Nov 7th, 2008 · The Miss Saigon pageant winner left Vietnam for the U.S. in 1975 and eventually became an FBI special agent. She has reinvented herself once again; she now lives in Bangkok and runs a Vietnamese restaurant that has become a favorite of locals and expatriates alike.
Oct 8th, 2008 · The United Nations declared 2008 the International Year of the Potato. Bill Campbell organized the Palmer Potato Pageant in Palmer, Alaska, to honor the potato for its benefits — both nutritional and recreational. He talks about the pageant.
Sep 5th, 2008 · Think the feminists who protested the 1968 Miss America pageant in the name of women's liberation burned their bras? Think again. No bras were set aflame that September day. But the idea that they were helped launch the movement onto the national stage.
Aug 30th, 2008 · On Friday, Sen. John McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate for the GOP presidential ticket. Palin has a reputation for independence and was once voted Miss Congeniality in a beauty pageant. Some question her experience, however.
Nov 26th, 2007 · Ingrid Marie Rivera was a contestant in the Miss Puerto Rico contest. The winner goes to the Miss Universe pageant. And somebody apparently tried to sabotage Rivera. She broke out in hives. Pageant organizers thought it was nerves at first.
Nov 13th, 2007 · Miss Navajo is a documentary about a pageant that honors not only beauty, but also knowledge of the language and culture of the Navajo Nation. The film is set to air within the PBS series Independent Lens. Billy Luther, who directed the film, and his mother Sarah Luther, who formerly held the Miss Navajo title, discuss what the pageant means within American Indian cultures.
Sep 1st, 2007 · Miss Teen South Carolina was humiliated on the Web this week when her attempt to answer one of those innocuous pageant questions went horribly awry.
Aug 23rd, 2007 · Essayist Jennifer Weiner is the author of In Her Shoes, a best-selling book that was made into a movie starring Cameron Diaz. Weiner grew up watching Miss America pageants and covered them as a journalist, and their marginalization on some lame cable TV channel upsets her.