AltWeekly Awards
2008 Arts Criticism Above 55,000
1st Place: Squaresville, U.S.A., Reality Checks and The Mod That Failed by Jeffry Cudlin , Washington City Paper
2nd Place (tie): Hometown Heroes, Constant Crises and Men Behaving Badly
by Lee Sandlin
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Chicago Reader
2nd Place (tie): Waiting for the Barbarians, Afterplay and Take Me Out
by Robert Faires
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Austin Chronicle
3rd Place: Badlands, Margot at the Wedding: Born Identities and Iron Butterfly
by Scott Foundas
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L.A. Weekly
2008 Arts Criticism Below 55,000
1st Place: Durham Author David Guy Distills a Lifetime of Work, The Final, Unfinished Novel of the Late, Great Larry Brown and New Stories From the South: More Than Confederates and Kudzu by Adam Sobsey , INDY Week
2nd Place: An Amnesiac to Remember (PDF), Film By Numbers (PDF) and The Big Picture (PDF)
by Emiliano Garcia-Sarnoff
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Santa Fe Reporter
3rd Place: Women's Work (PDF), Flight of Fancy (PDF) and Shallow Waters (PDF)
by Thomas Peyser
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Style Weekly
2008 Arts Feature Above 55,000
1st Place: The Case of the Shanghai Shamus by Malcolm Gay , Riverfront Times
2nd Place: Black Box Office
by Troy Schulze
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Houston Press
3rd Place: Artist as Prisoner
by Rob Jordan
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Miami New Times
2008 Arts Feature Below 55,000
1st Place: The Amazing Mohja (PDF) by David Koon , Arkansas Times
2nd Place: Art of the Living Dead (PDF)
by Betsy Yagla
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New Haven Advocate
3rd Place (tie): And Now, Wearing the Geeksta Crown (PDF)
by Jimmy Fowler
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Fort Worth Weekly
3rd Place (tie): Faire Play (PDF)
by Ryan Miller
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San Luis Obispo New Times
2008 Blog Above 55,000
1st Place: NBC Shake-UP: My Final Wrap & Analysis, WGA Talks Collapse: East Strike On! and Worst Talent Deal Ever? by Nikki Finke , L.A. Weekly
2nd Place: On Scene at the Eastern Market, Yuppies, Goths and Other Groups I Don't Identify With and Tax-Scam Hearing Liveblog
by Washington City Paper Staff
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Washington City Paper
3rd Place: Harassment, A $500 Appearance Fee and Queena Bass, Milton Street's 'American Idol' Audition and Alycia Lane Arrested!
by Daniel McQuade
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Philadelphia Weekly
2008 Blog Below 55,000
1st Place: What's in a Name?, I Saw You Doing Something Somewhere Around Here and You are Kinda Famous and How I Became the (Cherry) Bomb by Matt Sullivan, Chris Slack and Tracy Moore , Nashville Scene
2nd Place: 10 Best Media Objects of 2006 (Part 1), Beyond Beirut and Overheard at the State Fair
by Weekly Alibi Staff
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Weekly Alibi
3rd Place: Rosie's Girls, Black Fly Festival and Viva La Voce Puppet Opera
by Eva Sollberger
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Seven Days