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2024 › Readers › Services ›
Best Animal Rescuers Supporting the No-Kill Message Past Austin City LimitsS.A.F.E. Refuge of Central Texas
... second chance at life and love through their coordinated efforts providing rehabilitation, spay and neuter services, and transports. Their 100% foster-based care system works with skilled trainers and vets to help ...
2023 › Critics › Services ›
Best DeveloperProject Transitions
... Wooten neighborhood, with the goal of providing not just shelter but the wraparound care and services that will make this truly a home.
2023 › Readers › Services ›
2023 › Readers › Services ›
2023 › Critics › Services ›
Best Pet-Sit Pal for Your Pooch or PussHarlequin Pet Services
... – or even a stretch longer? Or your jobby-job requires you to be away from home for extended periods? Whatever the sitch, make sure your beloved critters are well cared for ...
2022 › Critics › Services ›
Best Humanitarians for the HouselessThe Other Ones Foundation
The Other Ones Foundation offers easily accessible work opportunities, humanitarian aid, and individualized case management services for people experiencing homelessness in Austin. The nonprofit, founded five years ago by Chris Baker ...
2022 › Critics › Services ›
Best Unsung Homelessness HeroesSunrise Homeless Navigation Center
... that word has been made flesh at the Sunrise Navigation Center, which helps neighbors without homes access the services they need to be able to find and keep stable housing. It ...
2022 › Readers › Services ›
2021 › Critics › Services ›
Best Housekeeping AdviceVanesa Amaro
Vanesa Amaro wants you to love the home you live in, and not just because it’s good business. When the pandemic made life ...
2021 › Readers › Services ›
Best Tool in the Civic ToolboxAustin's Homelessness Advisory Committee
... city leaders aren't flying blind as Austin makes its dramatic, systematic efforts to flat-out end homelessness. Among their most valuable guides are the members of AHAC, a group of people with ...
2019 › Readers › Services ›
2018 › Readers › Services ›
Home Maintenance/ServicesABC Home and Commercial Services
2018 › Readers › Services ›
Lawn Care/LandscapingABC Home and Commercial Services
2017 › Readers › Services ›
Best Home Maintenance/ServicesABC Home and Commercial Services
2016 › Readers › Services ›
Best Home Maintenance/ServicesABC Home and Commercial Services
ABC restored my faith in handyman services. Fast, affordable, and reliable. But mainly fast. – Kaci Beeler
2015 › Readers › Services ›
... Central Texas for more than six decades and are deeply involved in our community. Pest services are just the beginning: Services from lawn maintenance to air-conditioning installation and appliance repair are ...
2015 › Readers › Services ›
Best Pet ServicesMud Puppies
... you work, then fetch him and a bag of his favorite food on your way home. It's a win-win (or woof-woof) for you both. In the end, the real winners here ...
2015 › Readers › Services ›
... Central Texas for more than six decades and are deeply involved in our community. Pest services are just the beginning, too; services from lawn maintenance to air conditioning installation and appliance ...
2014 › Readers › Services ›
... the torment of summer mosquitoes or the litany of creepy crawlies that call Central Texas home, there’s no love lost between us and them. Lucky for us, the 60+ years ABC ...
Best Service ProvidersAmeriCorps Texas
... Randi Shade and now administered by OneStar Foundation, AmeriCorps Texas does everything from coordinating literacy services to taking care of the homeless in Austin. In 2011 and '12, they joined forces ...
2014 › Readers › Services ›
Best Landscape ServicesFertile Ground
... garden designs and installations that are modern, fresh, and functional. Landscape lifesavers, both for the homeowner and the environment.
2013 › Critics › Services ›
Best Shelter Dog TrainingDogs Out Loud
... yet most loveable of pups and provide “training, behavior rehabilitation, and high-quality care in a home-like environment." They also provide free post-adoption support services. The women at DOL are truly passionate ...
2012 › Critics › Services ›
Best Way To Lay a Loved One to RestSolace Eco-Friendly Funeral Services
... Austin's family-owned King-Tears Mortuary is here to give you an option, a green option: a home service, no embalming, and a chance to lay at rest in a green cemetery surrounded ...
Best Belly of the WhaleThe I-35 Reconnection Project
... people get back to their cars safely, served as a spindly awning for Sunday church services for Austin's Christian homeless, and effectively stitched together the West and East sides. And … ...
Best Lady of the GaysMary English Morrison
This Octopus Club (the fundraising tentacle of AIDS Services of Austin) volunteer is the grande dame of the gays, especially when it comes to ...
Best New Family-Friendly Government OfficesOffice of Child Representation; Office of Parental Representation
Behind the bureaucratic-sounding names of these newly minted Travis County offices is a decidedly down-home community of caring public servants. The offices provide legal representation for parents and children involved ...
Best Bar InteriorScoot Inn
Gold rush funeral home meets Tamale House. What if your great-great-uncle died while you were watching Deadwood, and later, ...
