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...By the letter “B”

B is for bold. B is for breathtaking. B is for bizarre and bygone and brave, it’s true. But mainly, B is for best, because in spite of its blemishes, Charlottesville begets a kind of buoying energy that keeps each of us beholden to its bounty. Nowhere is that more obvious than in the results of our annual readers’ poll, where within the mixed bag of categories—from bars to bookstores—we ask you to boast about your favorite bits of the city. Again this year, C-VILLE has added its own (entirely biased) list of bests, including a bumpin’ grocery store playlist and a group called the Brew Betties. It may have its blights, but we’ll say one thing about our beautiful city: It’s never boring.

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Who you gonna call? These home, finance and beauty experts. Page 113

Weddings

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Best of the Best Ragged Mountain’s enduring impression, page 186. Index Page 165

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The Jefferson Theater Runner-up: Sprint Pavilion

Honorable mention: John Paul Jones Arena An extensive renovation in 2009 returned the Jefferson to its former glory as a stage for famous performers like Harry Houdini and The Three Stooges, restoring its architecture while modernizing the space for a new audience. Almost 10 years later, it still shines thanks to its two full-service bars, sophisticated lighting system and five-star acoustics owing to the high ceilings and sloped floor. Last year saw acts from Tig Notaro to Yonder Mountain String Band to Yo La Tengo take the spotlight. In second place, another venue in the Coran Cap-

MUSICIAN

Chamomile & Whiskey

Runner-up: Erin & The Wildfire Honorable mention: Abbey Road It was over a cup of tea and a fifth of Evan Williams that Koda Kerl and Marie Borgman decided to form Chamomile & Whiskey in the winter of 2011. Since then, the band —which also includes banjo, bass, drums and electric guitar in addition to Kerl’s guitar and Borgman’s fiddle—has released two albums and toured extensively, playing its signature bluegrass folk and earning accolades for its drunken Irish sound to tunesmithing. Erin & The Wildfire, with its rock-soul-funk sound, is this year’s runner-up.

shaw empire: Sprint Pavilion, where crowds love gathering during the warmer months for concerts en plein air.

ART GALLERY

IX Art Park

Runner-up: Second Street Gallery Honorable mention: The Fralin Museum of Art You won’t find placards with explanations of the artist’s vision here. Nor will you feel the need to be especially quiet, in reverence to the work—just ask the kids you’ll inevitably find running around (see Best Kids’ Park). No, IX Art Park encourages more than your typical art gallery allows, because IX itself is pretty darn atypical. It’s not everywhere you find a living jungle gym or a bench made from borrowable books, after all, and that’s exactly

why it takes the prize. In second place, Second Street Gallery challenges its viewers, too, with provocative work from contemporary artists, as well as lectures, tours and workshops.

DAY TRIP

Shenandoah National Park Runner-up: Carter Mountain Orchard Honorable mention: Richmond

In fall of 2017, the National Park Service announced a huge increase in entrance fees. At Shenandoah National Park, that would have meant a $40 bump per vehicle, to $70 from $30. The proposal, however, was met with public outcry and the NPS’ final decision settled on a $5 increase during peak season, ensuring that the 200,000-acre park (500 miles of CONTINUED ON PAGE 23

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Maxine Jones, Donna Tartt, The Rock. What do they all have in common? It may come as a surprise, but all three celebrities live part- or full-time in Charlottesville. Unlike Dave Matthews or John Grisham, however, these stars have remained relatively under the radar in town—until now.

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A founding member of R&B girl group En Vogue, Maxine Jones now spends her days somewhere in the city. Little is publicly known about her residence here, other

than that she lives with her family. Though no longer a part of En Vogue, Jones is planning to release a solo EP sometime this year.

Writer’s retreat Donna Tartt is known for writing instant bestsellers such as The Secret History and The Goldfinch— and for taking her sweet time penning each one. A more under-wraps fact about Tartt is that she drafts her epic novels on a farm outside the city. Like many writers, she tends toward seclusion, but she has been spotted enough times to merit mention.

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The man, the myth, the muscle, The Rock Probably the best-known celeb on this list, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has also had the most trouble keeping a low profile. The wrestler-turned-actor owns an idyllic property here, where he plans to build a private workout space—Johnson was approached by overexcited fans when he tried to visit the now-shuttered Gold’s Gym. This experience was documented on his Instagram, alongside more peaceful photos of Johnson with his horses and fishing.—DG

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TRIVIA NIGHT

Mellow Mushroom

Benita Slater plays to heal

Runner-up: Random Row Brewing Company

On a cool Tuesday morning, Benita Slater is playing a spirited rendition of Glenn Miller’s “In the Mood” outside of the Paramount Theater on the Downtown Mall. A family gathers to watch. With coaxing from his mother, a small boy ventures to Slater’s tip “jar,” a repurposed tissue box, and places a dollar bill inside. “Thank you!” Slater says, beaming, as the family walks away. “Have a good day!” The saxophonist’s mission is simple, and as beautiful as her music: “It’s really just about making people smile,” she says. “I notice a lot of stress around here. People look so sad sometimes, so I enjoy playing for them to cheer them up.” Though Slater may seem like a fixture on the mall, her musical journey has been much more varied than just playing in Charlottesville.

Honorable mention: Firefly There are a few things to know if you want to succeed at Mellow Mushroom’s Wednesday night trivia (besides the answers to the trivia questions, that is, which can range in topic from art and literature to math and sports): First, get there early. The action starts at 9pm, but true players show up by 8. Next, follow @MellowCville on Twitter to get the night’s theme for a team name. And last, don’t forget to order pretzel bites. ...Wait. We don’t need to tell you this—you’re a bunch of know-it-alls anyway. You probably even know that, across town, Random Row’s Sunday trivia night with Geeks Who Drink also keeps crowds guessing.

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“I went to the Peabody Institute for Music,” she says. “I’ve been playing for about 20 years.” Over the last two decades, the saxophonist has played as a soloist and in orchestras for many prestigious events and people, including the emperor of Japan, Slater says. Despite her obvious skills, health and transportation issues have gotten in the way of playing in the city. Slater suffers from multiple sclerosis—she was in a coma two years ago—so she feels lucky to be able to perform at all. Ever the crowd-pleaser, Slater tries to play everything—from Disney tunes like “Beauty and the Beast” to classical pieces from her conservatory days. More than anything, she says, she just wants to make people happy. “[Saxophonist] David Sanborn once said to me, ‘Music is a healing art,’” Slater says. “I think that’s true, and that’s what I keep in mind when I’m playing here.”—DG

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Honorable mention: Tom Morgan (99.7 CYK)

LOCAL RADIO STATION

Hot 101.9

Runner-up: 91.9 WNRN The feather in Monticello Media’s cap (along with honorable mention 99.7), Hot 101.9 hit the Ruckersville airwaves in 1990 and, in the years since, has kept listeners engaged with contemporary pop hits from morning to night. Get a jumpstart when you wake up from the morning zoo—Elvis Duran and company—followed by best radio DJ Kevin Graham (see below) and then “PJ in the PM,” PJ Styles’ afternoon offering from 3 to 7pm. If you turn the dial to 91.9, listener-supported WNRN gives you a little bit of everything, from blues and rock to country and alt-Latino.

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Honorable mention: 99.7 CYK

LOCAL RADIO PERSONALITY

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LOCAL THEATER (LIVE)

Live Arts

Runner-up: American Shakespeare Center (Staunton) Honorable mention: IX Art Park Known for pushing the boundaries of what it means to be a local performance space, Live Arts impresses again this year with its commitment to forging community and theater. With the hiring of its new producing artistic director, Bree Luck, came a vow for the 2018-2019 season to reverse an oft-seen ratio: This year, nearly 80 percent of the productions are written or conceived by a woman or person of color, because theater—like community—should welcome everyone. Over Staunton way, ASC gives thespians an authentic experience, bringing to bear the Bard’s best work in a replica Globe theater.

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Kevin Graham is your guide to midday listening, hosting Hot 101.9’s 10am to 3pm slot. Not surprisingly, he’s also your pick for wedding DJ (see Weddings). Safe to say, the man is pretty immersed in music, and has been for a while: He started DJ for All Occasions back in 2004 and serves couples from here to Fredericksburg. In the runner-up spot, Sherry Taylor wakes up early to play you the hits from 5 to 10am. This includes Impossible Trivia, a segment during which the 25-year radio pro asks listeners questions like “We spend about 18 minutes a day thinking about what?” and “Statistics show you’re likely to make more than $2,000 extra per year if you have what trait?” At least we know where to listen for the answer.

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Paint the town Lee Alter might be the quintessential Charlottesville artist, and not just because she draws at Bodo’s for an hour every morning. Not just because her portrait of local jazz legend John D’earth hangs in her studio in McGuffey Art Center, or because her work has been shown at Hamiltons’ at First & Main for 19 years. Not just because she’s lived here since the mid-’70s. It’s the thousands of locals who have been her students who really bind her to this place. You can’t go into Christian’s Pizza without seeing one of Alter’s fliers for the watercolor classes she teaches to kids and adults. When she’s out, people often approach her with thanks for her influence on their kids’ lives. “They’ll say, ‘You helped her do her own thing,’” she says. Alter seems to have found her way to art, and to teaching, through luck and intuition. She grew up near Boston and went to Northeastern University, where she was continuing her childhood study of dance, when she wandered over to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and walked the hallways of the art school there. “I thought, ‘I’m at home,’” she says. She began making art and discovered, through the praise of teachers, that she had talent. Painter Kaji Aso taught her the loose, wet-on-wet watercolor style that’s still her signature, and she drew and painted on her own when she couldn’t afford to take classes. At age 20, she scored her first art

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show by walking into a Boston café and asking if she could put up some work. By her mid-20s, she was living near Charlottesville and involved with a Divine Light Mission ashram. As the years passed and her three daughters were born, she traveled an artistic path that was intertwined with a spiritual journey—meditation, Jungian psychology, Sufi and Tibetan traditions are all reflected in the large paintings displayed in her studio. One shows the ancient ouroborus, a snake eating its own tail, in an abstracted circle that’s also reminiscent of the Zen ensō—a circle painted in a free, uninhibited way. It’s a symbol of eternal return. “There’s no beginning and no end,” she says. But the walls of her studio reflect personal history, too—the

Though she’s an introvert, artist Lee Alter has been teaching painting classes for more than two decades.

first drawing she did back in Boston, the first drawing made by her daughter Anna Alter (now a successful children’s book illustrator), photos of her grandkids. It’s clear that family is important to Alter. After a divorce, she became a full-time massage therapist to support her kids, and refused a grim prognosis when she was diagnosed with melanoma. “I have kids to raise,” she told her doctor, and after six surgeries, she healed. Around that time—the mid-’90s —she had a dream that contained a message: She should start teaching art, as a way to give back. “I’m an introvert,” she says. Teaching wasn’t easy. But, she says, “it just took off.” She’s been

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teaching ever since, taking an approach that privileges individual vision. “I believe everybody has something artistic in them,” she says. “If you just let go, it can come out of you. Some teachers will say, ‘No, the sky can’t be red.’ I refuse to critique these kids.” After more than two decades of teaching, she is considering a move to Northampton, Massachusetts, to live near Anna and her family. Alter is still evolving along with her art. “Something has shifted and changed,” she says. “I love helping people, helping kids, but it’s time for me to go in a different direction.” She knows she’ll miss Charlottesville. “It’s hard to leave a community like this,” she says. Minus those Lee Alter paintings on the walls at HotCakes, minus the fliers pinned to bulletin boards, minus the kindly teacher in the basement studio at McGuffey, Charlottesville will miss her, too.—EH 27

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Tom Tom Founders Festival Runner-up: Virginia Film Festival Honorable mention: Charlottesville Dogwood Festival A week-long festival around Thomas Jefferson’s birthday (and, coincidentally, festival founder Paul Beyer’s, too) that’s focused on the tenets of the third president —entrepreneurship, innovation and culture among them—Tom Tom introduces to town movers, shakers and tastemakers. Spring 2018 brought legendary newsman Dan Rather to the stage. But the fest isn’t out of mind the rest of the year either. The foundation also hosts Tomtoberfest, a block party in Market Street Park with live music, food trucks and vendors, each September. Taking the silver medal is the Virginia Film Fest, an annual celebration of all things movies, with four days of exclusive screenings and, often, celebrity sightings.

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Downtown Mall Runner-up: Belmont/Carlton Honorable mention: Fry’s Spring Cost of living notwithstanding, the Downtown Mall (and surrounding North Downtown neighborhood, which is what we suspect readers were going for here) offers modern conveniences—a grocery store, a movie theater, coffee shops aplenty—across eight historic city blocks. And is it a coincidence that the best neighborhood is also the best place to discover a doggo (see below)? We think not. Runner-up Belmont/ Carlton offers some of the priciest real estate in the city, but readers say it’s worth it for the creative community, divine dining and walkability to nearby downtown.

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Runner-up: Chris Greene Lake Honorable mention: UVA Grounds No doubt you’ll be delighted to make the acquaintance of Mozart, the friendly Mastiff who turns heads whenever he traverses the mall. Or Roo, the beagle-Chihuahua mix who sometimes shops with her owner at Urban Outfitters. You’ll want to stop and dole out a few pets to labradoodle Jockamo and say hello to Gizmo, the corgi who lives at Blue Whale Books. It’s clear the mall is a spot for paws. Traditionalists might spot Spot at Chris Greene Lake, where he loves splashing away a case of the zoomies.

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Signing up Chances are, you’ve never seen Charlottesville’s most visible rapper. He doesn’t perform much in town and he spends most of his time making music. And yet, he’s all over the city, at the Emmet Street/Barracks Road intersection and on the train trestle at Fourth Street SE. He’s on telephone poles all down Cherry Avenue and on tidy patches of grass on Grounds. Wherever you look, LaQuinn is there. Not LaQuinn himself, in the flesh, but his name, written in bold, black Sharpie on neon green or hot pink paper or on a plastic lawn sign, urging you to visit his SoundCloud page or YouTube channel and listen to his music. LaQuinn Gilmore (who goes by the mononym LaQuinn) has been putting up signs advertising his music for about a year now. He figures nobody wants to look at an ad on Facebook or Instagram—people will scroll right through it—but everyone’s going to squint at an unusual sign pasted to a lamppost near a stoplight. LaQuinn makes every sign by hand (no Xeroxing involved), sometimes with help from his 10year-old daughter, and the two of them put up most of the signs themselves. One of LaQuinn’s friends helps out on occasion, and between the three of them, they’ve hit every neighborhood in town and have spilled out into the county as well. LaQuinn prefers to put up fliers when the city is quiet, early in the morning or late at night—early morning is definite-

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Rapper LaQuinn may not perform much in Charlottesville, but you’ve likely seen him (er, his posters) all over.

ly preferable, he says. It looks less suspicious, though there’s nothing suspicious about his intentions: He just wants people to hear his music. Since he started putting the fliers up, LaQuinn says he’s gone from a few hundred to a few thousand listeners on his SoundCloud and YouTube pages, which to him is evidence that his grassroots marketing campaign is working just as he’d hoped. He loves waking up to see 75 more followers on his pages. “It’s been in me” from day one, LaQuinn says of music. His uncle, the late Johnny Gilmore, is one of Charlottesville’s most storied musicians, widely regarded as the best drummer in town. LaQuinn remem-

bers him tapping out a beat on the table while the kids rapped about cereal and cake. LaQuinn’s music is a mixture of rap, R&B and pop, and he’s constantly putting out new music online. His songs cover a wide range of topics, from love and loss to Big Brother; from how the town’s changing to accommodate UVA students instead of long-

time residents to the importance of raising public awareness of children and teens who are abducted. And some songs are about “just having fun.” This is why it makes LaQuinn sad to see his signs torn down. He hopes that when a flier disappears, it means someone’s taken it home to find his music online, and not that they’ve torn it down out of malice. LaQuinn puts hours and hours of time (and a chunk of cash) into making the posters and the music alike. “I just want people to be more open, more knowledged out here,” he says. It’s why he’s continuing with his signs. “It’s like a huge treasure hunt,” he says, offering up a clue to spot the still unseen ones: Look up.—EO

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IX Art Park Runner-up: Pen Park Honorable mention: Greenleaf Park

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Runner-up: Birdwood Golf Course Scuttlebutt around the green (and among internet threads on the topic) is that Spring Creek might not stay a public course for long, so it may behoove readers who voted it No. 1 again this year to head to the fairways while they still can. The bentgrass course consistently earns praise for its bunkers, conditioning and value. At Birdwood, the par-72 course is undergoing a change as well: In 2017, UVA announced plans to rebuild the site, which was constructed in 1984, and create a world-class facility for the public as well as boost recruitment for the college’s golf program.

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It isn’t just that IX Art Park, that whimsical wonderland of weird and provocative work on Second Street, stretches the imagination —though it certainly does. But the folks at IX also stretch the bounds of what a park should be: a playground with climbables and swing sets? Or a place that puts learning and community at the forefront? IX opts for the latter, with benefits for migrant children and families, nature festivals and even a chance to build a Lego city with a master Lego builder, as per one summer 2018 event. Over at Pen Park, 250 acres gives kids the chance to run and play, with vol-

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Runner-up: Liz Reynolds (Zen Bride Yoga) Honorable mention: Vanessa Schnable (Purvelo) A one-stop yoga shop. That was FlyDog co-owner Eliza Whiteman’s goal when she opened the doors in 2015. Readers say she did it: They visit the studio for power or heated vinyasa, yin yoga and even barre. The class sizes are intentionally kept small, so Whiteman is able to work individually with each student, providing pointers to improve his form. Freelance yoga instructor (and runner-up) Liz Reynolds applies her background in dance to her practice, paying special attention to physicality as well as mindfulness. Lately, she’s brought those sensibilities to Zen Bridge Yoga, her traveling yoga business that helps bridal parties unwind pre-wedding.

