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Best 4am bar worth a cab ride
Best abiding sorrow mistaken for performance art
Best alternative dance club
Best annual music festival
Best approximation of south beach miami
Best architectural restoration
Best art exhibit (in the last year or so)
Best art exhibit in second life
Best artwork worth saving from destruction
Best bar that emulates your father’s basement
Best bar to pretend you’re someone else
Best bar to smoke on new year’s eve, before the non-smoking ban goes into effect
Best bar-turned-rock venue (in the last year or so)
Best burgeoning chicago film career
Best candidate for "one book chicago" still untapped
Best drag performer
Best example of overcoming secondcityitis
Best foreshadowing of the smokers purgatory to come
Best hypothetical story line for "trapped in the closet" chapter 23
Best japanese-inspired garden
Best local mainstream-comic-book creator
Best monthly queer dance party
Best new album by a local artist (in the last year or so)
Best new bar (opened in the last year or so)
Best new book about chicago’s sordid past
Best new boystown spot
Best new club (opened in the last year or so)
Best new free event in chicago
Best new singles event
Best next role for jeremy piven
Best night at the music box theatre
Best night ever at smart bar
Best nonsense for your buck
Best place to drink champagne
Best place to get a guinness float
Best place to get your stinkin` wino on in greater liquor park
Best place to have spring break all summer
Best place to pretend you`re on a tropical vacation
Best place to read faulkner
Best place to see a film longer than most people get to sleep each night
Best place to see contemporary dance performances
Best place to see live world music now that hothouse is gone
Best place to tip the bartender
Best reason not to go to lollapalooza
Best reason to concede "say anything" is so twentieth century
Best reason to go to lollapalooza
Best reason to learn how to pronounce marisa wegrzyn’s last name
Best reason to look up
Best reason to sit still for three-and-a-half hours
Best regular club night
Best show ever at the metro
Best theater production (in the last year or so)
Best title for a future fall out boy record
Best title for a future kanye west record
Best underground press
Best viral form of mad cow disease
Best-looking band
Best-looking bartenders or wait staff
Best of Chicago 2007 was written by: Brian Hieggelke, Tom Lynch, Jamie Murnane, Michael Nagrant, Ray Pride
With additional contributions by: Deena Dasein, Molly Each, Jason Foumberg, Liz Haley, Mary Susan Littlepage, Michael Moreci, Nina Metz, Stephanie Ratanas, Elizabeth Seeskin, Duke Shin, John Thompson, James VonOsdol, Michael Weinstein
Photography: Audrey Cho
Model: Assia Likomanov, BriannaLynn Harstick, Laura Watson and Hamid Assian
Makeup and hair: Diane Arce and Jaclyn Scott
Copyright
Newcity Communications, Inc.
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