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Best Band
Ponytail
Yes: Ponytail was named Best Live Band last year, a fact that even gave us a sense of déja vu t...
Best New Band
Crazy Dreams Band
Dunno who saw this coming: Lexie Mountain going gut-soul diva--sounding kinda like Patti Smith with ...
Best Live Band
The Pleasant Livers
Maybe it helps that we get, like, two Pleasant Livers shows a year, but, damn, when this erstwhile M...
Best Upgrade
Wye Oak
A year ago Monarch was an understated local treasure. Its lovely, arresting cloud-gazing debut, If C...
Best Band Web Site
Whatever Doesn't Crash Our Browser
Good fucking Christ, if one more over-sauced MySpace page or exercise in Flash abuse locks up our br...
Best Song
DJ Excel, "That's What a Pimp Does" Featuring Pastor Manning
You don't see much political savvy in Baltimore club music; hacking up a goofy or catchy sample does...
Best Summer Jam
Mullyman "Party Walk"
DJ Booman sets the scene, chopping up the handclaps from Lil Mama's pop rap hit "Lip Gloss" and marr...
Best Local Album
Beyond Hamsterdam: Baltimore Tracks From "The Wire"
Throughout the course of The Wire's five seasons, David Simon freely indulged in his taste for boozy...
Best Label
Spleen Coffin
Local label Spleen Coffin could win this award solely for the anarchistic glee documented on its Lad...
Best Solo Artist
Susan Alcorn
Since relocating to Baltimore from Houston about a year ago, pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn has ...
Best Female MC
Symphony
As the rapping girl group once known as Tha Plague narrowed itself down to the duo G.E.M., its secre...
Best Male MC
Ogun
For years, Ogun has felt like the glue that helped hold Baltimore hip-hop together, as much for his ...
Best Hip-Hop DJ
P-Funk
Pete "P-Funk" Lynch is the kind of DJ who cares about music and knows his shit, isn't afraid to shar...
Best Beatmaker
DJ Booman
Make no mistake: Baltimore club music will always be DJ Booman's calling card. But his less heralded...
Best Club Music DJ
Scottie B
Scottie B's legacy as one of the crucial figures in Baltimore club music would be secure now even if...
Best Club Music Producer
Say Wut
You might need to hear him drop his stuttering "s-s-s-Say Wuuut" signature into a track before you r...
Best Music Promoter
Tax Lo
A Tax Lo party might not be your bag. We understand; something about a room full of sweaty, tragic h...
Best Rock Club
The Ottobar
It's obvious, yes, and really the Ottobar hasn't changed much for the better or worse in the past ye...
Best All-Ages Space to See Bands
Charm City Space
Newer, hipper DIY venues have come and gone in Baltimore, with increasing frequency lately, but the ...
Best Evacuation
The Talking Head
This was weird. One day we're at the Talking Head's old, rickety space on Davis Street soaking in Ba...
Best Place to Hear Hip-Hop
5 Seasons
The 5 Seasons has had a rough last few months, with the death of one of the venue's most reliable pr...
Best Jazz Club
An Die Musik
There are other jazz clubs in Baltimore, great ones even (last year's winner New Haven Lounge, in pa...
Best Local Music Blog
Aural States
The indie-rock blogosphere is a vast wasteland of regurgitated press releases, camera phone concert ...
Best Radio Show For Local Music
The Internet
All due respect to terrestrial stations such as 98 Rock and 92Q for the bite-sized chunks of local m...
Best Excuse to Stay Home
The Baltimore Taper
You've seen this dude whether you know it or not. Usually perched atop a hand drum in the back of th...
Best Music Festival
High Zero
There's just so much about High Zero that makes it feel like it couldn't exist outside of Baltimore....
Best Actor
Marc Horwitz
The Performance Workshop Theatre is notable for its close quarters, but such small-scale intimacy wo...
Best Actress
Dawn Ursula
For several years now, Dawn Ursula has been one of those actresses who sparkle in supporting roles, ...
Best Performer to Watch Out For
Mawk
With a name like Mawk, you'd better be something special. Well, this guy has come out of the woodwor...
Best Costume Designer
Elena Zlotescu
For more than 20 years now, faculty member Elena Zlotescu has been the resident costume designer for...
Best Director
David Mitchell
Director David Mitchell of Run of the Mill Theater took up a serious challenge with his fall 2007 pr...
