Best Music Act
RC & The Gritz

Best Little Online Upstart
Central Track
CT turned 5 this year. We would have totally lost that bet. The guide to food, music, and drinks punches way above its weight, with sharp design (especially on mobile); clever, sometimes delightfully vulgar, content; and a genuine underdog attitude.Best Bookstore
Deep Vellum Books

Best Dance Company
Bruce Wood Dance
The late Bruce Wood believed Dallas could be a great city for dance. Nothing has proven the truth of Wood’s vision more than the sustaining success of his namesake company. Led by artistic director Kimi Nikaidoh, the company continues to stage groundbreaking new work as well as take on ambitious collaborations with composers and choreographers.Best Tweeter
Max Geron (@MaxDPD)
The 25-year Dallas Police vet, a major over the Southeast Patrol Division, tells his 13,000 followers the way it is, whether the subject is World Cup sailing or the way police handle protests. The latter, by the way, was the subject of his master’s thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School.Best Instagrammer
Nini Nguyen (@ninistyle)

Best Radio Station
KXT 91.7
We just randomly checked the last four songs on a Tuesday afternoon: “You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb,” by Spoon; “The Thrill Is Gone,” by B.B. King; “Steady, as She Goes,” by The Raconteurs; and “Shine on Me,” by Dan Auerbach. Add The Paul Slavens Show, on Sundays. Case closed.Best TV News Broadcast
NewsFix, The CW33
This is the (intentionally, we think) bonkers news report that 2017’s (unintentionally, we hope) bonkers news cycle demands, with wacky sound effects, extremely broad voice-over work, and music beds that give it an America’s Funniest Home Videos feel. It’s like if every story were treated like a piece about a water-skiing squirrel.Best Gallery or Art Space
Dallas Contemporary

Best Sports Team
FC Dallas
Yes, the Cowboys had a good run. But FC Dallas became the first Major League Soccer squad to earn more than 60 points in back-to-back seasons, winning the Supporters’ Shield and U.S. Open Cup in the process—while also fielding a historically dominant group of academy teams.Best Critic
Chris Vognar

Best Movie Theater
The Texas Theatre
It’s a top-notch bar, music venue, community center, historic site, and film festival hub that also happens to be a movie house without rival, either in atmosphere or programming. The crowd is always engaged (and, sometimes, a little tipsy) and the calendar is full of repertory surprises.Best Print Reporter
Tristan Hallman

Best Local Attraction
Klyde Warren Park

Best Stray Theater
Kitchen Dog Theater
After losing its longtime home at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Uptown, Kitchen Dog would have been forgiven if it had spent the year finding its footing and planning the future. Instead, performing in multiple borrowed spaces, the theater managed to accomplish one of its best seasons in recent memory.Best Drive-In Movie Theater
Coyote Drive-In
An outdoor double feature in the shadow of the Fort Worth skyline is as magical as it gets (until Dallas gets its own drive-in). Early birds can grab a cold can of Wild Acre beer from the food pavilion, let kids burn energy on the playground, and watch the unobstructed Texas sunset—which just might be better than the latest blockbuster. 223 NE Fourth St., Fort Worth. 817-717-7767.Best Museum
Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Best Performing Arts Space
Moody Performance Hall
The spartan design of the former Dallas City Performance Hall and its well-tuned acoustics, comfortable auditorium, and accessible price point have made the city-owned space an incubator of new and established arts groups. Now, thanks to a naming sponsorship, it will also generate a grant fund for them.Best Theater
Dallas Theater Center
It has been no secret to local theater lovers that under artistic director Kevin Moriarty the Dallas Theater Center has ventured to rethink what a regional theater could mean to its community. This year, those efforts were honored with a Tony for best regional theater.Best Best-seller
Arturo Torres

Best Coffee-Table Bookstore
The TASCHEN Library
The stylish clerks in The Joule’s lobby bookshop aren’t just there to look pretty. They’re knowledgeable bookworms who will guide you to a display-worthy Taschen tome whether you’re hunting for an unexpected housewarming gift (their Dali cookbook, $60) or treating yourself (75 Years of DC Comics, $70). Another plus: they won’t judge if you linger in the “sexy books” corner.Best Columnist
Jim Schutze

Best High School Football Stadium
Ford Center at The Star

Best Sports Venue
Globe Life Park
Reduce, reuse, recycle. Except, apparently, when it comes to ballparks. This one—with good sight lines, quirky home run porch, and charming retro design—opened in 1994 and remains one of the best in baseball. And it still feels new to us. Yet the citizens of Arlington voted to foot half the bill on a new $1 billion retractable-roof replacement. Fools.Best Radio Show
The Kidd Kraddick Morning Show

Best Public Official
Victor Vandergriff
He comes from the family that built Arlington, but as a member of the Texas Transportation Commission, he is on a mission to rebuild Dallas. He got TxDOT to create a bold, workable plan called CityMAP that would reverse decades of poor engineering—and bring new housing and growth to the city’s core. Other cities around the state are now clamoring to get their own version.Best Periodical
1814 Magazine

Best Athlete
Dak Prescott

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