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Runner-up: Robin Truxel (Tru Pilates) Honorable mention: Carla Shifflett (Posture Studio) They’ve got a good thing going at Tru Pilates. Between Ellie Tor’s dance, TRX and Stretch Therapy background, and Robin Truxel’s emphasis on helping expectant mothers and those with complicated injuries exercise safely, there’s something for everyone— including those who’ve never tried Pilates at all—at the Warehouse District studio. The company’s group or individual sessions keep them aligned, readers say.

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Runner-up: Justin Goodman (Zoom Indoor Cycling) Honorable mention: Kendall Speno (Zoom Indoor Cycling) At Purvelo, owner Kristin Watson is committed to doing things a little differently. She keeps the lights low, forgoes walls of mirrors and, in every class, incorporates hand weights and choreography, so it isn’t totally about your legs. You can go at your own pace, of course, but as Watson says, the red knob (which controls your bike’s resistance) controls your destiny. At Zoom, co-owner Justin Goodman gets your heart racing and your legs Jell-O jiggly with fun themed rides and once-amonth date nights, where you and a guest get two-for-one pricing and complimentary drinks and light appetizers after class. CONTINUED ON PAGE 49

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with race car driver Johannes van Overbeek in a Ferrari Enzo. “I was scared to death,” he admits. “It’s blindingly fast.” You don’t have to be a professional to drive like hell. “A lot of cars these days are really fast,” says Shreves. He suggests events at VIR —Virginia International Raceway in Alton near Danville—or Chin classes on how to drive on a racetrack. “You can go to these events and pay a couple hundred dollars and drive really fast.” In his youth, Shreves estimates he racked up about 50 speeding tickets, including a reckless driv-

ing charge when he was 15, and took an unauthorized spin behind the wheel of his mom’s car on the way to a race in Lynchburg when a 17-year-old friend was supposed to be driving. “The judge was ready to throw me in jail,” he says. “I was really afraid he would. Now I know you don’t speed in Amherst.” Shreves hadn’t taken driver’s ed at that point, and when he showed up for class, the instructor said, “Aren’t you a little advanced for this class?” Says Shreves, “These days I’m okay with speed limits.”—LP

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Kenny Shreves has had a love affair with cars and speed since he was a kid. That passion led to a career building race cars for highend brands like Porsche, Mercedes and Bentley. These days, he’s driving an Audi station wagon—”What every race car driver should have,” he jokes. “I love Porsches but I drive an Audi.” That’s what happens when you have a family. Shreves used to coown Porsche performance shop Werkstatt on East Market Street and work for an American Le Mans Series Porsche team. Now he’s a contractor for four different race car companies—he headed to Sonoma to work on Bentleys this summer—and is gone more than 200 days a year. As his two boys get bigger, he wants to spend more time at home, so he’s looking for a new local shop space. He still works on street cars, and says DMB’s Carter Beauford has been a client for 14 or so years. In Charlottesville, “there are so many more car collectors and race car people than you think.” Shreves, now 46, was about 20 when he came here to work for another car enthusiast, Edison2 founder Oliver Kuttner, who at that time owned a Porsche dealership. “My first big event was going to Daytona with Oliver and a Porsche that was on his showroom floor,” recalls Shreves. “We said, ‘You don’t have a Daytona car.’ We drove that car off the floor and turned it into a race car.

Though you may see him riding around town in an Audi station wagon, race car repairman Kenny Shreves has a long history with Porsches—he used to work for an American Le Mans Series Porsche team.

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HEALTH & FITNESS NICHE FITNESS STUDIO

FlyDog Yoga Runner-up: Orangetheory Fitness

Honorable mention: Zoom Cycle Among the 30 or so fitness studios in Charlottesville, readers say FlyDog truly stands out above the rest. In addition to traditional and heated vinyasa classes, as well as barre and cardio exercises, the Millmont Street studio offers aerial yoga, during which students are practicing their Downward Dogs and Sun Salutations in a hammock suspended from the ceiling. It quite literally turns your yoga practice on its head. Nearby Orangetheory’s heart-monitored training helps clients burn up to 1,000 calories per hour-long session.

GENERAL PRACTITIONER

Katharine DeGeorge

Runner-up: Bruce Campbell Honorable mention: Alicia Dagli, Annika Abrahamson and Greg Gelburd (tie) Virginia health care being what it is, summoning the gumption to go to the doctor can sometimes require Herculean effort. Then, once you get there, how to tell your provider what’s been ailing you? If you can do the first part—just get your foot in the door—readers say Katharine DeGeorge does the rest, asking the right questions to get you reasonable solutions. Over in Free Union, second place goes to Bruce Campbell, who specializes in family medicine at every step, starting with obstetrics and gynecology.

DENTIST

John Knight Jr. (Spring Creek Family Dentistry & Orthodontics)

Runner-up: Aaron Stump (Charlottesville Pediatric Dentistry) Honorable mention: Jeffery Hodges (Albemarle Dental Associates) “A pleasure.” That’s not exactly the phrase that comes to mind when describing a visit to the dentist’s office, but that’s the kind of review John Knight and his team at Spring Creek keep getting, whether for a simple cleaning or dental implants. In Charlottesville and Zion Crossroads, runnerup Aaron Stump and his team sets young patients off on the right foot (tooth?) with friendly service and fun lessons about dental hygiene, including avoiding sugar bugs so smiles stay nice and bright.

ORTHODONTIST

David Hamer (Hamer & Hamer Orthodontics)

Runner-up: Bart Weis (Charlottesville Orthodontics) Honorable mention: Suzanne Dennis Like any good renovation—even of your smile—it’s gonna cost you. But David Hamer, in addition to fun or helpful extras like theme weeks where staff members dress up, and a shuttle service to the Crozet office, offers complimentary consultations, payment plans and discounts for things like scheduling your appointments between 9am and 3pm. In other words, he really gives you something to smile about. Charlottesville Orthodon-

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OUTDOOR ADVENTURE

Humpback Rock

Runner-up: Sugar Hollow Honorable mention: Old Rag Mountain The best things in life are free, and Humpback Rock—that craggy outcrop near the peak of Humpback Mountain—is no exception. The mile-long hike affords 360degree views of Shenandoah National Park, George Washington National Forest and classic Virginia farmland. Runner-up Sugar Hollow provides a few other sweet spots: 1.5 miles south to popular swimming area Blue Hole or less than a mile north to Snake Hole. tics’ Bart Weis has been aligning the pearly whites of kids, teens and adults in our area for more than 20 years, and takes the No. 2 prize this year.

DERMATOLOGIST

Bridget Bryer (Family Dermatology of Albemarle)

Runner-up: Anna Magee (Charlottesville Dermatology)

Honorable mention: Bonnie Straka (Albemarle Dermatology Associates) Fact: Your skin is home to more than 1,000 species of bacteria. It’s no wonder, then, that every once in a while it acts up—either by developing a weird, random freckle or by going dry in unexpected spots. Whatever the ailment, readers say Bridget Bryer is their go-to doc when it comes to putting their best face (or hair or nails or...) forward. Runner-up Anna Magee and her team take care to rejuvenate, correct and resurface your body’s largest organ.

PEDIATRICIAN

Paige Perriello

(Pediatric Associates) Runner-up: Robert Michel (Piedmont Pediatrics) Honorable mention: Heather Quillian (Northridge Pediatrics) CONTINUED ON PAGE 53

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HEALTH & FITNESS SUMMER CAMP

Triple C Camp Runner-up: Camp Holiday Trails

Honorable mention: YMCA

TRIPLE C CAMP

The two words parents dread the most? “I’m bored.” In fact, that very phrase may be the reason summer camps were invented in the first place. Triple C solves the problem with horseback riding, swimming, a challenge course, woodworking, sculpture, soccer, archery, tennis and more—all toward the camper’s ability to explore and learn more about herself and others. Just outside of town at Camp Holiday Trails, campers with medical needs try their hand at everything from a climbing wall to a zipline.

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HEALTH & FITNESS Hormones, homework, social media—it’s hard to be a kid. And it’s made even harder when you realize that after being a kid comes being an adult. Readers say they trust Paige Perriello to help their teens ease the transition. The Charlottesville native has been practicing at Pediatric Associates’ downtown office for a decade, treating children of all ages for everything from common colds to sports injuries. At Piedmont Pediatrics, Robert Michel monitors your child’s growth and development.

CHIROPRACTOR

Scott Wagner (Scott Wagner Chiropractic & Sports Medicine)

Runner-up: Sam Spillman (Balanced Chiropractic & Physical Therapy) Honorable mention: Michelle Heppner (Heppner Family Chiropractic & Wellness) Certainly if you’re having major pains—no, we don’t mean your kids—it makes sense to see a chiropractor. But a little-known fact is that a chiro can also help with something as simple as a headache (according to the American Chiropractic Association, nine out of 10 people suffer from them). This year, readers agree that a visit to Scott Wagner—who also serves as UVA Athletics’ chiropractor— keeps them in check (and not just because he uses a cool anti-gravity treadmill in treatment). Off Preston Avenue, Sam Spillman applies the discipline learned through martial arts practice to repair what ails you.

OPTOMETRIST

Jaime Easton

(Spring Creek Eye Care)

C-VILLE SAYS BEST SUMMER GAME

Going gaga A class of new ballers emerges While a local community of pickleballers continues to grow, there’s a new sport turning heads in town: It’s called gaga ball, and people across the country are quite literally going gaga over it. This fast-paced spin on dodgeball is played in an octagonal pit—one of which was recently installed in Spruce Creek Park in Nelson County, after oodles of kids started playing it at Rockfish Elementary School just up the road. “My kids and their friends definitely like it, but they’re playing by their own unofficial rules,” says Erika Howsare, a member of the Spruce Creek Park committee within the Rockfish Valley Foundation, which had the pit installed this spring.

For those fuzzy on the rules, here’s how you play: The more the merrier—any number of players can enter the pit, and everyone starts with one hand touching its wall. The game begins when a referee throws a soft foam ball into the center and players scream “GA” for the first two bounces and “GO” on the third. Once the ball is in play, anyone can hit it, but if it touches someone below the knee, the person who was hit is out, and must leave the pit. If a player catches the ball on a fly, whoever hit it last is out, and players may not ever hold the ball. A second ball can be thrown into the pit to speed things up, and the last man standing wins. Then it starts all over. On your mark, get set, GA, GA, GO!—SB

Runner-up: Stephen Record (Drs Record & Record Optometrists)

therapy executive director Kim Starr specializes in treating injured athletes.

MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL

Honorable mention: Joe DiGirolamo (Primary Eyecare) They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. They’re also a window into other health issues you might be experiencing, like diabetes, STIs or even cancer, which is why a regular checkup isn’t only good for getting a new kickin’ pair of frames, but also getting a look at threats to your wellbeing. When you look good, you feel good, and since opening in mid2016, Jaime Easton and her team at Spring Creek have kept you looking the best you can. Off Hydraulic Road, Stephen Record has a keen eye for improving your vision.

PHYSICAL THERAPIST

Heather Walton

(Move Better Physical Therapy)

Katharine Knapp

JASON CROSBY

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Runner-up: Kim Starr (ACAC) Honorable mention: Rodney Madagan (Move Better Physical Therapy) It says it right there in the name: Move better. That’s the goal of each of the Hydraulic Road practice’s orthopedic specialists and, in particular, Heather Walton, who focuses on tension headaches, neck pain, fall prevention, spine rehab, post-surgical shoulder, hip and knee care, as well as TMJ dysfunction. In other words, she helps develop a plan to get you back in fighting shape. At ACAC, physical

Runner-up: William Fox and Chapin Faulconer (tie) Honorable mention: Dan Elash Using expressive arts therapies— think drama, dance, creative writing or sandplay—to enhance counseling and restore balance to one’s mental health, Katharine Knapp practices treating those with complex trauma. In second place, a tie between William Fox, who works with those experiencing anxiety and mood disorders and approaching difficult life transitions, and Chapin Faulconer, who provides therapy in the areas of anger management, grief and loss, addiction and recovery and more. 53

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Lampo

Runner-up: The Local Honorable mention: Al Carbon Good things, they say, come in small packages. And the best things come from Lampo. The pint-sized Neapolitan pizzeria opened in 2014 to rave reviews and since then has set the standard for just plain good food in our area. Don’t get us wrong— “just plain good” doesn’t mean boring. Somehow, the boys of Lampo (including this year’s best chef, Ian Redshaw) know just how to craft a dish—from antipasti to dolci—that straddles the line between familiar and exciting. Sure, you’ll find a traditional margherita pizza on the menu, but you’ll also be tempted by the Hellboy, a permanent special that combines salami and mozzarella with orange blossom honey and scorpion oil. Down the street at The Local, executive chef Matthew Hart serves a farm-to-table menu that showcases the best of the area, from Buffalo Creek short ribs to Appalachia Star greens.

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Three Notch’d Craft Kitchen & Brewery Runner-up: Junction

By the time Three Notch’d opened its 17,400-square-foot space at IX, the craft brewery had already established three taprooms, plus locations in Harrisonburg and Richmond. What it didn’t have, the owners felt, was a flagship location—somewhere that served CONTINUED ON PAGE 65

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Bake news

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If anything can be said for sure about Charlottesville, it’s that the city has a major sweet tooth. The staggering variety of bakeries in the area has made the region a veritable sugary hot spot—but we’re not complaining! Here are some of the local bakeries that truly rise to the top.

What began as a City Market stall serving sprouted-grain, glutenfree and vegan cakes and pastries, such as cranberry pear rolls with carob frosting and berry garnish and salty maple-glazed coconut brownies, took root in York Place last fall, giving more access to those interested in mindful eating.

Albemarle Baking Co.

This Main Street Market spot is one of Charlottesville’s baked goods juggernauts. If you’ve enjoyed bread at a restaurant in town, odds are it’s from Albemarle Baking Co. But that’s not all —ABC also creates luscious tarts, muffins and scones, as well as cakes (including the much-ballyhooed princess cake).

According to Paradox Pastry owner Jenny Peterson, the bakery is a public version of her mom’s kitchen. We’d imagine that, like Paradox, it must have smelled delicious. There’s nothing like walking into the Glass Building spot and sniffing out a delish morsel (or an entire Italian cream cake).

BreadWorks

Focusing on providing a place to work for disabled individuals, BreadWorks seamlessly combines a powerful initiative and a top-notch bakery. Owned by WorkSource VA, the Preston Plaza shop employs disabled people at each level of production.

Patisserie Torres With a name this conspicuously French, the experience of eating one of Serge Torres’ signature pastries (we’re suckers for the madeleines) will send your mind across the pond to Paris. Luckily, your body need only go to the Downtown Mall, where Torres and Fleurie owner Brian Helleberg opened a pastry shop this summer.

Chandler’s Bakery

Sticky buns, donuts, pies, cakes and pastries—Chandler’s Bakery is as pure as they come. Located in a simple storefront in Rio Hill Center, it’s provided made-fromscratch treats since 1992. MarieBette is nearly impossible to avoid, and that’s certainly not a bad thing. Its pastries and baked goods reach every corner of Charlottesville, so it’s never hard to find what you’re craving, be it a pain au chocolat or a sticky bun.

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Quality Pie

This new Belmont spot doesn’t beat around the bush: What you see on the sign is what you get, from handmade pies (sweet and savory!) to espresso and teas. Brought to the former Spudnuts space by former Mas chef Tomas Rahal, the newest addition to Charlottesville’s sweets scene has a promising pedigree.

Sweethaus

For those interested in indulging, but not too much, Sweethaus’ mini cupcakes—in flavors like pistachio, grasshopper mint and red velvet with cream cheese frosting —are just what you’re looking for. Or go for the regular size before scanning the shelves filled with non-baked goods like hardto-find candies.

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Thousands of pies can be found on the downtown shop’s shelves each year, in flavors from triple citrus to banana rum cream. So it’s not surprising that owner Rachel Pennington had to open a second location. The East High Street shop has the same treats we’ve come to expect, but with a bigger kitchen. Translation: more, more, more.— SP 63

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Stephanie DeVaux makes room for dinner Holmes Dinner Club happened by accident. Or, rather, by good fortune. In college, founder Stephanie DeVaux would host small, informal dinner parties for friends. “When I say informal, I mean friends would toss me $10, come over on a Sunday, fill up paper plates from the buffet spread on my kitchen table, sit on my floor and chow down,” she says. The dinners weren’t earning her any money (she recalls that, of a dozen, she turned a profit— “eight whole dollars”—just once), but that wasn’t the point. “Watching people talk and laugh and make real connections over a meal is the most magical thing in the world,” DeVaux says. “Food bridges the gap between people in a really special way.” So, in the fall of 2017, after the company she was working for shuttered unexpectedly, she found herself attending culinary school at PVCC, staging for chef Robin McDaniel at The Alley Light and wanting to further immerse herself in cooking. Holmes Dinner Club, named after the street she lives on, came naturally.

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Holmes Dinner Club started in a less formal setting: owner Stephanie DeVaux’s college apartment.

DeVaux spent a few months developing the first four-course menu, a refined take on childhood comfort foods—PB&J foie gras (whipped foie gras, grape confiture and salted peanut texture) and chicken noodle consommé (housemade noodles, enoki mushroom, herb-infused chicken consommé) among them —and invited friends for the first event in January 2018. She’s cooked a chocolate-themed menu, a spring menu and a traditional Italian meal so far, each one four courses for $65. With only 12 seats available at each dinner, Holmes’ founder might need to start looking for a bigger space. But she says that’s a ways down the road. Besides, she likes the forced intimacy in the small space, and harkening back to Holmes’ roots. “Hosting [HDC] in my home is a special thing for me,” DeVaux says. “Where I usually sit with a glass of wine after a long day is all of a sudden replaced by a dozen people eating, drinking and laughing. Like I said, kind of magical.”—CH

as an anchor for the brand. The new spot, which opened in fall 2017, expands the brewing operations and offers a full German brewpub menu. (Try the pretzel bites, which the restaurant pairs with a beer cheese made with its own 40 Mile IPA.) Long-awaited Junction, in Belmont, opened in late 2017 with a menu of inventive modern Mexican dishes at the hand of celebrated local chef Melissa Close-Hart.

