barnes’ vision for the program. And as it turns out sticking around was a good move. Thomas is now a bona fide legend at Arizona. She’s been a captain all five years at the school, and already ranks as the Wildcats’ all-time leader with 151 career starts. She’ll get a final sendoff for the program she helped build when Arizona opens NCAA Tournament play as a No. 4 seed against No. 13 seed UNLV on March 19 at 7 p.m. on its home floor. ESPN2 will televise the game. The Wildcats were a point away from winning the national championship a year ago in their first-ever Final Four appearance, losing 54-53 to Stanford when a buzzer-beating shot attempt bounced off the back of the rim. Thomas said then she wasn’t sure if she

would exercise her option to return to Arizona for a fifth year, but the reception the team received when it landed back in Tucson the next day helped make up her mind. “We had a big parade, and everyone welcoming us, so it was hard to dwell on the loss,” Thomas tells the Weekly. “It was nice to have that support. I think it took about a week to realize, ‘OK, we enjoyed the moment, it was hard to lose,’ but [we know] what it takes to win a national championship. We were just focusing on getting better, getting back to work, and hopefully this year being able to finish the mission.” Thomas has responded with arguably her best season. Long regarded as one of the best defensive players in the nation, she has now made her long-range shooting just as lethal, leading the Pac-12 Conference with a .429 3-point shooting percentage this season. That sharp-shooting is more impressive

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Arizona’s Sam Thomas (14) looks to score against Stanford. (AP Photo)

Mike Grimala contributed to this story.

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More local grads to follow TAYLOR BIGBY, OREGON The freshman guard out of Centennial High has averaged 2 points per game in her debut season with the Ducks. First game: No. 5 seed Oregon plays No. 12 seed Belmont at 2:30 p.m. on March 19 on ESPN2. RAE BURRELL, TENNESSEE The senior post player out of Liberty High is rated 24th in the nation by ESPN after averaging 11.8 points and 3.6 rebounds per game this season. First game: No. 4 seed Tennessee plays No. 13 seed Buffalo at noon on March 19 on ABC. DRE’UNA EDWARDS, KENTUCKY The junior forward out of Liberty High became a star by averaging 16.9 points and 8.2 rebounds per game this season. She also hit one of the biggest shots of the year so far, a 3-pointer in the final seconds that allowed Kentucky to upset top-ranked South Carolina in the SEC Tournament championship game. First game: No. 6 seed Kentucky plays No. 11 seed Princeton at 1 p.m. on March 19 on ESPN. DAEJAH PHILLIPS, HAWAII The freshman guard out of Centennial has quickly become a fixture in Hawaii’s backcourt, averaging 10.3 points and 5.1 rebounds per game. First game: No. 15 seed Hawaii plays No. 2 seed Baylor at 1 p.m. on March 18 on ESPN2. –Ray Brewer

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when you consider that Thomas played in the post almost exclusively at Centennial, and even spent most of her first season at Arizona down low before Barnes began bulking up the program with more talent and put the 6-foot Thomas in a more fitting position to succeed. What has stood out to Thomas during her final season? “Just doing things I haven’t done. Playing like it’s my last year, having no pressure on me,” she says. “Being able to go out there and have fun every single game.” As notable as Thomas’ personal transformation has been, the Wildcats’ has been even more dramatic. Arizona hadn’t been to the NCAA Tournament since 2005 before Thomas arrived, and games were poorly attended. But by the end of her sophomore season, the Wildcats had drawn a sellout, Pac-12

Conference record 14,644 fans to watch a win over Northwestern in the finals of the WNIT. Fans began consistently recognizing her, and she has started capitalizing on that notoriety. Thomas launched her own clothing line this season after the NCAA changed its rules to allow athletes to profit off their name, image and likeness. Fashion has become a passion for Thomas, who completed an internship with Nike last summer and, Barnes says, could have remained with the apparel company in a full-time position had she not returned to Arizona. After the NCAA Tournament, Thomas might be faced with other tough choice: go back to Nike or pursue a professional basketball career. “If I could coach her my entire career, I would,” Barnes said. “She’s someone who could come back and be a good coach someday. She’s someone you trust because of her consistency and who she is. Her morals and values are good; she’s a good teammate. That’s why she’s been my captain the whole time.” Thomas credited part of her leadership ability to growing up in an ultra-competitive and athletic family. Her grandfather, Emmitt Thomas, is an NFL Hall of Fame cornerback and a longtime assistant coach, while her father, Derek Thomas, once coached Division 1 men’s basketball at Western Illinois. Thomas’ older sister Bailey won backto-back Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year awards at UNLV before graduating, and younger sister Jade is still on the Rebels’ roster. Their youngest sibling, brother Shane, stood out at Durango High this year. Sam building on her family’s legacy might have seemed unlikely six years ago, when she committed to what was then an afterthought of a women’s college basketball program, but that’s exactly what she’s done. “Sam means so much to [Arizona],” Barnes said. “We would not be where we are today without Sam.”

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TAKING SHOTS Target betting on these six teams in the NCAA Tournament BY CASE KEEFER Your tournament bracket was due days ago and might already be busted, but sportsbooks allow for the chance to stay in the action regardless in the biggest betting event of the year. Not only will there be several betting options available for every game— props to go with traditional spreads and totals — but books will update their future odds to win regions and the national championship frequently. Here are six teams—one pick from each seed—that are worth considering betting as the tournament goes on, both from a game-by-game and futures perspective, and why they might offer value.

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Pre-tournament odds: 8-to-1 to win the title, +175 to win the Midwest Region

Pre-tournament odds: 8-to-1 to win the title, +240 to win the East Region

The Jayhawks are almost certainly the weakest No. 1 seed, but they somehow received the easiest draw from a power-rating perspective. There’s not a single team in the Midwest Region that should be able to slow their combination of athleticism on the wings with size and strength inside the paint. Kansas is also peaking going into the tournament with five straight wins and four straight covers. March disappointment has been no stranger to the Jayhawks under coach Bill Self—including a blowout 85-51 upset ouster to USC in the round of 32 last year—but it would take another letdown this year to keep them out of the Final Four.