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Best Production
Rep Stage's Thom Pain (Based On Nothing)
With a chair, a dictionary, and a plot line that sort of self-destructed onstage, the character Thom...
Best Short Play
"Unplugged" by Jacob Hellman
Jacob Hellman, 20, is new to Baltimore theater, but he made his entrance with a bang with his 10-min...
Best Theater Company
Rep Stage
For its 2007-'08 season, Rep Stage offered a series of edgy, intriguing, and dazzlingly acted produc...
Best New Theater
Single Carrot Theatre
Single Carrot, a band of actors who made the leap from University of Colorado to Baltimore, has made...
Best Dance Company
Collective Dance Company
This year the Collective Dance Company stole our hearts with its thought-provoking performances. Mos...
Best Movie Theater, City
The Charles Theatre
If Baltimore theaters were actors, the Senator is the elegant and seedy grande dame--think Bette Dav...
Best Movie Theater, Suburbs
Landmark Harbor East
Good news, Baltimore. We no longer have to go to Towson, White Marsh, or any of those other faux-cit...
Best Movie Theater, County
AMC Towson Commons 8
Absurd as it sounds, we're not giving Towson Commons the best theater award because it's the best th...
Best Local Movie
Proud Flesh
More women-made and -centered westerns, please--especially ones co-written, -made, -produced, and -s...
Best Film Series
Free First Thursday Films At The Baltimore Museum of Art
Privately, we raved about this film series, but when it came to Best of Baltimore our hands were tie...
Best Film Trend
Outdoor Movies
Our home television screens may be bigger and sharper than ever, but the summer itch drives Baltimor...
Best Art Museum
Contemporary Museum
It was Cottage Industry that really did it for us. Although the Contemporary Museum has toyed with m...
Best Museum Takeover
Stuttering: in a New Light At The Carroll Museum
Anybody following the Current Gallery's shows over that past few years knew that Michael Benevento, ...
Best Art Gallery
Maryland Art Place
Yes, we're technically cheating here, since MAP is a nonprofit art center and not a gallery proper i...
Best Gallery Trend
The Short Show
Ever since Cindy Rehm shuttered the Spare Room gallery space in her Waverly home in 2006, we've miss...
Best Place to Buy Art
Paperwork Gallery
There are many reasons to love Paperwork Gallery: talented local artists, innovative guest curators,...
Best Community Arts Center
2640 Space
This co-operative joint venture between the good people at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse and St. ...
Best Little Show
Minstallation At The Creative Alliance
Way back in 1993 the Baltimore Museum of Art brought the Théâtre de la Mode--miniature dol...
Best Solo Show
Mina Cheon Addressing Dolls At C. Grimaldis Gallery
Maybe it was the wall of dolls, but something about Mina Cheon's Addressing Dolls at the C. Grimaldi...
Best Visual Artist
Jeffrey Kent
Better known as the guiding force behind the Sub-basement Artists Studios, Jeffrey Kent dropped a la...
Best Local Art Web Site
There Were Ten Tigers
Part art and culture journal, part hipster society pages, relative newcomer to the growing Baltimore...
Best Public Art
Urban Forest Project
It had its genesis as a series of bold banners by New York designer Mark Randall. They were hung in ...
Best Mural
"Choose Life Memorial"
We first noticed it heading down Pennsylvania Avenue one sweltering July afternoon: a cool, dark for...
Best Graffiti
Viaduct, North Baltimore Somewhere
The spot is not exactly a mystery, but we're not going to offer it up, just in case. Lots of folks w...
Best Nonscandals
So-Called Local Art Scandals
Sure, in a 12-month interval when the global art world brewed online outrage over the reputed use of...
Best Please Don't Fuck This Up
Maryland Commission On Public Art
Back in March, Gov. Martin O'Malley announced the members of his Maryland Commission on Public Art, ...
Best New Book by a Local Author
Tattooing The World: Pacific Designs in Print and Skin by Juniper Ellis
Those among us who survived college during the 1990s have seen far too many tattooing books, from fr...
Best Book About Baltimore
The Beautiful Struggle: a Father, Two Sons, and An Unlikely Road to Manhood by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates, one of the more nimble-minded American cultural critics and observers writing toda...
Best Comic Book
Novo Volume 1: The Birth of Novo by Michael S. Bracco
For all the wild and wooly comics coming from the paint fumes-damaged minds of MICA students and lik...
Best Web Comic
Closed Caption Comics
This blog is not so much a web comic as a bulletin board where the cartoonists behind the Closed Cap...
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