Best Advertiser Featuring Gay, Interracial Versions of Nancy & Sluggo: Re-Bar
Best Advertiser Who Almost Stopped Advertising with Us after We Wrote about Someone Pooping on the Floor of Their Establishment: Seattle Repertory Theatre
Best Advertiser Who Has Laid Hands upon a Majority of the Stranger Staff: Bevin Keely, LMP, Rolfing Queen
Best Advertiser Featuring a Sexy Cartoon Dog: The Feed Bag
Best Advertiser Making Use of Spot-Color Green: The Last Supper Club
Best Advertiser Featuring a Bulldog Using Chopsticks: Ai Japanese Restaurant
Best Advertiser Celebrating the Celtic Imagination: Gaelsong
Best Advertiser Whose Ads Feature a Googly-Eyed Varmint of Indeterminate Species Wearing Leather: Second Time Around Runner-Up: The Crypt
Best Advertiser Selling Statues of Gargoyles: Gargoyles Statuary
Best Advertiser Dedicated to the Proper Care of Women's Nether Regions (tie): Aradia Women's Health Center, and Aurora Medical Services
Best Advertiser Using Bubble Lettering in Their Ads: Gorditos
Best Advertiser Using a Kinks Song Title in Their Ads: Lava Lounge
Best Advertiser Who Named Their Pub after a Tom Waits Album: Big Time Brewing Company
Best Advertiser Offering the World's Greatest Steak-n-Eggs Breakfast: 14 Carrot Café
Best Advertiser Selling Yummy, Yummy Crepes: 611 Supreme
Best Advertiser Who Totally Got the Joke of This Issue and We Love Them: 8 Limbs Yoga
Best Advertiser Whose Name Rhymes with "Full Hog Blues": Bulldog News
Best Advertiser Boasting Super-Stylish Ad Materials in Their Store Window Displays: Crescent Downworks
Best Advertiser Offering Footwear Sold by a Lust-Worthy Staff: Five Doors Up
Best Advertiser Elegantly Advertising Other People's Junk: Fremont Sunday Market
Best Advertiser Our Ad Rep Anna Says Is "Just Fucking Awesome": Maritime Pacific Brewing Company
Best Advertiser Offering Custom-Made Corsets: One Wilde Knight
Best Advertiser Located at the Bottom of a Steep Flight of Metal Stairs: Pike Pub & Brewery
Best Advertiser Doing Their Part for Population Control: Planned Parenthood
Best Advertiser Who's Advertised with Us for a Long, Long Time and Is Super Sweet to Boot: Realtime Audio
Best Advertiser Helping Broke Folks Get a Place to Live: Seattle Emergency Housing Service
Best Advertiser Selling Seafood to University Students: University Seafood
Best Advertiser Featuring an HIV-Positive Superhero: UW's "Positive Power"
Best Advertiser Who Was Passionately Supportive of Our "Count the Steve Pools" Contest: Tina's Diner
Best Advertiser Who Pulled Their Ad with Us to Run It in the Seattle Weekly after a Weekly Ad Rep Promised to Buy Their Ad Rep a Steak Dinner: Nettwork Records
Best Advertiser Who Happens to Be Sisters: Belltown Yoga
Best Advertiser Who Always Gives Us Kick-Ass Prizes for Pizzazz!: Guemes Island Resort
Best Advertiser Serving the Best Barbecue: Jones Barbecue
Best Advertiser Whose Business Is Named after a Dead Dog: Otis Café
Best Advertiser with Sexy Italian Accent (tie): Pomodoro, and Luigi's Grotto
Best Advertiser the Stranger Sales Staff Has the Easiest Time Eroticizing: The staff at Atlas Clothing
Best Advertiser Using a Bucking Bronco in Their Ad: Desperauto.com
Best Advertiser Single-Handedly Keeping Pioneer Square Nightlife Alive: "Pub Club"
Best Advertiser Plying Wares to Help You Suffer: Sufferware.com
Best Advertiser Bringing Mummenschanz to Seattle: UW World Series
Best Advertiser Bringing the World's Literature to the Stage: Book-It Repertory Theatre
Best Advertiser Frequently Name-Dropped in Savage Love: Toys in Babeland
Best Advertiser Offering Genuine Shag Merchandise: Rialto Movie Art
Best Advertiser Whose Ads Feature Clowns (tie): Shorty's, and Floyd's Place
