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Introduction
Architecture & Lodging - Readers Poll
Architecture & Lodging - Critics Picks
Arts & Culture - Readers Poll
Arts & Culture - Critics Picks
Entertainment - Readers Poll
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Food - Readers Poll
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Outdoors & Recreation - Readers Poll
Outdoors & Recreation - Critics Picks
Politics & Personalities - Readers Poll
Politics & Personalities - Critics Picks
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Services - Critics Picks
Shopping - Readers Poll
Shopping - Critics Picks
Best Concept Band
Best Concept Bar
Best Gay Tavern With Possibilities
Best Hand Stamp Rivalry
Best Happy Hour Deal Downtown
Best In-your-face Club
Best New Band Name
Best New Bar
Best Obscure Bar
Best Pair Of Aged Intoxicants
Best Place To Find A Girlfriend
Best Place To See A Musician Onstage
Best Re-invention Of An Eastside Tradition
Best Reason Not To Serve Liquor
Best Reason To Still Be In Your Jammies At 5pm On A Saturday
Best Salsa Dancing
Best Thing To Happen To Poster Art Since The Seventies
Best Twofer Fix
Best Vegas Flashback
Biggest Art Mystery
Biggest Piano Bar
Highest Expression Of The Lowest Form Of Humor
Making The Best Of A Bad Situation
Most Friendly Poetry Slam
Next Best Thing To Having Don Walser At Your House
Sweetest Door Folks
Best Hand Stamp Rivalry
TIE: Electric Lounge; Emo's
Location Details
Electric Lounge
302 Bowie, Austin
Downtown
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More Entertainment - Critics Picks
Best Concept Band
The Administration
Best Concept Bar
Cedar Street Courtyard
Best Gay Tavern With Possibilities
Auntie Mame's
Best Happy Hour Deal Downtown
Manuel's Half-price appetizers
Best In-your-face Club
Blue Flamingo
Best New Band Name
Earthpig & Fire
Best New Bar
Casino el Camino
Best Obscure Bar
Miller's Hillside Bar
Best Pair Of Aged Intoxicants
The Big Screen & Booze at the Paramount
Best Place To Find A Girlfriend
Lady Longhorn Games
Best Place To See A Musician Onstage
Salvage Vanguard Theater
Best Re-invention Of An Eastside Tradition
Victory Grill
Best Reason Not To Serve Liquor
Waterloo Brewing Co.
Best Reason To Still Be In Your Jammies At 5pm On A Saturday
Cartoons at LoveJoys
Best Salsa Dancing
Calle Ocho
Best Thing To Happen To Poster Art Since The Seventies
Lyman Hardy, Lindsey Kuhn, Jason Austin, & Lee Bolton
Best Twofer Fix
Coffee & a Movie in the Village Shopping Center
Best Vegas Flashback
The Margo Lee Show
Biggest Art Mystery
Tabletops from La Zona Rosa
Biggest Piano Bar
Donn's Depot
Highest Expression Of The Lowest Form Of Humor
O. Henry Pun Off
Making The Best Of A Bad Situation
The Ancho's Singers
Most Friendly Poetry Slam
Planet Theatre
Next Best Thing To Having Don Walser At Your House
Jovita's
Sweetest Door Folks
Steamboat