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Arts & Culture

Best Activities for Kids: Most innovative social networking site
Best Actor: Creating principled characters
Best Actress: Most righteous onstage chemistry
Best Album: Most ethical lyricists
Best All-Ages Club: Where little guys get big treatment
Best Anime Club: Beefiest way to catch 'em all
Best Antiwar Art Installment: Art that best threatens precedent
Best Band Collective: Least selfish way to get to the top
Best Benefit Concert Series: Most idealistic use of teenage energy
Best Clergyperson/Mystery Novelist: Holiest writer
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Goods & Services

Best Barbershop: Soothing soul and an earthly vibe
Best Art Supplier: Giving household recyclables new life
Best Bike Shop: Beyond retail, teaching kids pride in ownership
Best Bookstore: A cozy, bookish, community place
Best Car Dealer: An electrifying test drive
Best Car Repair: A trusting and trustworthy fix-it man
Best Chocolates: Don't put that box in a landfill — eat it!
Best Coffee: Most fervently religious cup of organic joe
Best Collectibles Cafe: Faithful to coffee, relics, tchotchkes, and God
Best Cosplay Strategy Book: Facilitating creative transformations
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People & Places

Best Residential Garden: Visions of utopiary
Best Bonsai: Serenest spot
Best Church: Most camouflaged house of worship
Best Citizen: A big-hearted public defender
Best Clothes-Free Club: Viewing nature as nature intended
Best Community Center: An ambitious and rewarding relocation
Best Community Garden: Returning to the Garden of Eatin'
Best Condo Development: Blends elegance and environmentalism
Best Environmental Resource Center: Helpful how-tos for going green
Best Fruit Recycler: Thriftiest way to dispose of forbidding fruit
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Restaurants & Bars

Best African Food: A more refined Ethiopian experience
Best Bar for a Bender: There's no sin in occasional excess
Best Bar with a View: Ultimate luxury at bay's edge
Best Bar: Every night is a game night
Best Barbecue: Friendly folks and smoky perfection
Best Burger: Preserving that road-shack culture
Best Burrito: A thing of beauty wrapped in foil
Best Cafe Gallery: A sustainable place to caffeinate
Best Caribbean Food: Good enough to make you forgive Columbus
Best Central/South American food: A breathtaking range of meaty textures
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Sports & Leisure

Best (Legal) Skate Hangout: A place for half-pipe dreams
Best Animal Exhibit: Kid-friendly eco-education
Best College Athlete: Hometown sports hero on the rise
Best Fishing Spot: Blissful relaxation (and maybe even fish)
Best High School Team: Spreading lofty aspirations
Best Long-Distance Golfer: Fairway to heaven
Best Lunchtime Yoga Fix: A grounding 75-minute break from the rat race
Best Place for Girls to Follow Hearts and Soles: Athletic Club has high ideals
Best Place to Dance: The selectas speak your body language
Best Place to Reach a Higher Plane: One lofty patch of green
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