AltWeekly Awards
2008 Arts Criticism Above 55,000
2nd Place (tie): Waiting for the Barbarians, Afterplay and Take Me Out by Robert Faires , 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
2007 Arts Criticism Above 55,000
1st Place: "Young Americans," "Mourning Edition," "Teenage Noir" by J.R. Jones , Chicago Reader
2nd Place: "Good Vibrations?" "Strong, Silent Type," "Shifting Shakespeare"
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Boston Phoenix
3rd Place: "Anarchy in the UK," "The New Disaster Movie," "Mel Gibson is Responsible for All the Wars in the World"
by J. Hoberman
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The Village Voice
Honorable Mention: "Pulp Diction," "Guts and Glory," "Cancelled Trip"
by Scott Renshaw
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Salt Lake City Weekly
2007 Arts Criticism Below 55,000
1st Place: "Out on the Prairie," "Towers of Babble," "'The Queen's a Human Being?" by Thomas Peyser , Style Weekly
2nd Place: "Levy Does America," "Dissenting from the Work Ethic," "Cormac McCarthy Imagines the End"
by Steven G. Kellman
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The Texas Observer
3rd Place: "Bait and Switch," "The Coming of the Lord," "Profits on a Plane"
by David Fellerath
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INDY Week
2006 Arts Criticism Above 50,000
1st Place: "Blown Opportunity," "Lost in the Stars," "Pulling Punch Lines" by Jim Ridley , Nashville Scene
2nd Place: "Africa Screams," "Diary of a Mad White Woman," "Chow Fun"
by Kristian Lin
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Fort Worth Weekly
3rd Place: "Objects of Scorn," "Memory Pictures," "Poise II Men"
by Jeffry Cudlin
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Washington City Paper
Honorable Mention: "Gender Benders?" "Dante, Dude," "The Many, The One, and The Two"
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Boston Phoenix
2006 Arts Criticism Below 50,000
1st Place: "Playing With the Passion," "Attachment Disorder," "Going Down in History in Flames" by Steven G. Kellman , San Antonio Current
2nd Place: "Desires vs. Duties," "De-Evolution," "Down, Home"
by Byron Woods
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INDY Week
3rd Place: "Private Texas," "Grand Theft History," "Feeling Negative"
by Elaine Wolff
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San Antonio Current
Honorable Mention: "Drastic Romantic," "Evil's Puppets," "Raven's Son"
by Michael Bowen
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The Inlander
