To find the best of something, you have to look for it — examine the candidates, weigh their merits, reach a conclusion. Here, then, four crawls that do just that

Whew! This marks the fifth annual Best of the City issue, and the third time we’ve run an online readers’ poll to put our finger on your vox populi as you turn your head and cough. You flooded us with your faves in food, shopping, arts and entertainment.

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Rare diseases to cure, kids with cancer to be helped … who has time for a personal life?

Dyeing and selling feathers wasn’t exactly the career path Jim Favazzo envisioned, particularly given his employment history. Before he got into the feather business, he was in a decidedly more stereotypically masculine business — construction.

BFF's | Eat and drink | Mind and body | Out and about | Shops and services Readers poll | Good better best | Bonus: Food and drink | Bonus: Mind and body Bonus: Out and about | Bonus: Shops and services.

BFF's | Eat and drink | Mind and body | Out and about | Shops and services Readers poll | Good better best | Bonus: Food and drink | Bonus: Mind and body Bonus: Out and about | Bonus: Shops and services.

Flee foul weather and jump through decades of pinball technology at this windowless shrine to flippers, spinners and bumpers.

C’mon, you know you take them. And why not? Vegas was made for it.

Grayson and her sister were raised by a father who trained recent high school grads to be bricklayers, carpenters and plumbers. Though he said he never wanted his kids following that path, he’d bring home materials and help them do odd jobs for pocket money.