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Best Bloody Mary

Opal Divine's

Previous Winners

2009:

Rio Rita

More Entertainment - Critics Picks

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Best Ambassador to Cuba

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Best Answer to Austin's Pathetic Lack of Lesbian Bars

Women's Nights at Local Gay Clubs, Etc.

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Best Arcade for Dancing

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Best Austintatious Memory Trip

Soap Creek Saloon Reunion

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Best Babe to Getcher Freak On

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Best Band Swag

The Cornell Hurd Band

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Best Bar Band

The Resentments

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Best Bit o' Blarney

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Best Chicken 'Product'

That of 'Dewey' the Chicken

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Best Comeback

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Best Decadence Supermarket

Grape Vine Market

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Best Drag King Troupe

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Best Elvis Karaoke

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Best Free-Range DJ

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Best Guilty Pleasure

People Watching on Congress Avenue

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Best Happy Minutes

Showdown Saloon

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Best Heir to the Hole in the Wall

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Best hold over from the ‘60s.

Dry Creek Saloon

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Best Holdout in the Warehouse District

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Best Local Libation

Austintatious Bloody Marys

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Best Margarita

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Best Moveable (Movie) Feast

Rolling Roadshow

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Best Movie Trailers

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Best Neighborhood Bar

Crown & Anchor Pub

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Best No-Talking Warning at the Movies

Alamo Drafthouse

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Best Off-Sixth-Street Bar

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Best Place to Eat Tacos, Read Poetry, and Get Drunk: Not Necessaily in that Order

Maria's Taco Xpress

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Best Place to Have an Intervention Over Margaritas

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Best Place to Party Like It's 2000 ... And You Still Have a Job

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Best Punk Rock Musical Trend

Guys in Their 30s and 40s Playing F'ed Up Keyboards

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Best Renaissance Men

The Brobdingnagian Bards

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Best Renaissance Women

The Tudor Tarts

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Best Retro Game Rooms

TIE: Room 710; Elysium

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Best South Austin Listening Room

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Best Use of Auditorium Shores

South by Southwest

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Most Romantic Music Venue

One World Theatre

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Sexiest Kings

Kings N' Things

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Snazziest New Martinis