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The Alley Light Runner-up: Three Notch’d Craft Kitchen & Brewery

Honorable mention: Kardinal Hall By now, you know the drill: Peek through the gate down the alley off Second Street SW and, if the light is on, The Alley Light is ready to serve. Once up the stairs, you’ll find bar manager Micah LeMon and his team serving up classics and originals, all with housemade ingredients (think tonics, bitters and syrups) that make each concoction one of a kind. If you’re looking for something a bit more caszh, pull up a yellow stool to Three Notch’d’s concrete bar, where the IX brewery pours its flagship and seasonal brews from more than 40 taps.

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Citizen Burger Bar Runner-up: Kardinal Hall

Honorable mention: Wild Wing Café

Walk into the Downtown Mall burger spot any given afternoon, and you’ll see a full bar of spectators with eyes trained on one of the many TVs behind it, their hands absentmindedly lifting a

grass-fed burger to their lips. Golf, basketball, the World Cup—each goes down better with a beer and an American Classic. Readers say the combo is undeniable. At Kardinal Hall, choose from more than 50 beers on offer and take a seat in front of a big screen or play a game yourself. Kardinal’s home to popular board game Chickapig and an outdoor bocce court.

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Shenandoah Joe Runner-up: Mudhouse

Honorable mention: MarieBette Café & Bakery Bigger is better. That’s true of a cup of coffee and that’s true of Shenandoah Joe’s Preston Avenue coffee shop, which in late 2017 underwent a significant expansion. The resulting design capitalized on what caffeine fiends loved about the old space: a cozy area for lounging and sipping and a large section for the roastery (and the consequent waft of fresh brew). In the runner-up spot, Mudhouse shines with multiple locations, thoughtfully sourced beans and a few national awards under its lid. CONTINUED ON PAGE 67

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Gettin’ crafty The Brew Betties are tapped in to good beer While passing out samples of craft beer several years ago during a fundraiser at Washington Park, Anne Sweazey had an “aha” moment: Women dig hoppy beer as much as men. And based on the conversations she had that afternoon, Sweazey thought it would be fun to drink beer on a regular basis with some of those women. Which is why, in the fall of 2013, Sweazey found herself papering women’s restrooms and area breweries with fliers that announced the inaugural meeting of the Brew Betties, an all-female beer club that’s “committed to furthering knowledge about craft beer through fun and inclusive programming.” To be clear, though, Sweazey wasn’t looking for people to get drunk with at happy hours. The Brew Betties is “not about going out with girls and getting blasted,” she says. The group’s meetups

are educational, such as the Halloween blind-tasting of pumpkin beers at Sweazey’s house, or behind-the-scenes tours of several local breweries. And then there are homebrewing sessions, bottle swaps, after-work gatherings and a dinner, where small plates of food are paired with small pours, and an area brewer explains why certain beers go with certain food. “We have a lot of fun, but we also take it very seriously,” says Sweazey, adding that the Brew Betties are a diverse group of women that ranges in age from mid-20s to 60-something. At any given gathering, you’ll find teachers, nurses, scientists and editors in a room, all discussing the pros and cons of a variety of craft brews. Jenny Whedbee, the Brew Betties’ very first member, says she went to the club’s initial gathering at Citizen Burger Bar because “Why not? I love craft beers. But

when I first joined, I only liked ambers and pilsners. Since then, I have graduated to IPAs, Belgians, sours, Kolsch and stouts— the options are endless.” Whedbee says she also enjoys the brewing process. “It’s fun to do a homebrew with the group, and a privilege to brew annually on the commercial system at Three Notch’d brewery,” which does a collaboration beer with the Betties that benefits a charity. She says Dave Warwick, Three Notch’d’s brewmaster, still calls her “Hot Legs” because she got injured when the hops boiled over and splashed the back of her leg. “It was just a small, superficial thing,” she quickly adds, and says that while the group’s regular events are always a good time, the Betties’ real draw is spending time with “smart, like-minded women” who “are interesting and fun to talk to and drink beer with.”—SS 65

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MarieBette Café & Bakery Runner-up: Bluegrass Grill & Bakery

Honorable mention: Tip Top Whether you’re in the mood for sweet (try the stuffed French toast) or savory (recommended: simple baked eggs, enhanced with just herbs, cream and garlic), expect a wait outside this popular Rose Hill Drive eatery come brunch time. In the few years since they opened, owners Jason Becton and Patrick Evans have turned their bakery, named for their daughters Marian and Betty, into a mustvisit spot for breakfast, lunch and take-home treats. In second place, a longstanding Charlottesville fave: Known for its signature muffinysconey biscuits, Bluegrass also often has a line snaking out the door. No matter: It’s worth the wait.

DRAFT BEER SELECTION

Draft Taproom Runner-up: Beer Run

Honorable mention: Sedona Taphouse It’s not exactly BYOB, but it is PYOB—pour your own beer. Downtown’s Draft Taproom offers 60 brews on tap, with a twist: Serve yourself. Fill up your pint (or take enough for a little taste) with Starr Hill, Champion or any number of featured breweries from around the country, and your card is automatically charged by the ounce. At Beer Run, expect a variety of choices: The popular

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Brews and Bingo Charity games at Random Row get heated “N 33” shoots out of the caller’s mouth and, “Bingo!” Multiple voices shout it out at once, sending screeches through the air as people push their chairs away from their tables with both hands and race toward the prizes. The first one there wins, so a girl in white jeans throws her arms out to block a guy in a blue-striped shirt, who’s hustling behind her in the same direction. Will he break away? Will he take the lead? Nope—she’s faster. And the crowd goes wild! But then it’s on to the next round—and back to near-silent concentration. Betsy O’Brien started hosting monthly Bingo competitions through her events and market-

ing company, Little Bee, at Random Row Brewery in February 2017, and she and the brew crew have been doing it ever since. Ten game cards cost $5, and the proceeds go toward that month’s selected charity, as does $1 from every pint of beer guzzled during the game. “We wanted to do something a little different that helped connect the brewery to the surrounding community,” says head brewer Kevin McElroy. “We definitely didn’t think it would grow to the size it has today. The first couple of Bingo nights weren’t anything like what they are now.” O’Brien says they average about $900 in donations per game, with

nonprofits such as Moms Demand Action Against Gun Violence and Loaves and Fishes recent recipients of the funds. But there’s a lot in it for the participants, too—we assume that’s why the competition is so stiff. A few of the most sought-after goodies that come to mind for O’Brien are tickets to UVA games and shows at the Sprint Pavilion and the Jefferson, an autographed football from Chris Long, handcrafted pottery and countless gift cards, all donated from local people and businesses. And it’s just a downright good time. (We’d be remiss not to mention the hilarity that ensues when the caller says “O 69.”)—SB

The games average about $900 in donations per game, with nonprofits such as Moms Demand Action Against Gun Violence and Loaves and Fishes recent recipients of the funds.

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Tavola

Runner-up: The Alley Light Honorable mention: Fleurie In the two years she’s been managing the wine program at Tavola, Priscilla Martin has enacted some significant changes, not only making the Belmont restaurant’s wine list more accessible and reasonably priced, but reaching out

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Honorable mention: Kardinal Hall to others in the food community to create memorable collaborations, like helping to save an orphaned Pinot Gris from Michael Shaps Wineworks from extinction by bottling it and serving it at the restaurant. Downtown at The Alley Light, local wines take center stage on the extensive menu.

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Special sauces Smoked Kitchen and Tap

in Crozet sells a variety of homemade barbecue sauces, such as Carolina Firewater, Sweet Virginia Blackberry and Low Country Mustard, each a delicious way to top off your own grilled masterpiece.

To fool your guests into thinking you’re an expert saucier, or simply to enjoy your favorite restaurant flavors on a night in, these offerings from local eateries let you effortlessly recreate the culinary magic at home.—LM

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one of its in-house pasta sauces available to take home, from amatriciana to vodka cream. Manager Christa Smith says the marinara may be the most versatile—she puts it on everything.

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Feast! jars its housemade pickled cauliflower and curtido (El Salvadoran pickled vegetables, above right) and dressings such as lemon tahini (left), as well as salsas and spreads. Manager Jenn Spofford says the Green Goddess dressing (above) is a customer favorite, though she’s partial to the Queso Dip, surprisingly great on a baked sweet potato.

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Tap topper goes wild Some call her Esmeralda and some just call her Piggy, but either way, the folks at Livery Stable are happy to have her back. For it wasn’t long ago that this little swine took the trip of a lifetime, stolen from her home atop a tap at the bar and lugged to cities and countries across the continental United States and beyond, at the hands of two folks named Ben and Reina.

“I have no idea who these people are,” says owner Ian Dugger, while turning over a scrapbook titled Esmeralda’s Epic Adventure. That’s right—not only did two drunken youngsters steal her from the bar and tote her to five different continents, but they documented it along the way, and eventually gave her back with a scrapbook detailing the journey—a piggy passport, if you will. According to the scrapbook, Esmeralda started her vacation in Charlottesville, dropping by

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lorca,” and later snuggled up to Reina in Casablanca. And this barely scratches the surface. You might wonder how it happened. How could the folks at Livery let such a prized possession out of their sight? “If you know my bartenders like I know them, everything is possible,” says Dugger. Don’t believe us? You can drop by the bar to peruse the book for yourself, but we’re warning you: It’s for mature audiences only. (The porker might’ve done a thing or two she was ashamed of the next morning.)—SB

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the window. Whether you’re under the pergola or at a table beneath one of the brightly colored umbrellas (or, if you’re really trying to soak up some Vitamin D, down by the cornhole boards), readers say the Afton brewpub is the place to be. Back in town at IX, Brazos’ Austin-style tacos make the perfect companion to fresh air and sunshine.

BARTENDER

Micah LeMon

(The Alley Light) Runner-up: Brett Harder (The Whiskey Jar) Honorable mention: Josh Stevens (Jack Brown’s Beer & Burger Joint) No surprise here: You’ll find the best bartender behind the best bar. Micah LeMon’s been back there since the restaurant opened in 2014 and has taken this title each year since. Readers know he’s the local authority in everything from classics to inventive tiki drinks—and the go-to mixologist when it comes to helping you discover a new favorite. Down the street at The Whiskey Jar, Brett Harder pours from the restaurant’s list of 125+ ryes, whiskeys, bourbons and scotches, and then there’s the menu of craft cocktails.

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by award-winning cheesemongers; a homemade lunch menu of inventive sandwiches and salads. The list of reasons locals love Feast! is almost as long as its list of accolades. For 16 years, the Main Street Market shop has made readers believers in shopping (and tasting) local. Off Ivy Road, Foods of All Nations stocks imported and domestic fare, plus a deli counter with specialty meats like head cheese or Lachsschinken, a dry-cured pork loin that takes on the flavors of salmon when aged.

LOCAL WINERY

King Family Vineyards Runner-up: Pippin Hill Farm and Vineyards Honorable mention: Barboursville Winery Is it the view of the Blue Ridge Mountains? Is it Sunday polo matches? Is it the selection of wine, finely tuned by winemaker Matthieu Finot? Our best guess, it’s all of these things that keeps readers excited to try any and all of the Crozet winery’s creations. In second place, Pippin Hill’s six acres makes boutique wines from sauvignon blanc, petit verdot and viognier grapes, which the kitchen pairs with its celebrated farmto-table menu.

LOCAL BREWERY

Honorable mention: The Pie Chest

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Honorable mention: Devils Backbone Brewing Company Harrisonburg, Richmond, Charlottesville and, soon, Roanoke? When readers choose Best Local Brewery, they choose one they’ll be able to visit—no matter how far they roam (except Rome)—for APAs, IPAs, sours and then some, each in the brew house’s signature rustic-industrial space. Up Route 151, Blue Mountain boasts 10 beers on tap and a robust menu with burgers, pizzas and sandwiches galore.

LOCAL CIDERY

Bold Rock Hard Cider

Runner-up: Potter’s Craft Cider Honorable mention: Albemarle CiderWorks Make it all the way to the summit of Mount Bold Rock, an 801.5foot elevation (don’t worry, it’s just a ramp from the parking lot to the front door), and you’ve earned a cold Virginia Apple. Or, if you prefer, one of the Nellysford cidery’s seasonal offerings—blackberry, blood orange or even rosé, which debuted in early 2018. City-side, find runner-up Potter’s Craft at its Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative tasting room and cider garden, and get your hands on a glass of grapefruit hibiscus or Farmhouse Dry.

BAKERY

MarieBette Café & Bakery Runner-up: Albemarle Baking Co. Honorable mention: Chandler’s Bakery

First came the brioche feuilletée (aka the bronut, a hybrid of bri-

oche, donut and croissant, which earned mentions in Food & Wine and on Thrillist), then the prezzant (part pretzel, part croissant). There’s no telling what the French bakery will come up with next, but we’re happy to keep eating financiers in the meantime. Runner-up ABC charms with beautiful tarts, pastries and breads (not to mention the baked donuts —an impossibly fluffy-yet-dense confection generously dipped in sugar).

THAI

Monsoon Siam

Runner-up: Thai 99 II Honorable mention: Thai Cuisine & Noodle House When Monsoon co-owner Kitty Ashi arrived in the United States in 2006, she had just $500 to her name. Hard work (and a partnership with a friend from art school) eventually grew that to $20,000, which enabled her to buy Monsoon and turn it into Charlottesville’s best Thai restaurant. It might even be Madison, Wisconsin’s best restaurant, too: In 2014, the business partners opened a second (remote) location. Thai 99 II up 29N nabs the runner-up spot with traditional favorites and specialty dishes like crispy duck and volcano chicken.

INDIAN

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from biryani to vindaloo, but by all accounts, Milan’s lunch buffet is where the magic happens. First, two words: unlimited naan. Ordering the buffet comes with stacks on stacks of hot, fluffy naan right to the table. Next, vegetarianfriendly. Choose a pakora, paneer or a side of salad from the salad bar. Finally, dessert: Skip the mango lassi and indulge in Indian custard and rice pudding (also on the buffet) instead. In second place, Himalayan Fusion’s $9 lunch spread gives downtown diners a taste of Indian, Nepalese and Tibetan cuisine.

FRENCH

Fleurie

MEXICAN

Runner-up: MarieBette Café & Bakery

Guadalajara Honorable mention: Continental Divide “Mexican food by Mexican folks,” the Guadalajara entry in C-VILLE’s dining guide has read for years. And you’d think it wouldn’t get much better than that, except that each of the restaurant’s four locations offers margs the size of a small fish bowl, complimentary chips and salsa to start and no one blinks an eye when you roll up with seven friends and spend the whole meal cackling over inside jokes ( just us?). Runner-up La Michoacana earns your vote with traditional Mexican tacos, the kind Anthony Bourdain might have raved about—just meat, onion, cilantro and lime, served in a hole-in-the-wall spot off East High Street.

JAPANESE

Now and Zen Runner-up: Ten

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The downtown-adjacent sushi spot from former Tokyo Rose chef Toshi Sato may be the size of a postage stamp (or, say, the size of a sushi roll?), but it packs a lot of flavor. Take, for instance, the crunch roll, a combo of tempura shrimp, avocado and crab stick, covered in tempura flakes with a side of eel sauce, or even the regular special blue crab miso soup, which includes half a crustacean in the salty broth. Runnerup Ten wows year after year with upscale Japanese dishes and popular cocktails.

ITALIAN

Tavola

Runner-up: Lampo Honorable mention: Travinia Italian Kitchen & Wine Bar Next year, Tavola will celebrate its 10-year anniversary, and with it comes a number of greatest hits

COMFORT FOOD

Riverside Lunch Runner-up: BBQ Exchange

Honorable mention: Jack Brown’s Beer & Burger Joint To be considered true comfort food, experts (i.e. this writer) agree a dish must have two things: It must be warm (extra points if there’s a bit of grease involved) and it must be served somewhere without a hint of pretension. Riverside’s burgers— smashed, fried and served all the way, on a paper plate—hit the spot every time. Gordonsville barbecue spot BBQ Exchange checks both boxes, too, with a menu of Southern staples out of its barn-inspired interior.

When Jose de Brito—the former Alley Light chef whose other local highlights include HotCakes and Ciboulette—left town to pick up an apron at the Inn at Little Washington, locals thought that might have been the last we’d hear of him. But when he returned in 2017, he landed right where he belongs: In the kitchen at Fleurie. A Charlottesville fine-dining standard-bearer, the downtown restaurant takes the win for its romantic atmosphere, beautiful plating and exquisite tasting menu. In second place is Euro-inspired MarieBette, where you can find Parisian treats from baguettes to pain au chocolat.

CHINESE

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It’s hard to mention Peter Chang China Grill without using the word “elusive”—for so long, its namesake chef was difficult to pin down, having moved from Fairfax to Georgia to Tennessee and then some. By the time he opened Peter Chang China Grill in Barracks Road North Wing in 2011, though, the jig was up: A preview of his award-winning skills at 29N’s Taste of China had already left diners anticipating the menu to come. Though Chang’s long gone, having opened seven more eponymous spots elsewhere in as many years, the Szechuan specialties at PCCG have been hard to top. In second place, Red Lantern is your choice for no-frills Chinese fare and reliable delivery.