Kentucky’s reputation under coach John Calipari is for young, high-flying teams, but this year’s group goes against the grain as a more veteran, tough-minded group. That could help the Wildcats reach their first Final Four since 2015. No teams in their path can match them from a rebounding perspective, with junior big man Oscar Tshiebwe leading the nation at 15.1 rebounds per game. Tshiebwe was the most valuable player in the country by several metrics, and if the old adage about backing the team with the best player when it matters most rings true, Kentucky could be unbeatable.

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TENNESSEE Pre-tournament odds: 20-to-1 to win the title, 6-to-1 to win the South Region Don’t tell Tennessee that Kentucky is unbeatable. The Volunteers defeated the Wildcats in two of three tries this year, including in the semifinals of the SEC tournament. Tennessee gives every opponent fits with its defensive efficiency, rating third in the nation in the category by Ken Pomeroy’s analytics. The difference between the Volunteers and the other defensively led contenders? They can also light it up on the offensive end behind star freshman point guard Kennedy Chandler. Final Four teams are typically well-rounded, and few teams in the field are as well-rounded as Tennessee.

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ILLINOIS Pre-tournament odds: 50-to-1 to win the title, 10-to-1 to win the South Region

Pre-tournament odds: 100-to-1 to win the title, 20-to-1 to win the East Region Filtered only for games during the past month, St. Mary’s rates as the sixth-most-efficient team in the nation by Bart Torvik’s advanced statistics. The Gaels are the only team to have beaten top overall seed Gonzaga since the calendar flipped to 2022, and they did it by 10 points near the end of the regular season. This looks like coach Randy Bennett’s best team, and that’s saying something, considering he’s built the Gaels into one of the preeminent mid-major programs by winning at least one tournament game in three previous seasons. Not many will bet on them getting by No. 4 seed UCLA—seventh by Torvik’s numbers over the past month—in a potential round-of-32 matchup, but that might be a mistake.

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TEXAS Pre-tournament odds: 100-to-1 to win the title, 20-to-1 to win the East Region Texas has underachieved this season, but from a pure talent perspective, isn’t outgunned by many teams. The Longhorns, for instance, were picked to finish ahead of their East Region’s top seed, Baylor, in the Big 12 Conference preseason poll. Perhaps the tournament is where it finally all comes together for Texas, behind the inside-out duo of Marcus Carr and Timmy Allen. There’s precedence of a team coached by Chris Beard doing so— he’s taken a pair of less-talented Texas Tech squads on deep runs in the last four years.

Tennessee guard Kennedy Chandler (1) shoots against Arkansas (Wade Payne/ AP Photo)

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The Illini might enter the tournament as the field’s most undervalued team. They rate fifth in the nation by ShotQuality’s adjusted shot quality metric, meaning they’re attempting high-quality looks and preventing opponents from doing the same as well as any team in the nation. The problem is, they were stuck in a rugged, parity-stricken Big Ten Conference and racked up too many losses to be considered a true contender despite winning the league’s regular-season title. A potential round-of-32 showdown against No. 5 seed Houston, which reached the Final Four last year, looms, but Illinois is more than capable of beating anyone.

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MCDONALD’S LEAVES RUSSIA McDonald’s announced March 14 it would close nearly 850 restaurants in Russia and that it was impossible to predict when they might reopen. The company is continuing to pay its 62,500 Russian employees, it said, costing $50 million a month.

RIDE-HAIL SURCHARGE Joining its main competitor, rideshare firm Lyft announced March 14 that it will add a “temporary” gas surcharge for riders. The charge, it said, will go directly to drivers. The previous week, Uber announced a surcharge it said would be either 45 cents or 55 cents per trip.

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Jenny Arata of “the Skating Aratas” was preparing backstage at Planet Hollywood for her extreme roller-skating show as on any other evening when her cellphone rang. Her sister in Ukraine was on the other line frantically crying with the news. “They are bombing us everywhere,” Arata recalled her saying. That early-morning February 24 attack has brought great destruction and loss of life to Arata’s native country, creating a sense of hopelessness to the performer and other entertainers from Ukraine who call Las Vegas home while they work in shows up and down the Strip. They are desperate for information about the well-being of their loved ones, devastated by the loss of land and life, and wondering why Russian President Vladimir Putin would go to such senseless extreme measures. Some of those performers gathered March 15 for a solidarity Mass at Holy Spirit Catholic Church, where the service opened with the Ukrainian national anthem and attendees wore the country’s yellow and blue colors. “I was in complete shock,” Arata said of the phone call. “This is the hardest time in my life since I lost my father.” Arata’s sister and two nephews have since fled to Poland, among an estimated 2.5 million Ukraini-

ans—mostly women and children—to quickly leave their homes and livelihoods behind. The service was attended by many from the Holy Spirit community in solidarity with the Arata family, who are members of the church. Many of the parishioners had tears welled up in their eyes and flowing down their faces when Jenny and her husband, Vittorio, addressed the congregation. Vittorio, an eighth-generation circus performer, never imagined the family would stay long in Las Vegas when it arrived about 11 years ago to perform on the Strip. But, as witnessed by the outpouring at the service, the Aratas fell in love with the community. “I never thought we’d be here longer than six months,” Vittorio Arata said. “Without each of you, this would be too difficult. This is testing us and showing we will always support each other.” The Rev. Bill Kenny, pastor at Holy Spirit, coordinated with the family to host the service. The Mass collection was donated by the church to Republic Pilgrim, an orphan program in Ukraine long supported by the Aratas that was destroyed in the attacks. “Today, we are all Ukrainian,” Kenny said in his sermon. “You are our brothers and our sisters. We won’t let you down. We won’t forget you.” -Ray Brewer

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BUNDY ARRESTED Far-right activist Ammon Bundy, who’s running for governor in Idaho and whose family was at the epicenter of a 2014 standoff with the Bureau of Land Management in Bunkerville, was arrested March 12 after refusing to leave a hospital in connection with a child-welfare case.

