Most fairs and carnivals try to attract a wide demographic: Families, singles, foodies, aspiring prize-winners, but the organizers at the San Diego Country Fair are casting their net even wider and hope to get some extraterrestrials.
He quickly caught a break when at age 19 in 1993, he entered a contest for aspiring solo sailors whose prize was the use of a race boat for a year.
Everyone is clambering up the same set of rungs, aspiring to the same prizes and fearing similar failures.
How many people aspiring to win a Nobel Prize in physics made their living jerking off into plastic cups?
The show will enter its third season this autumn, and auditions begin on Tuesday in Charleston, South Carolina, and run through July to find the upcoming season's crop of aspiring singers to compete for the prize.
"Hell's Kitchen," a competitive cooking show in which Mr. Ramsay whips aspiring restaurateurs into shape for the grand prize of becoming a chef at Gordon Ramsay Steak in Las Vegas, is still the most watched and highest rated among Mr. Ramsay's offerings, with an average of almost 7 million total viewers, a highly consistent audience that has dropped only 1 percent from last season.
The irreverent US comedy website that hosts a mixture of skits from big-name stars and aspiring comedians, FunnyOrDie, has won the most prizes at the 15th annual Webby Awards.
Technology is making it even easier for aspiring players looking to cash in on the huge prizes available to top gamers with Dojo Madness, a Berlin-based startup with plans to turn gamers' smartphones into an e-sports coach.
Mr. Jones was the winner of "Project Greenlight," a competition for aspiring filmmakers sponsored by Miramax and HBO in which the first prize was a $1 million contribution toward making a first feature.
The show will pit aspiring political candidates against each other in a contest for a $1 million prize, which must be donated to a political cause or used for the winners own attempt to run for office.
Playing such a mini-tour series, where the players ante up the prize money themselves, is depressing enough for anyone who grew up aspiring to the lucrative P.G.A. Tour.
