As the official story of Cleopatra's death goes, the Egyptian queen locked herself in a mausoleum in Alexandria on an August day in 30 B.C.E. and sent for a venomous snake. After she received an asp, ...

One participant put lipstick on their pig. Another played Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” during the competition. Most of the costumes — and interviews between rounds — earned laughter from the crowd that ...