Best Of Denver^® 2009

We're Bullish on Denver!

We came, we saw, we stuffed our faces — and unstuffed the ballot boxes. After months of eating, shopping, drinking and dialing, our top-secret Best of Denver 2009 team has produced the paper now in your hands, our 25th-anniversary edition, filled with hundreds of reasons why, boom or bust, this city is the best possible place to live.

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Arts & Entertainment

Best Actor

Terry Burnsed in Tiny Alice

Best Actor — Season

Tyee Tilghman

Best Actress

Jeanne Paulsen in Doubt

Best Actress in a Musical

Nova Y. Payton in 3 Mo' Divas

Best Actress — Season

Emily Paton Davies

Best Album Packaging

Able Archer, EP01

Best Ambient-Music Showcase

Textures

Best Anarchist Ball

Louis Vuitton Night

Best Argument for "Over the River"

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Prints and Objects

Best Arts and Crafts Marathon

Knitting for Our Troops Project

Best Band Name

Sega Genocide

Best Band Overhaul

Achille Lauro

Best Band Playing Country the Way It Was Meant to Be Played

The Hollyfelds

Best Bar for Dogs

Barker Lounge

Best Bar for Drinking Beam

Stadium Inn

Best Bar Game of Chance

Edgewater Inn

Best Barista

Greg Lefcourt

Best Beefcake Show

Tattoo Detour

Best Beer-and-Coffee Combo

Great Divide Brewing Company and Pablo's Coffee

Best Beer-and-Whiskey Combo

Oskar Blues Brewery and Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey

Best Blackout for Ten Bucks

Bionic Beaver

Best Blog

Donnybrook Writing Academy

Best Blues Jam

Ziggie's

Best Ceramics Show

Paul Soldner Ceramics

Best Cheesecake Show

Jezebel

Best Club Night

Mommy's Little Monster

Best Club Revival

One Eyed Jacks

Best Coffee Beans

Novo Coffee

Best Coffee Table Book by a Local Artist

American Dream: Portraits of ThingsLauri Lynnxe Murphy

Best Combination of Art and Artists

RedLine

Best Comic Production

Love Song

Best Commie Music Project

People's Kazoo Orchestra

Best Companion DVD for local re-release

The VSS, Nervous Circuits

Best Conceptual Show

The Look of Nowhere

Best Concert

Tent State University Music Festival to End the War

Best Confrontational Band

Spellcaster's Rock and Roll Time Travel Committee

Best Dance Club

Beta

Best Dance-Music DJ

DJ Dragon

Best Design Show

Best Of Denver^® 2009

Best Of Denver^®