Best Advertiser Whose Owner Is Head of the Broadway Business Association and Bears a Striking Resemblance to the Dad on Beverly Hills 90210: Deluxe Bar & Grill
Best Advertiser Who's Been Super-Duper Nice to Us the Whole Time We've Inhabited the Offices above Them: Velo Bike Shop
Best Advertiser Featuring an Adorable Illo of a Dancing Elephant: Phatso Phridays w/DJ Riz at Re-bar
Best Advertiser Who Used to Receive Customers in the Rear: Neighbours
Best Advertiser Named After the Sweet Nectar Produced from a Woman's Teat: Mother's Milk
Best Advertiser Whose Name Successfully Combines Two Great Things: Erotica and Baked Goods: The Erotic Bakery
Best Advertiser Whose Initials Probably Do Not Stand for "Big Moose Grill": BMG Distribution
Best Advertiser Who Apparently Specializes in Offering Resources for Living Abundantly: Abundant Living Resources
Best Advertiser Who Evidently Does Not Outfit the City's Bus Drivers: Metro Clothing
Best Advertiser Named after an Entrance: Red Door Tavern
Best Advertiser Promising Both Tea and Vegetarian Fare in Its Moniker: Teapot Vegetarian House
Best Advertiser Whose Name Suggests a Place Where Cops Can Never Peg a Crime on You as Long as You Are Inside Their Establishment: Alibi Room
Best Advertiser Named after a Clumsy, Canine-Like Disney Character: Goofy's
Best Advertiser Who Is Undoubtedly a Lock for "Best Pizza" in Seattle Weekly's "Best of Seattle" Issue Once Again This Year: Pagliacci Pizzeria
Best Advertiser Whose Name Brilliantly Combines Two of a Geek's Favorite Things--Comics and Dungeons & Dragons--into a Handy Moniker: Comics Dungeon
Best Advertiser Named after Two Animals Indigenous to a Former Penal Colony: Kangaroo and Kiwi
Best Advertiser Whose Name Is Funny Enough on Its Own: The Artichoke Project
Best Advertiser Whose Name Suggests the Escaping of a Wrestling Move: Out from Underneath
Best Advertiser Whose Name Means "Circus of Fire": Cirque de Flambé
Best Advertiser Named after a City Recently Freed from the Tyranny of the Nefarious Taliban: Kabul Afghan Cuisine
Best Advertiser Whose Name Is Brilliantly Simple: House of Pizza and Pasta
Best Advertiser Who Evidently Works from Sunup to Sundown: All Day Productions
Best Advertiser Whose Name Hints at a Cross Between a Beloved Charles Schultz Character and Actress Natalie Wood: Charlie Drown
Best Advertiser Who Resides in a Mysterious Place Called "Northrup": Inn at Northrup Station
Best Advertiser Who Once Housed the Beatles, the Who, and (We Think) the Rolling Stones: Edgewater Hotel
Best Advertiser Named after a Formerly Ethnic New York Neighborhood That Was Mercilessly Seized by Gentrification: Hell's Kitchen
Best Advertiser Whose Name Inspires Visions of Japanese Anime: Girl Bound
Best Advertiser Who Can Count Actor Dan Aykroyd as One of Its Initial Investors: House of Blues Concerts
Best Advertiser Whose Distribution Powers Apparently Stretch Beyond This Blue Marble We Call Earth: Universal Distribution
Best Advertiser Who Houses Urban Outfitters, the Gap, Fred Meyer, Broadway Video, Bulldog News, Hot Topic, Gold's Gym, A Mixed Bag, Amsterdam, B&O Espresso, Blooms on Broadway, Broadway Wireless, Candy King, Capitol Hill Travel, Cingular Wireless, City Hair, Entertainment Works, Fashion Accessories, Full House Asian Cuisine, Gravity Bar, Gyro World, La Batelle, Lady Bug Soap Works, Massage Ship, Rockin' Betty's, Senza Nulla, the Power Company, Ticket/Ticket, Torero's, Uzuri, Yazdi, Zebraclub, and a Liquor Store: Broadway Market
Best Advertiser Promoting a Delicious Seafood Festival: Ballard Chamber of Commerce
Best Advertiser Named after a Hideous Woman Beheaded (And Subsequently Used to Defeat the Kraken) by Perseus in Clash of the Titans: Club Medusa
Best Advertiser Who Kindly Gives Actress Josie Bissett Work after the Demise of Melrose Place: Gene Juarez Salon
