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Best Summertime Community Builder on the EastsideJump On It Week
... 1997, 78702 native NOOK Turner co-founded Jump On It as a teenager alongside civil rights activist Dorothy Turner (no relation) and his mother after the former called for more Black activity ...
ActivistBrigitte Bandit
Hardest-Working Harbinger of Queer ProgressAdri Pérez
... of LGBTQ protesters at the Capitol included tackling Pérez to the ground, haven’t blunted the activist’s spirit. They remain as sharp as ever in the fight for queer Texans’ futures.
ActivistNancy Thompson (Mothers Against Greg Abbott)
ActivistNancy Thompson (Mothers Against Greg Abbott)
2021 › Critics › Shopping ›
Best Curbside Queer Lit HookupBookWoman
... when and how to pick up your new novel, cookbook, or collected diaries of transgender activist Lou Sullivan safely.
ActivistJulie Oliver
Best Utility Player (Activist League)Chris Harris
ActivistEmily LeBlanc (CASA of Travis County)
Best Power Forward in the ArtsFlorinda Bryant
... has power – as an actor, a singer, a poet, a director, a teacher, an activist – and she uses it to lead us places we need to go: places of ...
ActivistChas Moore (Austin Justice Coalition)
Best Fem-Spotlighting DocuseriesFemBeat
... the film world, and have since produced poignant docs on Austin figures like 80-year-old Chicana activist Martha P. Cotera and social justice org Counter Balance. Galang and Skinner curate cheerful community ...
Best Campaign VideoTie: “Doors” and "Tough as Texas"
... Girl, and the title could also apply to campaign ad "Doors," featuring her military and activist service – saving comrades on the battlefield and fighting for women’s rights in D.C. The ...
... shoes, but they didn’t come to party – they came to protest. Organized by Latino-powered activist group Jolt, the inventive approach to resistance against anti-immigrant policies including Senate Bill 4 garnered ...
Best CampCreative Action
... thinkers. It’s the secret day job headquarters for some of the most talented artists and activists in Austin.” – Indigo Rael
Best ActivistEllen Jefferson (Austin Pets Alive!)
Best Community WarriorsGO! Austin/¡VAMOS! Austin (GAVA)
... infrastructure. Whether they are spearheading a fitness event or simply being willing to listen, GAVA activists pound the pavement in 78744 and 78745, making a tangible difference in people's lives.
Best ActivistDave Cortez, Sierra Club
We don't always agree, but you won't find a more dedicated activist than Dave. He's got more passion for social justice in his pinky than half the ...
Most Formidable FootpathRoberta Crenshaw Pedestrian Walkway
... marathon maniac alike – that runs under MoPac near Zilker Park, is named for environmental activist and visionary Roberta Crenshaw, whose efforts to stave off showy circus-like initiatives and encroaching development ...
Best Standing ActivistSadie Hernandez
... a surprise visit from women’s health champion and former Senator Wendy Davis. The tenacious young activist hoped Gov. Abbott would veto the measure; while the anti-choice guv failed to do so, ...
Best Immigration AdvocatesGrassroots Leadership
... publishing research, and consistently refuting misinformation. Progress might be slow, but Grassroots and other immigration activists have managed to keep the conversation going, and positive changes, such as a judge’s recent ...
Best Civil Rights ActivistGlen Maxey
Best Neighborhood ActivistTeresa Griffin, Friends of Hyde Park
Best Environmental ActivistDave Cortez, Sierra Club
This staunch environmental activist and Occupy Austin regular is currently the heart and soul of Sierra Club's Beyond Coal ...
Best Radical Personalityscott crow
Amidst the surge of an activist renaissance in Austin, scott crow (intentionally uncapitalized) takes the cake. But not literally, because he's ...
2014 › Critics › Media ›
Best Sensitive TV ReportingKEYE's Bettie Cross on Petticoat Fair
... of the unfortunate fracas that erupted over a bra-fitting (or lack thereof) between local transgender activist Kylie Jack and women's foundation garment store Petticoat Fair, she could have done the same ...
2014 › Critics › Shopping ›
Best FoundationsKylie Jack and Kirk Andrews for Petticoat Fair
... matter like the civil creatures they are. Jack and Andrews solicited the wisdom of trans activists Transgender Education Network of Texas founder Lisa Scheps and national Human Rights Campaign board member ...