2008 › Readers › Services ›
Best Contractor/Home ServiceTIE: Room Fu, Handychicks
... than adept at nailing, painting, construction, plumbing, electrical, and lawn work. They offer everyday general services while keeping the costs reasonable, the expectations high, and the level of service several notches ...
Best Surprise! We Have an Art Show Here!Austin Area Interreligious Ministries Hosting Luis Abreux
... be tempted to stay and gaze for hours or wish you could take them all home. The local nonprofit gave the honor of their first foray into the art world to ...
2007 › Readers › Services ›
... just pack 'em up and move 'em out. In addition to residential and commercial moving services, they also offer cleaning and make-ready specials, as well as space in their 23,000-square-foot storage ...
2006 › Readers › Entertainment ›
Best Beer/Wine SelectionThe Grape Vine Market
... countries, and you have the stuff legends are made of. Bridal registry, party planning, and home-delivery services round out the bill.
2005 › Readers › Media ›
Best TV ReporterQuita Culpepper on KVUE-24
... reports and the Weekend Daybreak program she hosts. Her stories on Austin volunteerism and evacuee services during the 2005 hurricane season transcended the usual human-interest reporting to show us the very ...
2005 › Critics › Services ›
Best Home Pet GroomingSirfur Mobile Groomer
The affable Barbette Ellis, whose Exmoor Pet Care Services has cared for local pets over the last 20-plus years, stumbled across this oddly brilliant ...
2005 › Critics › Media ›
Best Corporate Acts of CivilityTIE: Grande Communications, AMD
... Grande Communications, the li'l upstart Texas-based communications company providing telephone, high-speed internet, cable TV, and home security, has donated internet connectivity to serve three local public libraries; Advanced Micro Devices stepped ...
Best Unsung Community Hero(es)TIE: Charlotte Flynn, Gray Panthers; Charlotte Hale, Project Transitions
... for people with HIV and AIDS. Through Hale's compassion and leadership, PT and its many services, from housing, to hospice, to the Top Drawer thrift shop, just keep on keepin' on ...
2004 › Readers › Shopping ›
Best Pet StoreBark N Purr
This homegrown pet heaven has been around since 1955, offering organic, holistic, and specialty foods (even frozen ...
2004 › Critics › Services ›
Best Laundry Curb ServiceHome Steam
Like Sonic, but without the corn dogs, Home Steam Laundry sends attendants out to your car window to deliver a smile along with ...
2004 › Critics › Services ›
Best Way to Stay CoolQuality Living Services
It was mid-June and the AC died at home. Not broke, died. We did our homework, consulted the city's Web site, and gathered three ...
2003 › Readers › Services ›
Most Relentless Health Care AdvocateElliott Naishtat
... no surprise that the Texas Lege isn't the most welcoming venue for progress in social services, when the reflexive responses are: (1) We don't have enough money, and (2) We need ...
2002 › Readers › Services ›
Best Home Service/RepairFox Service
If it can go wrong with your home, Fox can fix it. This crafty little company appears on the Best of Austin (tm) ...
2001 › Critics › Services ›
Best In-home Electrical And Drop-off Ceiling Fan RepairKlock Electric
... Alarms, just up the sidewalk. Our experience with Klock Electric, however, is through their terrific in-home electrical repair service. While they cover all the necessary superlative bases to earn this title: ...
... getaway. The Governors' Inn offers world-class service - intimate wedding packages, complete line of business services - in a down-home atmosphere.
2001 › Readers › Services ›
Best Internet ProviderRoad Runner High Speed Online
It doesn't seem quite necessary to flout the services of AOL Time Warner, seeing how we have few other options these days. But readers ...
Best Community ProgramTIE: Meals on Wheels; Yellow Bike Project
Providing meals and services to those who can't leave their homes, Meals on Wheels has proved invaluable to more ...
1998 › Critics › Services ›
Best Collective Services For The AgingAGE Building
... a blur? The AGE (Austin Groups for the Elderly) Building, located in the purportedly haunted ex-home of the Confederate Women's Home at the corner of Cedar & 38th, is now home ...
1998 › Critics › Services ›
... fortunate to have not one, not two, but three operating Time & Temperature dial-up phone services. While all three provide essential information in a pleasant and competent manner, we give the ...
1998 › Readers › Shopping ›
Best AntiquesNest
... you agree? Both of their stores on West Sixth offer a variety of styles and services, seven days a week. The location at 1009 features the prize finds of over 70 ...
1997 › Critics › Kids ›
Best BuddiesThe Reading Buddies Tutoring Program
In 1982, a librarian at the Carver Branch decided to provide neighborhood students with a homework center staffed by volunteers. Fifteen years and several VISTA grants later, the program is now ...
1997 › Critics › Services ›
Best Lube Job, DudeExpress Automotive
"Home of the Groovy Mechanics" reads the sign at their 41st & Red River location but ...
1997 › Critics › Kids ›
This private non-profit outfit gets our vote for the extraordinary range of services it provides to children in life-threatening situations. Travis County's abused and neglected children are brought ...
Best Public ServantDavid Davis
Davis took the title as Homeless Services Coordinator for Health and Human Services, but he left that agency recently. Thank goodness ...
