NY Times: Las Vegas Adapts to Reap Chinese New Year Bounty...New York Times February 21, 2007

The New York Times ( excerpt February 21, 2007) by Steve Freiss

Las Vegas Adapts to Reap Chinese New Year Bounty...

At the Bellagio, the theme of the 14,000-sq-ft conservatory is changed only five times a year, and Chinese New Year is one of those times. The current display ( designed by Stephen Stefanou of Design Solutions in Dallas) features live tangerine trees, a 45-ft-tall pagoda, 18-ft-tall 'god of fortune' and a mechanical pig with a moving tail, snout and eyes.

'You'll see a lot of Chinese lanterns hanging in groups of six because multiples of six are lucky numbers," the Conservatory manager, Sharon Hatcher, said. "Everything here are multiples of six or eight, because those are the lucky numbers. Even the number of koi we have in our pond are multiples of eight . We want to maintain as much positive energy for luck for the new year celebration."