Best theatrical couple
Best test of the structural soundness of audience members’ backsides
Best theatrical mob action
Best advice from an artistic director
Best new off-Loop combo for dinner and a show, fringe division
Best theatrical collaboration
Best underground voguer and breakdancer
Best new comedy festival
Best comedy club located in a pizzeria
Best storytelling series for potty humor
Best living Vivian Maier
Best citizen-thinker
Best rehab of a public housing project into artists’ housing
Best exhibit for bashing a Jeff Koons balloon dog
Best small museum, Skokie division
Best new video installation
Best archival discovery
Best business counterstrike
Best conflict of interest
Best secret microcinema
Best local film company that doesn’t make films
Best new local production (documentary)
Best new local production (drama)
Best second-run house
Best creative rivalry