Best Advertiser Whose Name Doesn't Appear to Rhyme with Anything: Kavu
Best Advertiser Whose Name Would Have Undoubtedly Been Inspired by Vito Corleone If Not for the Fact That He A) Keeled over and Died in His Garden with a Wedge of Orange in His Mouth, and B) Was Not a Real Person: Vito's
Best Advertiser Whose Name We Always Confuse at First Glance as Being "Intimate Theatre": Intiman Theatre
Best Advertiser Named after a Circular, Glowing Ring Often Residing Atop an Angel's Head: Halo
Best Advertiser Whose Name Forced Us to Look up the Word "Taproot" in the Dictionary : Taproot Theatre
Best Advertiser Whose Name Is a Cunning Combination of Both Its Street (Bell Street) and Its Neighborhood (Belltown): Two Bells Tavern
Best Advertiser Probably Not Named after a Gentleman Named Henry Art: Henry Art Gallery
Best Advertiser Employing a Play on Words: Sufferware
Best Advertiser Offering Teachings in le Cinema Outside of the United States: Vancouver Film School
Best Advertiser Utilizing a Character's Name from The Muppet Show: Scooters Seattle
Best Advertiser Whose Name Strangely Implies a Crumbling Sea Bird: Rusty Pelican Cafe
Best Advertiser Whose Name Rolls off the Tongue in a Particularly Languid Fashion: Pretty Parlor
Best Advertiser Named after an Unnamed Boulevard: Boulevard Media
Best Advertiser Utilizing a Successfully Bland Name to Cover Decidedly Non-Bland Enterprises: Consolidated Bookkeeping
Best Advertiser Named Tim Garon: Tim Garon
Best Advertiser Whose Name Is a Combination of Both a Soap and an Online Periodical: Ivory's Salon
Best Advertiser Whose Name Promises Unlimited Classics: Classics Unlimited
Best Advertiser Devoted to Fighting the Scourge of Unwanted Body Hair: Laser Works
Best Advertiser Whose Name Is Close to the Spanish Word for "House," but Whose Real Spanish Definition Escapes Us: Casita
Best Advertiser Specializing in Pizza Made by Pete: Pete's Pizza
Best Advertiser Currently Grilling up a Storm in Maple Leaf: Maple Leaf Grill
Best Advertiser Promising Food from That Other Coast: Other Coast Cafe
Best Advertiser Suggesting You Take More Than One: Take 2
Best Advertiser Whose Name Describes Both their Specialty as Well as a Major City Where Said Specialty Is a...Well, a Specialty: Sushi Tokyo
Best Advertiser Where a Stranger Staffer Can Be Found Sitting at a Table Reading Proust or Some Other Excessively Highbrow Author (Whom They Really Don't Understand, but Just Pretend To): Victrola Coffee & Art
Best Advertiser Whose Name Sounds Like a Live-Action Disney Film from the '80s: Wild Mountain Cafe
Best Advertiser Employing the Made-Up Word "Zootie": Zootie's Cafe
Best Advertiser Promoting Systems That Sneak Around: Stealth Systems, Inc
Best Advertiser Who Employs a Number of Local Musicians, Thereby Keeping Them Stable Enough to Pursue Their Rock 'n' Roll Dreams: Bimbo's Bitchin' Burritos
Best Advertiser Utilizing the Word "Segue": Segue Productions
Best Advertiser Utilizing the Word "Hat" Twice in Its Name: Hattie's Hat
Best Advertiser Utilizing the Singular Variation of a Word Used in the Title of a James Joyce Novel: Dubliner
Best Advertiser Whose Name Implies a Hustler Fitted to Meet Your Needs: Custom Hustler
Best Advertiser Bravely Surviving the Arrival of That Monolith Known as Barnes & Noble in Downtown Seattle: Borders Books & Music
Best Advertiser Whose Name Implies a Heavenly Bovine: Holy Cow Records
Best Advertiser Whose Name Can Also Double as a Musically Inclined Town: Guitarville
Best Advertiser Offering Hours of Phone Chatter: Livelines
Best Advertiser Named after an Expensive Serving Dish: Silver Platters
Best Advertiser Using the First Line of a Classic Anti-War Song ("Because It's One, Two, Three/What Are We Fighting For?/Don't Ask Me I Don't Give a Damn/My Next Stop Is Vietnam") to Sell Futons: Futon 1-2-3
