Best of C-VILLE 2014: Health & Fitness
Best of C-VILLE 2014: Heath & Fitness
Best of C-VILLE
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Best of C-VILLE 2014: Health & Fitness
Best of C-VILLE 2014: Heath & Fitness
Best beer selection 2013: Beer Run
Beer Run 156 Carlton Rd. #203 984-2337 beerrun.com Runner-up: Blue Mountain Brewery 9519 Critzer Shop Rd. (Afton) (540) 456-8020 bluemountainbrewery.com With seven breweries in the immediate area, it’s clear we live in a beer town—and Beer Run is no exception. It’s the one spot you can get it all and then some. At Blue Mountain […]
Best frozen dessert 2013: Splendora’s Gelato
Splendora’s Gelato 317 E. Main St. 296-8555 splendoras.com Runner-up: Sweet Frog 219 W. Main St. 293-7123 Barracks Road Shopping Center 293-1130 Hollymead Town Center 975-3764 sweetfrogyogurt.com Gluttony may be one of the seven deadly sins, but a giant cup of gelato is perhaps one of heaven’s greatest virtues. And not just any gelato. Splendora’s gelato. […]
Caruso Brown: The history teacher
“You can open most any book and read a history of Charlottesville and not get a sense of the African-American presence. Then you hear the oral histories about the thriving communities that existed, like Little Egypt over in the Proffit Road area and many areas here in town where there were five or six streets […]
Kerry Moran: The über volunteer
For the past 14 years, Kerry Moran has volunteered her time to help create high-quality local theater. She designed and produced A Winter’s Tale at PVCC Theatre, performed as an actor in A Christmas Carol for The Virginia Playwright and in the Screenwriters Initiative at the Hamner. She produced and designed Arcadia for Play On! […]
Best place to board your pet 2013: Pampered Pets
Pampered Pets 601 Concord Ave. 293-7387 pamperedpetscville.com Runner-up: All Things Pawssible 706 Henry Ave. 972-7297 allthingspawssible.com According to Guinness World Records, the tiniest dog is a 4″ Chihuahua named Boo Boo. That’s about half an inch shorter than an iPhone 4, so we’d imagine her owner has a pretty hard time boarding her anywhere for […]
Best pilates studio 2013: TruPilates
Tru Pilates 310 Second St. SE 975-3800 trupilates.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 Bum. Derriere. Booty. No matter how you shake it (or stretch it, for that matter), it’s clear that readers go to TruPilates for […]
Best new restaurant 2013: Citizen Burger Bar
Citizen Burger Bar 212 E. Main St. 979-9944 citizenburgerbar.com Runner-up: Ace Biscuit & Barbecue 711 Henry Ave. 202-1403 facebook.com/AceBiscuitBbq There’s currently a radio commercial for McDonald’s in which the narrator says the Big Mac is “the best thing to happen to your mouth since teeth.” Readers beg to differ. The best thing to happen to […]
Best place for music gear 2013: Stacy’s Music
Stacy’s Music Rio Hill Shopping Center 974-1555 stacysmusic.com Runner-up: Heinz Musitronics 2171 Ivy Rd. 977-2797 heinzmusitronics.com What readers know about Stacy’s Music shop is that it’s the best in town. What they might not know is that the shop has been around since 1945, when Carl “Stacy” Monk, the member of a dance orchestra band […]