Arts & Culture
- Best Actor: Energetically eating up the stage
- Best Actress: Noblest portrayal of women on the verge
- Best After-Hours Club: Lustiest place to stay high and boogie down
- Best Album: Extravagantly gorgeous indie-pop
- Best All-Ages Club: A friendly place for wrathful hardcore
Goods & Services
- Best Alternative Healer: Altruism for mind and body
- Best Antique Store: Relics at modest prices
- Best Arbor Service: Fast, frugal tree wrangling
- Best Bargain Beauty Shop: Cosmic indolence on the cheap
- Best Bargain-Hunter's Delight: Cheap and proud of it
People & Places
- Best Charitable Event: A glamorous fund-raiser for a very worthy cause
- Best Fashion Trend: What's with the indulgent yet mysterious eyewear?
- Best Minister, Rabbi, or Imam: Muslim leader with the biggest heart
- Best Moderate Politician: A reasonable blend of fiscal conservatism and social conscience
- Best Motorcycle Club: Most wrathful things on two wheels
Restaurants & Bars
- Best African Restaurant: Taming the devilish spices
- Best All-You-Can-Eat Buffet: Delighting the gluttonous
- Best Asian-Food Destination: A strip mall for the gluttonous
- Best Bar Food: For the thirsty and the ravenous
- Best Barbecue: Most benevolent barbecue joint
Sports & Leisure
- Best Big-Kid Playground: An accommodating place for industrious tykes
- Best California Casino: Den of iniquity now fun for him and her
- Best California Ski Resort: Prepare to be humbled in the mountains
- Best City Parks: A refreshingly charitable approach to recreation
- Best College Athlete: Enviable improvement on the lawn
This Week's Feature
FEATURE
A People-Focused Solution
Restorative justice programs may offer the best new hope for reducing violence in Oakland schools and the city overall, but their future funding is uncertain.
