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Reality Dating Show Features Two Local Celebs

The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 05.09.2012

Can you convince a celebrity to take you on a date without seeing who you are? What if you had a hometown advantage? When new Fox show "The Choice"...

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Baking A Cake Fit For A Pageant Queen On 'Next Great Baker'

Posted 01.24.2012

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Buddy Valastro knows how important it is to please his clients and so he decided to give the contestants on "Cake Boss: Next Great Baker" (Mon., 9 p.m...

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Miss NY Contestant Wants To Have Dinner With Hitler

Posted 01.12.2012

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DNAinfo profiled the 13 New York City women competing for the Miss New York crown this weekend in Westchester. The questions and answers range from th...

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Kim Simac vs. Clarence Darrow: How Wisconsin Recalls and Miss USA Mirror Scopes Monkey Trial

Carolyn Bucior | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Monkey Trial, Miss USA, Tea Party, Kim Simac, Science Education, Michele Bachmann, Classroom Teaching, Creationism, John Scopes, Donald Trump, Substitute Teacher, Darwinism, Clarence Darrow, Wisconsin Recall, Banned Books, Intelligent Design, Evolution, Education News

Eighty-six years later, the debate over evolution continues, its central ideologies as old and thoughtful as Copernicus, as new and thoughtless as Simac and Michele Bachmann, as inert as rosary beads, as combustible as pure hydrogen.

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WATCH: Should Math Be Taught In Schools?

Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Spoofs, Miss USA, Education, Interviews, Video, Math, Parodies, The One, Urlesque, Miss USA 2011, Schools, Teaching, Comedy News

Last week, the Miss USA Pageant put out a video montage of every crowned Miss USA's answer to the question, "Should evolution be taught in schools?" ...

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Fashionably Late: Style News You Might Have Missed This Week

Huffington Post | Emily Singer | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Mad Men, Style News, Pippa Middleton, Catherine Middleton, Miss USA, Anya Hindmarch, Alyssa Campanella, Naomi Campbell, Urban Outfitters, Kate Middleton, Fashion News, Organic, Slidepollajax, Style News

Welcome to Fashionably Late, where we round up the Style scraps that didn't make it to our news page this week. Click through and catch up on what els...

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PHOTOS: Miss USA Performs First Patriotic Duty

The Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 08.23.2011

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Newly-crowned Miss USA Alyssa Campanella performed her first patriotic duty on Wednesday, ringing the New York Stock Exchange closing bell, pretending...

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Miss USA Was One Of Two Contestants Who Believe In Evolution

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 08.20.2011

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Out of all the contestants in last night's Miss USA pageant, only two affirmed they thought evolution should be taught in schools. The winner, 21-y...

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PHOTOS: New Miss USA Crowned

Posted 08.19.2011

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Text by OSKAR GARCIA, Associated Press LAS VEGAS -- America's latest Miss USA winner is a California model and self-described history geek, obsesse...

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WATCH: Miss Alabama USA Reunites With Man Who Saved Her Life

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 08.16.2011

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On Thursday morning "Good Morning America" served up some tear-jerking, feel-good TV with the story of the beauty queen who was saved from a fiery car...

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Miss USA Rima Fakih Talks About Her Partying (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 08.13.2011

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"Good Morning America" sat down with Miss USA 2010, Rima Fakih, to talk about her "bumpy year," which, of course, kicked off with her pole dancing pho...

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Shaletta Porterfield, Miss Wisconsin USA, Resigns After Identity Theft Accusations

The Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 07.16.2011

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Update: We received the following statement from Bernadette Holder of Quantum PR, on behalf of Porterfield: Shaletta Porterfield relinquished the M...

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A Trailblazing, Feminist Beauty Queen

Hilary Levey Friedman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Miss USA, Jean Bartel, Miss America, Miss Universe, Bess Myerson, Women's Empowerment, Women's History Month 2011, Women's History Month, 2011 International Women's Day, 2011 Women's History Month, Lenora Slaughter, Yolande Betbeze @Y:Lifestyle, International Women's Day 2011, International Women's Day, Healthy Living News

Last week women around the world observed the 100th celebration of International Women's Day. One woman not discussed was Jean Bartel, Miss America 1943, who passed away on Sunday night.

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'Miss New York' Crashed Miss USA's Thanksgiving Float

nypost.com | ANNIE KARNI | Posted 05.25.2011

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Miss New York Davina Reeves didn't want to be just another face in the crowd at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade -- she wanted to be the star. So...

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Why Lebanese Diplomacy Is Irrelevant in Washington

Hussain Abdul-Hussain | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lebanese Government, Lebanese, Miss USA, Rima Fakih, Lebanese Embassy, Lebanon, Lebanon News, Lebanese Beauty Pageant, Lebanese Diplomats, Ambassador, World News

Beauty pageants often arch an eyebrow in today's climate of political correctness. The Lebanese embassy in Washington, however, has taken celebrating beauty pageants to a whole new level.

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Alexandria Mills, Miss World, Causes Controversy: Miss Norway May Have Been Cheated Due To Nobel Prize Win

Posted 05.25.2011

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Alexandria Mills was all smiles when she was crowned Miss World on Saturday, making her the third American to nab the title in the pageant's 60-year h...

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Leona Gage, Miss USA Winner Who Had Title Stripped, Dies At 71

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Leona Gage, who in 1957 was named Miss USA but had the title stripped the next day when pageant officials learned she was married ...

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Shannon Marketic, Former Miss USA, Accused Of Shoplifting Beauty Products

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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DENTON, Texas — Police say a former Miss USA has been released from a Texas jail after she was accused of stealing almost $90 in beauty products fro...

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School Pride: Must See TV

Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miss USA, School Pride, Nbc, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Governor Schwarzenegger, Enterprise Middle School, Mtv, Impact News

NBC's School Pride may have viewers rethinking the value of realty shows. It features Susie Castillo -- along with three others -- tackling the urgent need to give America's children safe and appealing schools in which to learn.

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Muslim Miss USA: Mosque Too Close To WTC Site

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rima Fakih, the first Muslim Miss USA, has come out against the location of the so-called "Ground Zero mosque." Fakih, whose faith caused a bit of ...

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Regarding Miss California, At Least Anita Bryant Could Sing

Michael Rowe | Posted 05.25.2011

Carrie Prejean has become a sort of anti-Susan Boyle. It isn't just that she's a bigot, per se. There is no shortage of bigots. They just usually don't wear tiaras.

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Miss USA Rima Fakih Turns Heads At Fashion Fete (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Miss USA Rima Fakih--she of stripper scandal fame--turned heads at the Hugo Boss party on Thursday night. Page Six reports that although the fete was ...

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Miss America Chair Disses Miss USA

AP | OSKAR GARCIA | Posted 05.25.2011

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LAS VEGAS — Miss America is getting back to network television in time for her 90th birthday. The beauty pageant has signed a three-year deal w...

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Rima, Carrie and Donald: Feminist Liberators

Ruth Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miss USA, Donald Trump, Miss California, Carrie Prejean, Perez Hilton, Style News

They spend hours getting coiffed and air-brushed, they pose in teeny bikinis and evening gowns which resemble Manhattan stripper wear (I should know),...

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The New Miss USA: Progress or Bigger Problems for Muslims?

Nida Khan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Miss USA, Rima Fakih, Muslims, Muslim Identity, Style News

While Rima's victory is undoubtedly shattering barriers, it is also simultaneously painting those Muslim women who practice the religion in a more traditional manner as further and further from the norm.

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