Miss America Pageant

Miss America pageant returns to Atlantic City, renews ABC deal

2013-02-14 16:46:00

Miss America is headed back home.� After a six year stint in Las Vegas, the Miss America Organization announced that it will move its namesake pageant back to Atlantic City, N.J., this September. The pageant also signed a three-year renewal of its...

Tip your ten-gallon to National Hat Day

2013-01-15 07:49:00

Dig out your derby, find your fedora and put on your porkpie -- Tuesday is National Hat Day! In honor of the headgear holiday, the folks at Yahoo have provided us with some hat-related search intel, including that Stetson was the top-searched hat brand on...

Inauguration party: Common, John Legend, T-Pain and Generation Now

2013-01-20 11:48:00

WASHINGTON -- With American flags projected on the tall walls surrounding the stage, an excited Common took the stage. Saturday night's show, he declared, was a celebration. "When our president, Barack Obama, won, it was a victory for all of us," the...

For ABC, broadcasting Miss America Pageant is a big news story

2013-01-12 12:28:00

On Friday, this space took NBC to task for going overboard in using its news division to promote entertainment programming and vice versa. So it seems only fair to shine a light on ABC and its efforts to hype its Saturday telecast of the Miss America...

Brooke Burke-Charvet reveals cancer-surgery scar on her throat

2013-01-08 20:26:00

Brooke Burke-Charvet displayed the scar from her thyroidectomy Tuesday on "Good Morning America," admitting that the makeup-free show-and-tell was a first for her, as she'd been "scarfing it up" — as in, covering it up — until now. "But...

New Miss America Mallory Hagan plans career in cosmetics

2013-01-14 08:47:00

Mallory Hagan, crowned Miss America on Saturday night, is a Brooklyn resident who is studying at the Fashion Institute of Design and Marketing in New York. Her goal is to become a cosmetics executive. [New York Times] Stars flocked to Los Angeles for...

David Beckham races through Beverly Hills in his underwear

2013-01-11 08:02:00

H&M released some stills from filmmaker Guy Ritchie's new ad campaign for David Beckham Bodywear. The tongue-in-cheek ads cast Beckham as an action hero, being chased through Beverly Hills, wearing briefs and, strangely, bedroom slippers. “David...

Gary Collins dies at 74; actor and TV host

2012-10-14 00:00:00

Gary Collins Host of 'Hour Magazine' TV show Gary Collins, 74, an actor who was the host of the syndicated TV show "Hour Magazine" and a former master of ceremonies for the Miss America Pageant, died early Saturday in Biloxi, Miss. Collins died of...

Your guide to popular shows, concerts and events in Las Vegas

2012-12-05 13:06:00

ALIANTE STATION 702.547.5300 Fourth Friday of the month: Michael Grimm ARIA 877.ZARKANA “Zarkana” by Cirque du Soleil � BALLY’S 888.739.4111 Dec. 3, 5, 6, 8-10, 12, 13, 15 & 16: Taylor Hicks Nightly: “Tony...

Frank Godden dies at 101; helped develop African American resort

2012-08-19 00:00:00

Los Angeles Times Frank Godden, who played a significant role in the development of Val Verde, a secluded and long-closed local resort community known as "the black Palm Springs," has died. He was 101. Godden, who had cancer, died Aug. 3 at his Los...

Book review: 'Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake' details good life

2012-07-09 00:00:00

It says "memoir" on the jacket of this book, and this time, it's true. Anna Quindlen has been the diarist of baby boomers, and women boomers especially, since she began writing at the age of 18 for the New York Times, where her columns won a Pulitzer...

22-year-old Orange County harpist crowned Miss California

2012-07-01 16:37:04

Miss South Mountain Megan Kiley, left, answers a question from the fishbowl Wednesday night with Miss America 1987 Kellye Cash, right, during the first night of the Miss Maryland 2013 Pageant at The Maryland Theatre in downtown Hagerstown.

2013-06-19 00:00:00

Miss America Mallory Hagan.

2013-05-04 00:00:00

Miss America 2013 Mallory Hagan strikes a pose as she arrives at the 139th Kentucky Derby on Saturday.

2013-05-04 00:00:00