Best Post-HB 2 Pro-Choice Activist GroupFight Back Texas
Best Way to Get Involved With Social JusticeThird Coast Activist Resource Center
Dubbing itself as “realistically radical,” the homegrown Third Coast Activist Resource Center offers a lineup of community events that make partaking in social justice activism ...
Best ActivistNatalia Lundstedt
... can come in the smallest of packages, and we are proud to recognize this budding activist’s achievement.
Best Motivation to Fix the Criminal Justice SystemAnthony Graves
... Believes with a mission in mind: getting his story out there (he's spoken before lawyers, activists, faith leaders, and even Congress), working to expose – and prevent – prosecutorial misconduct, and ...
Best ActivistCecile Richards
Best BadassAnne McAfee
... rally for women's reproductive rights and every pep rally to turn Texas blue. The 82-year-old activist suffered a stroke at the Capitol June 25 during Sen. Wendy Davis' historic filibuster, and ...
2013 › Critics › Media ›
Best Guide to Living GreenThe Austin Environmental Directory
... Directory. Call us biased, but the 2013 edition is one of the best directories that activist Paul Robbins has published since starting this exhaustive endeavor in 1995. Appropriately, water is the ...
Best Champions for Equal AccessADAPT of Texas
... disabled folks for decades. Over the last few years, our local branch of these awesome activists launched lawsuits across Texas to expand access to public places for folks with disabilities. Lots ...
Best ActivistAntonio Buehler
... And no question that this upstanding citizen, Iraq war veteran, and Austin watchdog deserves "Best Activist." Buehler's quest for police accountability since witnessing a woman's arrest on New Year's Eve has ...
Best SchtickersLipschtick Collective
... quaint. Now, they've been trotting and grapevine-ing videos that abandon the notion of the dour activist. Inventive, heebish, and anarchic, Lipschtick continues to impress by making a revolution of the self. ...
2012 › Critics › Kids ›
Best Hues to Huge HeroesBedichek Middle School's Murals
... by the folks honored: performer, playwright, and artist Aralyn Hughes (creativity and joy), author and activist Raul Salinas (vision, knowledge), homeless guardian and chef Nubian Queen Lola Stephens (resilience, community, and ...
Best Activist OrganizationTexas Freedom Network
Best ActivistJohn Woods
Best EnvironmentalistPaul Robbins
... few hours watching local government and chances are you'll see Paul Robbins. The self-described “environmental activist and consumer advocate,” clad in large glasses and an ever-present tweed sports coat, is a ...
Best Neighborhood/Place To LiveHyde Park
... to reopen the Baker Center as a neighborhood school, Austin's first suburb is now its activist heart.
Best Naming of a LibraryAna Sisnett Library at the UT Gender and Sexuality Center
... from being a trifecta, Ana Sisnett was a celebrated author, educator, tech goddess, artist, and activist, and the Gender and Sexuality Center at UT has dedicated the Ana Sisnett Library in ...
Best Unsung Behind-the-ScenesterMariBen Ramsey
Back in 1997, you voted this ubiquitous activist-attorney Best Nonprofit Volunteer for her dedication to local charities. Volunteer no more: As counsel, interim ...
Best Campus ActivistsStudent Friends of the Cactus Cafe
Best Activist OrganizationTexas Freedom Network
Best Grassroots ActivistsPetland Protesters
Best ActivistEllen Jefferson, DVM, Austin Pets Alive!
Best Salt of the EarthWorkers Defense Project
Back in the day (and occasionally still), activists liked to talk about "organizing the working class." The WDP doesn't just talk about it ...
Best New Roof Over Our Heads5604 Manor
... neighborhoods, and cities. The folks who founded 5604 Manor – Workers Defense Project, Third Coast Activist Resource Center, and Third Coast Workers for Cooperation – are specialists in collaboration, and they ...
Dearest DepartedEmma Barrientos
... former Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos, as his inspiration and strength, she was an unassuming but tireless activist for Mexican-American advancement, progressive politics, and a wide range of creative arts institutions. A founding ...
Best Mayor of South AustinMayo Pardo, Jovita's
... much of his time to his family and community as he does to being an activist/restaurateur. Seeing as how Eddie Wilson still holds the title of mayor of North Austin, it's ...
