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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Your A-List: Best Pet Store
All those pets downtown — and their humans — needed a club house. They found one in Lofty Dog, the West Second Street all-in-one pet stop. It won the A List reader poll for Best Pet Store.
Two other Austin institutions did reasonably well in the contest: steady Bark ‘n Purr (17 percent) and expanding Tomlinson’s (12 percent).
All the rest — Gallery of Pets, Zookeeper Exotic Pets, Bark ‘n Bubbles, Herpeton, Rivers & Reefs Pet Center, Just for Pets and River City Aquatics — harnessed 3 percent or less.
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Your A-List: Best Theater Company
I’ve been reporting the results of A List reader polls for a couple of years. I can usually predict in advance which reports will receive the most comments. This is one.
Esther’s Follies, an Austin comic tradition since 1978, took second with 14 percent.
Greater Tuna, almost as old as Esther’s, came in third with 6 percent.
Hyde Park Theatre, The Vortex, Salvage Vanguard, Austin Playhouse, Rude Mechs, ColdTowne and Latino Comedy Project bunched up below that.
Zach, Austin’s largest and most acclaimed theater company, received no votes.
Those are the results. Unhappy readers should vote next time. And if you must leave comments, snarkiness persuades no one here.
Congratulate City Theater and move on.
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Your A-List: Best Hard Rock/Metal Group
Reassuring news: Sex, violence and ribaldry still rule the names of hard rock and metal acts. That’s a quick conclusion one can draw from the winners of the A List reader poll for best Central Texas band in that combined category.
Only Tia Carrera appears to break the naming rule, although there may be a ribald reference to actress/model Tia Carrere somewhere in there. Although her last name is spelled slightly differently, she did inspire the local artists. (When he first arrived in Austin, former Statesman music critic Joe Gross thought he was going to review her pop band, then three shaggy musicians came out on stage to make big noise.)
Those rolling up 6 percent or less of the vote fit the norm, name-wise: New Disaster (6 percent); Devil’s Right Hand (5 percent); At All Costs (5 percent); Amplified Heat (3 percent) and — ta da! — Supercrash (3 percent).
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Your A-List: Best Late-Night Snack
Ever so slowly, Austin is adding places to snack late at night. Since this is prime dining time for your social columnist, I couldn’t be happier. Many more spots are serving into the wee hours than you’ll find on this A List, but count this as a fair start.
Relative newcomer Home Slice, purveyors of fine New York-style pizzas, came in third with 13 percent. Longtime West Sixth Street deli Katz’s zoomed into fourth with 10 percent.
Taking 6 percent or less: Mrs. Johnson’s Donuts, Pluckers, Roppolo’s, 24, 888 and Wan Fu.
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