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Station Casinos officials broke ground March 11 on the 83,178-square-foot Durango Resort, located in Rhodes Ranch off the 215 Beltway at Durango Drive. The area is considered a casino desert, and like all other Station properties, it will be located near a highway exit. The project is expected to be finished in late 2023. The $750 million project is the company’s first build since Red Rock Resort in 2006. It will take “the DNA of what they did there” with a fresh and relevant spin, said Scott Kreeger, president of Red Rock Resorts. Durango Resort will feature 200 rooms and suites, 40 electric carcharging stations, a food hall concept with fast-casual eateries, and 20,000 square feet of meeting and convention space. It will also have a resort-style pool with private cabanas and an event lawn for outdoor gatherings. The sportsbook, with an indoor-outdoor view-

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ing concept, could be considered one of the main attractions. The same could be said for the lobby bar, which is tucked away from the hotel’s main entrance and will feature numerous seating groups for meetings and plug-in stations for visitors who are at work. Like the sportsbook, the bar will also open to the outdoors, officials said. The property will be a modern desert oasis, Kreeger said, where visitors will notice natural stone-clad floors and walls, and plenty of natural light. “You will be impressed with clean and modern representation of the desert format,” Kreeger said. Station still has several properties—Fiesta Henderson, Fiesta Rancho and Texas Station—that remain shuttered from the business closures of March 2020 brought on by the pandemic. Kreeger said they are “constantly evaluating the right time” to reopen those properties. –Ray Brewer

Yaroslavl Marushchak, left, and Olya Bas sing the Ukrainian national anthem March 13 during a special Mass for Ukraine at the Holy Spirit Catholic Church. (Steve Marcus/Staff)

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This year’s Life Is Beautiful festival will feature both fresh and familiar faces at the top of its music lineup, unveiled on March 15. Four of the poster’s large-font names—Scottish DJ Calvin Harris, Kentucky rapper Jack Harlow, Georgia hip-hop trio Migos and Maryland dream-pop duo Beach House—will make their first LIB appearances when the event returns to the streets of Downtown Las Vegas for its ninth edition, September 16-18. The other five have each played the festival once before: English rockers Arctic Monkeys in 2014; English art-rock project Gorillaz in 2017; New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde in 2017; Norwegian DJ Kygo in 2015; and Kentucky rock band Cage the Elephant in 2017. The remainder of the 75-plus-act bill includes electro-pop singer Charli XCX, former OutKast rapper Big Boi, anti-Putin Russian group Pussy Riot, Irish singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy, rapper Rico Nasty, DJ/ singer Alison Wonderland and indie rock band Wet Leg, among others. Tickets, priced from $380 (plus taxes and fees) for general admission through $3,215 (plus taxes and fees) for the third of three VIP tiers, go on sale March 18 at 10 a.m. at lifeisbeautiful.com. –LVW Staff

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In the past two years, Henderson has become home to two pro sports teams and two ice rink arenas. After Lifeguard Arena opened on Water Street in fall 2020 as a community center and practice facility for the Henderson Silver Knights, Dollar Loan Center opened last week as the designated home arena for the Silver Knights and the Valley’s new Indoor Football League team, the Vegas Knight Hawks. Having hosted the Big West Basketball Championships March 8-12—and with the Knight Hawks’ first indoor football game scheduled for Friday, March 18— residents are already getting a taste of what they can expect from the 200,000-square-foot venue south of the Beltway on Green

Valley Parkway. At the arena’s first public gathering at the center’s outdoor plaza on March 8, several say it’s an upgrade from the Henderson Pavilion that used to reside there. “This totally exceeds [expectations] with the stage and outdoor area,” says seven-year Henderson resident Jason Bowden, who lives with his wife and daughter within walking distance of the venue. In the “Tiltyard”—an outdoor plaza with a raised stage and amphitheater-style seating—kids are roller blading on turf-lined concrete with live music playing and food truck smells wafting in the background. “When it was the Pavilion … it wasn’t as engaging. This seems like it will be more of a draw to pull people to the area,” Bowden says.

A fan of the Golden Knights, Bowden says he’s excited to have a neighborhood hockey team and another hangout spot nearby, in addition to the District at Green Valley Ranch. Bowden says most of his neighbors are excited, too, though some have concerns about traffic and safety in the area. When the City of Henderson approved the Golden Knights’ proposal for the new arena in 2020, community members organized a petition opposing it and voiced concerns about the traffic and crowds that a new 5,567-seat arena would bring to the neighborhood. “There was some pushback. Some people think it’s going to be an issue,” Bowden says. “Traffic is not my biggest concern. I

can walk here. There are a lot of people in the neighborhood who are excited to be able to walk to an event.” On day one of the Big West tournament, crossing guards stationed along Green Valley Parkway near the arena interrupted the steady flow of pre-rush hour traffic that typically forms around the District and I-215 ramps. What might have been an inconvenience for drivers was appreciated by father and son Rick and Kevin Vock, who had walked from their home across the street to Dollar Loan Center. “I don’t have to risk my life crossing the street,” Rick says, adding that a pre-arena crosswalk, just south of what’s now Silver Knights Way, wasn’t always heeded by drivers.