Best Nonprofit/Activist GroupTexas Freedom Network
Best ActivistKathy Miller of Texas Freedom Network
2009 › Critics › Media ›
Best Wise Old(ish) Man of the CapitolHarvey Kronberg's Quorum Report
... one could fire him from. Truth is, there are good reasons why many lawmakers and activists check this Capitol insider's well-informed online dirt sheet before they read their own e-mails. In ...
2009 › Critics › Kids ›
Best Gentrification Protest, 2005Young Scholars for Justice, PODER
... minidrama of Abuela getting her terrifying property taxes, and held a gentrification protest. The young activists spread the word: To "afford" the new affordable housing ventures on East Sixth and East ...
Best ActivistMary Arnold
Take any neighborhood in Austin, and you can probably find the sweet green fingerprints of activist Mary Arnold on it. Where Austin is human-sized and lovely in a homegrown way, Arnold ...
Best Grassroots MovementTexans for Obama
... even a serious front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, thank Texans for Obama. These determined activists saw the hunger for change and have fought tirelessly to keep that campaign energy high.
Best Monument to Solar-Powered SustainabilityThe Harden-Solar Duplex
... is the result of 3,500 volunteer hours over three years under the leadership of community activist Bo McCarver. It'll soon house a low-income family and features two wheelchair-accessible gardens and two ...
2008 › Critics › Shopping ›
Best Books to Change the WorldMonkeyWrench
... place to start. In addition to books and zines, MonkeyWrench hosts film screenings, book talks, activist lectures, and gatherings.
Best Citizen CommunicatorPaul Robbins
... fixture at City Council's citizen communications, nearly every week this self-described consumer advocate and environmental activist challenges council members intelligently and directly in the three minutes he's allotted. Give 'em hell, ...
Best Austin BoosterEugene Sepulveda
... modern business. As a philanthropist, he teaches Central Texans how to give. As a community activist, he gives us hope and strength. With a high tech background and an innate sense ...
Best Hope for the FutureAPD Chief Art Acevedo
... to do, or maybe never thought possible): He's earned the respect and support of community activists and of the police union – two groups that rarely agree on anything. That in ...
Best Visiting ActivistRob Kampia, Marijuana Policy Project
... has been the force behind many of the pot-policy reforms since then. He's definitely an activist mover-and-shaker. And he definitely loves Austin.
Best ActivistBettie Naylor
Best ActivistTIE: Bill Bunch, Bettie Naylor
2006 › Critics › Media ›
Best Golden Age of WirelessLocal Wi-Fi Web Resources
... democratic satisfaction of free Internet access. Welcome to the Wi-Fi world order, courtesy of the tech-activist pioneers responsible for the following Web directories, which, of course, are also available for free ...
2005 › Critics › Media ›
Best Activist ResourceThirdCoastActivist.org
As any world-changing Austin activist can attest, world-changing is a pretty tough task – especially when no one even knows ...
Best ActivistBettie Naylor
2005 › Readers › Services ›
Best LaundromatEcomat
Ecomat is the activist of Austin laundromats. Their energy-saving machines give other laundromats the same spin the Prius did ...
2005 › Readers › Media ›
Best Local Non-'Chronicle' PublicationTexas Travesty
... they hope it's something they wrote. Sometimes it is. A staff of budding journalism students, activists, and nut jobs offers plenty to mull: roommate org*sms, the "Poorly Kerned Issue," and even ...
2005 › Critics › Kids ›
Best Gentrification ProtestYoung Scholars for Justice, PODER
... minidrama of Abuela getting her terrifying property taxes, and held a gentrification protest. The young activists spread the word: To "afford" the new affordable housing ventures on East Sixth and East ...
Best Active ActivistDebbie Russell
Best Look Back at the New EastsideReji Thomas' Eastside Mural on 11th
... to old East Austin. A smaller grant was awarded to legendary glass artisan and social activist Reji Thomas to create a meditative piece that would face the park benches, essentially to ...
2004 › Readers › Shopping ›
Best Antiques/Collectibles/VintageUncommon Objects
Visiting Uncommon Objects is like going to your eccentric activist grandmother’s house, if she decided to slap price tags on all her possessions and drag ...
Best New PartnershipTexas Campaign for the Environment and Dell
... put its money where its mouth is, protest turned into pats on the back from activists. TCE is still pushing for more, but at least Venus knows that Mars is actually ...
