.Readers’ Poll Winners: Arts & Culture

How you voted in 2010.

Best Animator
Owen Cook

Best Annual Event
Art & Soul

Best Artist
Bill Swanson

Best Arts Organization
Pro Arts

Best Artsy Café
Mama Buzz

Best Band
Green Day

Best Blogger
V Smoothe, A Better Oakland

Best Burning Man Offshoot
The Crucible

Best Club
The Uptown

Best DJ (club)
DJ Hector (Hector Salazar)

Best DJ (radio)
Chuy Gomez, Ronn Owens, and Sex for Teens (tie)

Best East Bay Slang Word or Phrase
Hella

Best Gallery
Johannson Projects

Best Gallery Openings
The Compound

Best Homegrown Cultural Scene
Art Murmur

Best Jazz Combo
Berkeley High Jazz Ensemble

Best Local Act That Made It Big
Green Day

Best Local Album
Middleway — Alma Desnuda

Best Local Author
Michael Chabon

Best Local Book
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer — Novella Carpenter

Best Local Film
La Mission

Best Musician
Bart Davenport

Best Place to Dance
Ashkenaz

Best Poet
Prentice Powell

Best Punk or Thrash Band
Everything Must Go

Best Purveyor of Local Crafts
Rock Paper Scissors Collective

Best Reason to Remember Hyphy
E-40

Best Singer or MC
Goapele

Best Street Artist
Josh Allen, Tenor Sax

Best Theatrical Production
American Idiot

Best Underground Cultural Event
Hoodstock

Best Venue for Local Bands
The Uptown

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