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“We don’t have suites; we have chambers. We don’t have elevators; we have hoists. We don’t have restrooms; we have throne rooms. We don’t have a club level; we have the royal landing. We’ve got a castle that’s permanently displayed in the building,” Bubolz says. “There’s an element of what they create in Disneyland that we wanted to create inside this venue and really make it an immersive experience.” Those excited about Dollar Loan Center’s opening didn’t have to wait long for it. Just a few months after the city greenlit a $84 million budget—split 50-50 with the Golden Knights— contractors began demolition of the Henderson Pavilion in August 2020 and wrapped up construction in 18 months. According to the agreement, the city owns the facility and will lease it to the Golden Knights for $150,000 annually for 20 years, and the Golden Knights operate it. March says she anticipates the venue will be used for community events such as performances by local ensembles, graduation ceremonies and farmers markets, 36 days a year. In addition to leisure and job opportunities for local residents (a Golden Knights rep says they’re nearly finished filling 250 positions at the center), the mayor says she sees nearby businesses and hotels benefiting. She expects Dollar Loan Center visitors to wander over to the District at Green Valley Ranch, helping restaurants and retail businesses in the area. And for multi-day events like the Big West tournament, people will book area hotels. An impact study commissioned by the city projects that the arena will generate $26 million for local businesses. “I’m thrilled to welcome this venue to Henderson,” March says,” and to know it’s part of bringing something back and giving something back to our community. We built this for Henderson.”

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(Above) Dollar Loan Center’s interior (Below) A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new venue (Courtesy Zak Krill/Vegas Knight Hawks)

A parking map shows that the venue’s designers had various forms of transportation in mind. A rideshare lot is designated south of the arena and west of Paseo Verde Library. And there are racks nearby for more than 100 bicycles. “We’ve worked really closely with some of the consultants on engineering our roadways to increase capacity along Paseo Verde and Green Valley Parkway, to increase and improve the flow of traffic,” Henderson Mayor Debra March says. The Silver Knights, which have been playing home games at Orleans Arena since February 2021, will debut at Dollar Loan Center on April 2. Golden Knights President Kerry Bubolz says there are about 4,000 season ticketholders, and remaining seats are expected to sell out. Aside from sporting events, the arena will try to attract customers daily to its merch store and the on-site Craggy Range Sports Bar & Grill, owned by Golden Knights owner Bill Foley’s restaurant group. Another point of attraction, the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame, is available to view inside the arena during events. Bubolz says the arena’s “medieval modern” aesthetic will provide a unique and engaging experience for visitors.

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Wynn’s Art of the Wild adds another day, along with new artists and parties BY BROCK RADKE

ing in layered deep house and electro; and WhoMadeWho, the Copenhagen-based experimental pop act from guitarist Jeppe Kjellberg, singer and bassist Tomas Høffding and drummer Tomas Barfod. As always, the only-at-Wynn music will be complemented by fully produced, diversely decorated club environments with otherworldly accents. “You’re going to find that every party looks completely different, and we’re extending the hours,” Fong says. “We usually close around 4 a.m.; for Art of the Wild we’ll try to stay open until 6 a.m. or even past that. The people that come for this travel internationally, and they’re used to seeing these artists and branded parties in that type of environment, so we want to make that happen here as well.” Here’s the latest lineup for Art of the Wild, though you never know when additional special guests might pop in.

MARCH 18 Higher Ground at Encore Beach Club with Diplo, Claptone, DJ Tennis, Anden, Cole Knight CircoLoco at XS with Chloe Caillet, Damian Lazarus, Maceo Plex, Mathame MARCH 19 Elrow at Encore Beach Club with Meduza, Eli & Fur, Mason Collective, Bastian Bux Rüfüs Du Sol at XS with WhoMadeWho, Fiin MARCH 20 Realm at Encore Beach Club with Gorgon City, Hayden James, Franky Wah Animale at XS with Artbat, Yotto, Kimonos, Airrica MARCH 21 La Selva at XS with Gordo, Dubfire

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he fifth installment of Wynn Nightlife’s Art of the Wild weekend takeover will be the biggest yet, running for four days and nights—up from three—at XS and Encore Beach Club. The innovative mini-festival created in partnership with Framework will continue its tradition of bringing new themed events and musical artists to the Las Vegas Strip for the first time. Art of the Wild launched La Selva, a jungle party inspired by all-night ragers in Tulum, last year, and that bash will close the festivities this time, March 21 at XS, featuring Gordo, the house music alias of Guatemalan-American DJ and producer Carnage. “Gordo is really that type of music we feature at Art of the Wild, more of an underground house and techno sound,” says Jon Fong, Wynn Nightlife’s director of brand and event marketing. “It was a great fit for him starting that last year and bringing his new brand to the forefront with the fourth day this year.” Noise-making party brands like CircoLoco and elrow are back, and two new events will add even more diversity to the mix—Diplo’s Higher Ground and Gorgon City’s Realm. “We had [Gorgon City] last year as a support act during the elrow party, and we have them headlining their own branded party,” Fong says. “We have Diplo as a resident DJ, and when he comes, he plays his traditional hip-hop, reggaeton set, very Diplo-style. Now, Art of the Wild gives him another platform to expand in another direction he wants to go.” Returning fan favorites from past events include Rüfüs Du Sol, Damian Lazarus and Claptone. New sounds will come from Art of the Wild debut artists Artbat, a Ukrainian duo that mixes big room sonics with melodic house and techno; Maceo Plex, a Cuban-American producer and DJ from Texas specializ-

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Silk Sonic’s Strip residency blends classic R&B sounds with Rat Pack attitude

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ilk Sonic’s Las Vegas residency marks the first time I’ve attended an event here that required me to stuff my phone into a Yondr pouch, locked up for the duration of the 90-minute concert and only liberated by a staffer on the way out of the Dolby Live theater at Park MGM. On the way in, I questioned whether the performance would be worth that seemingly substantial sacrifice. But the old-school soul performance by Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak and company is so enthralling and celebratory, I only thought of my phone when they played a song titled “We Took Your Phones Away.” That’s a demonstration of the supreme confidence these entertainers bring to the stage. MGM Resorts and Live Nation are very aware they have a big winner with An Evening

