AltWeekly Awards
2008 Food Writing Below 55,000
1st Place: His Daily Bread, Newfound Ground Round and Shuck and Awe by Suzanne Podhaizer , Seven Days
2nd Place: The Sign of Paradise, Heckuva Job, Chappy and Get Your Goat
by Carrington Fox
,
Nashville Scene
3rd Place: Miles to Go Before I Eat (PDF)
by Mark C Anderson
,
Monterey County Weekly
Honorable Mention: First Bite: Sky Lounge, First Bite: Carneros Bistro & Wine Bar and Saint Elsewhere
by Carey Sweet
,
North Bay Bohemian
2008 Illustration Above 55,000
1st Place: The Suitcase Murders by Brian Stauffer , Miami New Times
2nd Place: The New Anxiety
by Edward Kinsella III
,
Philadelphia Weekly
3rd Place: Guarimba
by Brian Stauffer
,
Miami New Times
2008 Illustration Below 55,000
1st Place: This Sucks by Ken Garduno , Folio Weekly
2nd Place: Hosed
by Dale Stephano and Angela Moore
,
Santa Fe Reporter
3rd Place: The Big Suck
by Jon Krause and Angela Moore
,
Santa Fe Reporter
2008 Innovation Above 55,000
1st Place: Twin Cities Rock Atlas by Peter Scholtes, Jeff Shaw and Kevin Cannon , City Pages (Twin Cities)
2nd Place: Paint the Town Read
by Amy Haimerl and Kenny Be
,
Westword
3rd Place: Smoke & Mirrors
by Eric Barton
,
The Pitch
2008 Innovation Below 55,000
1st Place: Downtownopoly (PDF) by Shan Stumpf and Bob Whitby , Orlando Weekly
2nd Place: Locals Only
by Matt Kettmann and Aly Comingore
,
Santa Barbara Independent
3rd Place: Project White House: Presidential Campaign Contest, Run for President, Project White House Deadline Extended, Speaking of Presidential Campaigns, Let the Games Begin! and Project White House the Blog
by Jim Nintzel and Tucsan Weekly staff
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Tucson Weekly
2008 Investigative Reporting Above 55,000
1st Place: The Town the Law Forgot, Cuhady Reformers Lose, Mario Beltran's Wild Night, Politics Meet Street, The Trouble with Mario Beltran, Friends in Low Places, Did City Hall Fund a Gun-runner?, Taming the Wild 740 Club, Mario Beltran's Strange Bedfellows and Mario Beltran's Undertow by Jeffrey Anderson , L.A. Weekly
2nd Place: The Corporation that Ate San Francisco, Dust Still Settling and Green City
by Sarah Phelan
,
San Francisco Bay Guardian
3rd Place: Swept Under the Bridge and Sex Offenders Set Up Camp
by Isaiah Thompson
,
Miami New Times
Honorable Mention: The Worst Internal Scandal in NSA History was Blamed on Cold War Defectors' Homosexuality
by Rick Anderson
,
Seattle Weekly