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Best after-church activity
Best art exhibit (in the last year or so)
Best art opening-night parties
Best artist watering hole
Best bar for non-smokers
Best bar for smokers
Best bar to have a conversation in
Best bar to see a fight
Best gallery to close in the last year
Best gypsy entertainers
Best improvisers
Best irish bar
Best karaoke bar
Best manhole cover
Best neighborhood bar
Best new art curator
Best new bar (opened in the last year or so)
Best new dance club (opened in the last year or so)
Best new dance club that never opened
Best new dance music album by a chicago artist (in the last year or so)
Best new rock album by a chicago artist (in the last year or so)
Best new visual artist
Best newly minted chicago celebrity
Best opening paragraph from a story you`ll never hear on "this american life"
Best performance in a public restroom
Best place for a first date
Best place to convince yourself and your friends that wednesday is, in fact, friday
Best place to meet a metrosexual
Best place to overhear northwestern grad students excessively expatiating
Best place to study improv
Best place to watch, or take part in "jungle fever"
Best post-cubs game bar
Best public art initiative
Best rock-club innovation
Best suburban theater company
Best theater production (in the last year or so)
Best theater to see naked girls
Best theater to see naked guys
Best theme bar
Best thing about billy corgan`s comeback
Best thing about liz phair`s comeback
Best underground success story
Best use of a video camera
Best world-class art museum on a campus
Best of Chicago 2003 was written by Dave Chamberlain, Brian Hieggelke, Adriene Hill/Mike Barr, Tom Lynch, Tony Peregrin, Joanna Topor, David Witter, Michael Workman and Kate Zambreno.
With additional items written by Scoop Jackson, Kelly Lynch, Nina Metz, Ray Pride, David Schneider, Doug Seibold and S. L. Wisenberg.
With expect fact-checking provided by Jen Mullholand, David Orr, Gregg Sparks and Timothy Stelloh.
Copyright
Newcity Communications, Inc.
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