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.

News
Daily News
Society & Culture
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Construction Battles At Red Rock Aren't Over Yet
19 min
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Why Does Reno Get A Museum of Art… And We Don’t?
13 min
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Sick Puppies, Construction at Red Rock, and 20 ...
28 min
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The Solutions to Homelessness No One’s Talking ...
23 min
730
Who Won the Sisolak/Lombardo Showdown?
22 min
731
What Really Happens in Vegas Dive Bars
An industry veteran gives us the DL
18 min
732
You Say Nevada, I Say… Nevada?
Why do Nevadans get up in arms about our state’s name?
22 min
733
Prison Breaks, Broken Fingers, and the Grasshop...
31 min
734
Veteran Politicians Fight For North Town’s Mayo...
13 min
735
Why Men Are Paying $70k To Break Their Legs
22 min
736
We Need To Talk About Elvis
...and what he means for Las Vegas.
28 min
737
Meet the Sword Swallowing Mastermind Behind DTL...
Who Is Miss Behave?
23 min
738
Weed Lounges Get the Green Light
Plus: The Yucca Mountain Zombie, and reflections on Oct. 1
27 min
739
What Does It Mean To Be Multicultural in Las Ve...
It's not just about race.
18 min
740
The Cookbook Club That Fed A City
Kim Foster's Please Send Noodles is cooking up ways to help the Las Vegas community.
18 min
741
Why Sen. Cortez Masto Opposes Biden’s Student D...
...and what it means for her reelection campaign.
21 min
742
Five Vegas Women You Need to Know
Who does this historian put on her Las Vegas Mt. Rushmore of women?
18 min
743
Cannabis Cleans Up In Court
Plus, is CCSD too big? And indie music loses a mensch.
25 min
744
Can The Aces Make Las Vegas History?
We're about to find out.
20 min
745
Life is Beautiful Returns and Locals Are Confli...
Has LiB been good for Las Vegas?
24 min
746
Where's Our Tupac Memorial?
A conversation with the DJ from the club that Tupac never made it to.
20 min
747
Why Beverly Rogers Doesn’t Call Herself a Phila...
Despite giving over $89 million to Las Vegas causes over the years
21 min
748
Did the Lawyer Kill the Journalist?
We talk with our lawyer and our journalist.
23 min
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What’s it Like to Be a Showgirl in Vegas?
A special guest episode from Faces and Aces LV
27 min
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Heyyy, Bettor Bettor! Sports Betting Basics Wit...
The 101 on wagering on sports
19 min