LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Sparse foot traffic this week in the Las Vegas Convention Center suggests fewer people than usual made tracks to town for one of the shoe industry's biggest conventions.

Barack Obama reached into the deep pockets of his campaign to air a 30-minute prime-time pitch on U.S. networks Wednesday, in an infomercial largely aimed at the working class.

The fashion world uses insider lingo like, well, insiders. But fashion is more democratic than that: We all have to get dressed and should know if we're wearing a cowl neck or a halter.

During my high school years peddling old LPs at a record shop, I got to know the Chumbawamba/Ace of Base/Backstreet Boys of the ’60s and ’70s. You know—the records that seemed like a good idea at the time?

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Sparse foot traffic this week in the Las Vegas Convention Center suggests fewer people than usual made tracks to town for one of the shoe industry's biggest conventions.