As usual, you can cast a ballot up to once a day on your desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile device. It runs through June 2, and the winners will be honored in the August issue of D Magazine.

Take the jump to see all the categories we’ll be asking you to determine. We’ve selected a group of worthy nominees for each, but you’ll also be able to write in whatever you like.

1. What is the best day spa?
2. Which gives the best facial?
3. What is the best place to get a massage?
4. What is the best place for a manicure/pedicure?
5. What is the best sunless tanning salon?
6. What is the best hair salon?
7. Where’s the best place for blowouts?
8. What is the best place to get your eyelashes done?
9. What is the best place to get your eyebrows done?
10. What is the best place for waxing?
11. What is the best yoga studio?
12. What is the best fitness program?
13. Which is the best tailor?
14. What is the best dry cleaner?
15. What is the best place for shoe repair?
16. Which is the best framer?
17. Which is the best stationer?
18. Who is the best calligrapher?
19. What is the best yard care company?
20. What’s the best landscape design company?
21. Which is the best home painter?
22. Which is the best mover?
23. Which is the best closet organizer?
24. Which is the best auto mechanic?
25. What is the best car wash?
26. What is the best veterinary clinic?
27. Which is the best pet groomer?
28. What is the best pet boarder?
29. What is the best caterer?
30. Which is the best for party rentals?
31. Who is the best family photographer?
32. Who is the best children’s entertainer?
33. What is the best children’s art class?
34. Where are the best children’s dance classes?
35. Which offers the best children’s swimming classes?

1. Can we tie in the museum with the canal that Dwaine Caraway wants to build on Main Street? Because if I could ride a nuclear attack sub from, say, City Tavern to Wild Salsa, that would be awesome. I’m in on that plan 110 percent.

2. The Morning News, you might be aware, was started by a fellow named George Bannerman Dealey. George had a nephew named Samuel David Dealey, who sits at fifth on the list of World War II submarine commanders, in terms of tonnage sunk. How do you write a story in the Morning News about a Dallas maritime museum featuring a submarine without mentioning Sam Dealey, aka “The Destroyer Killer“? (Hat tip to Richard Ross, the commenter who pointed this out on the News story.)

3. Finally, will city leaders please stop talking to us like children? Here’s what Phillip Jones, president and CEO of the Dallas CVB said about the museum: “Dallas is a city of big ideas, and this is just one more example.” Stop it! When someone proposes building a museum around a submarine in Dallas, don’t feed us that B.S. line about thinking big. Just say it. “This idea is insane. It’s nuts. But you know what? Dallas is crazy town. We’re gonna get Sean Connery up in here to cut the ribbon, and then he’s gonna pull a Crazy Ivan in the middle of Main Street. Just watch us.”

You know how you have a particular image of a musician in your head? Yeah, this is not what I thought Allen Stone looked like. But his song, “Sleep,” is great, and he’ll be at the Fort Worth Music Fest on Saturday.

Mostly I’m just excited that this is the weekend before the nice long Memorial Day weekend. Let’s get moving.

Friday

How we know it’s officially summer: ‘Til Midnight at the Nasher is back. Wolfgang Puck and his general chokehold on the Arts District forbids you from bringing your own picnic, so your food choices are kind of limited, but do bring your party pants. Air Review is playing, and then they’ll screen Life of Pi. It’s free, too, which means you can splurge on Samar for an actual human-sized dinner.

Meanwhile, if you didn’t make it Homegrown Fest in Main Street Garden last weekend, the Fort Worth Music Festival kicks off two days of bands and beer this afternoon at at the Panther Island Pavilion. Worth sneaking out of work early? Obviously. Our music critic, Christopher Mosley, writes a bit about the fest’s line up over on FrontRow:

The Fort Worth Music Festival quite ambitiously tackles everything from a mariachi act (Mariachi Quetzal); to a New Orleans brass combo (Dirty Dozen Brass Band); to the somehow still hip indie act, The Walkmen. The decision to throw jazz in with current popular music is a respectably risky one, though Fort Worth’s rich jazz history has always given it a one-up on looking down its nose a little at the rest of North Texas. Which is fine with me, since Ornette Coleman was born there, and he should really have an entire jazz and avant-garde festival named in his honor.

