Well, if you didn’t think we were green, you have been living under a hole.  Charlottesville recently got two awards that solidify our kingship of the best places to live.  Even if Forbes thinks we aren’t as cool as midwestern cities, we still have them beat in a few places:

Outside Names Charlottesville Top 20 Best Towns in America…AGAIN!

According to Outside Magazine, Charlottesville was among the 20 best cities in the Country to locate and enjoy outdoor living. Charlottesville was the only city in Virginia to make the list. In addition to Charlottesville, the list includes: Washington, D.C., Chattanooga, Tenn., Ogden, Utah, Portsmouth, N.H., Tacoma, WA, Ithaca, N.Y., Louisville, Ky., Eureka, Calif., Crested Butte, Colo., Columbia, Mo., Oxford, Miss.; New Orleans; Oakland; Sacramento; Levittown, N.Y.; Wilmington, N.C.; Corvallis, Ore.; Seattle; Brattleboro, Vt.

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Charlottesville is one of the top 10 MSA’s for Owners of Hybirds [from Buy Hybrid Car]

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Ladies and gentlemen, it has to occurred to me in the wee hours of the morning that you are all studious and intelligent people. I frequent various places around town to do my studying. You probably do as well.

I’m interested in figuring out where you think the best place to study. By study, I do not mean eye candy. I mean actually sitting down and cranking through the books in a distraction-less, potentially caffeine induced environment.

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Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like cocktails have gotten more expensive in this town. I am a big fan of cocktails, so much, in fact, that my friends often crucify me for not drinking more manly drinks, a la Bud Light. Cocktails represent a right de passage in this town. It’s what separates the gentlemen from the boys. Honestly, cocktails represent the defining factor of how a restaurant thinks about itself.

Why cocktails?

Cocktails imbue those who drink them with status, prestige and mostly, alcohol. They are a way of explaining to your friends, I have an exotic palette and my sexual appeal is exponentially related to the exoticness of my palette. From whiskey muddles, to dirty martinis, you have a host of purchased meanings to flaunt at the bar. Oh, and did I mention restaurants love to be the granter of sex appeal?

Making us think that buying the silver fiery blue ball (tequilla, 151, blue curacao, in a baller glass) will get us chicks is oh so right. Now the question is, do you buy that drink for the lady or for the dude? Restaurants also make out like bandits. »Read More

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Contributing to this article were: Dr. Jonas von Klenk, Master C, & Jimmy Chocolate Chunkster Junior

After an argument over Charlottesville’s best cookies which involved chains, tasers, boot knives, diapers, and the Police, we decided to settle the issue amicably and as scientifically as possible.

While we initially tried to hire Dr. von Klenk’s rival, Chocborg Tolman at Oxford, we ultimately settled for the less illustrious Klenk, an aspiring rapper, and child with Type II diabetes in a Rascal scooter.

This is the story of three strangers, picked to live in a house and judge cookies. (Caveat: Jimmy, Jr. had to be home for an 8:00 bed time, per his mother’s request.)

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