Miss America

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    The basketball reformation: St. Louis coach Majerus draws archbishop's wrath by speaking freely. Plus: Congress must investigate cheating beauty queens!
    By King Kaufman January 23, 2008

  • Miss America: Crime fighter

    Apparently the gig requires a passion for both entering beauty pageants and nabbing pedophiles.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory April 25, 2007

  • The Fix

    The Colin Farrell sex tape returns. So does Miss America. And what's all this about a Ted Kennedy love child?
    January 19, 2006

  • A new and improved Miss America? Hardly

    Ball gowns, baton twirling, satin sashes: America's favorite pageant goes retro.
    By Sarah Karnasiewicz December 22, 2005

  • Miss America's stealth virginity campaign

    With the coveted tiara firmly in her grasp, beauty queen Erika Harold quickly unveiled plans to promote her pet cause: Abstinence-only sex education.
    By Lara Riscol October 28, 2002

  • I see London, I see France

    Beauty queens abdicate amid charges of accidental nudity and wanton naughtiness.
    By Roger Bruhn August 9, 2002

  • Miss America or Miss Disney?

    On this year's Miss America contest, ABC's corporate synergy turned the beauty pageant into a small world after all.
    By Andy Dehnart October 17, 2000

  • Missed New York

    At a state beauty pageant, one contestant sabotages her chances by telling the sordid truth.
    By Julie Pham October 13, 2000

  • Confessions of an awards whore

    I sneered at the whole cheesy routine until I was nominated for one. Was I thrilled? I was Sally Field squared.
    By Steve Burgess March 25, 2000

  • Exporting Indian beauty

    Sexy subcontinentals are grabbing Miss World and Miss Universe crowns.
    By Hank Hyena December 22, 1999

  • Insidery on the inside

    The stupid party games people play ... in D.C. Plus: Jared Harris on getting dogs stoned -- "It was a gift to the animal." And: Miss America trades her tiara for hot pastrami on rye.
    By Amy Reiter December 3, 1999

  • Something to declare

    Julia Alvarez talks about moving to America, her relationship with her family and the rituals that keep her a focused writer.
    By Dwight Garner September 25, 1998

  • Swimsuits -- and more!

    Once a year, the Miss America extravaganza recaptures Atlantic City's old glory. Beverly Gage portrays the pageant's -- and the city's -- past and present.
    By Beverly Gage September 23, 1998

  • David Byrne Feelings

    Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
    By Mark Athitakis July 30, 1997
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