With Silk Sonic, also the name of the duo’s nine-track studio album released in November. Debuting on February 25 with dates extending through May, the show earns the residency title and satisfies on every level. If the Strip needed a musical revelation in the wake of the Adele debacle, this is it. Since Silk Sonic only has a handful of its own songs, past hits from Mars and .Paak are incorporated into the setlist—in unexpected ways. Mars’ “That’s What I Like” is wrapped in Earth, Wind & Fire vibes, and interpolations of Con Funk Shun’s “Love’s Train” and Roy Ayers’ “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” shine as brightly as Silk Sonic’s own hit singles. Mars and .Paak are both electric live performers, and both are clearly overjoyed to be singing and playing these songs on any stage, let alone in front of 5,000 fans in one of

the crown-jewel rooms on the Las Vegas Strip. They bounce between drum kits and guitars, swinging and swaying through Motown and disco-inspired choreography, and neither one ever seems to stop smiling. They do ham it up for their own tearfully smooth ballad, “Put on a Smile,” co-written with Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds. But just when that numbers threatens to get a bit cheesy, the pair skillfully weave pieces of .Paak’s “Make It Better” and Mars’ “When I Was Your Man” into the mix. It feels special seeing .Paak, a distinctive artist who has performed in smaller spaces like the House of Blues and Park MGM’s nearby On the Record nightclub, make the most of the big stage. He’s absolutely up for being a Vegas headliner. Even if classic R&B isn’t normally your thing, put Silk Sonic on your Strip residency must list. At times it feels more powerful than an homage to the duo’s inspirations, as if asking, What might it be

like if James Brown, Al Green or Curtis Mayfield had a big Vegas show back in the day? Silk Sonic isn’t transporting the audience to another era so much as pulling that era’s amazing music into the present day, reminding us how good it feels. Since I wasn’t looking at my phone as the show started, I noticed when Usher and Jermaine Dupri strolled into Dolby Live and took their seats. Much later that night, that duo and the Silk Sonic guys partied together at Delilah at Wynn Las Vegas, with Usher and .Paak hopping onstage for an impromptu performance. If you ask me, that sounds like some new Rat Pack stuff, hardly surprising considering Usher has moved his residency show from the Colosseum at Caesars Palace to Dolby Live, where it’ll start it up again this summer, right after Silk Sonic finishes up. These guys are having just as much fun as we are in Las Vegas. Probably more.

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THEIR MUSE Local female musicians reflect on the women who inspired them

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It’s Women’s History Month, a good time to reflect on music’s many remarkable female artists. The Weekly caught up with five seasoned local musicians— who have themselves surely inspired countless others within the Vegas scene over the years— to learn about the women who influenced them.

Inspiration collages (AP Photo/Shutterstock) Paige Overton (Robert John Kley), Kaylie Foster (Mike Kirshbaum), Jenine Cali (Courtesy), Sonia Barcelona (Norma Jean Ortega), Courtney Carroll (Chani Leavitt) (All Courtesy/Photo Illustration)

PAIGE OVERTON “I don’t know which girl didn’t love Gwen Stefani,” says Paige Overton, the singer-songwriter who fronted cowpunk band The Clydesdale for nearly 14 years. “I loved how eccentric she was. She was such a rocker and just unapologetically herself.” In high school, Overton says, she adored Cat Power, too, and then she discovered her true muse—Patsy Cline. “She really changed my world,” Overton recalls. “I started relating so much to country music, because I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is just somebody singing their diary entries.’ It’s so raw.” A reverence for Etta James and Billie Holiday, The Supremes and The Marvelettes, and Dolly Parton and Wanda Jackson, followed from there. “The thing I really loved about a lot of these women is that they were not trying to fit into any type of box,” Overton says. “They were very honest.” Hear those influences for yourself when Paige & The Overtones play the Sand Dollar Lounge on April 13.

KAYLIE FOSTER The Queen of Soul soundtracked much of Kaylie Foster’s adolescence. “My mom would always have Aretha Franklin playing in the car,” says Foster, who has been writing songs since her teenage years. “I distinctly remember hearing her voice at a very young age and realizing you can be an emotional powerhouse and be successful.” The singer-songwriter, who performs her alt-pop as simply Foster, marveled at Franklin, a woman who lacked the commercial look of the time but still delivered profound talent. That respect for non-conformists also led her to latch onto artists like Björk. “[Björk] was always ahead of the curve, and so artistic and different, on another planet,” Foster says. “It’s cool to see music from that perspective, because she was just doing it regardless of what people thought.” Norah Jones would also prove pivotal to Foster’s later sound and writing approach, she says.

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SONIA BARCELONA As she has traveled the globe, indie singer-songwriter Sonia Barcelona has fallen in love with music by artists all over the world, from Iceland’s Björk to German electronic act Enigma to Nigerian-born English singer Sade. “[Sade’s] all about love, and it’s so soothing,” says Barcelona, who has opened for the likes of Japanese Breakfast here in Las Vegas. “Anything that’s smooth and soothing attracts my attention, because that’s what I want in myself.” Sade’s velvet delivery informed Barcelona’s own enveloping timbre. English artist Laura Marling, who slides easily from light folk to heavier grunge, also influenced Barcelona’s craft. “I loved the way she played the guitar and was also a great storyteller,” Barcelona says.

COURTNEY CARROLL Like many musicians, Courtney Carroll remembers rummaging through her parent’s record collection as a kid. “Blondie was one that stood out to me. Maybe that’s why I love playing disco beats so much now,” she laughs. Since 1994, Carroll has drummed in more than 20 Vegas-based bands, including The Clydesdale, Kid Meets Cougar and Love Pentagon. These days, she keeps the beat for surf-rockers Thee Swank Bastards and harmonious folk outfit Dusty Sunshine. Carroll says she spent the ’90s obsessing over Sonic Youth, Erykah Badu and Björk, and that later, watching Santigold and St. Vincent in person reinforced what she already knew: Women rock. “All of my bandmates and other local musicians are really my biggest musical influences, though,” she says, citing Acid Sisters and Sonia Barcelona among her current favorite live acts.

