Beauty Pageants

Pasadena Strawberry Festival

Pasadena Strawberry Festival

Anyone have some whipped cream?

Pop Rocks: Anyone Not Rooting For The Cowboys In The Amazing Race Is A Rotten Bastard

​The 16th season of The Amazing Race wraps up next Sunday, when one of the three remaining teams will claim the million dollar prize and ride off into relative obscurity (go ahead. name a past Race winner...now name five ex-Survivors, my case rests). This season has ranged from Chile to the People ... More >>

Game Time: "Oh My God....He's Gonna Throw It.....NOOOOOOO!!!!"

​"That's the thing about defining moments -- when they define you as really, really good or really, really bad, you pretty much know them the minute they occur; when the jury is still out on whether you're good or bad, ultimately you have to go back and find the defining moment."  -- Sean Pen ... More >>

Last Call For Art: Graffiti, The Body And A Beauty Queen

Photo by Olivia Flores Alvarez"Street Tempted" at Aerosol Warfare There are two arts shows and a play that warrant your attention before they close this weekend. First is "Street Tempted," an art exhibit at Aerosol Warfare by Galveston-based artist Gabriel Prusmack. After starting as a graffiti arti ... More >>

Gossip Girls

The Veronicas aren't exactly what Gloria Steinem had in mind.

Last Call For Art: Shows Closing this Weekend

Photo courtesy San Jacinto MuseumThe Gothic comedy The Miss Firecracker Contest closes on Sunday. Pulitzer-Prize winner Beth Henley's play is about Carnelle, a young woman with a less-than-perfect past who has entered the local beauty pageant in order to restore not only her reputation but her self- ... More >>

Bring Back the Babes and Bitches

Photo courtesy San Jacinto MuseumThe Gothic comedy The Miss Firecracker Contest closes on Sunday. Pulitzer-Prize winner Beth Henley's play is about Carnelle, a young woman with a less-than-perfect past who has entered the local beauty pageant in order to restore not only her reputation but her self- ... More >>

Back To The Leggy Future For Galveston, And John Nova Lomax

This was the hotttness back in the day in GalvestonFrom 1920 to 1932, Galveston hosted an annual "pageant of pulchritude" on the beach in front of the Seawall. At its Roaring `20s peak, the bathing-suit contest that was officially known as the Galveston Island Beach Revue would entice some 200,000 p ... More >>

Obama Wraps Up The Miss USA Demographic

This was the hotttness back in the day in GalvestonFrom 1920 to 1932, Galveston hosted an annual "pageant of pulchritude" on the beach in front of the Seawall. At its Roaring `20s peak, the bathing-suit contest that was officially known as the Galveston Island Beach Revue would entice some 200,000 p ... More >>

Come See Me Eat Nipples, Eat Nipples: Bollywood in Houston, Aurally Translated

This was the hotttness back in the day in GalvestonFrom 1920 to 1932, Galveston hosted an annual "pageant of pulchritude" on the beach in front of the Seawall. At its Roaring `20s peak, the bathing-suit contest that was officially known as the Galveston Island Beach Revue would entice some 200,000 p ... More >>

Miss Pop Rocks: I Can’t Get Enough of Marie Osmond Fainting

This was the hotttness back in the day in GalvestonFrom 1920 to 1932, Galveston hosted an annual "pageant of pulchritude" on the beach in front of the Seawall. At its Roaring `20s peak, the bathing-suit contest that was officially known as the Galveston Island Beach Revue would entice some 200,000 p ... More >>

Bikini Revolution

UH student Mariyah Moten put on a two-piece and became (in)famous in Pakistan

Little Miss Sunshine

"What's Wrong with America" indie comedy reveals what's wrong with indie comedies

Career Opportunities

HISD's ideas on advancement

Best Sports Broadcaster

Mark Berman, KRIV, Channel 26

Eager to Please

Intended as irony, the title of Miss Congeniality really says it all

No More Miss Congeniality

For years Metroplex pageants abused their queens. Then the queens fought back.

Crude but Clever

Beauty pageants go "mockumentary" in Drop Dead Gorgeous

Easy Target

Beauty queens make predictable satire for Pageant

Irish Lament

The language and the actors make this melodramatic plot work

Hot Plate

The language and the actors make this melodramatic plot work

Pretty Babies

Inside the Miss American Rodeo Pageant: A tale of big hair, big money and little girls