Best of C-VILLE 2012

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Philly has the cheesesteak, Houston has the Astrodome, San Fran has the Bay, and Memphis’ got the blues. New York has Times Square, D.C. has the White House, Seattle has the Space Needle, and San Diego’s got the zoo. …But whatta they got on us? Nothin’. For the 17th year, we asked you to vote on what you love best about Charlottesville—from your favorite place to boogie to the spiciest Bloody Mary to where you go to find vintage duds—and these are the results.

Enclave

All of these just take you back to the homepage.
- notsodank
  
  Are you this snide in person, dankfu?
Jodi

Try again. Links to winners list lead to nowhere
- dankfu
  
  exactly!
gileser

Should be working fine now. Please let us know if there are any more issues with the links.
gileser

Also I’ll make sure my stinkin’ mug doesn’t show up with every post…
John

I always look forward to seeing how ridiculous this completely arbitrary list is every year.
- best of
  
  If you had read it every year you’d see the categories aren’t that arbitrary.

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