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The Alternative Miss World Beauty Pageant Prefers Bitchy Quips to Bikinis
We chatted with artist Andrew Logan about his infamous drag pageant, its impact on fashion, and how he hosted the first Sex Pistols gig.
Hundreds of Mormons Reenacted the Book of Mormon in Upstate New York Last Week
For a week and a half each July the seeds of Mormonism spread and germinate among a nightly crowd of thousands in the small town of Palmyra, New York, 24 miles east of Rochester. It’s free and open to non-Mormons like me, who are, as they say, “ready...
Figure Skating Ruins Lives
To many Americans, figure skaters are real-life Disney princesses, but many skaters' lives are filled with financial failure, abusive parents, and drug issues.
Child Pageants Are Coming to Quebec, and Quebecers Aren’t Happy About It
The weird phenomenon of child beauty pageants is coming to Quebec, at long last. On November 24, little Quebec girls, some under a year old and under the watchful, intense eyes of their mothers, are to be trotted out on stage and judged by a group of...
Here She Is, Miss Holocaust Survivor 2012
Everyone loves Holocaust survivors and beauty pageants, so why hasn’t someone combined the two? That was the exact thought of Israeli charity Yad Ezer L’Haver (“Helping Hand”), which in late June held a competition in Haifa to crown a Miss Holocaust...