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JENINE CALI The Dirty Hooks’ Jenine Cali grew up in the same house as one of her primary musical influences. “My mom was actually a singer in a band,” Cali says. “[She] would sing with us every single night before we went to bed.” Cali didn’t always listen to her mother’s music, but she did absorb her mom’s influences. “She got us into music. It was her collection,” Cali says. “We’d listen to Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin and The Pointer Sisters. A lot of that good ’80s stuff.” Dance-rock band Luscious Jackson, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and Madonna also mesmerized Cali, as did Lilith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan. “I thought she was great,” Cali says. “I saw her at the Huntridge when I was in high school, and I was just in awe.”

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Las Vegas performers and residents power the evolving, exciting Vegas and Nevada Rooms BY BROCK RADKE

he Vegas Room was the Little Supper Club That Could in the second half of 2020, the rare space offering live entertainment for restricted-capacity audiences during the first year of the pandemic. In 2021, owners Tom Michel and David Robinson expanded their operation in historic Commercial Center by taking over a vacated Mexican restaurant and opening the Nevada Room, containing a piano bar and bistro space and a larger showroom that could accommodate big bands and other acts. After some strategic changes, things are once again in full

swing in 2022. The original space has been shuttered, and the piano bar space has been renovated, becoming the new Vegas Room, which debuted on March 12. It maintains the intimate listening-room and supper-club vibes of the previous incarnation, while adding some cool local history: This is the space where the Commercial Deli— a Rat Pack haunt in the 1960s—once stood. “The Las Vegas Country Club is right there on the other side of Karen Avenue, so when they came off the golf course and Frank [Sinatra] wanted New York deli, this is where they would come,” says Robinson,

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(Left) Mark Verabian performing at the Nevada Room; (below) Country Captain’s Chicken Over Carolina Rice (Wade Vandervort/Staff)

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also the chef at the Vegas and Nevada Rooms. “We love that pedigree. Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher used to eat pastrami here.” Old-Vegas vibes are also evident in the thriving Nevada Room, which holds about 100 people for shows like Kelly Clinton’s residency and comedy legend Pete Barbutti’s accordian-aided performance Wednesdays through Fridays. Plenty of locals have become repeat visitors over the past year, enjoying refined, scratch-made fare like beef bourguignon or puff pastry-topped chicken pot pie with a cocktail or two and a night of memorable music.

“Since these rooms opened, we’ve had over 300 local performers on these stages,” Michel says. “The two things that hit the sweet spot are … being able to provide this kind of resource for local performers who we know are so talented, and, as a city, we are far more than a service industry for the Strip. “We love the Strip, but there are also a lot of locals who deserve their own place, where they can come and have great food, great entertainment and great drinks with a thousand free parking spaces and not

break the bank.” Indeed, the cost of parking at a Strip casino on a bigevent night could eclipse the price of dinner at the Nevada Room, which offers a la carte options and pre-fixe meals in the $35-$40 range per person. The venue has been recently relicensed as a theater, so it can sell tickets instead of charging one price for dinner and show (the Vegas Room is undergoing that process as well), and ticket prices typically run $20-$35. The upcoming calendar spotlights the versatile programming at both spaces, with Clinton’s show taking over on St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) with musical director Mike Clark and their band. Chicago R&B group The Next Movement continues its new monthly residency in the Nevada Room on March 18 (that acclaimed act also has plans for two special 50th anniversary shows, featuring all five original members,

on April 22 and 23). Then Patty Powers, who has performed with Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, sings accompanied by David Marinelli on March 19 in the Vegas Room. And veteran comedian Frankie Pace, who got his nickname “The Lovable Madman” from Joan Rivers, performs in the Nevada Room on March 23. The Vegas Room was originally born of local artists’ need for a place to perform and audiences’ desire for a locals’ spot to be entertained, and any level of stability and success Michel and Robinson have achieved at their venues can be attributed to their steadfast dedication to satisfying both. “You have to be tenacious and you have to be nimble,” Michel says. “If we find someone that says, I wish you had this kind of a drink, or why don’t you do this kind of a night, that’s the beauty of not being a corporation. We can change much more quickly.”

THE VEGAS ROOM & THE NEVADA ROOM 953 E. Sahara Ave., 702-533-0075, vegasnevadarooms.com. Wednesday-Thursday, 6-10 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 6-11 p.m.

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Anima’s croquetas, braised beef cheeks, farro and haricots verts, cured tuna sashimi and truffle cavatelli (Wade Vandervort/ Staff)

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El Luchador’s sopes Benedict and chorizo breakfast burrito (Steve Marcus/ Staff)

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or anchovies, it’s an epiphany. Contrasting that traditional dish is di Caudo’s unorthodox take on eggplant parmigiana ($18). Whereas many eggplant dishes retain the ingredient’s characteristic firmness, in this one it’s cooked down to a semisoft consistency. Tucked under a piquant parmigiano espuma and a sprinkling of tomato powder finished with a basil crisp, it delivers a surprising texture in a dreamy cheese sauce made for sopping. There are a multitude of sauces worth savoring among di Caudo’s handmade pastas. Truffle cavatelli ($28) is finished with flair tableside, bone marrow scooped directly into the bowl and mixed with the miniature shells strewn with salty salchichón—a Spanish summer sausage—and English peas, endowing the dish with umami complementing its inherent earthiness. Ask to keep the bone for a whiskey luge later, if you’d like. Equally impressive is the leek and napa cabbage raviolini ($24). And lest you think that’s too vegetarian a dish, it’s finished in a decidedly non-vegetarian foie gras sauce that contrasts the slightly sweet ravioli stuffing. After dinner, you might be in need of a digestif, so call over the amari cart, which features more than 30 brands of Italian herbal liqueurs. China-China, an orange-tinged amaro actually pronounced “cheena cheena,” is just one recommendation. If only DC team-ups could be as successful as EDO’s.

