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• Best Estate Sales
  Berenice Denton
  If you're selling, she's got the best merchandising; if you're buying, she's the one with the best stuff. For 40 years, Berenice Denton has had the inside line on the finer things in those zip codes you read about in NFocus. The very cream of the crop might end up at her store The Cottage in... More >>
• Best Alternative to Drunk Driving
  Zingo Nashville
  Screw Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke! Let's put the guys who started Zingo Transportation in charge of fixing the financial mess. Anyone who can figure out how to simultaneously make money, reduce drunk driving and look like a Quadrophenia hipster can surely handle the Wall Street Massacre better... More >>
• Best Wine Shop
  YN
  Honk if you love Ed Fryer. Maybe the least pompous guy ever to hawk a bottle of Burgundy, Ed stocks 365 wines under $20, organized in plain-speak categories ranging from Lavish, Light and Lively to Rich and Bubbly. The sunlight-filled store is pretty, the cast of characters (including Wine... More >>
• Best Store for Condo Buyers/Best Complement to IKEA
  ModerNash
  Congratulations on your purchase of a sleek, modern downtown loft! Wouldn't a fabulous new Karlstad sofa from IKEA look great in the living room? Too bad that would make an expensive and improbable road trip, what with the exorbitant gas prices—assuming you can even find gas between here... More >>
• Best New Boutique
  Ecology
  Technically, the most earth-friendly clothes are the reused castoffs sold at Goodwill. But if sporting moth-eaten cardigans isn't an enticing way to save the planet, head on over to Ecology, Nashville's only green boutique, where fashions hand-picked by owner Laurel Staples are organic,... More >>
• Best Anticipated Boutique Opening
  Karen Elson and Amy Patterson
  Before she married Jack White and became a rock-star wife, the auburn-haired British singer and model Karen Elson was already rocking Vogue with her otherworldly glow and once-shaved eyebrows. So while news of the local glamazon opening her own boutique on Belmont Boulevard with former Venus... More >>
• Best Place to Buy Jeans
  Two Elle
  I don't wear jeans, but my wife does—and I can say from experience that shopping for jeans, for her, is not very much fun. Which ends up being not much fun for me, either. This year for her birthday I bought a gift certificate to Two Elle, the charming little boutique on 12th Avenue South.... More >>
• Best Place to Find Brand-Name Shoes, Cheap
  Marti & Liz
  Once upon a time there was a charming pair of peacock-feathered Stuart Weitzmans that ended up stolen on New Year's Eve. Thank God and Carrie Bradshaw they came from Marti & Liz and only cost $30. The selection at this Cool Springs shoe bazaar of original finds can be hit or miss,... More >>
• Best Place to Buy a Last-Minute Gift
  Alegria
  A leather artisan, Alegria owner Bill Breyer has another talent: spatial relations. He's squeezed a Buckhead-sized assortment of gift ideas into this tiny East Nashville shop, where you'll find something for everyone—especially if that someone has a taste for irony and craftiness. Breyer... More >>
• Best Place for Used-Media Bargains
  McKay Used Books & CDs
  It's not the wide aisles, diverse selection or incredibly knowledgeable staff that makes McKay the best place for secondhand media in the city. It's not even the remarkable finds that even the most casual shopper can discover on a ramble through its expansive Westside location. No, what makes... More >>
• Best Scooter Store
  East Side Scooters
  You don't need a degree in macroeconomics to see the correlation between the outrageous gas prices and Nashville's (and the country's) scooter mania. But Josephine and James Duer saw it first, well over a year ago, leading them to open East Side Scooters, our city's first (and only) dedicated... More >>
• Best Brazilian Bikini Wax (15 Comments)
  Gracie's
  A native Brazilian who trained in Paris, Cindy Gracie apparently knows of what she speaks—namely, the hot wax removal of all pubic hair, save for a thin "landing strip" in the front. Sources say that Gracie manages to make a potentially nerve-racking experience seem like a simple haircut.... More >>
• Best Doctor
  Judson Rogers, M.D.
  Jud Rogers left a group practice several years ago to start his own one-doc office, where he and a small staff tend to patients as if they were real human beings. (As if!) It's like visiting Mayberry's town doctor, except Rogers is both urbane (some folks speculate that he shares a wardrobe with... More >>
• Best Grocery Delivery (1 Comment)
  Plumgood Food
  I'm not saying Plumgood actually conspired to create a gas shortage this fall, but when the Fox family vehicles were on empty and the purple truck delivered groceries to our front door, Plumgood sure did come out looking like a hero. With free next-day delivery of mainstream, locally grown and... More >>
• Best Fitness Instructor
  Julia Ledbetter
  Julia Ledbetter is a demanding woman. As part of Julia's Body Shop Boot Camp, she asks participants to eschew alcohol, breads and sugar for the duration of her four-week torture test. The Monday-Thursday early boot camp classes start at 6 a.m., even before the sun is asked to get up this time of... More >>
• Best Team-Building Exercise
  Cooking Classes
  Forget the awkward Christmas party or the dreaded annual sales meeting—cooking classes are the latest team-building trend. Sign up for French Dessert at Salud! or Thai Taste Explosion at Viking, and the purchasing department might find itself inspired and re-ignited by a crème... More >>
• Best Place to Buy Used Jazz
  Inglewood Backs & Tracks
  Dixieland jazz was blowing sweet and breezy the last time we opened the door to Adam Meyer's cozy little Riverside Village book and record store in East Nashville, and it put me in the mood instantly to browse through his jazz holdings—confined mostly to one table-sized rack, but studded... More >>
• Best Party Space
  Events@1418
  From its location right next to the Hustler Hollywood store, you wouldn't necessarily think you'd found a venue for some artsy and glam soirees. But Events@1418 is a remarkable space. Versatile for an intimate gathering of friends or a wedding banquet, with a great staff and a near-palpable... More >>