

Are Child Beauty Pageants Good or Bad?
| Info offered on beauty pageants (Simi Valley Acorn) Orientation for the Ventura County International Pageants will be from 10 a.m. to noon Sat., Jan. 24 at the Courtyard Marriott, 1710 Newbury Road, Thousand Oaks. Contestants will compete in these categories: Miss, ages 19 to 29; Teen, ages 13 to 18; and Junior Miss, ages 11 to 13. |
| Prepping for beauty pageant (The Acorn) Orientation for the Ventura County International Pageants will be from 10 a.m. to noon Sat., Jan. 24 at the Courtyard Marriott, 1710 Newbury Road, Thousand Oaks. Contestants will compete in three age categories: Miss, ages 19 to 29; Teen, ages 13 to 18, and Junior Miss, ages 11 to 13. |
| Mexico: Drugs and a Beauty Queen (Newsweek) The arrest of a beauty queen shows how narcoculture infiltrates all of Mexican society. |
| But she's deep (Las Vegas CityLife) IF Julianna Erdesz doesn't claim Nevada's first-ever Miss America tiara two weeks from now at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, those bitches who run the pageant will have some explaining to do. In addition to explaining why they picked Las Vegas -- the global epicenter of gambling, hookers and false promises -- to showcase 52 exemplars of wholesome, all-American femininity. |
| Perfectly designed (Business Standard India) What most defines Indianness? The quintessential dhaba or the iconic seals from the Indus Valley Civilisation, the Ganga or the Taj Mahal by the banks of the Yamuna, Nehru jackets or Gandhi topis, the Lux beauty queen commercials or the revolutionary Nirma television ad? |