STEAK

Downtown Grille Runner-up: Aberdeen Barn Honorable mention: The Local JEFFREY GLEASON

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Oakhart Social Runner-up: Fleurie

Honorable mention: Bang! With a menu that’s rave-worthy from top to bottom (the Brussels sprouts! the wangz! the wood-fired oysters!), it’s almost a shame to call out Oakhart for its desserts alone. But the work chef Tristan Wraight and his team at Oakhart are doing for our sweet tooths (sweet teeth?) is certainly as noteworthy as the rest of the menu. Take, for instance, the uber-popular bread pudding, which is essentially a deconstructed s’more: A smear of chocolate pudding coats the plate and is accompanied by generous, lightly torched dollops of marshmallow, pillowy squares of bread and a few handfuls of puppy chow. At Fleurie, pastry chef Serge Torres creates French dinner-enders that are not only stunning in flavor, but almost—we said almost!—too pretty to eat. 78

Even as new trends continue to pop up across the local dining scene, a great steak, we’d contend, never goes out of style. Around these parts, readers say the Downtown Grille, with its prime menu of ribeyes, strips and filets, is your pick for a classic Tbone and martini. Runner-up Aberdeen Barn has been cooking your Angus steaks and roast prime rib to perfection—over a charcoal hearth, no less—since 1965.

VEGETARIAN-FRIENDLY

Revolutionary Soup Runner-up: Roots Natural Kitchen

Honorable mention: Brazos Tacos The Three Sisters soup, the Roquefort salad, the black bean and spinach wrap: Whatever your pleasure, readers agree Revolutionary Soup satisfies any number of meatfree cravings from both its downtown and Corner locations. And, in 2017, the restaurant re-introduced its poetry discount: Recite five lines from the work of a featured poet and get 10 percent off your order. On West Main Street, Roots offers a customizable salad bowl menu for even the pickiest of palates.

DIETARY- OR ALLERGYFRIENDLY

The Juice Laundry Runner-up: Burtons Grill

Honorable mention: Brazos Tacos It’s easy to be dietary-friendly when your ingredients are 100 percent pure and 100 percent organic, as they are at The Juice Laundry. The Preston Avenue smoothie bar serves an impossibly delicious (sprouts, parsley, cilantro, jalapeño? We’ll never know why that works), all-natural menu of cold-pressed juices, bowls and cleanses to help you meet your daily nutrition requirements. Allergy-friendly chain Burtons Grill accommodates guests with specific restrictions (peanuts, gluten and then some) with an accessible menu and strict prep protocols.

KID-FRIENDLY

Dr. Ho’s Humble Pie Runner-up: Brazos Tacos

Honorable mention: Tip Top Don’t chew with your mouth open, don’t eat with your elbows on the table—there are so many rules for kids come dinnertime. But even Emily Post knows that eating pizza with your hands is not only acceptable, it’s part of the experience (no foolin’, she says it’s A-okay). Dr. Ho’s gives families a reason to dig in, from cheeseburger pizza to the classic Humble Pie. Over at IX, youngsters grab a few Brazos tacos, then go play in the nearby grassy field while their parents sip a watermelon marg.

FRIED CHICKEN

Wayside Fried Chicken Runner-up: Michie Tavern

Honorable mention: Ace Biscuit & Barbecue In 2014, Malcolm Gladwell posed a theory that in order to become an expert in something, you need to have done that thing for 10,000 hours. That would explain, then, why Wayside is our area’s standard-bearer for crispy, juicy, classic fried chicken: The JPA spot has been serving its ole Virginia version for more than 50 years (translation: more than 100,000 hours). At historic Michie Tavern, try anything on the buffet of Southern staples— mashed potatoes, mac ‘n’ cheese, stewed tomatoes—but don’t skimp on the yard bird, baked or fried.

BURGER

Citizen Burger Bar Runner-up: Riverside Lunch Honorable mention: Jack Brown’s Beer & Burger Joint

You pledge allegiance to the grassfed beef on the patty of Citizen’s burgers, and to the Albemarle Baking Co. bun on which it stands, one lunch special under a fried pickle, with mushrooms and Swiss cheese for all. In the runner-up spot, Riverside’s double cheeseburgers never diminish in your estimation.

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Judith Gary, Director Treble and High School Choruses Auditions: September 15, 16, 22, 23 For information: 434-244-8444 or virginiaconsort.org

Donna Rehorn, Director Fall Auditions: September 5-29, 2018 First Step Choir, grades K-3 Prelude Choir, grades 4-7 For information: 434-975-1077, virginiaconsort.org, or firststepprelude@gmail.com

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Lampo Runner-up: Dr. Ho’s Humble Pie Honorable mention: Christian’s Pizza “Now who ever heard of cutting pizza with scissors?” you can hear your grandmother say. Of course, Lampo isn’t your grandmother’s pizza place...unless your grandmother’s Italian. The Neapolitan joint has been officially certified for authenticity by the Associazione Vera Pizza Napoletana, which means it meets requirements for ingredients, cook time and temperature set forth by the Italian organization. It also, say readers, meets requirements for best pizza in the land. Over in North Garden, Dr. Ho’s takes a more Southern approach, with specialty pies and create-your-own concoctions.

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Holding ground Sally Hemings tribute gives rise to biscuit speculation geist, at the time, to sweep “the whole Hemings business” under the rug. For Rucker, “The art is saying that Sally Hemings is an authentic American historical figure, more so than Jefferson’s wife, Martha Jefferson, who was just a Virginia aristocrat who married another Virginia aristocrat,” says Adeboye. “Sally Hemings, of course, is African and making the best of

First developed in plantation kitchens from a British crackerlike version, the American biscuit is deeply rooted in Southern culture. Recently determined by a local food blog to be Charlottesville’s signature food item, homages to the flaky round are everywhere in our town, including an enigmatic storefront in the Belmont neighborhood. Delineated by a mural that reads “Tom & Sally Tin of Southern Biscuits,” the spot offers a lot to digest. The painting, by artist Bolanle Adeboye, shows a determinedlooking Sally Hemings eye-to-eye with the nickel profile of Thomas Jefferson against the iconic silhouette of Monticello, in the

a horrible situation with dignity. And the ‘tin of Southern biscuits’ is a can of worms that Monticello unwillingly will acknowledge when forced to.” There’s been a lot of salivating over the prospect of actual biscuits in the former Pantheon space, but Rucker says Tom & Sally was never a serious business idea. Even so, it offers us plenty of food for thought.—TK

“Sally Hemings is an authentic American historical figure.” BOLANLE ADEBOYE

orange and blue color scheme of Mr. J’s university. Adeboye painted the image years ago when her friend and creator of Pantheon Popsicles, James Rucker, was riffing on the idea of a new business and commissioned it as a logo design. “The initial idea dates back to a popsicle he used to make called the Tom & Sally that was expressly forbidden to be served at a Monticello function,” says Adeboye. “So when he was thinking about a line of biscuits, he approached me and asked me to design him something prominently featuring Sally.” Rucker hoped the art would counteract what he thought was an attempt by the zeit-

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Honorable mention: Downtown Grille Would it be considered a missed opportunity dining at a place where the plates are small and the cocktails plentiful? No, say readers. That’s just what you want when you’re out with your company’s head honcho. Whether you’re getting a raise or getting berated, everything goes down a little smoother with barkeep Micah LeMon’s classic Manhattan. Hamiltons’ keeps it classy with reliable service and the ever-popular Blue Plate Special (or, if you’re really going for it, may we recommend the crab cakes?).

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Porkapolooza Runner-up: Taste of Monticello Wine Trail Festival Honorable mention: Know Good Beer Festival There’s a date in mid-February that gives us the warm-fuzzies. The world turns pork, er, pink and there’s love and hope in the air again. ...Or is that the smell of smoking pig? We don’t mean Valentine’s Day (though love is certainly involved): Come rain or shine, BBQ Exchange’s annual Porkapolooza is February’s best day, readers say. Each year, chef Craig Hartman presents an allyou-can-eat menu for those willing to belly up to the Gordonsville restaurant for an $18 entrance fee. Monticello’s Wine Trail fest in May gives locals a sip of the AVA, with winemaker dinners, winery tours and a grand tasting event.

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Honorable mention: Feast! In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, The Bard writes, “If music be the food of love, play on.” Pardon us, Bill, but we’d wager you’ve never tried a MarieBette baguette. Or an almond croissant. Or any number of things on the Rose Hill Drive patisserie’s menu. If you had, you’d know that baked goods are the food of love. They’re the great equalizer. Who cares who you’re into, as long as you love butter, sugar and flour? At Firefly, all are welcome to knock back a few local brews on draft or try their hand at a game of pinball.

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HomeGoods Runner-up: Circa Honorable mention: The Habitat Store Sometimes the best plan you can have is no plan at all, and that works out well for readers, who say that HomeGoods—that 29th Place mecca for pillows, pitchers, rugs and rustic outdoor furniture—is their go-to spot for a room refresh, even if they don’t exactly know which direction to go just yet. French country? Modern glam? The décor chain en-

courages keeping your options open. In McIntire Plaza, browsing Circa’s 10,000 square feet will always turn up a treasure.

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Darling Boutique

Runner-up: ReThreads Honorable mention: Kid to Kid The secret to Darling owner Linnea White’s success? Besides a major sense of style (and consequently stylish inventory from clothing to locally made accessories), we’d wager it’s social media. The downtown shop owner shows off her #darlingfinds @ shopatdarling on Instagram, as well as co-founded @bossbabes cville, a collective of local female business owners and entrepreneurs. Speaking of, Melissa Meece’s ReThreads takes the second place spot with her robust collection of new-to-you pieces in McIntire Plaza.

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When the weather’s nice on a Saturday morning, Spot Etal sits on the raised stone wall between Second Street Gallery and the Dewberry Hotel skeleton on Second Street SE, within earshot of the City Market, surrounded by a variety of handmade buttons clipped to brightly colored pieces of felt. Spot Etal (i.e. “et. al.,” meaning “and others”) is, well, simple to spot, wearing a fool’s cap easily mistaken for a wizard’s hat. There’s a lot of symbolism in the cap: its tall, conical shape representing a flow of mysterious powers through a conduit, for instance. Spot Etal is a self-defined left-wing activist and anti-capitalist, a revolutionary who seeks to educate people on, among other things, the

warning signs and dangers of fascism. Hence the buttons, which Spot Etal draws and makes by hand and offers for free (though monetary donations are accepted). “Resist!” reads one button with a drawing of a raised, clenched fist. “Wisdom finds bridg-

es where ignorance builds walls,” reads another. One button shows an elephant wearing a Nazi armband—red, with a black swastika within a white circle—next to the words, “The elephant is in our living room.” Another is a drawing of a straw poking through a globe that reads “One use plastic poisons the Earth.” While the buttons—as well as the refrigerator magnets and purse mirrors—do plenty of talking, Spot is more than happy to chat, too. Making eye contact and having a conversation is important. “I believe we can develop certain awareness [of others by] just acknowledging other people with a smile, a nod,” Spot says. “It helps establish a connection.”—EO 95

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Runner-up: Kid to Kid Let’s be honest: Kids grow at such a rapid pace that what fits little Bowen-Arrow this week might not fit her in a few more, which is why readers refuse to pay more than a pocketful of loose change to outfit her in the latest trends. Old Navy, you say, is the go-to spot. The Barracks Road chain offers deep—and frequent—discounts on everything from onesies to knock-off Vans. At consignment chain Kid to Kid, parents stock up on everything their little one needs, cribs, clothes, toys and hair accessories included.

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If we picture our former grocery store as a paramour, we can imagine that the day we left it behind for Wegmans was a tough one: We’re sorry, baby. It’s not you; it’s just that Wegmans makes it so

When Market Street Wineshop owner Robert Harllee announced in early 2018 that he was selling his downtown shop, local oenophiles shuddered to think that the charming store, with its Friday tastings and local bread and cheese offerings, might be lost forever. But true fans knew better: New owners and longtime employees Sian Richards and Thadd McQuade wouldn’t fix what wasn’t broke. They did make a few minor adjustments: Now called Market Street Wine, the store boasts new floors and a rearranged shelving system. Over at Wegmans, shoppers choose booze from all over the world. What pairs with kale-and-quinoa cakes?

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Woe that good service is so missing from the modern-day shopping experience that a trip to The Men’s & Boy’s Shop feels like traveling back through time, but that’s part of its charm. The Downtown Mall store prides itself on attentiveness, consideration of details and reliability. And, if that’s not enough, the shop offers free alterations for the life of the suit you buy. In Barracks Road Shopping Center, runner-up Jos. A. Bank stocks suits, separates and design-your-own pieces.

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SHOPPING easy to, like, be myself, y’know? Like my true self, the one who feels like Marathon bread is its own food group, and who doesn’t like chopping up veggies to make a mirepoix. We’ve had a really good run, but I just need to see where this goes. Of course we’d never say that to Trader Joe’s, though, which comes in second for its Everything But The Bagel seasoning and affordable wine section (among other things).

INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE

New Dominion Bookshop

Runner-up: Blue Whale Books Honorable mention: Read It Again Sam The oldest independent bookseller in Virginia (the shop opened in 1924 and moved to its current spot on the Downtown Mall, a former shoe store, in 1926), New Dominion carries on a decadesold tradition of matching reader to reading material. Owner Julia Kudravetz does so by hosting regular events and continuing a tradition of thoughtfully curating the store’s collection of fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature and informative coffee table books. A few blocks down, at Blue Whale, find tomes on Thomas Jefferson, Virginia history and architecture, including rare hardcovers.

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O’Suzannah Runner-up: The Virginia Shop Honorable mention: Rock Paper Scissors Since 1996, shop owner Suzannah Fischer has been stocking her shelves with a playful, joyful

C-VILLE SAYS BEST PLACE TO BUST A SHOPPING CART DANCE MOVE

Super(fly) market Wegmans plays that funky music Ever since Wegmans opened at 5th Street Station in November 2016, word on the street has been that the music pumped through the overhead speakers is not only pretty good, it’s downright funky. So, who’s responsible for choosing the tunes that make shoppers feel like they could bust a move in the cereal aisle like it’s the “Soul Train” catwalk? Wegmans subscribes to a variety of pre-fab music playlists (similar to Muzak, or a themed Pandora channel), and each store manager picks what to play in his store. Charlottesville Wegmans manager Chris De Pumpo usually chooses a ’70s classics station, so he’s the one to thank as you shake your booty while you shop.—EO array of, well, just about everything you might want (or want to give)—scarves, candles, soaps, jewelry dishes, jewelry!, purses, books, stationery, figurines— each display after the next arranged by color to delight (if not mesmerize) you. To expand on her downtown shop’s offerings, in mid-2018, Fischer opened O’Suz For Littles on Second Street NE, so finding something for your best friend’s new baby is as easy as snapping a onesie (even easier, probably, if you factor in the squirming). Across town at The Virginia Shop, snag a postcard depicting Monticello or a tin of real Virginia peanuts.

NURSERY/GARDEN STORE

Ivy Nursery

Runner-up: Fifth Season Gardening Honorable mention: Snow’s Garden Center Owners Clare and George Carter have spent the last 43 years cultivating such a beautiful scene at their shop off Ivy Road that even novice gardeners feel compelled to give it two black thumbs up. The landscape architects opened the store shortly after graduating from UVA with three goals in mind: provide the freshest, most

the cutest, sweetest, smooshiest wittle wub-wub face can be a drain on the finances, not to mention—gasp!—kind of an inconvenience sometimes. Readers say Pet Supplies Plus is their go-to spot for easy shopping for food, health care and pet grooming. In Stonefield, Crate & Marrow offers all-natural, organic food and treats for your furry friend, plus collars, leashes and toys.

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beautiful plants and flowers they could find; hire folks who knew what they were talking about and could advise those who didn’t; and provide helpful design and horticulture guidance. More than four decades in, they’re still the standout. Fifth Season Gardening, in the No. 2 spot, rules the garden scene inside city limits with garden fixins’, urban DIY equipment and landscape décor.

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Pet Supplies Plus Runner-up: Crate & Marrow

Honorable mention: Pet Food Discounters We wouldn’t trade couch snuggles and slobbery kisses for anything, but we’ll admit that even

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Umansky Automotive Group Runner-up: CarMax

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Right up their alley New Dominion’s secret garden There’s plenty to look at inside the jam-packed New Dominion Bookshop, Virginia’s oldest independent bookseller, which is located on the Downtown Mall. But one of the store’s prettiest sights is outside the office windows of shop owner Julia Kudravetz. A rose garden, planted many years ago by Carol Troxell (New Dominion’s longtime owner who died in 2017), is at its peak every May, and it’s a hidden treasure in the heart of downtown. This secret garden in the alley off Fourth Street SE patiently awaits anyone who wants to stop by and smell a wide variety of roses, which are tended

by John Latham, a local physician whose gardening fee is an annual chocolate cake. Shortly after buying New Dominion last November, Kudravetz added a table and chairs to the space beneath the rose arbors (where Troxell would park her car), in hopes of encouraging passersby to take a break from the chaos of their days in a shady sweet spot—preferably with a good book. “It’s an oasis in Charlottesville,” she says. “A community space at a community bookstore.”—SS 103

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thing from mowing and maintenance to installing pools and garden fountains. At Snow’s, find the lush elements you need to complete your backyard oasis, then hire the pros to do the work for you.

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ARCHITECTURE FIRM

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HOMEBUILDER

Southern Development Homes Runner-up: Craig Builders

Honorable mention: Alexander Nicholson Just six months from now, you could have a brand new house. If it sounds like one of those things that’s too good to be true, it isn’t. That’s how long it takes the folks at Southern Development to build your custom home—from researching floor plans to choosing light fixtures—in 10 communities throughout Charlottesville and Albemarle, including Crozet’s uber-desirable Old Trail Village. In the No. 2 spot, Craig Builders

Runner-up: Wolf Ackerman Honorable mention: Bushman Dreyfus Architects

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If the name Jim Duncan sounds familiar, it’s because the realtor— and Nest founder—has been an agent in our area for nearly 20 years, penning the Real Central VA blog and educating clients about home-buying in Charlottesville, Crozet and beyond. He started Nest in 2009 to usher in a new generation of realtors, and has grown the company from three to 200 agents in 11 markets. In the No. 2 spot, Sasha Farmer and her six-person team make buying and selling—whether it’s your first or 10th time—a breeze, while Montague Miller earns your vote with 70 years in the business.