Look, all I want is for the Old 97′s to play “New Kid” in honor of my precious Veronica Mars movie.

Saturday

If you are very good at poker, have some extra cash hidden in your sock drawer, and admire murdered United States sniper Chris Kyle and the work he was doing with veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, here’s a fundraiser for you. Poker for PTSD benefits his Heroes Foundation, which hopes to build a gym in a veteran’s association named in his honor. Each ticket gets you food, drink, and a seat at the table.

Dallas Comic Con continues Saturday afternoon, which brings me to a story. In early high school, I adored a lesser known actor named Ioan Gruffudd. He played the swashbuckling-but-morally-upright part of Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower in the circa 1998 A&E adaptation of C.S. Forester’s historical fiction about the Napoleonic Wars. But since not everyone was as obsessed with Hornblower as I was, you probably know him from Fantastic Four. He’ll be around Saturday, along with William Shatner and Nathan Fillion (Castle, Firefly, Dr. Horrible, Buffy).

Online tickets sales are closed, so you have to try your luck at the box office. There’s also a whole area dedicated to small press comics, where you might just find a new favorite.

Sunday

If you’ve ever thought about starting a brewery in the back of your closet, listen up. These 50 or so folks competing in this year’s Brew Riot home brew competition have met or exceeded great fermentations and now all you have to do is drink a bunch of beer, hang out in Bishop Arts, and  judge their craft. This is not hard.

Just to make things even more fun, though, you can participate in the “1.1 Brew Run” before the festival official starts. It’s running, but with beer, which makes me think the running part might be okay. But you must pre-register online for this, because you can’t just show up Sunday for a sudsy jog.

For more to do this weekend, go here.

Help Pouring Into Cleburne and Granbury, Even From West. The National Weather Service now says that 16 tornadoes touched down in North Texas on Wednesday night. Volunteers and rescue workers have poured into the hardest-hit communities. Some of that help has come from West, even as that town continues to deal with its own disaster recovery: “The Church of Christ in West, which has been feeding volunteers and victims since the April 17 fertilizer plant explosion, bagged up 200 lunches — pulled pork sandwiches, chips and cake — and sent them to storm-struck Cleburne in Johnson County.”

Dallas to Get a Maritime Museum. No, our city isn’t any closer to the ocean today than it was the last time you checked (about 250 miles away). And yet an $80 million maritime museum, with the soon-to-be decommissioned nuclear submarine USS Dallas as its headlining attraction, is being planned for a 3.5 acre site near the Trinity River, along Riverfront Boulevard in the Rock Island area. I suppose the proposal is no stranger than the fact that the town of Fredericksburg is home to the National Museum of the Pacific War.

Valued by the green eyeshades at DCAD at a proposed $1.8 million, the swanky home has been listed for more than a month now for $2.9 million. Jonathan Martin, the DSO chief executive, told us the other day that Jaap “isn’t going anywhere,” and we know his contract runs through 2015-16. So, it may just be that he’s traveling so much these days he’d like to off-load the Ritz digs while the market is fairly strong, then move into something less grand. (We’ve tried repeatedly to call the DSO to speak with Jaap, but for some reason no one’s picking up the phone.)

Still pissed that Zac horned in on my photo with Dirk. Total third wheel. Photo by Billy Surface

Reason No. 27 that I love this guy: Dirk Nowitzki says he’ll take a “significant pay cut” next summer so that the team will have a better shot at signing another superstar (like Chris Paul, hopefully). ESPNDallas’ Tim MacMahon reports that Dirk says, “At this point of my career, it’s all about competing and winning. It’s not about money.” Swoon.

But what’s this? An added bonus for those whose only reason in declining to check their small suitcase is to avoid the checked-bag fee:

With the new boarding process, customers who wish to board early before Group 2 can gate-check their carry-on bag at no charge.

You’ll have to pick it up at baggage claim after the flight, but you’ll also get to board early. And just think how pleased you’ll be with yourself, knowing you’re $25 richer.