Making a strong showing for the second consecutive year, LA Weekly won ten of the forty-eight prizes handed out in the second annual AAN Advertising and Marketing Awards. Worcester Magazine won eight awards, followed by Willamette Week with six and Austin Chronicle, New Times Los Angeles and Washington City Paper with three each.

The winners were announced during a May 27 luncheon at the AAN convention in Memphis. The event was emceed by local ad agency head Ward Archer, Jr.

Judges for the awards were Allyson Butler, Media Director at August Lang & Husak, an award-winning Bethesda, Maryland advertising agency; Marcia Mitchell, a freelance writer/creative director; Rob Myers, co-founder of Ion Media, an award-winning design studio; and Serdar Sirtanadolu, a designer with The Dan Rosenthal Company.

Here is the complete list of winners in all 16 categories:

AD DESIGN

Half Page or Less, Black and White

First Place
Worcester Magazine
Streaks Hair Design "Put your Feet in our Hands"

Second Place
Worcester Magazine
Empire Furniture "Sophistication"

Third Place
Cincinnati CityBeat
Taylor Jameson "Sentenced to a Life of Style"

Half Page or Less, Color

First Place
New Times Los Angeles
Laser Vision Correction "The Choice should be Clear"

Second Place
Worcester Magazine
Peking Wok "Lighten Up"

Larger than Half Page, Black and White

First Place
Gambit Weekly
Hat Attack "Hats Off"

Second Place
Isthmus
Great Dane Pub "Can't wait to go outside?"

Third Place
LA Weekly
Theater Awards

Larger than Half Page, Color

First Place
The Stranger
Nick Cave

Second Place
Santa Barbara Independent
William Laman "Spanish Colonial Wheelbarrow"

Third Place
Baltimore City Paper
Fresh Fields "BBQ with Fresh Fields?"

Spreads, Black and White

Honorable Mention
Willamette Week
Home Services

Spreads, Color

First Place
LA Weekly
"LA Weekly 20"

Second Place
Worcester Magazine
Bancroft Motors "Topless at the Beach"

Campaigns, Black and White

First Place
Worcester Magazine
Crescent City Steakhouse "We've got Sole"

Second Place
Independent Weekly
Beanie & Cecil

Third Place (tie)
Austin Chronicle
Glory Hole "Precision Body Piercing"

Worcester Magazine
North Oxford Mills "Our Customers Walk All Over Us."

Campaigns, Color

First Place
The Athens News
Larry's Dawg House

Second Place
Seattle Weekly
Optix Eye Wear "Northwest"

COLLATERAL/SELF
PROMOTION/MARKETING MATERIALS

Posters

First Place (tie)
LA Weekly
"Need a New Place?"

Phoenix New Times
"New Times 10K"

Second Place
Santa Barbara Independent
"Fall Arts Preview"

Third Place
LA Weekly
20th Anniversary Poster

Media Kits

First Place
Willamette Week

Second Place
Cincinnati CityBeat

Third Place
LA Weekly
"Free Thinking"

Brochures

First Place (tie)
LA Weekly
"20 Years of Free Thinking"

LA Weekly
"Best of LA"

Second Place
Worcester Magazine
Summer Guide Party Invitation "Don't Be Left Out"

Third Place
PitchWeekly
American Royal BBQ Party Invitation

Postcards

First Place
New Times Los Angeles
"Sitting on a good idea could hurt."

Second Place
Washington City Paper
"Citybooks"

Third Place
Willamette Week
"blue PLATE"

Honorable Mention
LA Weekly
"Summer Fun"

Honorable Mention
Orlando Weekly
"Where were you? - movies"

SELF-PROMOTIONAL ADS

Single Self-Promotional Ad, Black and White

First Place
Willamette Week
"Savage Love"

Second Place
Washington City Paper
Matches "Love Week"

Third Place
Austin Chronicle
Chronicle Online "Best Reason to Eat Lunch at Your Desk"

Single Self-Promotional ad, Color

First Place
Washington City Paper
"Mambo Santa, Mambo"

Second Place
Willamette Week
"Sell your Car for Free"

Third Place
New Times Los Angeles
"Music Awards Showcase"

In-House Campaigns, Black and White

First Place
Syracuse New Times
"We Tell You..."

Second Place
Austin Chronicle
T-Shirt Campaign

Third Place
LA Weekly
Faces Behind the Words

Honorable Mention
Baltimore City Paper
Wild Side

In-House Campaigns, Color

First Place
LA Weekly
Calendar "Something to talk About"

Second Place
Orlando Weekly
orlandoweekly.com "Where Were You?"

Third Place
Willamette Week
Auto Ads "Find the Truck You Need"