Subject: Beauty Pageants

• Chinese Peaches

  March 13, 1996

• Shave It Off

  October 29, 2008

• Purple Prose

  Mayoral stalker's writing is a real San Francisco treat

  March 14, 2007

• Ain't No Sunshine

  "What's Wrong With America" indie comedy reveals what's wrong with indie comedies

  August 2, 2006

• Pageant

  The only original part is that audience members bother to laugh

  November 10, 2004

• A Protest for April Fools

  Trifecta: Zippy, the Bushman, and Princess Leia's dad!

  April 7, 2004

• How to Be a Secret Agent Girl as Seen on Television and in Movies

  A series of skits about a wild beauty contest highlights this uneven collection of performance art and comedy pieces

  June 5, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of April 10, 2002

  April 10, 2002

• Pretty Is as Pretty Does

  Sally Field turns director for Beautiful, with reasonable (is that good enough?) results

  September 27, 2000

• Best Bar for Fag Hags

  The Café

  May 17, 2000

• Aran Yarn

  The Cripple of Inishmaan

  April 26, 2000

• A Republican by Any Other Name

  GOP candidate sniffs out chances in district elections

  March 29, 2000

• Pick a Winner

  Millennium Cotillion

  January 26, 2000

• Dueling Tyros

  November 24, 1999

• Night Crawler

  August 20, 1997

• Aisle Seat

  July 26, 1995

• Inevitable Porn Deal Offered to Miss California

  It's been a downward spiral for the beleaguered Miss California, Carrie Prejean. During the interview portion of the Miss USA contest, celebrity blogger Perez Hilton asked Prejean about her thoughts on gay marriage. Prejean replied that "...marriage should be between and man and a woman. That's how I was raised." That's also how several eyebrows were raised. Prejan stuck her pink pump in her mouth with such swiftness and finality, it was difficult to imagine things getting much worse. But then

  May 8, 2009