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LANDSCAPING COMPANY

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Runner-up: Snow’s Garden Center Honorable mention: Ivy Nursery If you’re lucky enough to own some acreage in our area, you’ve probably hired Town & Country, the longest-licensed landscape contractor in Charlottesville and Albemarle (in business since 1973!). The city company handles every-

Sasha Farmer Runner-up: Jamie White

Honorable mention: Candice Van Der Linde Don’t call it a comeback. Though three years have passed since Sasha Farmer last took the best realtor prize, she hasn’t just been twiddling her thumbs. Quite the opposite: She’s been working on starting her own brokerage, Story House Real Estate, which she officially launched in spring of 2018, while serving as Montague Miller & Co.’s vice president of innovation. In the runner-up spot, another former Montague Miller & Co. realtor, Jamie White, whose own brokerage firm has earned a favorable reputation in the six years since it opened.

In 2012, VMDO decided that, as the firm grew to include 50 or 60 architects under one roof, it no longer made sense to have everyone work as a generalist. It split into three studios—athletics and community, K-12 and higher education—and designated teams to specialize in each. The move paid off: The downtown studio has since done some of its best (and best-recognized) work, including a record-setting design for Arlington’s Discovery Elementary School, the largest zero-energy school in the country. Meanwhile, runner-up Wolf Ackerman takes a modern approach to designing spaces both public and private.

INTERIOR DESIGNER

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Oh, babies! Margaret and Michael Baudinet used to have a dining room. But the space that was once home to the couple’s china and crystal has been transformed into “The Thunderdome,” and now contains a foam climbing tower, a Little People castle, tiny tea and dish sets, a Jack-in-the-box and piles of books and blocks. Oh, and it’s also where the Baudinets’ 21-monthold quintuplets—Ava, Clara, Millie, Luke and Isabelle—hang out. Margaret, who gave birth to the quints in December 2016 (after two miscarriages and fertility treatments), says that life with toddlers is both easier and harder than when her children were babies. And maintaining a schedule is the key to family happiness. “All five kiddos sit together for a solid breakfast around 7:30 or 7:45 every morning,” Margaret says. “This is when I join the party and serve them cereal, scrambled eggs, fruit and toast.” After breakfast there’s storytime, followed by a 90-minute nap. Lunch happens at 11, and then it’s outside time (“getting five pairs of shoes and socks on is a challenge!” she says). After a snack, there’s an afternoon nap, and dinner is served at 5:45pm, followed by bottles, more stories and bedtime at 7:30. “Then the adults eat dinner and collapse!” Margaret says.

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The Bundle of Baudinets—mom Margaret, dad Michael and their quintuplets—thrives on a schedule; maintaining it is the key to family happiness.

Now that the Bundle of Baudinets, as Margaret calls the fivesome on her blog, is older, they can tell their parents what they want—using words and sign language —“but they have less patience and more energy,” she says. “And there are five of them! So we have fights over toys, fights over juice cups, fights over Mommy’s leg. People stick fingers in other people’s eyes or ears or...you name it.” And while the kids’ interactions are often fun and funny, Margaret says sometimes she and Michael feel like referees and shortorder cooks. (The Baudinets go through a gallon of milk a day,

and every week, a family-size box of Cheerios, three containers each of blueberries, strawberries and kale bites, 25 pouches of baby food, eight gallons of water and eight sweet potatoes are among the items that fill their grocery cart.) When life is especially challenging, Margaret turns to her journal, where she lists one good thing every day. Recent entries include: “Millie snuggled me a long time when she woke up; Luke ate his lunch with his utensils; Ava said ‘more, please’ using sign language; Clara laughed so hard she snorted; and Isabelle ran to me with arms wide open.” She has also

“We have fights over toys, fights over juice cups, fights over Mommy’s leg. People stick fingers in other people’s eyes or ears or...you name it.” MARGARET BAUDINET

noted that “at least I’m not covered in poop,” and “I found Cheerios in my bra today.” Margaret, who works part-time for College Solutions, and Michael, an attorney, are both UVA grads (they met while working for Larry Sabato), and she says that raising a family in Charlottesville was always their goal. “We love how grounded the Charlottesville community is,” she says. “We love that we can walk down the Downtown Mall and see our favorite small-business owners, and that we can visit UVA, and still see professors who changed our lives. And we love that this community doesn’t let anything break it— we are all bound by a love for each other and the love our city represents.”—SS 119

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he loved and line them up on the wall. He appreciated each piece, but Lacy knew they could be arranged to better display their relationship to one another and to the space. These days, the Interior Concepts owner does the same for clients, either by dreaming up a brand new space or refreshing an existing one. Readers turn to her to turn their house into a home. In second place, Andrea Gibson brings a refined, thoughtful approach to residential, commercial and new construction projects.

LAW FIRM

Tucker Griffin Barnes Runner-up: Legal Aid Justice Center Honorable mention: McGuireWoods LLP When William Tucker founded TGB in 1990, he had a few goals in mind: to create a firm large enough to handle a range of client issues but small enough that they’d feel welcome; to staff the firm with smart, talented and passionate attorneys who live and work in their community as well as give back to it; to vigorously fight for clients’ justice, but offer compassion when the outcome isn’t as planned. Twenty-eight years later, readers say he’s achieved his goal. The Charlottesville-, Palmyra- and Harrisonburg-based firm handles cases ranging from accident and liability to traffic and real estate (and more), by a staff of mostly female attorneys. In second place, nonprofit firm Legal Aid gives free legal assistance to those with low incomes on issues related to housing, domestic violence, economic stability, discrimination and beyond.

LAWYER

William Tucker

Runner-up: Scott Goodman Honorable mention: Chip Royer

A founding partner of Tucker Griffin Barnes, William Tucker has been practicing real estate law since 1972. Readers turn to him for property disputes, short sales and general residential contracts. In second place, Scott Goodman has represented clients in criminal and traffic cases —including DUIs—for more than 30 years, with experience as both a defense lawyer and prosecutor.

BANK

UVA Community Credit Union Runner-up: Bank of America Honorable mention: Wells Fargo

Talk about a snowball effect. Beginning in the 1950s, as more corporations and institutions were creating credit unions to meet the financial needs of their employees, UVA Hospital did the same. In the ’70s, it grew to include other employee groups and absorbed smaller credit unions. In the 1990s, it expanded its offerings to serve anyone who lived and worked in the area. Today, UVACC has branches in eight counties and Charlottesville, providing checking, savings and loans to residents for more than 50 years. In second place, national institution Bank of America offers all the usual money management services from eight locations in our area. CONTINUED ON PAGE 127

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Several tubes of lip gloss; a plate bearing a painting of a pink flamingo; a black-and-white photograph of two young dancers; a smooth white rock; a variety of skincare products in differentshaped bottles and jars—nothing in this Instagram image seems to have anything to do with anything else. But its artfully arranged parts create a beautiful photographic whole, and that, says Robin Verrier, is the point.

Prop stylist Robin Verrier finds inspiration everywhere, from magazine pages to textiles.

The image was part of a campaign that Verrier put together for Scarpa, which recently added a beauty line to the shelves of its Barracks Road shop. The womenswear store looked to Verrier, owner of Verry Robin & Co., to share the new products’ “story” via a campaign that “gives viewers a snapshot of [Scarpa’s] aesthetic that is lovely and dreamy, and invites them in to what the brand is about,” Verrier says. Verrier, who spends her days creating imagery that businesses use for advertising, websites, catalogs, editorial, social media and lookbooks, believes that “every product has a story to tell, and every brand has its own creative footprint. My job is to put a brand’s best foot forward and help people do business beautifully.” Among the other companies she has created stories for are Lulie Wallace textile design, Mignonne Gavigan jewelry and Swell Press Paper Co.

Before going into business for herself, the Western Albemarle High and Virginia Commonwealth University grad spent two years working as a prop stylist and photographer for a national magazine, where she discovered that “weaving elegant stories from everyday inspirations is what I’m good at; it feeds my soul.”

Striking out on her own, however, was scary, Verrier admits, and it’s “been a roller coaster.” But the ups and downs of the past couple years have brought what she calls incredible rewards. “I feel really lucky to do what I do because every company should be beautiful and memorable.” We couldn’t agree more.—SS

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Second verse, same as the first. UVA Community Credit Union gets your vote for mortgage lending, too. You turn to them for a range of product offerings—from FHA to jumbo loans—as well as homebuyer seminars to help you get better acquainted with the process. At runner-up Waterstone Mortgage, readers get funding fast, through innovative mortgage solutions and great customer service.

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Runner-up: Gary Albert Honorable mention: Beth Towe Heck Former Florida Marlin Hunter Wyant may have ended his baseball career in 2003, but he’s been hitting it out of the park as a State Farm agent ever since. Specializing in everything from auto and health to home and life insurance, the UVA alum also offers training and consulting to insurance and finance pros through his business, Trophy Consulting. In second place, fellow State Farm agent Gary Albert guides you through the process with nearly 15 years of experience.

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Honorable mention: Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia The Charlottesville Albemarle SPCA took in 2,844 animals in 2017, and all but 300 were adopted. Of course, adoption isn’t the only service of the SPCA: The shelter is also a resource for dog training, spaying and neutering, pet therapy and cremation. In other words, it’s a one-stop pet shop (it also has a retail arm, the SPCA Rummage Store, and a small shop at the shelter with pet food and accessories for sale), so your donation goes a long way. In second place, Blue Ridge Area Food Bank has been providing the food-insecure with assistance through a network of more than 200 food pantries, soup kitchens, schools, churches and other nonprofit groups.

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Runner-up: Bob’s Wheel Alignment Honorable mention: Peacock Auto Services A visit to the mechanic, to us, has always seemed like a visit to a foreign country: You don’t speak the language and you get the feeling that whatever you buy, you’ve overpaid. Not so at Airport Road Auto Center, where you can get upfront quotes and bring in your own parts (translation: You’re not tied to their vendors; you can shop around). In second place, Bob’s Wheel Alignment on Market Street specializes in tires— fitting, selling, rotating—but handles other repairs like alignments, inspections and heating and cooling services, too.

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All Things Pawssible Runner-up: The Dogg House Honorable mention: Pet Paradise and Tail Wags (tie) As a young girl, Karen Quillen was often getting in trouble for stealing meat out of the fridge to give to hungry neighborhood dogs. It’s no wonder, then, that she grew up to provide the same kind of care and hospitality to her clients. A stay at All Things Pawssible’s Bed & Biscuit—a 4,000-square-foot facility with open, sunny spaces and artificial turf for exercising— offers your furry friend a cozy spot to lay her head, with a raw beef marrow bone and calming music in the background. Plus, readers say, Quillen is a master during obedience classes, helping you speak Lucy’s language and understand her idiosyncrasies. At The Dogg House, both canines and felines are welcome, and get five-star treatment with playtime, rest time and grooming options.

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SERVICES “Honest,” “ethical,” “caring,” “gentle”—there’s no end to the number of positive accolades given to Drs. Fietz, Handley, Peppard and Stone at Georgetown Vet. The family-run practice opened in 1959 and has provided quality care for puppers and kittens—including pet boarding and grooming—every year since. Over on Fifth Street, Monticello Animal Hospital earns praise for its compassionate care and friendly staff.

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St. Anne’sBelfield School Runner-up: Tandem Friends School Honorable mention: The Covenant School Broadly speaking, if the goal of academia is to prepare students to be curious, responsible, honorable citizens of the world, St. Anne’s-Belfield has been setting the standard in our area since its founding in 1856, when it opened as an all-girls academy promoting the type of learning afforded to men at the University of Virginia. When the school re-opened in 1910 as a coed, pre-K to grade 12 institution, it re-committed to its mission. Today, by the time they graduate, students log 60 hours of community service, travel abroad and participate in an internship. At Quaker day school Tandem Friends, students in grades five through 12 experience rigorous academics and participate in the stewardship of their environment, through community gardening and sorting recyclables.

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Runner-up: Western Albemarle High School Honorable mention: Monticello High School With programs like MESA (Math, Engineering & Science Academy), TEAM (Together Everyone Achieves More) and Arts and Letters, it’s clear that academics at the largest comprehensive high school in the area is of utmost importance. And it shows: By December 2017, 91 graduating seniors had been accepted to colleges during on-site admissions, with initial scholarship offers totaling $1.64 million. At runner-up Western Albemarle, students are encouraged to participate in cool projects like designing and building a tiny house or donating their hair to help cancer patients (talk about school spirit!).

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Presidential Precinct brings the world to Charlottesville Around here, we might take it for granted that City Hall displays three presidents’ portraits. But those from other cities—and even other continents—tend to be wowed by the weight of history in Central Virginia. In 2012, a new venture set out to harness the power of that history in hopes of finding solutions to today’s vexing problems. Spurred in part by UVA Board of Visitors member Jim B. Murray, Jr., four presidential sites (Monticello, Montpelier, Ash Lawn-Highland and Morven Farm) joined with two universities (UVA and William & Mary) to form the Presidential Precinct. The nonprofit hosts programs that address global and civic leadership, and have drawn next-generation leaders from more than 100 countries. “This is the birthplace of modern democracy,” says the Precinct’s Drew Precious—an inspiring location for young people

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The fellows spend time in classrooms as well as volunteering in the community and visiting the six partner institutions of the Precinct. “This is a State Department program,” says Precious, “and there are 28 host institutions. We’re the only host who’s not simply a university. We offer our fellows the ultimate package.” After six weeks of inspiration and education, the fellows head back home—but their engagement with the Precinct continues. “We want to be committed to a lifelong network,” says Precious. To that end, the Precinct offers a private digital network where the 700 alumni can share their progress and offer each other support. Other Precinct programs focus on leaders from the Americas, on African business leadership, on gender equality in education worldwide. The Precinct is nothing if not ambitious—but then, so were the founding fathers.—EH

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Sole man Jeffrey Binns has steady hands. It’s a skill he developed while serving in the military for nearly a decade in the 1970s, working with arms and missiles. And it’s a skill that’s served him well in his 23year career as a cobbler. Binns has worked at Ace Shoe Repair—located in Seminole Square Shopping Center—all 23 of those years, fixing broken stiletto heels, resoling beloved pairs of cowboy boots and mending slightly worn limited edition Nike sneakers that still have plenty of life in them. Mass production and the internet has made buying new shoes easier and, in some cases, cheaper than ever. But those who like to save on resources, money and memories still rely on cobblers like Binns to keep their kicks in shape. Binns, who grew up in the Tidewater area, learned the art of shoe repair from Ace owner David Yoo not long after arriving in Charlottesville. Binns came to town after being laid off from his job with the U.S. Department of Defense during a round of cutbacks; he was looking to put his steady hands and attention to detail to good use and shoe repair was just the thing. His craft is a precise one, requiring specific knowledge of materials and methods as well as the ability to improvise. Few repairs are exactly the same; no two people have the same feet or the same gait, so even if two customers bring in the same pair of wingtip shoes, the wear patterns on each pair— and thus the repairs required—will be unique. Binns will measure and handcut a new leather sole from a piece

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Few repairs are exactly the same; no two people have the same feet or the same gait. of sole leather, or measure and hand-sew new elastic straps for a pair of tiny, toddler-size gladiator sandals (complete with bows near the toes). He’s seen just about every color, shape, size and style of shoe come through the shop over the years, which has made things fun. There aren’t many other cobblers in town, and Binns is Ace Shoe Repair’s sole employee. He

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Halo Salt Spa Runner-up: The Brow House Honorable mention: Signature Medical Spa Why so salty? Because Himalayan salt is known to reduce inflammation and aid breathing, thin out mucus and eliminate allergens. So, a visit to the downtown spot is practically like taking an antibiotic. It’s medical. What’s more, the crystals are known to increase your seratonin levels—if that’s not the true function of a spa, we don’t know what is. Runner-up Brow House offers you waxing from top to bottom, plus facials and eyelash lifts and tints.

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(The Brow House) Runner-up: Lyn Chang (Signature Medical Spa) Honorable mention: Leigh Walsh (Signature Medical Spa) and Ruby Liesen (The Brow House) (tie) Last year, aka the year of the eyebrow, freed faces from plucking, threading, microblading and generally torturing its forehead fringe in favor of lush, prominent brows. Of course, not too lush, which is where readers say Brooke Fossett comes in. TBH’s owner waxes and shapes your caterpillars into beautiful butterflies. And while the Preston Avenue shop waxes other parts of your body, too—its Brazilian execution is expert—it’s named The Brow House for a reason. Runner-up Lyn Chang offers a range of high-end services for the face, eyes, body and hair, from microdermabrasion to SilkPeel.

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Honorable mention: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Charlottesville Don’t get it twisted: A tie for first here doesn’t mean the winners are interchangeable. In fact, just the opposite. On the Corner, the Graduate offers overnighters whimsical details (think a mix of patterns and textures, quirky artwork and bikes to rent) and a rooftop bar. For those with more traditional design sense, the upscale Omni impresses with Blue Ridge views,

Honorable mention: Lakeside Apartments There are at least three reasons residents like living in City Walk, that 300-unit monolith at the end of Water Street: location, location, location. With its proximity to Beer Run to the east and the Downtown Mall to the west, it’s in a prime position for regular entertainment—and brews, which renters can work off in the 24-hour fitness center or by taking a few laps around the saltwater pool. At Stone Creek, Albemarle renters get a taste of Europe, with a cobbled façade and amenities within walking distance. a glass elevator (don’t look down!) and just a few steps to the Downtown Mall. Keswick Hall, which closed for a makeover in 2018, is poised to come back better than ever—with renovations to the guest rooms and suites, public areas and restaurants (in other words, the whole hotel).

