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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 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 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 >>