Best of Las Vegas -- Las Vegas Review Journal

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Thanks for 20 great years

Best of Las Vegas poll celebrates milestone with winners and more winners

There's just something special about being mayor of Las Vegas. The lights. The glamour. Hobnobbing with the rich and famous. Being rich and famous.

And, of course, figuring out how to pull downtown off the ropes.

Sure, the county commissioners may have the fancy-schmancy Strip to brag about as well as its bundle of tax dollars.

But you don't see any of them wiping the floor with the competition in the annual Best of Las Vegas poll. No sir, this year's edition of discriminating picks by Review-Journal readers belongs to Mayor Oscar Goodman. He owns it. Lock, stock and martini.

In this special 20th anniversary of Best of Las Vegas, Goodman cleaned up as Favorite Male Las Vegan, Most Colorful Character -- we defy anyone to argue with that -- and Best Local Politician.

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	Eat & Drink - From the fast and furious to the divine! Hotels - Not sure where to put your mother-in-law? Entertainment - Las Vegas is the entertainment capital of the world! Locations - What?! you haven't seen that from there? Oh, you just gotta... Sports Spots - From roller hockey to Jaia lai, where do you go to play? People - Who's who? Alive or dead... Shopping - What a great gizmo, where on earth did you find it? Best of the Worst- Duuuuuuude!

And that's not all, curious readers picked the mayor as the Las Vegan You'd Like to Know More About. Despite all this praise, readers even chose Goodman as Most Unappreciated Las Vegan. What, you want another category for him to win?

Goodman's hot hand is likely to continue if Jan Jones' experience with the poll is any indication. The former mayor has been a top Best of Las Vegas pick for most of the past decade as Favorite Female Las Vegan. She does it again this year.

There were 1,301 ballots cast this year, down disappointingly from last year's total of 2,651 but better than that first poll 20 years ago when we wouldn't even admit how many we received, fudging by claiming "hundreds." (For you numbers crunchers, our best year was 3,962 ballots in 1998.)

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** Note: A new feature this year for both the print and online poll results is the chance to tell us and the rest of the world what you think about the winners. For the print results, you must click on the link for the write up for each winner before you will see the link to give feedback about the winners. For the online poll results, you will see the link on the results page.