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Awards & Recognition
Village Voice Media — 2008
AAN AltWeekly Awards

First Place, Public Service
Staff; Phoenix New Times
"Target Practice"

Second Place, Public Service
Scott Moxley; OC Weekly
"They Got the Sheriff"

Third Place, Public Service
Jeff Woods, Liz Garrigan; Nashville Scene
"Mayor Bubba Smackdown"

Third Place, Arts Criticism
Scott Foundas; LA Weekly
"Iron Butterfly"
November 30, 2007
"Born Identities"
November 23, 2007
"Badlands"
November 9, 2007

Second Place, Arts Feature
Troy Schulze; Houston Press
"Black Box Office"
June 14, 2007

Third Place, Arts Feature
Rob Jordan; Miami New Times
"Artist as Prisoner"
May 31, 2007

First Place, Arts Feature
Malcolm Gay; Riverfront Times
"The Case of the Shanghai Shamus"
September 19, 2007

First Place, Column
Gustavo Arellano; OC Weekly
"Ask a Mexican!"

Third Place, Column
Malcolm Gay; Riverfront Times
"Keep It Down"

Second Place, Column
Patricia Calhoun; Westword
"The Nigerian Scam Strikes Again"
May 31, 2007
"Exhibitionists"
May 3, 2007
"Ladies Plight"
February 15, 2007

Honorable Mention, Column-Politcial
Tom Robbins; Village Voice
"Rudy's Brain"
August 16, 2007
"Benchwarmers"
July 19, 2007
"Mike Bloomberg, Free At Last"
June 28, 2007

First Place, Feature Story
Megan Feldman; Dallas Observer
"El Tren de la Muerte"
July 26, 2007

First Place, Food Writing
Dara Moskowitz; City Pages
"Colonel Mustard"
June 13, 2007
"Port is the Answer?"
April 4, 2007
"Then There Were None"
January 31, 2007

Third Place, Food Writing
Lee Klein; Miami New Times
"Flapjack Flip-Off VII"
May 17, 2007
"Chew the Right Thing"
May 10, 2007
"Eat Shit and Die"
November 22, 2007

Second Place, Food Writing
Gail Shepherd; Broward-Palm Beach New Times
"The Undersea World of Toby Joseph"
July 19, 2007
"Split Decision?"
July 26, 2007
"Dancing the Lobster Quadrille"
April 5, 2007

Second Place, Food Writing
Carrington Fox; Nashville Scene
"Get Your Goat"
November 8, 2007
"Heckuva Job, Chappy"
May 31, 2007
"The Sign of Paradise"
May 3, 2007

First Place, Investigative Reporting
Jeffrey Anderson; LA Weekly
"The Town the Law Forgot"

Third Place, Investigative Reporting
Isaiah Thompson; Miami New Times
"The People Under the Bridge"
December 13, 2007
"Swept Under the Bridge"
March 8, 2007

Honorable Mention, Investigative Reporting
Rick Anderson; Seattle Weekly
"The Lavendar Lie"
July 18, 2007

First Place, Media Reporting/Crticism
Nikki Finke; LA Weekly
"Deadline Hollywood: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid"
April 6, 2007
"Deadline Hollywood: Dangerous Liaisons"
March 30, 2007
"Deadline Hollywood: Goodbye Baquet, Hello O'Shea"
February 2, 2007

Third Place, The Connye Miller Award for Media Reporting
Liz Garrigan; Nashville Scene
"Afflict the Afflicted"
September 27, 2007
"Who Really Gored Gore?"
March 8, 2007
"Identity Crisis"
February 8, 2007

Second Place, Music Criticism
Jonathan Cunningham; Broward-Palm Beach New Times
"Freaks Come Out at Night"
May 17, 2007

Honorable Mention, Music Criticism
Jennifer Maerz; SF Weekly
"Let's Get Killed"
August 29, 2007
"It's So Easy Being Green"
June 20, 2007
"Forgiving the Past Through Elliott Smith"
May 9, 2007

First Place, Music Criticism
Rob Harvilla; Village Voice
"The Fey Highwayman"
November 1, 2007
"The Disorientation of Lauryn Hill"
August 9, 2007
"Hot Hot Heat"
March 8, 2007

Third Place, News Story/Long Form
David Zahniser; LA Weekly
"The End of Murder"
January 26, 2007

Second Place, News Story/Long Form
David Martin; The Pitch
"Not Hiring"
August 16, 2007

Second Place, News Story/Short Form
Jeffrey Anderson; LA Weekly
"Hector Marroquin's Revenge"
June 8, 2007
"Slammed for Secret Asbestos Removal"
April 13, 2007
"Name Game in Huntington Park"
February 9, 2007

First Place, News Story/Short Form
Gus Garcia-Roberts; Cleveland Scene
"The Wild, Wild West Bank"
December 12, 2007
"Hunting the White Buffalo"
October 24, 2007
"Banking on D's"
September 26, 2007

Second Place, Cover Design
Alexander Flores; Dallas Observer
"Delivering Death"

"Best of Dallas"

"Dark Horse"

First Place, Cover Design
Darrick Rainey; SF Weekly
"Wheelchairs of Fortune"

"Just Say No"

"Future Games"

First Place, Illustration
Brian Stauffer; Miami New Times
"The Suitcase Murders"

Third Place, Illustration
Brian Stauffer; Miami New Times
"Guarimba!"

Second Place, Photography
Nick Vlcek; City Pages
"Boy, Interrupted"

Second Place, Photography
Eric England; Nashville Scene
"Man in the Middle"

"Hit Man"

"Next Big Nashville"

"Lap Dances"

"How to Grow a Rock Band"

Honorable Mention, Cartoon
Dwayne Booth; LA Weekly
Mr. Fish

First Place, Innovation
Kevin Cannon, Jeff Shaw, Peter Scholtes; City Pages
"Twin Cities Rock Atlas"

Third Place, Innovation
Eric Barton; The Pitch
"Smoke and Mirrors"
August 23, 2007

Second Place, Innovation
Amy Haimerl, Kenny Be; Westword
"Paint the Town Read"
January 4, 2007

Second Place, Special Section
Staff; LA Weekly
The 2007 People Issue

First Place, Blog
Nikki Finke; LA Weekly
"Deadline Hollywood Daily: Worst Talent Deal Ever?"

"Deadline Hollywood Daily: WGA Talks Collapse: East Strike On!"

"Deadline Hollywood Daily: NBC Shake-up: My Final Wrap & Analysis"

First Place, Blog
Staff; Nashville Scene
"Nashville Cream: How I Became the (Cherry) Bomb"

"Nashville Cream: I Saw You Doing Something Somewhere Around Here and You are Kinda Famous"

"Nashville Cream: What's in a Name?"

Third Place, Web Site
Staff; LA Weekly
www.laweekly.com

First Place, News Story/Long Form
Alan Prendergast; Westword
"The Punisher"
February 8, 2007



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