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Best Bar Lighting

Bitter End Bistro & Brewery

Best Bar Lighting

Laura Skelding

photograph by Laura Skelding

Everyone looks beautiful here. If it's not the light, then it must be the beer that works this magic.

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Best Affordable Wine List

Castle Hill Cafe

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Best Alternative To Proteus

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Best Annual Party To Dance To "We Are Family"

Pride Day Festival

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Best Arcade

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Best Band Name

The Goin' Along Feelin' Just Fines

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Best Behind The Scenes Combat Duty

SXSW Staff & Volunteer Crew

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Best Charles Whitman Impression

Wannabe Sniper Outside SXSW

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Best Damn Danceclub Dj

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Best Labor Of Love

Harold McMillan & the Clarksville Jazz Festival

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Best Live Music In A Pinch

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Best Local TV Music Special

Austin Women of Jazz, AMN

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Best Movie Theatre Buttered Popcorn

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Best Movie Theatre Seats

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Best Movie Theatre Up For Anything

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Best Music Fundraiser

ACL: A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan CD & Video

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Best Place For Freaks To Two-step

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Best Place To Critique The Show

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Best Place To Lyle Lovett Watch

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Best Place To Rent Laserdiscs

Encore Records, Video & Apparel

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Best Places To Say "I Was Retro Before Retro Was Cool"

TIE: Carousel Lounge; Ego's

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Best Point-of Purchase Marketing

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Best Resurfacing Of Mia Barkeep

Biss Mitch, Mitch at Momma's

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Best Resurrection Of Tradition

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Best Seat In The Shadows

Austin Film Society's Film Noir Series

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Best Sign Of Civilized Living

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Best Skate Shop Music Venue

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Best Summer Beer

Waterloo Brewing Company's Hefeweizen

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Best Tease

Miss Xanna Don't

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Best Transformation From Sauna To Sonic

Austin Music Hall

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Best Unidentified Film Encounter

in*situ Screenings

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Best Way To Drown One's Sorrows

Trudy's Texas & North Stars

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Best Weekly No-Cover Blowout

Paul Minor's Rock-N-Roll Free-For-All @ Hole in the Wall