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Helping hand Two decades in, Grace Episcopal’s wedding director keeps love in line For jittery couples on their wedding day, there’s nothing like an experienced hand to steady the nerves, and Grace Episcopal Church’s Wedding Director Dot Proffitt has two decades’ worth of experience to share. “I love doing it,” says Proffitt. “I love to see the wedding party—they’re always so beautiful.” The first and only wedding director that Keswick’s Grace Episcopal has had since opening in 1855, Proffitt serves as a guide for the betrothed and their families, meeting with them ahead of time, ordering and arranging flowers for the altar and helping them line up in the Parish Hall before the ceremony. “She’s not flashy,” says G. Miles Smith, rector of Grace Episcopal for the last five years. “She’s kind of invisible in the background, doing her work very steadily. You don’t see it, but we wouldn’t be able to do what we do on a regular basis without her.” Proffitt attends the wedding rehearsals as well as the ceremonies, and Smith says she provides a crucial calming influence. “Especially at weddings, where people can be a little worked up, she is very thoughtful about how to help,” he says. As the longtime director of the church’s altar guild as well, Proffitt knows the protocol and snafus are rare. “The only thing that sometimes causes a delay is traffic,” she says. “There on Route 22 in the summer, the guys hauling

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ready dressed,” instead of changing in the Parish Hall. As well, young people are waiting longer before getting married. “Couples are a little older,” Proffitt says, “and that’s probably a good thing.” Luckily for brides- and groomsto-be, Proffitt has no plans to hand off her job. “The wedding parties are so nice and kind, and it’s always such a wonderful day,” she says. “I’m going to keep doing it for a while; that’s just fine with me.”—LM

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Runner-up: Sarah Cramer Shields

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Runner-up: Tom Daly Honorable mention: Orpha Films We open with a drone shot over the vines of Keswick Vineyards. We see a fountain bubbling with clear water. We watch a child hurriedly scatter petals down the aisle. For four years in a row, readers have agreed that Ian’s Creations’ Ian Atkins captures the details that often go overlooked and presents them in—for lack of a better term —a cinematic moving picture of your most special day. In second place, Tom Daly weaves ninja-like through the crowds to catch your favorite moments (and then some) from start to finish.

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Harvest Moon Catering Runner-up: Exchange Events & Catering

Honorable mention: The Local When we talk about personalizing a wedding, usually that means koozies customized with the couple’s name and wedding date, or a guest book with pictures from their travels for friends and family to sign. But there are other ways to add your stamp to the big day, starting with food. Harvest Moon, readers say, check all the boxes on requests for specialized menus (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free), and embrace creative challenges like incorporating family recipes. Don’t expect any vegan options from BBQ Exchange’s catering arm (unless you count the homemade pickles)— though the Gordonsville spot’s slow-roasted pork may be worth a carnivorous switch. CONTINUED ON PAGE 147

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TENTS AND RENTALS

Skyline Tent Company Runner-up: MS Events Honorable mention: Festive Fare They’re not just for rain, you know. A beautiful Sperry tent from Skyline—those carnival-y sailcloth toppers with pennant flags flying —can actually steal the show (sorry, lovers). The Charlottesville and Charleston, South Carolina, company has been erecting shelters for more than 15 years at corporate events, festivals and, of course, weddings, be they vinyl, sailcloth or even harder structures with a glass ceiling. Of course, once the tent’s up, you’ll need a few things to fill it. Readers turn to MS Events for everything from chargers and china to linens and lounge furniture. 145

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Hedge Fine Blooms

Runner-up: Southern Blooms by Pat’s Floral Design There are two requirements of a big-day bouquet: that it be beautiful and that it last long. Readers agree Hedge delivers on both, creating dreamy arrangements—for centerpieces, aisle décor, wedding arches and the bridal bouquet —that still look fresh after hours of photographs, sitting in direct sunlight and the traditional bouquet toss. Southern Blooms’ 30+ years in the biz means the Madison company never disappoints, crafting works of art from garden-style flowers, fruits and vines.

CAKES AND DESSERTS

Albemarle Baking Company

Runner-up: Chandler’s Bakery

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Honorable mention: Don’s Florist & Gifts

ate just about anything you dream up. For a more traditional take, runner-up Chandler’s Bakery whips up layers from German chocolate to banana nut.

BAND (OR BOOKING AGENCY)

Sam Hill Entertainment Runner-up: Love Canon

Honorable mention: Cakes by Rachel

Honorable mention: 20 South Productions

C&O has steak Chinoise, Continental Divide has margaritas, Bodo’s has the deli egg—if there’s one “dish” Albemarle Baking Company is known for, it has to be the princess cake. Layers of moist vanilla sponge cake and Bavarian buttercream, blanketed with a sheet of sugary, almondy marzipan and topped with a pink rosette. There’s almost no other choice when it comes to a wedding day confection, though the West Main Street bakery can cre-

It might be a dangerous game, mixing business with pleasure, but it’s worked for Sam Hill founder Hank Wells since 1995, when a hobby of booking bands for everything from fraternity events to corporate functions turned into a successful company that connects live performers with audiences across the U.S. In second place, acousticroots-meets-’80s-pop band Love Canon, who readers say always get their toes a-tappin’.

TRANSPORTATION

Albemarle Limousine

Runner-up: C’ville Hop On Tours Honorable mention: Camryn Limousine Whether you’re pulling away from the rollicking landscape of Pippin Hill or the Corinthian columns of Keswick Vineyards, hopping in the old Toyota Corolla might take a bit of magic out of the moment, especially when the other details of your wedding— the custom foil invitations, the personalized cake topper—were so intentional. Enter Albemarle Limousine, who since 2008 has kept couples riding in style, in everything from a vintage Fleetwood Cadillac to a 1946 Marc IV Jaguar. Runner-up Hop on Tours is a solution for pre-wedding celebrations: Gather your wedding party and board the 14-passenger bus for customized rides to breweries, wineries and then some.

DJ (OR BOOKING AGENCY)

Kevin Graham (DJ for All Occasions)

Runner-up: John Garland DJ Services Honorable mention: Derek J Tobler If you like Michael Jackson, Kevin Graham is your guy. Not to say that he won’t play today’s top hits at your reception, too (see Best Local Radio Personality), but MJ is overwhelmingly his favorite. He’s even admitted to owning a cardboard cut-out (or two) of the King of Pop. We can’t confirm that Graham won’t bring one to the wedding, but at least you won’t have to pay for an extra plate. Runner-up John Garland has a music library of more than 30,000 songs at his fingertips, all of which are ready to keep your party bumpin’. CONTINUED ON PAGE 149

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Charlottesville High School String Quartet

Tatiana Yavorska-Antrobius paints the big day in the moment

Runner-up: Travis Elliott

What couple wouldn’t want their wedding to be a work of art? Now the day can literally be one with live-event artist Tatiana YavorskaAntrobius, who paints the happy occasion as it is happening. For Yavorska-Antrobius, what started as a favor for a friend turned into a business. “I’m booked all summer,” she says. She’s certainly got the artistic background. At 11 years old, the Ukrainian-born painter studied at the National Art School for Gifted Children. “It was intense,” she says. She continued her studies, which include theater and architectural design, at the National Academy of Arts in Kiev and got her master’s at the Russian Academy of Art in St. Petersburg. It was sketching her daughter horseback riding that captured the attention of other parents, who wanted drawings of their own offspring. And as many moving parts as there are to a wedding,

Honorable mention: Plum Blossom String Quartet There’s something so charming about employing a group of high schoolers to perform at your reception, but make no mistake: These aren’t your regular high schoolers. By the time they’re rising seniors—like the kids in Chestnut Oak, one of the quartets in the current CHS string ensemble —many of them have already performed in world-class venues such as the Chartres Cathedral in France or St. Mary’s Church in Killarney, Ireland. In other words, they’re practically pros. In the runner-up spot, alt-rock guitarist Travis Elliott delivers on a less traditional start to your big day.

OFFICIANT

Dave Norris

Runner-up: Claire Frances “We got married by the mayor,” some couples can say. Of course, Dave Norris hasn’t been Charlottesville’s mayor since 2011, but the qualities that got him the job aren’t lost on those looking to say “I do” in Charlottesville. Norris is happy to work toward a ceremony you feel good about, whether traditional or more personalized. Runner-up Claire Frances will do the same. As an ordained interfaith minister, she relishes customizing a ceremony to your unique specifications, which she’s been doing since 2004 for more than 900 weddings. CONTINUED ON PAGE 151

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Honorable mention: Kate Adamson

Yavorska-Antrobius says it’s a lot easier than drawing a horse race. The key, she says, is to interview her clients to find out what style they prefer and what they want her to focus on, whether it’s the golden retriever carrying the ring, or the view at King Family Vineyards or sketches of the guests. That can add up to “hundreds of emails,” she says. “I go to the venue to see the setting and light,” she says. “I do mental preparation.” And she takes lots of photos. “I go there 100 percent prepared.” She makes sure her clients understand the painting is not going to be a photographic image. “If the composition is not good, the art loses its value,” she explains. But that’s the beauty of having an artist do the composition—she can add or take away. Still, things don’t always go according to plan. Maybe the butterflies don’t release or all

the guests can’t fit where they’re supposed to be. “It’s stressful for me when the bride is stressed,” says Yavorska-Antrobius. She’s seen that in her work “when I got home and the colors were stressful,” she says. “I put the canvas away and waited and repainted it.” Such personal detail in capturing the moment costs $150 an hour on average and can range from $500 to $5,000, depending on the style and materials. Watercolor fades in about 25 years, she says, while oils change over 100 years. And she’s learned that men typically want a portrait of the bride to capture her in a piece of art. One other thing Yavorska-Antrobius has learned about brides: The longer she’s spent preparing for the wedding, the more stressed she’ll be. “The best weddings are people who spent two weeks planning. They’re so happy.”—LP

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INVITES/CALLIGRAPHY

Rock Paper Scissors Runner-up: T&N Printing

Often said to be the first taste your guests get of the wedding to come—and whether it’s formal, casual or a little quirky—the invitations play a pretty important role in setting the tone. But not only that, the experts at Rock Paper Scissors help dream up the entire paper suite, from programs to signage, sometimes even with custom art from coowner and designer Dani Antol. Readers turn to T&N for affordable printing (hey, all that paper don’t come cheap!) and the kind of friendly service only a familyrun business can provide.

WEDDING JEWELRY

Andrew Minton Jewelers

Runner-up: Fink’s Jewelers and Schwarzschild Keller & George Jewelers (tie)

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so Nana’s necklace can be your something old. Over at Fink’s, find name brands like David Yurman, Forevermark and even Rolex, while Schwarzschild offers everything from rings and necklaces to men’s watches.

BRIDAL SHOP

Sealed With A Kiss

Honorable mention: Tuel Jewelers

Runner-up: Amanda’s Touch Bridal & Formal and Ayvazyan & de Beauvoir Bridal (tie)

Buying your wedding jewelry— be it the engagement ring, wedding band or earrings for the bride on her big day—is serious business and, in many cases, a serious investment. And that’s exactly how Andrew Minton and his team treat it when you walk in the door, taking the time to explain cut, color, clarity and cost for novice diamond-buyers. And if you’re interested in an heirloom, they also repair and restring pearl jewelry,

While the local wedding industry is booming, it’s a wonder there aren’t more local options for wedding attire. No matter, say brides. SWAK has just what they’re looking for, from simple silhouettes to intricate beading and, since launching an in-house design arm earlier in 2018, custom pieces. Store owner Susan Sorbello launched Sorbello Couture, putting her fash-

Honorable mention: David’s Bridal (Richmond)

SOUND AND LIGHTING

Blue Ridge Event Production Runner-up: MS Events

Honorable mention: The AV Company When you picture your special day, you think dress, food, invitations—not necessarily a spotlight in the shape of your initials or a crystal chandelier descending over a table. But lighting may be the unsung hero of your reception, adding intimacy or glamour. Again this year, readers say Blue Ridge—which specializes not only in accents like pin spots, LEDs and logo lights but also digital recording and video services—lights up their life. Nabbing the red ribbon, MS Events takes its usual décor offerings to the next level, with bistro lighting, uplights, pipe and drape and more.

ion design background to good use creating one-of-a-kind pieces. Speaking of custom, Ayvazyan & de Beauvoir helps you dream big, with stunning designs for brides looking for a unique work of art. In Fishersville, Amanda’s Touch stocks a reasonably priced selection of gowns for brides and ’maids.

HAIR STYLIST

Erica Haskins (Top Knot Studio) Runner-up: Brianna B. Adams Honorable mention: Daphne Latham You, but better. That should always be the goal when you (or your mom or your eight bridesmaids) sit in the hair chair on your big day and that’s what readers agree they get when Erica Haskins is at the brush. Be they classic chignons or cascades of curls down your back, the Top Knot owner’s creations capture the mood and beauty of the bride who wears them (and CONTINUED ON PAGE 153

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they stay put for hours on end, as if by magic). Brianna Adams, in second place, delivers on soft, romantic updos.

WEDDINGS

Runner-up: King Family Vineyards

MAKEUP ARTIST

Honorable mention: Keswick Vineyards

Evonne Burns

Having already been in the wedding industry for nearly two decades as a planner, it seemed a natural fit that Lynn Easton and her husband, Dean Andrews, would open their own venue. Of course, as with everything under the Easton Porter Group umbrella, Pippin is part of a luxury brand—and you get what you pay for. A big day here doesn’t come without a hefty price tag, but readers agree it’s worth it for the barn-inspired reception space, rolling landscape, expert catering and practically everywhere you look, the high touch details Easton is known for. In Crozet, King Family offers couples a versatile space and, most importantly, its award-winning wines (see Best Local Winery).

Runner-up: Daphne Latham

Honorable mention: Nikki Fayolle We’re not saying a turn in the makeup chair is the reason to get married, but your big day is certainly a perfect excuse to be treated like a Kardashian (hey, those ladies know from weddings). At the expert hand of Evonne Burns, who’s been in the business more than 25 years, you’ll be ready for your close-up. Runner-up Daphne Latham, whose credentials also include powdering the faces of Dave Matthews and Howie Long (among others), strengthens your star power.

GIFTS AND FAVORS

Gearharts Fine Chocolates

Runner-up: The Virginia Shop The new trend in late-night treats for guests—a donut truck, milk and cookies, even McDonald’s hamburgers (we’ve seen it first-hand) —capitalizes on a universal truth: After a few drinks, it’s time for a snack. Savvy couples kill two birds with one stone by sending guests back to the hotel with a take-home treat and, again this year, they agree there’s no better option than a twopack of local sweets from sweetheart Gearharts chocolates. At The Virginia Shop, find more edibles, from peanuts to popcorn, plus touristy trinkets from the Commonwealth. It’s for lovers, after all.

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MUSICIAN (P.19)

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The Jefferson Theater

MOVIE THEATER (P.23)

Violet Crown Cinema

HEALTH & FITNESS

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KIDS’ PARK (P.41)

Runner-up: Justin Tooley (The Gym) 1739B Allied St., 878-0369

Runner-up: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema 5th Street Station, 326-5056

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IX Art Park

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LOCAL RADIO STATION (P.25)

Triple C Camp

Runner-up: Sprint Pavilion 700 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 245-4910

Runner-up: 91.9 WNRN

Runner-up: Camp Holiday Trails campholidaytrails.org

Honorable mention: John Paul Jones Arena 295 Massie Rd., 243-4960 ART GALLERY (P.19)

IX Art Park

522 Second St. SE, 970-3260 Runner-up: Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE, 977-7284 Honorable mention: The Fralin Museum of Art 155 Rugby Rd., 924-3592 DAY TRIP (P.19)

Shenandoah National Park

Runner-up: Carter Mountain Orchard 1435 Carters Mountain Trail, 977-1833 Honorable mention: Richmond TRIVIA NIGHT (P.23)

Mellow Mushroom

Hot 101.9

Honorable mention: 99.7 CYK LOCAL RADIO PERSONALITY (P.25)

Kevin Graham (Hot 101.9)

Runner-up: Sherry Taylor (Z95.1) Honorable mention: Tom Morgan (99.7 CYK) LOCAL TV PERSONALITY (P.25)

Josh Fitzpatrick (NBC29)

Runner-up: Norm Sprouse (NBC29) Honorable mention: Kasey Hott (NBC29) ANNUAL EVENT OR FESTIVAL (P.29)

Tom Tom Founders Festival tomtomfest.com

tripleccamp.com

Honorable mention: YMCA piedmontymca.org MARTIAL ARTS SCHOOL (P.41)

Charlottesville Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

1732 Allied St., 825-6202 Runner-up: Laughing Dragon Kung Fu 3006 Berkmar Dr., 973-0318 Honorable mention: 7 Tigers Taekwondo Hollymead Town Center, 296-9933 MASSAGE THERAPIST (P.41)

Emma Rowe (Move Medical Massage & Sports Therapy)

224 Carlton Rd., 989-0171 Runner-up: Jennifer Daniel 1118 E. Market St. Suite D, 989-8673 Honorable mention: Jane Neldon (Commonwealth Massage Therapy) 800 E. High St., 218-0248

1321 W. Main St., 972-9366

Runner-up: Virginia Film Festival virginiafilmfest.org

Runner-up: Random Row Brewing Company 608A Preston Ave., 284-8466

Honorable mention: Charlottesville Dogwood Festival cvilledogwood.com

GOLF COURSE (P.41)

Honorable mention: Firefly 1304 E. Market St., 202-1050

CITY NEIGHBORHOOD (P.29)

109 Clubhouse Way (Gordonsville), (540) 832-0744

LOCAL LIVE THEATER (P.25)

Runner-up: Belmont/Carlton

Runner-up: Birdwood Golf Course 410 Golf Course Dr., 293-4653

Live Arts

123 E. Water St., 977-4177 Runner-up: American Shakespeare Center 10 S. Market St. (Staunton), (877) 682-4236 Honorable mention: IX Art Park 522 Second St. SE, 970-3260

1000 W. Main St., 996-7250

Downtown Mall

Honorable mention: Fry’s Spring PLACE TO DOG-WATCH (P.29)

Downtown Mall

Runner-up: Chris Greene Lake 4748 Chris Greene Lake Rd., 296-5844 Honorable mention: UVA Grounds

YOGA INSTRUCTOR (P.43)

Eliza Whiteman (FlyDog Yoga)

1039 Millmont St., 964-1964 Runner-up: Liz Reynolds (Zen Bride Yoga) zenbrideyoga.com Honorable mention: Vanessa Schnable (Purvelo) 1000 W. Main St., 996-7250 PILATES INSTRUCTOR (P.43)

Ellie Tor (Tru Pilates)

310 Second St. SE, 975-3800 Runner-up: Robin Truxel (Tru Pilates) Honorable mention: Carla Shifflett (Posture Studio) 218 W. Market St., 293-7611 CYCLE INSTRUCTOR (P.43)

Kristin Watson (Purvelo)

1039 Millmont St., 964-1964 Runner-up: Justin Goodman (Zoom Indoor Cycling) Barracks Road Shopping Center, 226-2520 Honorable mention: Kendall Speno (Zoom Indoor Cycling) NICHE FITNESS STUDIO (P.49)

Spring Creek Golf Club

Honorable mention: Farmington Country Club Golf 1625 Country Club Cir., 296-5661 PERSONAL TRAINER (P.43)

Vanessa Schnable (Purvelo)

FlyDog Yoga

1039 Millmont St., 964-1964 Runner-up: Orangetheory Fitness Barracks Road Shopping Center, 483-5757 Honorable mention: Zoom Cycle Barracks Road Shopping Center, 226-2520 OUTDOOR ADVENTURE (P.49)

Humpback Rock Runner-up: Sugar Hollow

Honorable mention: Old Rag Mountain CONTINUED ON PAGE 167

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SAMUELS

Best of the Best

Virginia

Over 100 Years Of Virginia Real Estate Service www.jtsamuels.com u (434) 295-8540

At a certain point, it’s just redundant to keep recognizing some folks—everyone knows they can’t be beat. Which is why, in 2016, Best of C-VILLE began honoring the Best of the Best: businesses we felt set the standard for all of the winners you just read about in the preceding pages. In 2018, we asked readers to do the job. Find all of the VIPs below, then turn to page 186 to see this year’s top honoree.