Brunching at Henderson’s El Luchador n Bold brunch dishes are back on the weekend menu at the ultra-cozy El Luchador Mexican Kitchen & Cantina, and that’s a great excuse to check into the new Henderson location at the corner of Warm Springs and Stephanie. The spacious spot, with its huge bar and patio, is in a prime position to become a neighborhood favorite for extended snacking and drinking sessions, and isn’t that what weekends were made for? The Breakfast Sammich ($12)— a fluffy telera roll stuffed with your choice of carne asada, chicken, pork or chorizo, plus eggs, cheese, guac and chipotle aioli—is a perfectly hearty foundation for an afternoon of margaritas, mojitos or palomas. Similar ingredients get gussied up a bit with the sopes Benedict ($14), topped with delicate poached eggs and chipotle Hollandaise sauce with fried potatoes on the side. Rotating chef’s specials will include sweet stuff like churro French toast and more savory bites like breakfast tortas and classic huevos rancheros, but there’s a chorizo burrito ($14) permanently planted on the menu that will give your local breakfast burrito fave a run for its money. Packed with spicy, house-made chorizo, soft scrambled eggs, potatoes, onions and peppers, it’s a hand-held meal that deserves its own spotlight. These dishes will also be available at the original El Luchador on Blue Diamond Road, though that spot opens at 3 p.m. on weekends. –Brock Radke

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BY JIM BEGLEY urely, we can all agree that team-ups are the best. Jason and Freddy. Deadpool and Cable. The Golden Girls. All three Spider-Men (spoiler alert!). Here in the Valley, we have our own super-powered team-up of sorts at Anima by EDO. Born from the union of Roberto Liendo and Oscar Amador from Spanish favorite EDO Tapas & Wine and former Ferraro’s executive chef Francesco di Caudo, Anima recently opened in the southwest Valley at the Gramercy. And it’s fabulous. Anima—both the Spanish and Italian word for soul—lives up to its name; the restaurant exudes soul as it blends Amador and di Caudo’s cooking heritages. From Amador, EDO highlights dot the menu, ranging from the vegan’s dream green tartare to the infamous bikinis, which are just as good here. But Anima is not simply EDO redux, evidenced from the delightful Italian options. Begin with a surprising favorite, the farro and haricots verts ($13). Even if you’re not a salad person, this one hits on all levels, simultaneously salty and sweet, acidic and earthy, creamy and crunchy in each bite. Don’t skip past this instant classic. Another hit is the bagna cauda ($16), though it might not appeal to everyone. The traditional fondue-like dish from Italy’s Piedmont region is a pungent blend of anchovies and garlic, served with fried polenta sticks and crudité. For those of us enamored by both garlic

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BY BRYAN HORWATH VEGAS INC STAFF

as Vegas was one of the hardest hit cities by the Great Recession in the late 2000s, when thousands of people were forced to file for bankruptcy. Nevada had the most bankruptcy filings of any state in 2009 and 2010 with around 30,000 each year, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute. Once the pandemic began, local bankruptcy attorney Ryan Works figured the economic downturn caused by the virus would lead to another drastic uptick in filings. To his surprise, and to the surprise of others who track bankruptcy filings, that hasn’t happened. At least, not yet. “Most of us were predicting a massive influx,” said Works, chair of the bankruptcy, insolvency and financial restructuring division at the McDonald Carano law firm. “Certainly, things changed when we had trillions of dollars infused into the American economy. Loans, grants for small businesses and restaurants, all that money turned that upside down.” In fact, only about 7,000 bankruptcy filings were executed in Nevada in 2021, according to the institute. That represented the lowest yearly total in the state since 2006. The vast majority of all bankruptcy cases are of the Chapter 7 variety. In such cases, individuals can get relief from consumer or medical debts—two of the most common reasons for a person to consider bankruptcy—but have to go through a process where certain “non-exempt” assets—such as

a home or vehicle—can be liquidated to help pay off creditors. One of the drawbacks to the financial fresh start is that a person’s credit history will be flagged, which can affect various areas of a person’s financial existence. Works said he still thinks a wave of personal and business bankruptcies will show up here, but Ed Flynn of the American Bankruptcy Institute isn’t as confident in that. “Right now, we’re getting an average of 7,000 cases per week,” Flynn said. “I’m not too convinced it will go up. Twenty years ago, we were in the range of 1.5 million per year.”

Flynn said the strange brew of economic conditions seen since early 2020 has thrown predictability to the wind. Because of pauses in student loan repayments, mortgage payback schedules and the rollout of government protection and tax credit programs, many have been able to stay afloat financially when they might not have during a typical recession cycle. “If we compare today with the Great Recession, a lot of wealth went away back then,” Flynn said. “Housing prices went down by a third pretty much everywhere. Now, housing prices are up, the stock market is up,

Ryan Works, a bankruptcy attorney for the McDonald Carano law firm (Wade Vandervort/Staff)

and employment is fairly high. This is different than the last time.” There are signs of trouble for consumers, though, which could trigger an increase in bankruptcy filings. During the final three months of 2021, there was a $52 billion increase in credit card debt for the American consumer, according to the New York Federal Reserve. Federal student loan repayments are also scheduled to restart in May, though another extension could be granted. And gas prices are at near-record highs, with rents also up in many parts of the country. In short, a stressed housing market and troubling inflation trends mean that people are paying more for non-discretionary costs. “There’s also billions of dollars of medical debt out there,” Works said. “We’ll see a wave. When that comes, I just don’t know. What it will mean, I don’t know, but it could have an effect on younger people. I think a lot of people put things on their credit cards during the pandemic because they stayed at home and shopped on Amazon.” Works, who handles mostly business debt restructuring cases, said he thinks a consumer bankruptcy wave will be followed by a “substantial” business wave. Flynn said he suspects that many business owners simply decided to close their doors instead of filing for bankruptcy protection. That might explain why Chapter 11 filings nationwide last year dropped to a level—about 4,800—not seen since before the Great Recession. Brian Shapiro, a Las Vegas attorney who also serves as a bankruptcy trustee, said he has noticed more “stressedout” people in his bankruptcy dealings since the start of the pandemic. “I don’t know how people are able to afford rent and gas with all this inflation,” he said. “I have gotten a lot of consultants in the past year or so, but I just haven’t seen the filings.”

