City Cast Las Vegas

City Cast Las Vegas is a daily podcast and newsletter created by and for locals (and locals-at-heart) that’ll challenge the easy narratives about our city … and, okay, maybe confirm a few of them, too. Las Vegas is a city of reinvention, bursting at the seams as it welcomes newcomers into its various incarnations as a service-worker union town, a military town, a college town, and, most recently, a sports town.


There’s a four-mile street testifying to our entrepreneurial genius, not far from pockets of staggering inequality. Great wealth runs through our city, but how much of that actually stays in Vegas? We’re independent in spirit, but also ruled by orange traffic cones. Our 2.5 million residents anchor an ever-changing city of 42 million visitors.


Join us every morning for the messy, delightful, complicated conversations that Las Vegans are having: You’ll hear us ask hard questions about where we’ll get our water when Lake Mead runs out, and how we’ll keep housing affordable. We’ll argue over our favorite Chinatown bars, and share insider tips on the best tacos in town. City Cast Las Vegas will show you how loving a city means celebrating it and also holding it accountable, while having some fun along the way—because Las Vegans know how to have a good time.

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Society & Culture
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An Insider's Guide to Downtown Staycationing
18 min
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Why Uber Drivers are Protesting, Lions in Peril...
31 min
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The Best Pizza in Vegas
20 min
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Busting the Biggest Mob Myths in Vegas
20 min
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The Real Lives of Celebs in Vegas
21 min
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The Obscure Law That Shaped Las Vegas
20 min
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Hilary’s Real Impact, Bedbugs and Bats, and the...
28 min
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How To Run a Food Business From Home
17 min
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Are CCSD Teachers About to Illegally Go On Strike?
19 min
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What Does a Name Change Mean for Nevada State C...
21 min
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The Worst Places to Send Tourists in Vegas
19 min
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How Vegas Nurtures Nonprofit Leadership, with C...
39 min
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Pizza Robots! Plus, Why 115 Move Here Daily, an...
29 min
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Where Are All the Good Vegas Soul Food Joints?
20 min
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Could This Gambling Ring Take Down a Casino Boss?
18 min
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The Biggest Casino Heist in Vegas History
25 min
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Why Doesn’t Clark County Have Brothels?
22 min
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A Food Pantry Controversy, AI in Public Meeting...
33 min
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The Ancient Technique Driving Modern Mexican Cu...
17 min
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Our Fave Local Bands Competing for an LIB Stage
26 min
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7 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Library Card
20 min
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Could Vegas Finally Get an NBA Team?
19 min
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Should Our Politicians Have Age Limits? Plus, C...
35 min
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Why Tinned Fish is Taking Over Vegas Restaurants
19 min
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Why Vegas Has So Many Orange Cones
19 min