A Way Of Life

2016

Joe and Owie Samuels (434) 981-3322

106.1 The Corner

Julia Parker Lyman (540) 748-1497

McGuffey Art Center

Scott B. Peyton (434) 960-5301

900 Rio E. Ct. Suite B, 979-3940

201 Second St. NW, 295-7973

ACAC

111 Monticello Ave., 984-3800

Andy Cobb (434) 962-2199

ERIC KELLEY

Swett Dentistry

Daedalus Bookshop

Albemarle Square, 978-3800 200 Four Seasons Dr., 978-7529

Mas

904 Monticello Rd., 979-0990

Bodo’s

505 Preston Ave., 293-5224 1418 Emmett St. N, 977-9598 1609 University Ave., 293-6021

Angelo

220 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 971-9256

Daedalus Bookshop

123 Fourth St. NE, 293-7595

Oasis Day Spa & Body Shop

221 Carlton Rd. Suite 5, 244-9667

Pampered Pets

601 Concord Ave., 293-7387

2017 C&O Restaurant STEPHEN BARLING

515 E. Water St., 971-7044

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The Paramount Theater 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 979-1333

C&O Restaurant

The Boar’s Head

200 Ednam Dr., (888) 249-0751

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PEDIATRICIAN (P.49)

GENERAL PRACTITIONER (P.49)

Paige Perriello (Pediatric Associates)

Katharine DeGeorge 4916 Plank Rd. (North Garden), 243-4660

Runner-up: Bruce Campbell 4303 Free Union Rd. (Free Union), 978-1691 Honorable mention: Alicia Dagli (Pantops Family Medicine) 1490 Pantops Mountain Pl. #200, 979-4440 Honorable mention: Annika Abrahamson (Albemarle Center for Family Medicine) 535 Westfield Rd., 973-4040 Honorable mention: Greg Gelburd 310 Avon St. Suite #9, 817-1818 DENTIST (P.49)

John Knight Jr. (Spring Creek Family Dentistry & Orthodontics)

34 Jefferson Ct. (Zion Crossroads), 832-3232 Runner-up: Aaron Stump (Charlottesville Pediatric Dentistry) 1620 Timberwood Blvd. Suite 201, 975-7336 70 Jefferson Ct. (Zion Crossroads), (540) 832-6657 Honorable mention: Jeffery Hodges (Albemarle Dental Associates) 2250 Old Ivy Rd. Suites 3 & 4, 326-1418 ORTHODONTIST (P.49)

David Hamer (Hamer & Hamer Orthodontics)

2202 N. Berkshire Rd., 296-0188 1005 Heathercroft Cir. (Crozet), 205-4457 Runner-up: Bart Weis (Charlottesville Orthodontics) 1101 E. Jefferson St., 971-9601 Honorable mention: Suzanne Dennis 895 Rio E. Ct. Suite A, 973-4446 DERMATOLOGIST (P.49)

Bridget Bryer (Family Dermatology of Albemarle) 215 Wayles Ln., 964-9500

Runner-up: Anna Magee (Charlottesville Dermatology) 600 Peter Jefferson Pkwy. #230, 984-2400 Honorable mention: Bonnie Straka (Albemarle Dermatology Associates) 3350 Berkmar Dr., 923-4651

1011 E. Jefferson St., 296-9161 Runner-up: Robert Michel (Piedmont Pediatrics) 900 Rio East Ct. A, 975-7777 Honorable mention: Heather Quillian (Northridge Pediatrics) 2955 Ivy Rd., 980-6555 CHIROPRACTOR (P.53)

Scott Wagner (Scott Wagner Chiropractic & Sports Medicine)

Seminole Square Shopping Center, 978-4888

Runner-up: Chapin Faulconer 1 Boars Head Pl., 996-6362 Honorable mention: Dan Elash 2037 Buck Mountain Rd. (Free Union), 296-4870

FOOD & DRINK

BRUNCH (P.67)

MarieBette Café & Bakery

700 Rose Hill Dr., 529-6118 Runner-up: Bluegrass Grill & Bakery 313 Second St. SE, 295-9700

RESTAURANT (P.61)

Honorable mention: Tip Top 1420 Richmond Rd., 244-3424

Lampo

DRAFT BEER SELECTION (P.67)

205 Monticello Rd., 244-3226 Runner-up: The Local 824 Hinton Ave., 984-9749 Honorable mention: Al Carbon 1875 Seminole Trail, 964-1052 NEW RESTAURANT (P.61)

Draft Taproom

425 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 422-5901 Runner-up: Beer Run 156 Carlton Rd. Suite 203, 984-2337 Honorable mention: Sedona Taphouse 1035 Millmont St., 296-2337

Runner-up: Sam Spillman (Balanced Chiropractic & Physical Therapy) 608 Preston Ave. #100, 293-3800

Three Notch’d Craft Kitchen & Brewery

Honorable mention: Michelle Heppner (Heppner Family Chiropractic & Wellness) 3450 Seminole Trail #105, 974-7955

Runner-up: Junction 421 Monticello Rd., 465-6131

Runner-up: The Alley Light 108 Second St. SW, 296-5003

Honorable mention: Iron Paffles & Coffee 214 W. Water St., 806-3800

Honorable mention: Fleurie 108 Third St. NE, 971-7800

BAR (P.65)

PATIO (P.67)

OPTOMETRIST (P.53)

Jaime Easton (Spring Creek Eye Care)

34 Jefferson Ct., Suite B (Zion Crossroads), 207-4040 Runner-up: Stephen Record (Drs Record & Record Optometrists) 600 Peter Jefferson Pkwy. Suite 390, 975-2420 1450 Sachem Pl., 978-4090 Honorable mention: Joe DiGirolamo (Primary Eyecare) Barracks Road Shopping Center, 977-2020 5th Street Station, 760-2020 Hollymead Town Center, 975-2020 PHYSICAL THERAPIST (P.53)

Heather Walton (Move Better Physical Therapy) 285 Hydraulic Ridge Rd. #4, 817-0980 Runner-up: Kim Starr (ACAC) 111 Monticello Ave. #B, 817-4276 Honorable mention: Rodney Madagan (Move Better Physical Therapy) MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL (P.53)

Katharine Knapp

520 Greenfield Terrace, Suite 101, 260-3501 Runner-up: William Fox 916 E. High St. Suite 1, 244-5684

520 Second St. SE, 956-3141

The Alley Light

108 Second St. SW, 296-5003 Runner-up: Three Notch’d Craft Kitchen & Brewery 520 Second St. SE, 956-3141 Honorable mention: Kardinal Hall 722 Preston Ave., 295-4255 SPORTS BAR (P.65)

Citizen Burger Bar

212 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 979-9944 Runner-up: Kardinal Hall 722 Preston Ave., 295-4255 Honorable mention: Wild Wing Café 820 W. Main St., 979-9464 COFFEEHOUSE (P.65)

Shenandoah Joe

945 Preston Ave., 295-4563 1325 W. Main St., Shop C, 817-0456 2214 Ivy Rd., #109, 923-4563 Runner-up: Mudhouse 213 W. Main St., Downtown Mall, 984-6833 5793 The Square (Crozet), 823-2240 2401 Ivy Rd. (Bellair Market), 977-0222 Honorable mention: MarieBette Café & Bakery 700 Rose Hill Dr., 529-6118

RESTAURANT WINE LIST (P.67)

Tavola

826 Hinton Ave., 972-9463

Blue Mountain Brewery

9519 Critzers Shop Rd. (Afton), (540) 456-8020 Runner-up: Brazos Tacos 925 Second St. SE, 984-1163 Honorable mention: Kardinal Hall 722 Preston Ave., 295-4255 CHEF (P.83)

Ian Redshaw (Lampo)

205 Monticello Rd., 244-3226 Runner-up: Craig Hartman (BBQ Exchange) 102 Martinsburg Ave. (Gordonsville), (540) 832-0227 Honorable mention: Dean Maupin (C&O) 515 E. Water St., 971-7044 BARTENDER (P.75)

Micah LeMon (The Alley Light)

108 Second St. SW, 296-5003 Runner-up: Brett Harder (The Whiskey Jar) 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall, 202-1549 Honorable mention: Josh Stevens (Jack Brown’s Beer & Burger Joint) 109 Second St. SE, 244-0073 CONTINUED ON PAGE 169

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SPECIALTY FOOD SHOP (P.75)

Feast!

416 W. Main St. (Main Street Market), 244-7800 Runner-up: Foods of All Nations 2121 Ivy Rd., 296-6131 Honorable mention: The Pie Chest 119 Fourth St. NE, 977-0443 1518 E. High St., 984-0555

INDIAN (P.75)

STEAK (P.78)

BURGER (P.79)

1817 Emmet St. N, 984-2828

201 W. Main St., Downtown Mall, 817-7080

212 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 979-9944

Milan Indian Cuisine

Downtown Grille

Runner-up: Himalayan Fusion 520 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 293-3120

Runner-up: Aberdeen Barn 2018 Holiday Dr., 296-4630

Runner-up: Riverside Lunch 1429 Hazel St., 971-3546

Honorable mention: The Local 824 Hinton Ave., 984-9749

Honorable mention: Jack Brown’s Beer & Burger Joint 109 Second St. SE, 244-0073

Honorable mention: Maharaja Seminole Square Shopping Center, 973-1110

LOCAL WINERY (P.75)

MEXICAN (P.77)

6550 Roseland Farm (Crozet), 823-7800

805 E. Market St., 977-2676 108 Town and Country Ln., 293-3538 2206 Fontaine Ave., 979-2424 395 Greenbrier Dr., 978-4313

King Family Vineyards Runner-up: Pippin Hill Farm and Vineyards 5022 Plank Rd. (North Garden), 202-8063 Honorable mention: Barboursville Winery 17655 Winery Rd., (540) 832-3824

Guadalajara

Runner-up: La Michoacana 1138 E. High St., 202-1336 Honorable mention: Continental Divide 811 W. Main St., 984-0143

COMFORT FOOD (P.77)

Riverside Lunch

1429 Hazel St., 971-3546 Runner-up: BBQ Exchange 102 Martinsburg Ave. (Gordonsville), (540) 832-0227 Honorable mention: Jack Brown’s Beer & Burger Joint 109 Second St. SE, 244-0073

Revolutionary Soup

Three Notch’d Brewing Company

JAPANESE (P.77)

202 Second St. NW, 971-1177

Runner-up: Blue Mountain Brewery 9519 Critzers Shop Rd. (Afton), (540) 456-8020

Runner-up: Ten 120 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 295-6691

Runner-up: Roots Natural Kitchen 1329 W. Main St., 529-6229

520 Second St. SE, 956-3141

Honorable mention: Devils Backbone Brewing Company 200 Mosbys Run (Roseland), 361-1001 LOCAL CIDERY (P.75)

Bold Rock Hard Cider

1435 Carters Mountain Trail, 982-8942 Runner-up: Potter’s Craft Cider 209 Monticello Rd., 964-0271 Honorable mention: Albemarle CiderWorks 2545 Rural Ridge Ln. (North Garden), 297-2326 BAKERY (P.75)

MarieBette Café & Bakery

700 Rose Hill Dr., 529-6118 Runner-up: Albemarle Baking Co. 418 W. Main St., 293-6456 Honorable mention: Chandler’s Bakery Rio Hill Shopping Center, 975-2253 THAI (P.75)

Monsoon Siam

113 E. Market St., 971-1515 Runner-up: Thai 99 II 915 Gardens Blvd., 964-1212 Honorable mention: Thai Cuisine & Noodle House 2005 Commonwealth Dr., 974-1326

Now and Zen

Honorable mention: Sakura Hollymead Town Center, 872-0099 ITALIAN (P.77)

Tavola

826 Hinton Ave., 972-9463 Runner-up: Lampo 205 Monticello Rd., 244-3226 Honorable mention: Travinia Italian Kitchen & Wine Bar The Shops at Stonefield, 244-3304 FRENCH (P.77)

Fleurie

108 Third St. NE, 971-7800 Runner-up: MarieBette Café & Bakery 700 Rose Hill Dr., 529-6118

Honorable mention: Brazos Tacos 925 Second St. SE, 984-1163 DIETARY- OR ALLERGYFRIENDLY (P.78)

The Juice Laundry 722 Preston Ave. #105, 234-3044

Runner-up: Burtons Grill The Shops at Stonefield, 977-1111

Honorable mention: Smoked Kitchen and Tap 2025 Library Ave. (Crozet), 205-4881 WINGS (P.79)

Wild Wing Café

820 W. Main St., 979-9464 Runner-up: Wings Over Charlottesville 2029 Ivy Rd., 964-9464 Honorable mention: Lazy Parrot Backyard BBQ Pantops Shopping Center, 244-0723 PIZZA (P.81)

Lampo

205 Monticello Rd., 244-3226 Runner-up: Dr. Ho’s Humble Pie 4916 Plank Rd. (North Garden), 245-0000

DESSERT MENU (P.78)

4916 Plank Rd. (North Garden), 245-0000

511 W. Main St., 995-5449

Dr. Ho’s Humble Pie Runner-up: Brazos Tacos 925 Second St. SE, 984-1163

Wayside Fried Chicken

Honorable mention: Taste of China Albemarle Square, 975-6688

Runner-up: Ace Biscuit & Barbecue 711 Henry Ave., 202-1403

KID-FRIENDLY (P.78)

CHINESE (P.77)

Runner-up: Red Lantern 221 Carlton Rd. Suite 16, 979-9968

102 Martinsburg Ave. (Gordonsville), (540) 832-0227

Honorable mention: Christian’s Pizza 118 W. Main St., Downtown Mall, 977-9688 100 14th St. NW, 872-0436

Honorable mention: Tip Top 1420 Richmond Rd., 244-3424

Barracks Road Shopping Center, 244-9818

BBQ Exchange

Honorable mention: Brazos Tacos 925 Second St. SE, 984-1163

Honorable mention: Bizou 119 W. Main St., Downtown Mall, 977-1818

Peter Chang China Grill

BBQ (P.79)

VEGETARIAN-FRIENDLY (P.78)

108 Second St. SW, 296-7687 104 14th St. NW, Suite 4, 979-9988

LOCAL BREWERY (P.75)

Citizen Burger Bar

Oakhart Social

Runner-up: Fleurie 108 Third St. NE, 971-7800 Honorable mention: Bang! 213 Second St. SW, 984-2264 FROZEN TREAT (P.81)

FRIED CHICKEN (P.79)

2203 Jefferson Park Ave., 977-5000 Runner-up: Michie Tavern 683 Thomas Jefferson Pkwy., 977-1234 Honorable mention: Ace Biscuit & Barbecue 711 Henry Ave., 202-1403

Splendora’s Gelato

317 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 296-8555 Runner-up: Chaps Ice Cream 223 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 977-4139 Honorable mention: La Flor Michoacana 601A Cherry Ave., 984-1603 CONTINUED ON PAGE 171

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ANNUAL FOOD AND DRINK EVENT (P.83)

Porkapolooza facebook.com/ porkapolooza

Runner-up: Taste of Monticello Wine Trail Festival monticellowinetrailfestival.com Honorable mention: Know Good Beer Festival knowgoodbeer.com SPOT WHEN THE BOSS IS BUYING (P.83)

The Alley Light 108 Second St. SW, 296-5003

Runner-up: Hamiltons’ at First & Main 101 W. Main St., Downtown Mall, 295-6649 Honorable mention: Downtown Grille 201 W. Main St., Downtown Mall, 817-7080 LGBT-FRIENDLY BUSINESS (P.83)

MarieBette Café & Bakery

700 Rose Hill Dr., 529-6118 Runner-up: Firefly 1304 E. Market St., 202-1050 Honorable mention: Feast! 416 W. Main St. (Main Street Market), 244-7800

HOME STORE (P.93)

WINE SHOP (P.97)

Market Street Wine

Honorable mention: Snow’s Garden Center 1875 Avon St., 295-2159

Runner-up: Circa 700 Allied St., 295-5760

Runner-up: Wegmans 5th Street Station, 529-3200

LOCALLY OWNED PET SUPPLY STORE (P.101)