Best Advertiser Named after Guemes Island: Guemes Island Fishing
Best Advertiser Not Located in Moss Alley: Moss Alley Motors
Best Advertiser Whose Theaters Should Be Easily Remembered: Landmark Theaters
Best Advertiser Named after Terry Hines and His/Her Colleagues: Terry Hines & Associates
Best Advertiser Whose Feats in Human Strength and Coordination Often Leave Us Feeling Bloated and Oafish: Cirque du Soleil
Best Advertiser Named after a Corporation Often Fought by the Rebel Alliance: The Empire, Inc
Best Advertiser Named after Their Address: 1200 Bistro & Lounge
Best Advertiser Also Named after Their Address: 35th Ave North
Best Advertiser(S) Offering Both Delicious Coffee and Delicious Homemade Donuts: Zeitgeist Coffee/Top Pot Coffee
Best Advertiser Whose Name Is Well Beyond Our French-Translating Capabilities: Au Bouchon
Best Advertiser Utilizing the Word "Odeon" in Its Name: Cineplex Odeon Theaters
Best Advertiser Who Specializes in Delicious Beer: Maritime Pacific Brewing
Best Advertiser Whose Name Would Make Karl Marx Proud: The People's Pub
Best Advertiser Whose Name We Like to Utter over and over Again Around the Office, Annoying Everyone Around Us: Pomodoro
Best Advertiser Named After Your Mother's Kitchen if Said Kitchen Was Located in Mexico: Mama's Mexican Kitchen
Best Advertiser Whose Name Reminds Us of a Men at Work Song: Downunder
Best Advertiser Whose Production Capabilities Are Boundless: Infinite Productions
Best Advertiser Whose Name Spelled out Phonetically Is "Dee Dubuyoo Produckshuns": DW Productions
Best Advertiser Offering Premier Soundworks: Premier Soundworks
Best Advertiser Whose Name Is Perfectly Bland: NW Media
Best Advertiser Whose Name Sounds Like a Roger Moore-Era Bond Villain: Double Trouble
Best Advertiser Who Would Be Offering Green Models if Not for the Possessive at the End of the Word "Green": Green's Models
Best Advertiser Whose Name Implies Suffocation: Stop Breathing Pictures
Best Advertiser Whose Name Is Brilliantly Redundant: Soup Daddy's Soup
Best Advertiser Whose Name Includes a Name Shouted out in Agony by Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront: Stella's Pizza & Ale
Best Advertiser Named after a Band Name That Includes Numbers in Said Name: No. 226
Best Advertiser Whose Name Completely Confuses Us: Two Monkey Finger
Best Advertiser Named after a Painful Trauma to the Snout: Broken Nose Productions
Best Advertiser Whose Initials Are "SAFA": Seattle Academy of Fine Arts
Best Advertiser Named after a Scientific Field That Gives Us the Heebie-Jeebies: UW Virology Research
Best Advertiser Named "Otis": Otis Cafe
Best Advertiser Offering Hearing Suggestions You Should Heed: Sound Advice Cellular
Best Advertiser Offering Textiles Provided by Sue Gundy: Sue Gundy Textiles
Best Advertiser Whose Initials We Hope Stand for "Super Tasty Antelopes" (But Probably Don't): STA Travel
Best Advertiser Whose Name, Geometrically, Is Described as Having One Line Called the Terminal Side, Another Line Called the Initial Side, and a Pointed Connection Called the Vertex (Plus a Third Line Whose Name Escapes Us): Triangle Pub
Best Advertiser Whose Name Is Also a Web Address: Mozoshop.com
Best Advertiser Offering Mohawks for the Special Price of $10: Rudy's Barbershop
Best Advertiser Offering Productions of Exquisitely Enjoyable (I.E., Superduperhappy) Quality: Cloud 9 Productions
Best Advertiser with the Name "Shari Altree Advertising": Shari Altree Advertising
Best Advertiser Whose Name Is a Misspelled Beginning to a Popular Children's Joke: Noc Noc
Best Advertiser Apparently Located in a Former Bait House: Bait House Coffee Shop
