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Wisest, Most Earnest Sentiment

Mid-City Tires Sign

Right near Kealing Park and Kealing Junior High, this sign greets passersby with the fine admonition: "It will not hurt to be nice."

More Media - Critics Picks

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Best Online Journal

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Best Book Title Of The Year

If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates by Jim Hightower

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Best Documentary Labor Of Love

Paul Stekler for George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire

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Best Doublespeak Ingest Slogan

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Best Free Beer Commercial

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Best Free Guide To Austin

Guide to the Murals of Austin

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Best Guerrilla Agitprop

Anonymous Cartoon/Flier

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Best Jazz Deejay Deserving Of Wider Recognition

Dave Laczko, KAZI

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Best Late-Night Insight

Talk Time, KAZI

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Best Local Color Commercial

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Best Morning Update Of Local Issues (Internet)

In Fact Daily Newsletter

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Best Morning Update Of Local Issues (radio)

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Best Off-the-Air Voice

Jen Proctor on Eklektikos, KUT

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Best Old Hippie Web Site

TexasGhetto.com

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Best Ongoing Coverage Of G. Dubyuh

The Texas Observer

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Best Online Show List

Texas Show List

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Best Place To Surf, Er, Bike The Web

Bicycling in Austin

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Best Place Where All Your Groovy Friends Work

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Best Presentation Of A Delicate Subject

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Best Radio Show For When You've Just Been Dumped And Want To Cry Into Your Haagen Daaz

Love Songs, Majic 95.5

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Best Scorned Breakup Slur

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Best South Austin Bumper Sticker

We're All Here Because We're Not All There.

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Best Texas Newspaper Web Site

Dallas Morning News

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Best Way To Kick-Start Saturday Night

Stronger Than Dirt, KOOP

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Best Wine Newsletter

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Four Finest Consecutive Hours Of Austin Radio

Lounge Show/Ear Candy, KOOP

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Most Evenhanded Movie Criticism

Juxtaposeur.com

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Most Insight Into Modern Education

Clayton Stromberger

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Most Underappreciated KUT Shows

TIE: Teresa Ferguson's Femme-FM and American Pop With Louis Harrison