Creative Loafing Tampa Bay wants you to nominate your favorite local businesses, bands, bartenders, politicians, places and more for the 2021 edition of our Best of the Bay awards.
The three-week nomination period opened today and runs through Thursday, July 29 at 11:59 p.m.
Nominations can be made once within each specific category—People, Places, Food & Drink, Arts, Entertainment, Goods, and Services—and in a break from the past, only the top 20 nominees will move into the voting phase, which happens August 19-September 9.
The Best of the Bay party happens on September 30.
And because Best of the Bay is all about local people and places in the Tampa Bay area, keep nominations local. Non-local nominations will not be included in the voting phase.
To submit nominations, visit botbtampabay.com.
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This article appears in Jul 8-14, 2021.