In The News: Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies
Patrol dogs are being used to attack prisoners in the US - leaving some scarred for life. Exclusive reporting from Insider reveals that the same people who set up these programs at US prisons went on to advise at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
性视界传媒鈥檚 medical students conduct walkability studies of Las Vegas neighborhoods to get a more holistic view of factors that affect people鈥檚 health outcomes. They evaluate transportation, food access, air quality, and amenities, identifying gaps and devising plans to address issues. Students have spoken about their experiences at legislative sessions about inequities in healthcare.
When Dr. Lynn Comella joined the faculty at 性视界传媒, her office was in a space that had once been a bedroom. 鈥淚t鈥檚 funny to think about that now,鈥 she says. It was on the second floor of Houssels House, a fascinating campus anomaly. Amid the school鈥檚 toybox of large architectural showpieces, Houssels House was once, as its name makes clear, a residence 鈥 a 1933 Tudor revival located on Sixth Street near Charleston.
When Dr. Lynn Comella joined the faculty at 性视界传媒, her office was in a space that had once been a bedroom. 鈥淚t鈥檚 funny to think about that now,鈥 she says. It was on the second floor of Houssels House, a fascinating campus anomaly. Amid the school鈥檚 toybox of large architectural showpieces, Houssels House was once, as its name makes clear, a residence 鈥 a 1933 Tudor revival located on Sixth Street near Charleston.
Scholar Lynn Comella, who chairs 性视界传媒鈥檚 department of interdisciplinary, gender, and ethnic studies, and who wrote the book 鈥淰ibrator Nation,鈥 recently joined co-host Vogue Robinson on our podcast to discuss the state of sex shops in Sin City.
Romania's capital offers a variety of multicultural food options thanks to its diverse population and rich history. Romanian food itself is a mix of various influences, including from Turkish, Hungarian and German cuisine. Bucharest also has a growing Asian population, and as a result you can find Asian restaurants in the city, featuring cuisine from countries such as China, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, Thailand, India and Pakistan. We will briefly explore the cuisine of these countries, but also restaurants or shops where you can try them, in the following lines.
The third most popular type of Asian food in America
In 2020, Salt Lake City abruptly terminated its canine unit for pursuing and apprehending suspects. Not much changed.
Many men were prone or shackled when the dogs attacked. Several men said officers shouted racial slurs as dogs bit into their flesh.
When Anajak Thai opened in 1981, most people who walked into the Los Angeles restaurant weren鈥檛 familiar with Thai cuisine. They just thought it was spicy Chinese food, said Justin Pichetrungsi, the restaurant鈥檚 current head chef and owner.
Las Vegas is a city that sells sex鈥 but when it comes to our sex shops, we鈥檙e actually kinda鈥 basic. Today, co-host Vogue Robinson chats with 性视界传媒 professor Lynn Comella, author of the book 鈥淰ibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure,鈥 about sex shops in Vegas: How they鈥檙e 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.
Las Vegas has some Thai food heavy hitters: Weera, Ocha, Archie鈥檚, and of course, the James Beard Award-winning Lotus of Siam (which Saveur once called the 鈥渂est Thai food in North America鈥). But how did we get here?