The Austin Chronicle's annual Best of Austin Poll covers everything that's not music. In the best, the Brobdingnagian Bards won "Best Renaissance Men" and "Best Way to Fix Your Computer and Fight Dragons". There are not quite as many catergories that we are hoping to win, but we have lots of friends who we'd love to see win.

You don't have to be from Austin to vote. Below are my suggestions for who I'd like to win in 2005. You can copy and paste them into the entry form. To vote, click here.

Voting ends July 11th. So vote soon!
Because it'll be like a Job Resignation Present. :)


ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Annual Festival: Austin Celtic Festival
Local Music Label: Mage Records
Theatre Director: Lorella Loftus
Author/Poet: MARC GUNN
Painter/Sculptor: JENNIFER GUNN


MEDIA

Feature Journalist: Margaret Moser
Photographer: Nancy e. Pearsall
Radio Station: KUT 90.5FM
Radio Station Programming: Celtic Storm, KOOP Radio
Local Web Site - Entertainment: http://www.celticmp3s.com/
Local Non-Chronicle Publication: Celtic MP3s Music Magazine
Local Comic/Zine: Brobdingnagian Bards Adventure Comics


POLITICS AND PERSONALITIES

Nonprofit Group: Austin Celtic Association


SHOPPING

Antiques/Collectibles/Vintage: Things Celtic
Fashion Accessories: Merlin's Oddities & Morgana's Mysteries, http://www.merlinandmorgana.com/
Clothing: Chameleon Dreams, http://www.chameleondreams.net/