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Ike Holter

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Jeremy Menekseoglu

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Best Public Artwork

Beth Kamhi's Power of Flowers

on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

bethkamhi.com Runner-Up
Best Public Art Event

Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival

on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

milwaukeeavenueartsfestival.org Runner-Up
Best Advocate for the Arts

Portoluz

on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

portoluz.org Runner-Up
Best Art Sale

Renegade Craft Fair

on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

renegadecraft.com/chicago Runner-Up
Best Museum Exhibit

"Feast" at the Smart Museum

on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

5550 S. Greenwood 773-702-0200 smartmuseum.uchicago.edu Runner-Up
Best After-Hours Event at a Museum

First Fridays at the MCA

on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

Museum of Contemporary Art 220 E. Chicago 312-280-2660 mcachicago.org Runner-Up
Best Movie Theater

Music Box Theatre

on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

3733 N. Southport 773-871-6607 musicboxtheatre.com Runner-Up
Best Film House

Music Box Theatre

on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

3733 N. Southport 773-871-6607 musicboxtheatre.com Runner-Up
Best Film Festival

Chicago International Film Festival

on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

chicagofilmfestival.com Runner-Up
Best Filmmaker

Ted Tremper

on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

tedtremper.com Runner-Up
Best Novelist

Joseph Hayes

on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

Runners Up M. Molly Backes
Best Nonfiction Writer

Alex Kotlowitz

on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

alexkotlowitz.com Runner-Up
Best New Novel By a Chicagoan

When No One Is Watching by Joseph Hayes

on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

Runner-Up Herself When She's Missing by Sarah Terez Rosenblum
Best New Nonfiction Book By a Chicagoan

MWF Seeking BFF by Rachel Bertsche

on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

rachelbertsche.com Runner-Up
Best Poet

Larry Sawyer

on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

Runner-Up Robbie Q. Telfer
Best literary event

Myopic Poetry Series

on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

Myopic Books 1564 N. Milwaukee 773-862-4882 myopicbookstore.com Runner-Up
Best String of Theatrical Stunners

The last four plays at Trap Door Theatre

by Tony Adler on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

Trap Door Theatre is almost literally a hole in the wall: you reach it through a deep, narrow crevice between two buildings. And the programming can seem equally inaccessible.
Best Actress to Call When You Don't Have Much of a Script

Janet Ulrich Brooks

by Tony Adler on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Next Up gives directors and designers from the Northwestern University MFA program a chance to show what they can do. This year's edition is running three plays in repertory: Keith Reddin's Life and Limb, Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, and a new one by Emily Schwend called South of Settling.
Best Impresario You Probably Never Heard of

Mary Bonnett

by Ben Joravsky on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

A retired Chicago public school theater teacher, Mary Bonnett has spent the last several years writing, staging, and producing plays with her company, Her Story Theater. Their next production will be Shadow Town, which she says is "based on the interviewed lives of girls trafficked into the sex-slave trade."
Best Sense of When the Writing Is on the Wall

Timothy Douglas

by Tony Adler on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

You could see there was something out of whack right from the start. For his debut production as artistic director of Remy Bumppo Theatre, Timothy Douglas had chosen Mourning Becomes Electra, one of the vast and earnest dramas Eugene O'Neill wrote as he struggled to create an American equivalent of classical tragedy.
Best Economics Lesson Not Written by Brecht

Enron at Timeline Theatre

by Tony Adler on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

Regular people weren't supposed to understand what happened at Enron. The complicated financial maneuvers that brought the Texas-based energy company down were beyond abstract—they were impossible, carried out by a bunch of sly pataphysicians who were doing their damnedest to cover their tracks.
Best Argument Against the Auteur Approach

Calixto Bieito's Camino Real at Goodman Theatre

by Tony Adler on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

Catalonian director Calixto Bieito made his name as a provocateur in opera, where audiences are grateful for provocation because it helps them stay awake. His 2004 staging of Mozart's The Abduction From the Seraglio famously involved urination, mutilation, and a cast that reportedly included authentic prostitutes.
Best Opera Company at a Turning Point

Chicago Opera Theater

by Deanna Isaacs on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

Next fall's production of The Magic Flute will mark the end of an era at Chicago Opera Theater. It'll be the last COT show planned by Brian Dickie, who's retiring in August after a 13-year stretch as general director.
Best Place for Stand-Up by Everybody and Their Grandmother, Free of Charge

Cole's open mike

by Brian Costello on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

If you want to see 50-odd (and 50 odd) aspiring comics in one night without paying a cent of admission or fighting your way through north-side streets packed with yelping trixies and beer bros, you can't beat the Wednesday open mike at Cole's Bar in Logan Square. Started and originally hosted by stand-ups Cameron Esposito and Adam Burke (another stand-up, Ken Witzgall, has now taken over as MC), the backroom show supplies a friendly, supportive environment in which comics of every type and skill level can take the stage for three minutes and hone their craft.
Best Hot, Loud, Crowded Dance

Muntu Dance Theatre's "Spice It Up"

by Laura Molzahn on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

Baby, it was cold outside when Muntu Dance Theatre put on its 39th annual winter concert. But the atmosphere indoors was steamy, thanks to the synergy between dancers and audience.
Best Subversive Dance

The Other Dance Festival

by Laura Molzahn on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

What better time to foment revolution than now? And what better place than on government property?
Best Audience Heckling

Off Off Broadzway

by Marissa Oberlander on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

Ladies, here's a way to test that new beau: take him to see Off Off Broadzway's next show. If he can stand the broadz' relentless heckling of male audience members—not to mention their members—without going limp, he's a keeper.
Best Monthly Variety Show That Proves Puppets Are Cool

Odds N Friends Dance Video Puppet Jam at Hungry Brain

by Elly Fishman on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

There's no better blend of old-timey tradition and cool innovation than Odds N Friends, a cartoony, playful, brilliantly strange variety show staged at the Hungry Brain on the first Monday of each month. Skits, ventriloquism, video projection, and puppetry are all part of the mix.
Best Sculpture You Need a Pulley System to View

Hole

by Elly Fishman on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

A. Laurie Palmer's sculpture, Hole, is seven feet tall and shaped like a funnel cloud, its wide mouth tapering to an almost dainty circular base. A professor at the School of the Art Institute, Palmer often uses common materials in her art—past installations have featured salt and cooked cabbage.
Best Artist-Created and -Maintained Bar

John Preus's Red Flags Salon

by Elly Fishman on June 20, 2012 at 12:00AM

John Preus likes to find value in the discarded. Last fall he and artist-carpenter Kevin Reiswig created an eight-by-twelve-foot pub inside a formerly empty Hyde Park mansion owned by the First Unitarian Church.

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