Las Vegas is a city that sells sex… but when it comes to our sex shops, we’re actually kinda… basic. Today, co-host Vogue Robinson chats with UNLV professor Lynn Comella, author of the book “Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure,” about sex shops in Vegas: How they’re evolving, the challenges faced by the one feminist sex shop we had (ever so briefly), and what a great sex shop can do for a city like ours.

Fifteen thousand hotel workers across Southern California recently walked off the job. Workers at about 65 major hotels in Los Angeles and Orange counties went on strike Sunday morning, including front desk staff, housekeepers, and kitchen workers.

Las Vegas has some Thai food heavy hitters: Weera, Ocha, Archie’s, and of course, the James Beard Award-winning Lotus of Siam (which Saveur once called the “best Thai food in North America”). But how did we get here?

Taiwan—a central issue in the historically tense U.S.-China relations—is set to hold elections early next year that may be the most unusual the country has ever seen, with direct implications for America’s politics and economy.

Taiwan—a central issue in the historically tense U.S.-China relations—is set to hold elections early next year that may be the most unusual the country has ever seen, with direct implications for America’s politics and economy.

Under his rainbow umbrella, which protects him from the harsh summer sun, Luis Sanchez happily serves one of his usual customers a raspado — shaved iced — into a plastic cup with homemade strawberry syrup on top.

I don’t recognize a lot of the people on the wall of framed celebrities at Park’s BBQ. Though she doesn’t like to admit it, neither does Jenee Kim, the restaurant’s 69-year-old proprietor.

Walking onto the Wisconsin Street property last week, the weight of what’s there hits you like a stone foundation. Exposed through careful hand excavation is a stretch of stone foundation very clearly laid out in the shape of half a cross.

Sports have been around for thousands of years, whether it’s the Greek Olympics or the gladiator matches of the Roman empire.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's world-renowned trip to China has come to an end, with major differences between the U.S. and China remaining over Taiwan that have lingered for decades, though Congressional Republicans are critical of Blinken. Disappointed by the visit, and Blinken's public statement in China that the United States "does not support" Taiwan independence has also aroused criticism from the opposition. Some Republican members of Congress said that Taiwan has become independent, and no matter what Blinken says, it cannot change this fact.

Nearly a century ago, writer Aldous Huxley called Los Angeles “19 suburbs in search of a metropolis.” In many ways, Las Vegas is the 20th suburb. The two cities share such links as the Old Spanish Trail, the L.A. to Salt Lake Railroad and Interstate 15. Three Southern California architects also did a great deal to make Las Vegas look the way it has and does.

Sociologist Marta Soligo examines the link between cinema and tourism, applied to the case of Las Vegas, a city that 'lives' on casinos but which over the decades has also become a destination for lovers of sports and cultural events.