Best Advertiser Named after Either Its Owner or an Irish Historical Figure Whose Importance We Should Know but Do Not: Conor Byrne's
Best Advertiser Named after a Clever Band Name: First Name Last Name
Best Advertiser Offering a Kick-Ass Jukebox, a Wonderful Outdoor Patio, a Pseudo-Western Theme, and Tasty Drinks and Food: Linda's Tavern
Best Advertiser Whose Name We Often Stupidly Pronounce As "Galaway": Galway Arms
Best Advertiser Offering Both Cool Lasers and Fantasies, Apparently: Laser Fantasy
Best Advertiser Named after a Marketing Term Often Ignored by Those It Was Labeled Upon: Grunge
Best Advertiser Whose Name We Find Infinitely Intriguing: Lifestyles Playcouples
Best Advertiser Selling Records Both in West Seattle and on Lower Queen Anne: Easy Street Records
Best Advertiser Claiming to Make an Impact with the Media (and Obviously Succeeding Since We Are, Indeed, the Media and Are Currently Writing This Here Blurb About Them): Media Impact
Best Advertiser Combining the Words "Disc" and "Makers" Successfully into One Word: Discmakers
Best Advertiser Whose Name One Would Think We Would Be Able to Turn into Something Witty, but Can't: T&S Enterprises
Best Advertiser Who Uses the Word "Adobo": Adobo Taco Lounge
Best Advertiser with a Warm, Patriotic Name: American Friends Service
Best Advertiser Supplying Artists and Craftsmen: Artist & Craftsmen Supply
Best Advertiser Offering Medical Services on Highway 99: Aurora Medical Services
Best Advertiser Showcasing Art on the Eastside: Bellevue Art Museum
Best Advertiser Whose Name Conjures Images of an Evil Comic Book Character: Bizzarro Italian Cafe
Best Advertiser Whose Initials Spell out "BOB": Blue Onion Bistro
Best Advertiser Teaching Massage under the Moniker "Brenneke": Brenneke Massage School
Best Advertiser Using Two F's to Spell out "Cafe": Caffe Vita
Best Advertiser Providing Delicious Food Inside a Large, Colorful, Map-Filled Book: Atlas
Best Advertiser Providing Delicious Food Whilst Dancing: Jitterbug
Best Advertiser Providing Delicious Food Via a Kitchen on the Coast (But Not Really): Coastal Kitchen
Best Advertiser Whose Style Is Elite: Elite Style
Best Advertiser Whose Name May or May Not Be a Play on "In Exile": Enexile
Best Advertiser Offering All-You-Can-Eat Sushi: Nikko's
Best Advertiser Showcasing Smaller Films in Smaller Places: Northwest Film
Best Advertiser Hyping a Fabulous Seafood Fest: Ballard Chamber of Commerce
Best Advertiser of a Brew from Alaska: Alaska Brew
Best Advertiser Whose Business was Founded by Two Brothers: Widmer Ale
Best Advertiser Protecting the Rights of Americans (Even the Annoying Ones): The ACLU
Best Advertiser Currently in Possession of Madonna's Pointy-Bra Corset: The Experience Music Project
Best Advertiser for Straight, Lonely, Drunken Guys: Playboy TV
Best Advertiser Whose Fabulous Museum Bears a Most Prosaic Name: Henry Art Gallery
Best Advertiser Whose Name Is an Anagram for "A Sync Pee Leg Fits": Pete's Flying Aces
Best Advertiser Offering Photo Service to Musicians: Musicians Photo Service
Best Advertiser Whose Barbershop Is a Scream: Empire Inc.
Best Advertiser Whose Name Includes a Neil Young Song Title: Thrasher Presents
Best Advertiser Whose Name Is an Anagram of "Ebb Legume Wring Win": New Belgium Brewing
Best Advertiser Whose Name Is an Anagram of "Bed Goner Who Irk": Redhook Brewing
Best Advertiser Located Across the Street from the Lusty Lady: Seattle Art Museum
Best Advertiser Whose Product David Schmader's Dad Loves More Than Anything: Coors
Best Advertiser Whose Name Is an Anagram of "A Hoisted IV Runny": University Honda
Best Advertiser Willing to Exchange Your Buffalo: Buffalo Exchange
Best Advertiser Who Just Started Advertising with Us but We Already Love: High-Maintenance Skin Care