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BY ANN MORGAN n the first week of March, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) adjusted COVID-19 guidance, chronologically following a groundswell of state and city officials’ decisions to lift COVID-19 restrictions. In Nevada, Gov. Steve Sisolak lifted the indoor mask mandate for those with two vaccine shots. Private employers who had not required employees to return to the workplace or who limited the number of employees that could return, began setting “Return to Workplace” dates. Requiring all employees to return to the workplace, however, is not as straightforward as sending all employees home to work in March 2020 was. Shutting down operations in 2020 generally followed an email directive and may have required ensuring employees had hardware, software and bandwidth. Where and how the employees set up their “at home” office/facility was up to each employee and their situation. Transitioning back to the office, however, does not provide the employee as much autonomy and flexibility. Despite the renewed opportunity for camaraderie and team-focused productivity presented by “Back to the Workplace” emails, the result is more potential for conflict and more accommodation requests. Just as employees had to learn how to work with family members in the next room or the next seat at the dining

room table, they may have to relearn how to work with supervisors and co-workers in the next office or cubicle. Workers who stayed in the office may resent perceived “entitlement” of those who worked from home and may not believe that remote workers worked as hard. Those who worked from home may resent the perceived “advancement” of those who stayed at the office and may believe that their work is not as valued. For some employees, however, a return to the workplace policy may be seen as subjecting them to an unsafe work condition. Those who may have a lower risk tolerance and believe that returning unnecessarily exposes them (or those in their immediate circle with underlying health conditions) to the virus, may resist a directive to return. Does the law require employers to accommodate these concerns and allow those who do not want to return to the workplace to continue to work remotely? Employees whose basis for not returning to the workplace is a “preference” to work remotely can, in fact, be required to return to work. All employers have the right to determine where the work will be done, provided the location is safe and there are not other nondiscriminatory reasons for requiring the work

be done at the location. That returning employees may have a hard time adjusting to their fellow employees should be dealt with as any pre-COVID employee conflict was. Employees whose basis for not returning to the workplace is based on a fear of infection or an underlying condition that makes them, or those with whom they live, vulnerable to the virus, need to be viewed through the lens of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in several areas. In the employment arena, the key components are: 1) Does the individual have a disability? 2) Is the individual qualified to perform the essential functions of the job? 3) Can the individual perform the essential functions of the job with reasonable accommodations? The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) guidance provides that employers do not have to make accommodations for employees whose basis for not returning to the workplace is a fear of contracting the virus. The answer may not be the same, however, for employees with a “disability,” defined as a “physical or

mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.” Employees with a disability may not be discriminated against. Rather, employers must make a reasonable accommodation to the employee if doing so will enable the employee to perform the essential functions of the job and such accommodation will not impose an “undue hardship on the operation of the business.” Just because an employee with a disability was able to do their job remotely as a result of a work-fromhome directive, however, does not make continued remote working a “reasonable accommodation.” The iterative conversation required by the ADA preCOVID remains a requirement, and the employer is entitled to understand why the employee’s disability requires her or him to continue to work remotely, particularly if the employee was able to perform the essential functions of the job from the workplace prior to the work-from-home directive. Indeed, that an employer temporarily allowed its employees to work remotely to protect them from COVID-19 does not mean it is required to continue that policy, particularly when the risks can be or may have been mitigated. What both the “preference” scenario and the “disability” scenario have in common is the need for the employer to effectively communicate with employees. It may be that a rolling return will better enable employees to get comfortable working with their co-workers again. It may be helpful, in addition to emails, to hold an “all hands” meeting to facilitate a discussion of concerns. It may be, however, that the understanding many employers received as a result of their employees successfully and productively working from home does not require employees being back at the workplace to get back to work. Ann Morgan is the employment and labor director with the law firm Fennemore.

Employees whose basis for not returning to the workplace is based on a fear of infection or an underlying condition that makes them, or those with whom they live, vulnerable to the virus, need to be viewed through the lens of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

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VegasInc Notes De Castroverde Law Group named Liliana Acero as the firm’s new director of community outreach. Acero has been with DLG since 2020 as a litigation case manager. In her new posi- Acero tion, she will increase the firm’s community awareness and build and strengthen its relationships throughout Southern Nevada, as well as be responsible for social media. B&P Advertising, Media & Public Relations hired David Heintzelman and Norm Craft. Heintzelman is an experienced copywriter with nearly two decades of experience in gaming and other industries. Craft has been a Las Vegas ad agency executive for more than 30 years.

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Snell & Wilmer announced that Erik Foley joined the Las Vegas office as an associate in the Craft commercial litigation practice group. Foley’s practice is focused in real property litigation involving mechanic’s liens and HOA disputes. The firm also announced that Christian Ogata was elected to the board of directors of Aid for AIDS of Nevada. Ogata is an associate in the firm’s commercial litigation practice group. Workforce Connections, Southern Nevada’s local workforce development board, announced the addition of SMART Local 88 business manager and financial secretary-treasurer, Robnett Geremiah Robnett, to the Workforce Connections Board. SMART Local 88 is the local sheet metal workers union. TSK Architects was honored for design excellence by the American Institute of Architects Nevada. TSK received one top honor in the unbuilt category, medical education building, for the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, and a second in the built category, commercial architecture, for the Las Vegas Convention Center Phase 2 Expansion. TSK also received a merit award for an international project in the built category, commercial architecture, for the B-Tech Towers in Shenzhen, China. Additionally, TSK announced seven

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