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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Critics Picks BEST THEATER COMPANY American Stage BEST SET DESIGNER Scott Cooper BEST ARTISTIC DIRECTOR David Jenkins BEST DIRECTOR Jack Holloway BEST ACTOR Steve DuMouchel BEST ACTRESS Sharon Scott MOST UNDEREMPLOYED LOCAL THEATER TALENT Emilia Sargent BEST BROADWAY TOURING SHOW The Lion King BEST THEATER NEWS OF THE YEAR Eric Davis founds freeFall Theatre BEST PLAY Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at Jobsite FUNNIEST COMEDY Funny Money at Hat Trick MOST UNCONVENTIONAL THEATER EVENT Jane Eyre BEST IN PAINTING Julie Weitz BEST EXHIBIT IN A MUSEUM Drawing Beyond the Plane at TMA BEST IN FIBER Laura Militzer Bryant BEST IN WEARABLE ART (tie) Brandon Dunlap & Ivanka Ska, Frank Strunk III BEST IN INSTALLATION Experimental Skeleton BEST IN NEW MEDIA Santiago Echeverry BEST IN SCULPTURE Roger Chamieh BEST EXHIBIT IN A GALLERY Necklust and the Chocolatier at Florida Craftsmen BEST FILM PROGRAMMING Beach Theatre BEST FILM PROGRAM FOR KIDS Tampa Theatre Young Filmmakers Camp BEST FILM SERIES Gasparilla International Film Festival's Global Lens 2008 BEST CURATOR OF A LOCAL FILM FESTIVAL David Audet, Ybor Festival of the Moving Image BEST FILM-RELATED EVENT The Dalí Museum’s Dalí & Film Exhibit and The Surreal Cinema Lecture Series BEST SHOWCASE FOR LOCAL FILMMAKERS Tampa Film Review Staff Picks BEST SHOW AT THE MAHAFFEY Sweeney Todd BEST NEW BAND Tailgunner Joe and the Earls of Slander BEST INDIE ROCK BAND Win Win Winter BEST BLUES BAND Damon Fowler Group BEST BLOOZE ’N’ TWANG BAND Mojo Gurus BEST EMO HIP-HOP ACT Daylight District BEST INNOVATIVE ACT (THAT ALSO PLAYS DINNER SETS) Acho Brother BEST PRODUCER Steve Connelly BEST NEO-SOUL SINGER Bishop Wayne BEST POP PUNK BAND We the Kings BEST ACOUSTIC GUITAR PICKER Toby Bonar BEST LOCAL SCENE STALWART Keith Ulrey BEST REUNION Magadog BEST DISCOVERY Baye Kouyaté BEST COMEBACK ALBUM Will Quinlan, Navasota BEST CAREER MILESTONE Rebekah Pulley, Back to Boogaloo BEST LOCAL CD Have Gun, Will Travel, Casting Shadows Tall as Giants BEST HIP-HOP CD Blac Soap, Green Music For Blue People BEST COMPILATION CD Cheatin’ Heart: Tales of Lies & Love BEST SINGER/SONGWRITER CD Geri X, Anthems of a Mended Heart BEST HARD ROCK SINGLE Hat Trick Heroes, “Chasing My Tail” BEST RAINY-DAY INDIE-POP SINGLE Pemberley, “Wake Up, It’s Raining” BEST NEW LOCAL INDIE LABEL Mohawk Bomb Records BEST WAY TO ENJOY AMERICAN IDOL WITHOUT ACTUALLY WATCHING IT Pop Life BEST REBOUND FROM A REALITY SHOW Très Bien BEST DJ NIGHT Soft Rock Renegades, Tuesdays at Crowbar MOST PROMISING MUSIC SYMPOSIUM Homemade BEST PLACE TO COMMUNE WITH THE DEAD Uncle John’s Band, Thursdays at Skipper’s Smokehouse BEST SURPRISING HOTBED OF MUSIC Lakeland BEST PERFORMING ARTS CENTER THAT DOESN’T BEHAVE LIKE ONE Ruth Eckerd Hall BEST PERFORMANCE VENUE UPGRADE The Palladium Theater BEST BAY AREA CONCERT DEBUT Shelby Lynne, July 17, Tampa Theatre BEST BIG ROCK SHOW (INDOORS) Pearl Jam, June 12, St. Pete Times Forum BEST BIG ROCK SHOW (OUTDOORS) Radiohead at Ford Amphitheatre BEST PERFORMANCE IN THE RAIN Kimya Dawson, March 22, Cuban Club Patio BEST HOMECOMING PERFORMANCE Against Me! at Vans Warped Tour BEST HEATWAVE PERFORMANCE Soul Rebels BEST IN DRAWING Roger Palmer BEST ART PARTY Retro Perspectives BEST IN ARTS PATRONAGE William R. and Hazel Hough BEST COMEBACK Imago artists BEST VENUE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART The Arts Center BEST FASHION SHOW Wearable Art at Dunedin Fine Arts Center BEST NEW MUSEUM DESIGN The Salvador Dalí Museum |
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