Best Kick in the GrassAnarchist Soccer
... Anarchism and soccer have a richly intertwined past. Four years ago a cadre of local activists emerged from smoke-filled basem*nts and played a game of soccer. They have been playing every ...
2004 › Critics › Services ›
Since inheriting West Austin's Tarrytown shopping center several years ago, rabid animal-rights activist Jeanne Daniels has waged a crusade to cleanse the strip mall of any selling of ...
Best ActivistSamantha Smoot
Best Local BloggerBeth Westbrook
... through the various communities she touched. Obviously, she was a "very out and proud" transgender activist; additionally, she was a tireless lesbian activist and supporter of the local music scene. Her ...
Best GLBT LeaderTIE: Bettie Naylor, Randall Ellis
Two of the hardest-working activists in the scope of GLBT rights, it is an incredible honor that we can call ...
Best Activist Group PerformanceLiveable City
We wish we had a better label for Liveable City than "activist group," but the all-star quality-of-life nonprofit deserves the greatest credit for the biggest progressive coup ...
Best Grassroots Start-UpAustin Progressive Potluckers
... least they bring food. Basically, this introduces members of the host organization to some hungry activists, and it lets the growing number of Potluckers try many new groups and causes on ...
Best ActivistGlen Maxey
Best Internet Safety Net and Digital Divide BridgeAna Sisnett and Austin Free-Net
... – to get the Internet into the Austin Public Library. Under the leadership of community activist (and poet) Ana Sisnett, the Free-Net has built on this foundation to bring not just ...
Biggest Presidential SurpriseThe Howard Dean Campaign
... major credit for the Dean surge: former District 51 Rep. Glen Maxey (see Readers, Best Activist) and Convio Inc., the software firm specializing in Web sites for nonprofit organizing and fundraising. ...
Best Photo OpLori C-Renteria
... -- and there, bobbing among masses, was a giant bulldog head. Underneath it was Eastside activist Lori C-Renteria (clad beneath the collar in a star-spangled bathing suit, a la Miss America), ...
Best International ActivistRahul Mahajan
Best ActivistAmy Babich
Best School ActivistRev. Sterling Lands
Best ActivistTIE: Leslie Cochran; Richard Troxell
Best Reason To Become A Card-carrying Member Of The AcluWill Harrell, New E.D., Texas Chapter, ACLU
... Texas chapter's new executive director, to make us feel 19 again. Harrell, a thirtysomething, ponytailed lawyer-activist, has breathed new life into the Texas organization that slept through much of the Nineties. ...
Best Author/PoetSharon Bridgforth
... maps she wasn't already on, but that and a book tour weren't enough. Our iambic activist ( - though we don't know a pentameter that can hold her down) has given ...
Best Environmental MatriarchMary Arnold
... been on the battlefield longer than most our local greens is Mary Arnold, an old-school activist with a genteel tongue. Arnold's institutional memory is one of the enviro community's most valuable ...
2000 › Critics › Services ›
Best Grooming School For GrownupsLeadership Austin
... the mayor (class of '83-'84) to the small business owner to the gay and lesbian activist to the community volunteer has done time at this finishing school. Note to teens: There ...
Best Performances By Neighborhood OrganizationsTIE: East César Chávez Neighborhood Planning Team; Mueller Neighborhoods Coalition
... to have a vital neighborhood, and everyday citizens can contribute just as much as established activists. The Mueller neighbors teach us something else: When the experts and officials don't know what ...
Never in our wildest dreams did we think we'd be recognizing an environmental activist and a business booster in the same breath. In this rare instance, Save Our Springs ...
1999 › Critics › Shopping ›
... is the labor of love of Joyce Hunt, a local entrepreneur and de facto anti-drunk-driving activist, who named this shop for her son, a determined young man who survived a horrific ...
1998 › Critics › Food ›
Most Testosterone In Smallest PlaceBert's Bar-B-Q
Animal Rights activists, steer clear. Bert's BBQ is probably not the gentlest spot for vegetarians. The walls are ...
Most Vigilant Advocates For Public Health CareTIE: Charlotte Flynn; Venola Schmidt
When these two longtime activists approach the podium in council chambers to offer advice or criticism for the city's operation ...
