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Beauty Pageants

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Miami Beach Misses Out on Hosting Miss USA

    ​Miss USA was hosted in Miami Beach for over decade between 1960 and 1971, but America's second most important beauty pageant won't be coming back to this year even after a strong push from the city's tourism and cultural development. Looks like we'll have to make do with all the non-competing you ... More >>

  • Music

    December 22, 2011

    Miss Jewish South Florida 2011: Babes and matzo balls

    ​Miss USA was hosted in Miami Beach for over decade between 1960 and 1971, but America's second most important beauty pageant won't be coming back to this year even after a strong push from the city's tourism and cultural development. Looks like we'll have to make do with all the non-competing you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    Miss Jewish South Florida 2011: Babes and Matzo Balls at Miami's "Main Hanukkah Party"

    Direct from the Holy Land via SoFla.​Christmas. To some, it represents the birth of Jesus Christ, the immaculately conceived love child of a Galilean woman named Mary and a theistic being referred to as God. But for 18 Jewish gals aged 17 to 26 from the South Florida metropolitan area, December ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    Daddy Yankee Does the "Lovumba" at 90 Degree in Miami on December 10

    ​It's been five full years since Time Magazine named Daddy Yankee to its list of the 100 most influential people on the planet. And using the mag's metaphor, the recording industry's registers were ringing like mad over reggaeton in 2006. "Yankee has sold 2 million copies of his album Barrio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Lil Jon Talks Miss USA, Marijuana, Celebrity Apprentice, and What Gary Busey is Really Like

    Lil Jon acting a fool with DJ Irie.​Catch phrases are awesome. Just imagine life without that burger-loving old lady's "Where's the beef?" or Tom Cruise's "Show me the money!" You drop those quotes anywhere in the world and there's a good chance people will get the reference. But here's our p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Miss Florida USA Doesn't Understand Evolution, Fits Right In

    ​The Miss USA contestants need to either read a textbook or shut the hell up.Aside from the asinine, sexist 1950s mentality that the "competition" is based on, the annual beauty contest is intellectually damaging to the young women who are looking to them as role models. We're steering them wrong ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Miss Florida Given 40-1 Odds Against Winning Miss USA Tournament

    courtesy MissFloridaUSA.comIt's about charity or something.​In a commanding step forward for the objectification of women, odds makers have put Miss Florida USA Lissette Garcia at 40-1 to win the Miss USA Pageant this Sunday. Miss California is the favorite at 3-1, and Garcia c ... More >>

  • News

    April 7, 2011

    Caroline Schwitzky: Porn and the beauty queen

    courtesy MissFloridaUSA.comIt's about charity or something.​In a commanding step forward for the objectification of women, odds makers have put Miss Florida USA Lissette Garcia at 40-1 to win the Miss USA Pageant this Sunday. Miss California is the favorite at 3-1, and Garcia c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Protesters in Fake Blood and Dead Animal Parts Will Picket Miss Teen Florida USA Pageant

    ​We're not sure what's stupider: that a fur coat company is supplying sponsorship and prizes to a teen beauty pageant in Florida, or that an animal rights group is going to protest it while wearing furs themselves. Yes, the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida is pissed that the Fur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    Hugo Chavez is in a Silent Cat Fight with Miss Universe

    ​Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez loves celebrities. He was Oliver Stone's date to the Venice International Film Festival, could probably convince Sean Penn to agree to be held captive and perform a stage rendition of his parts in Simple Jack I Am Sam, and is perhaps the only known person on the p ... More >>

  • News

    July 30, 2009

    Eat This

    This cook's co-workers were haters.

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Lawsuit Says This Cook's Co-Workers Were Naaaaasty Homophobes

     James Grayson went job hunting in August 2003. He found the kitchen from hell. A gay 38-year-old with a thin mustache, Grayson was hired as a line cook at Golden Corral on South Dixie Highway in Homestead. He made ham omelets and bloody steaks at the buffet table for mostly blue-collar famili ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    Miss California, Bruce Jenner Speaking at Florida Republican Youth Event

    The Republican Party of Florida is hosting a big shindig for the youngins next month in Orlando called Drive the Discussion '09, and they have concocted one of the most spectacular three ring circus of speakers ever to grace a political stage. Olympian turned Village People musical co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2009

    Elaine Lancaster to Perez Hilton: "Leave Miss California Alone!"

    Queen fight! Attention, everyone, Queen fight! No, seriously: It's South Beach's reigning queen versus the self-proclaimed "Queen of All Media" fighting over a beauty queen. Miami's premier drag queen and local paragon of sophistication and elegance, Elaine Lancaster, took to Steve Rothaus's  ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    Slideshow: The Mausoleum's Gothic Beauty Pageant at Black Sheep Bar

    JipsyThere is she, Ms. Gothic Beauty of... er, America? Our cameras stopped by Black Sheep Bar last night to check out The Mausoleum's Gothic Beauty Pageant hosted by Notorious Nastie and Shelley Novak in an effort to crown a Ms. Mausoleum. Unfortunately, there wasn't any swimsuit competition. Click ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    Miss Universe Says Guantanamo Bay Is 'Fun,' 'Calm,' and 'Relaxing'

    Well, the gig is up. Thanks a lot, reigning Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza.See, in the cover story on my trip to Guantanamo Bay a couple of months ago, I did my best to convey my impressions of the infamous prison camp as an unforgiving, desolate way station where detainees were routinely tortured and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2008

    Bikini.Com Wants In On That Palin Action, Too

    Well, the gig is up. Thanks a lot, reigning Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza.See, in the cover story on my trip to Guantanamo Bay a couple of months ago, I did my best to convey my impressions of the infamous prison camp as an unforgiving, desolate way station where detainees were routinely tortured and ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    Isn’t She Lovely?

    Find out who’s the real Queen B*#%@ at Miss Miami.

  • Calendar

    January 25, 2007

    Girls Just Wanna Tote Guns

    Subversively femme-tastic imagery in Hollywood

  • News

    February 2, 2006

    To the Max

    Who knew puking in South Florida would get Tucker Max on the best-seller list in New York?

  • News

    October 21, 2004

    Resident Ego

    At the center of his own reality, Key Biscayne native Carlos Arias has a brash game plan to make it big in Hollywood with a Florida-flavored unscripted TV show

  • Calendar

    October 14, 2004

    Play

    At the center of his own reality, Key Biscayne native Carlos Arias has a brash game plan to make it big in Hollywood with a Florida-flavored unscripted TV show

  • Music

    September 16, 2004

    The Thrills

    Let's Bottle Bohemia Virgin

  • Calendar

    February 5, 2004

    Drag's Dregs

    Divas duel for a Shelley

  • Calendar

    May 22, 2003

    The King's Wings

    Hear, hear, the man who flew Elvis's plane

  • Film

    October 14, 1999

    Get Happy

    Happy, Texas

  • Calendar

    November 12, 1998

    Isn't He Lovely?

    Happy, Texas

  • Calendar

    November 6, 1997

    Calendar for the week

    Happy, Texas

  • News

    December 5, 1996

    News of the Weird

    Happy, Texas

  • News

    November 7, 1996

    News of the Weird

    Happy, Texas

  • News

    November 10, 1993

    Swelter 30

    Happy, Texas

  • News

    August 5, 1992

    Swelter

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