Honorable mention: The Habitat Store 1221 Harris St., 293-6331

Honorable mention: Trader Joe’s The Shops at Stonefield, 974-1466

CONSIGNMENT STORE (P.93)

LOCALLY OWNED GROCERY STORE (P.97)

105 S. First St., 202-0664

Foods of All Nations

HomeGoods

29th Place, 975-0275

Darling Boutique Runner-up: ReThreads 1716 Allied St., 244-7111

Honorable mention: Kid to Kid 1885 Seminole Trail #103, 529-8988 PLACE FOR A DRESS (P.93)

Belk

Fashion Square Mall, 973-7878 Runner-up: Anthropologie Barracks Road Shopping Center, 295-1749 Honorable mention: BitterSweet 106 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 977-5977 PLACE TO BUY A SUIT (P.97)

The Men’s & Boy’s Shop 410 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 296-6924 Runner-up: Jos. A. Bank Barracks Road Shopping Center, 244-0015

311 E. Market St., 202-0511

2121 Ivy Rd., 296-6131

Runner-up: Feast! 416 W. Main St. (Main Street Market), 244-7800 Honorable mention: Reid Super-Save Market 600 Preston Ave., 295-4149 CHAIN GROCERY STORE (P.97)

Wegmans

5th Street Station, 529-3200 Runner-up: Trader Joe’s The Shops at Stonefield, 974-1466 Honorable mention: Whole Foods Market 1797 Hydraulic Rd., 973-4900 INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE (P.101)

New Dominion Bookshop

Honorable mention: Beecroft & Bull Barracks Road Shopping Center, 979-9010

404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 295-2552

FEMALE-OWNED BUSINESS (P.83)

PLACE FOR KIDS’ GEAR (P.97)

Runner-up: Blue Whale Books 115 W. Main St., Downtown Mall, 296-4646

1875 Seminole Trail, 964-1052

Barracks Road Shopping Center, 984-0167

Al Carbon

Old Navy

Runner-up: Spring Creek EyeCare 34 Jefferson Ct., Suite B (Zion Crossroads), 207-4040

Runner-up: Kid to Kid 1885 Seminole Trail #103, 529-8988

Honorable mention: The Brow House 722 Preston Ave. #106, 825-5333

SHOPPING

Honorable mention: Shenanigans 601 W. Main St., 295-4797 LOCAL SPORTING GOODS STORE (P.93)

Blue Ridge Cyclery

Andrew Minton Jewelers

722 Preston Ave. #104, 529-6521 Hollymead Town Center, 995-2453

Runner-up: Schwarzschild Keller & George Jewelers 1149 Millmont St., 293-5011

Runner-up: Great Outdoor Provision Co. Barracks Road Shopping Center, 995-5669

Honorable mention: Tuel Jewelers 319 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 295-4258

Honorable mention: Mincer’s 1527 University Ave., 296-5687 The Shops at Stonefield, 971-1192

JEWELRY STORE (P.93)

192 Zan Rd., 979-7672

Honorable mention: Read It Again Sam 214 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 977-9844 GIFT SHOP (P.101)

O’Suzannah

320 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 466-2449 Runner-up: The Virginia Shop Barracks Road Shopping Center, 977-0080 Honorable mention: Rock Paper Scissors 321 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 979-6366 NURSERY/GARDEN STORE (P.101)

Ivy Nursery

570 Broomley Rd., 295-1183 Runner-up: Fifth Season Gardening 900 Preston Ave., 293-2332

Pet Supplies Plus 1240 Seminole Trail, 979-2009

Runner-up: Crate & Marrow The Shops at Stonefield, 293-2275 Honorable mention: Pet Food Discounters 607 Woodbrook Dr., 974-6060 PLACE TO BUY A CAR (P.101)

Umansky Automotive Group 960 Hilton Heights Rd., 973-1351 Runner-up: CarMax 1448 Richmond Rd., 295-6351 Honorable mention: Jim Price 2150 Seminole Trail, 262-4784

SERVICES REAL ESTATE AGENT (P.115)

Sasha Farmer (Story House Real Estate)

260-1435, storyhousere.com Runner-up: Jamie White (Jamie White Real Estate) 953-0956, jamie.realtor Honorable mention: Candice Van Der Linde (Re/Max) 981-8730, buyandsellcville.com REAL ESTATE COMPANY (P.115)

Nest Realty

566-0121, nestrealty.com Runner-up: Story House Real Estate 260-1435, storyhousere.com Runner-up: Montague Miller & Co. 227-4444, montaguemiller.com Honorable mention: Loring Woodriff Real Estate Associates 977-4005, loringwoodriff.com HOMEBUILDER (P.115)

Southern Development Homes 170 S. Pantops Dr., 245-0894

Runner-up: Craig Builders 338 W. Rio Rd., 973-3362 Honorable mention: Alexander Nicholson 100 Keystone Pl., 296-7526 CONTINUED ON PAGE 174

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MORTGAGE LENDER (P.127

LANDSCAPING COMPANY (P.115)

UVA Community Credit Union

Town & Country Services

Runner-up: Waterstone Mortgage 615 Woodbrook Dr. Suite B, 975-4600

Runner-up: Snow’s Garden Center 1875 Avon St., 295-2159

Honorable mention: Atlantic Coast Mortgage 1415 Rolkin Rd. #302, 446-1800

Honorable mention: Ivy Nursery 570 Broomley Rd., 295-1183 ARCHITECTURE FIRM (P.115)

VMDO Architects

200 E. Market St., 296-5684 Runner-up: Wolf Ackerman 110 Second St. SE, #201, 296-4848

LESSONS, WORKSHOPS, CONCERTS

Honorable mention: Bushman Dreyfus Architects 820 E. High St. #B, 295-1936 INTERIOR DESIGNER (P.115)

Interior Concepts

245-0045, interiorconceptslc.com Runner-up: Gibson Design Group 296-7161, gibsondesigngroup.net Honorable mention: Faulconer Design 962-7707, faulconerdesigncville.com LAW FIRM (P.121)

Tucker Griffin Barnes 307 Rio Rd. W, 973-7474

NOW ENROLLING FOR FALL CLASSES Info@frontporchcville.org I 434-806-7062 221 E WATER ST. I CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA

Runner-up: Legal Aid Justice Center 1000 Preston Ave., #A, 977-0553

INSURANCE AGENT (P.127)

Hunter Wyant (State Farm)

253 Ridge McIntire Rd., 293-3906 Runner-up: Gary Albert (State Farm) 1380 Rio Rd. E, 296-1222 Honorable mention: Beth Towe Heck (Towe Insurance Service) 304 E. Jefferson St., 295-5191 APARTMENT COMPLEX (P.135)

City Walk

4000 City Walk Way, 244-9255 Runner-up: Stone Creek Village 365 Stone Creek Point, 872-9000 Honorable mention: Lakeside Apartments 200 Lake Club Ct., 984-5253 NONPROFIT (P.127)

Charlottesville Albemarle SPCA

3355 Berkmar Dr., 973-5959

Honorable mention: McGuireWoods 310 Fourth St. NE, 977-2500

Runner-up: Blue Ridge Area Food Bank 1207 Harris St. B, 296-3663

LAWYER (P.121)

Honorable mention: Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia 1000 Cherry Ave., 977-3514 387 Hickory St., 295-0037

William Tucker (Tucker Griffin Barnes)

307 Rio Rd. W, 973-7474 Runner-up: Scott Goodman 205 E. High St., 979-7070 Honorable mention: Chip Royer (Royer, Caramanis & McDonough) 200 Garrett St. C, 260-8767 BANK (P.121)

UVA Community Credit Union uvacreditunion.org

Runner-up: Bank of America bankofamerica.com Honorable mention: Wells Fargo wellsfargo.com

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CAR REPAIR SHOP (P.127)

Airport Road Auto Center

1791 Airport Rd., 973-4075 Runner-up: Bob’s Wheel Alignment 923 E. Market St., 296-4523 Honorable mention: Peacock Auto Services 205 Meade Ave., 979-7475 DOGGIE DAYCARE (P.128)

All Things Pawssible 1201 Stoney Ridge Rd., 972-7297 Runner-up: The Dogg House 2101 Berkmar Dr., 975-3647

INDEX Honorable mention: Pet Paradise 601 Concord Ave., 293-7387 Honorable mention: Tail Wags (916) 303-0770, cvilletailwags.com VETERINARY CLINIC (P.128)

Georgetown Veterinary Hospital 200 Georgetown Way, 977-4600

Runner-up: Monticello Animal Hospital 1193 Fifth St. SW, 979-3644 Honorable mention: Charlottesville Veterinary Hospital 865 Rio E. Ct., 973-4341 PRIVATE SCHOOL (P.129)

St. Anne’s-Belfield School 2132 Ivy Rd., 296-5106

Runner-up: Tandem Friends School 279 Tande m Ln., 296-1303 Honorable mention: The Covenant School 175 Hickory St., 220-7329 PUBLIC SCHOOL (P.129)

Albemarle High School 2775 Hydraulic Rd., 975-9300

Runner-up: Western Albemarle High School 5941 Rockfish Gap Turnpike (Crozet), 823-8700

Runner-up: The Honeycomb 104 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 977-0616 Honorable mention: Bristles Hair Design & Day Spa 716 Rio Rd. W, 977-1411 NAIL SALON (P.131)

Red Handed Nails Salon & Spa

The Shops at Stonefield, 244-3482 Runner-up: Serenity Nails & Spa 923 Preston Ave., 529-8221 Honorable mention: Neroli Spa & Beauty Lounge 507 W. Main St., 984-3450 SPA (P.135)

Halo Salt Spa

400 E. Main St. Suite 2, 234-3827 Runner-up: The Brow House 722 Preston Ave. #106, 825-5333 Honorable mention: Signature Medical Spa 3350 Berkmar Dr., 923-4646 ESTHETICIAN (P.135)

Brooke Fossett (The Brow House) 722 Preston Ave. #106, 825-5333

Honorable mention: Monticello High School 1400 Independence Way, 244-3100

Runner-up: Lyn Chang (Signature Medical Spa) 3350 Berkmar Dr., 923-4646

PRESCHOOL (P.129)

Honorable mention: Leigh Walsh (Signature Medical Spa)

Bright Beginnings Preschool

1221 Stoney Ridge Rd., 979-8585 1610 Regent St. (Forest Lakes), 973-8414 1645 Park Ridge Dr. (Crozet), 823-7129 Runner-up: The International School of Charlottesville 830 Monticello Ave., 984-2174 Honorable mention: St. Mark Lutheran Preschool 100 Alderman Rd., 293-0792 HAIR SALON (P.131)

Moxie Hair & Body Lounge

612 Preston Ave., 979-5556

INN OR B&B (P.135)

Oakhurst Inn

100 Oakhurst Cir., 872-0100 Runner-up: The Clifton 1296 Clifton Inn Dr., 971-1800 Honorable mention: 200 South Street Inn 200 W. South St., 979-0200

WEDDINGS WEDDING PLANNER (P.143)

Adam DonovanGroves (DonovanGroves Events)

465-1076, donovangrovesevents.com Runner-up: Marisa Vrooman (Orpha Events) 960-0155, orphaevents.com Honorable mention: Angelica Laws (Angelica & Co. Weddings) (703) 635-9110, angelicaandco.com REHEARSAL DINNER VENUE (P.143)

Harvest Moon Catering

296-9091, hmcatering.com Runner-up: Exchange Events & Catering (540) 832-0227, bbqexweddings.com Honorable mention: The Local 984-9749, thelocal-cville.com FLORIST (P.147)

Hedge Fine Blooms

416 W. Main St., #1, 817-9950 115 Fourth St. NE, 293-8825 Runner-up: Southern Blooms by Pat’s Floral Design 700 N. Main St. (Madison), (540) 948-5611 Honorable mention: Don’s Florist & Gifts 300 Ridge St., 977-5240

Runner-up: The Local 824 Hinton Ave., 984-9749

418 W. Main St., 293-6456

Honorable mention: Ivy Inn 2244 Old Ivy Rd., 977-1222 WEDDING VENUE (P.153)

Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards

5022 Plank Rd. (North Garden), 202-8063

HOTEL (P.135)

Honorable mention: Keswick Vineyards 1575 Keswick Winery Dr. (Keswick), 244-3341

Omni Charlottesville Hotel (tie)

CATERER (P.145)

CAKES AND DESSERTS (P.147)

101 E. Main St., 260-7144

Runner-up: King Family Vineyards 6550 Roseland Farm (Crozet), 823-7800

1309 W. Main St., 295-4333

Honorable mention: Orpha Films 960-0155, orphaevents.com

Old Metropolitan Hall

Honorable mention: Ruby Liesen (The Brow House)

Graduate Charlottesville

Runner-up: Tom Daly 409-3287, tomdalyphotography.com

PHOTOGRAPHER (P.145)

Jen Fariello

963-7976, jenfariello.com Runner-up: Sarah Cramer Shields 242-6074, cramerphoto.com

Albemarle Baking Co. Runner-up: Chandler’s Bakery Rio Hill Center, 975-5203 Honorable mention: Cakes by Rachel 5853 Jarmans Gap Rd. (Crozet), 960-5872 BAND (OR BOOKING AGENCY) (P.147)

Sam Hill Entertainment

977-6665, samhillbands.com Runner-up: Love Canon (626) 893-5216, lovecanonmusic.com Honorable mention: 20 South Productions 296-1600, 20south.net DJ (OR BOOKING AGENCY) (P.147)

Kevin Graham (DJ for All Occasions)

212 Ridge McIntire Rd., 971-5500

Honorable mention: Ashley Cox (813) 340-2690, ashleypcox.com

(540) 834-3925, facebook.com/kevingraham djforalloccasions

Runner-up: Keswick Hall 701 Club Dr. (Keswick), 979-3440

CINEMATOGRAPHER (P.145)

Runner-up: John Garland DJ Services 293-3332, garlandstudiosonline.com

Honorable mention: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Charlottesville 990 Hilton Heights Rd., 973-2121

(540) 406-3083, vaweddingvideo.com

Ian’s Creations

Honorable mention: Derek J Tobler 296-6689, djtobler.com CONTINUED ON PAGE 177

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CEREMONY MUSICIAN (P.149)

Charlottesville High School String Quartet chsorchestra.org

Runner-up: Travis Elliott traviselliott.com Honorable mention: Plum Blossom String Quartet 295-6367, plumblossomstringquartet.com OFFICIANT (P.149)

Dave Norris

242-5165, letdavemarryyou.com Runner-up: Claire Frances 296-9885, sacredgroundceremonies.com Honorable mention: Kate Adamson 566-9060, tickledspirit.wordpress.com TENTS AND RENTALS (P.145)

Skyline Tent Company 977-8368, skylinetentcompany.com Runner-up: MS Events 984-1155, mseventscville.com Honorable mention: Festive Fare 296-5496, classicpartyrentals.com SOUND AND LIGHTING (P.151)

Blue Ridge Event Production

975-3540, blueridgeavandlighting.com Runner-up: MS Events 984-1155, mseventscville.com Honorable mention: The AV Company 977-8288, theavcompany.com INVITES/CALLIGRAPHY (P.151)

Rock Paper Scissors

321 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 979-6366 Runner-up: T&N Printing 205 12th St. NE, 971-8976

Honorable mention: Tuel Jewelers 319 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 295-4258 BRIDAL SHOP (P.151)

Sealed With A Kiss

505 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, 979-5683 Runner-up: Amanda’s Touch Bridal & Formal 2374 Jefferson Hwy. #102, 221-4748 Runner-up: Ayvazyan & de Beauvoir Bridal abcouturebridal.com

Erica Haskins (Top Knot Studio)

103 Fifth St. SE, 466-4514 Runner-up: Brianna B. Adams 1110 E. Market St., (540) 661-2827 Honorable mention: Daphne Latham daphnelatham.com MAKEUP ARTIST (P.153)

Evonne Burns

(703) 403-3307, evonneburns.com Runner-up: Daphne Latham daphnelatham.com Honorable mention: Nikki Fayolle (Glo-Out [Glamour Bar]) 943 Preston Ave. #2, 293-1251 GIFTS AND FAVORS (P.153)

Gearharts Fine Chocolates

243 Ridge McIntire Rd., 972-9100 Runner-up: The Virginia Shop Barracks Road Shopping Center, 977-0080

WEDDING JEWELRY (P.151)

TRANSPORTATION (P.147)

Runner-up: Fink’s Jewelers Barracks Road Shopping Center, 284-4060 Runner-up: Schwarzschild Keller & George 1149 Millmont St., 293-5011

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Honorable mention: If So INKlined (401) 207-4644, ifsoinklined.com

192 Zan Rd., 979-7672

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Honorable mention: David’s Bridal (Richmond) 9101 W. Broad St. (Richmond), (804) 747-9920

Honorable mention: Feast! 416 W. Main St. (Main Street Market), 244-7800

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175 S. Pantops Dr., 531-5802 Runner-up: C’ville Hop On Tours 389 Stone Creek Point, 218-3565 Honorable mention: Camryn Limousine 103-B Free Bridge Ln., 990-9070

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On the right track Ask Mark and Cynthia Lorenzoni about the secret to their success as owners of Ragged Mountain Running Shop, and they’ll tell you it’s all about balance. The pair, who’ve been outfitting Charlottesville athletes since 1982, welcomes 20,000 customers a year to their Elliewood Avenue shop, a place that feels like a combination clubhouse, support group, town square or simply, as Mark’s brother, Peter, told us a few years ago, “a place to gather.” “We sell shoes,” Mark says. “We work hard at it, and we’ve been blessed to make a good living doing what we enjoy.” But according to Bill Guerrant, who’s been shopping at Ragged Mountain since it opened almost four decades ago, Mark and Cynthia do much more than sell shoes: “They’re knowledgeable because they’re runners. And they take what they know, their own unique, personalized experience, and use it to help their

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