Brown’s Dry Cleaners 1135 Millmont St. 296-6285 510 Preston Ave. 296-6285 1326 E. High St. 295-4336 brownsdrycleaners.com Runner-up: Skyline Cleaners 2110 Barracks Rd. 970-1004 skylinecleanersva.com What’s the one thing you should always remember before you take your clothes to the dry cleaners? Empty your pockets. In 1975, President Carter allegedly left the nuclear launch codes […]
Brown’s Dry Cleaners 1135 Millmont St. 296-6285 510 Preston Ave. 296-6285 1326 E. High St. 295-4336 brownsdrycleaners.com Runner-up: Skyline Cleaners 2110 Barracks Rd. 970-1004 skylinecleanersva.com What’s the one thing you should always remember before you take your clothes to the dry cleaners? Empty your pockets. In 1975, President Carter allegedly left the nuclear launch codes […]
Express Car Wash Seminole Square Shopping Center 978-1088 express-carwash.com Runner-up: Clean Machine 101 Riverbend Dr. 971-9274 cleanmachinetouchlesscarwash.com In 1987, Rose Royce’s single “Car Wash” topped Billboard’s Pop and R&B charts in the U.S. And no wonder—people get pretty excited to get their whips sparkling like a diamond. Readers say the best place to do that […]
Citizen Burger Bar 212 E. Main St. 979-9944 citizenburgerbar.com Runner-up: Boylan Heights 102 14th St. NW 984-5707 boylan-heights.com In a season four episode of “How I Met Your Mother,” Marshall spends all day trying to locate the best burger he ever had, leading the gang to a hole-in-the-wall spot with a neon red burger sign […]
It’s not difficult to picture a 13-year-old Amy Sarah Marshall standing up at eighth grade graduation, telling her classmates to forego their catty middle school tendencies and learn to love and accept one another. As the president of Cville Pride, and organizer of the city’s first pride festival last summer, Marshall is no stranger to […]
Oasis Day Spa 103 W. Water St. 244-9667 oasisspacville.com Runner-up: Happy Nails 2295 Seminole Ln. 975-1170 The Japanese invented a nail-dryer involving individual tubes for each nail with a hand-held air pump. Creative, but perhaps a little cumbersome when you get down to it. And definitely not luxurious, which is what your winner this year […]
Oasis Day Spa 103 W. Water St. 244-9667 oasisspacville.com Runner-up: Spa at Boar’s Head 200 Ednam Dr. 972-2253 boarsheadinn.com/spa In the Sultan Ahmet area of Istanbul, a “spa”-like experience consists of lying on a marble slab in a sauna while a woman pours water over your body then scrubs you from head to toe. That […]
Mellow Mushroom 1321 W. Main St. 972-9366 mellowmushroom.com Runner-up: Blue Mountain Brewery 9519 Critzers Shop Rd. (Afton) (540) 456-8020 bluemountainbrewery.com Did you know that zebras are technically black with white stripes? If you shaved one, it would be completely black. That’s the kind of thing you need to know if you’re going to succeed at […]
Tango is the dance of passion: a gendered, structured improvisation of impossible closeness with fluid patternings that prioritize expression and intimacy, and the result of the collision of European and American cultures at the mouth of the Rio de la Plata. Maybe it’s no surprise then, that Gloria Rockhold, co-founder of the Charlottesville Tango Society, […]
When Kai Rady came to Charlottesville in 1974 with her growing family, her first real challenge wasn’t finding the right schools or dealing with a picky eater—it was a lack of toy stores. Rady said her first child was a very active and curious infant. “I was always looking for new things to stimulate him,” […]
Bikram Yoga 109 Fifth St. SE 220-1415 bikramyogacville.com Runner-up: ACAC 200 Four Seasons Dr. 978-7523 111 Monticello Ave. 984-3800 Albemarle Square Shopping Center 978-3800 1015 Heathercroft Cir., Suite 100 (Crozet) 817-2055 acac.com Death Valley, the hottest, driest, and lowest place in North America reaches temperatures well over 120 degrees on the reg. In 1913, one […]