Where's the Best Local Place for Entertainment?

Choose your favorite venue for live music, theater or other forms of entertainment this week.

Yes, the suburbs have culture, as in live theater, music, performance and other forms of entertainment. Choose among your favorites in the region, vote in the poll, and then write a review on the Patch directory of businesses. If your favorite is not listed here, add it to the comment section. Milford Performing Arts Center Grafton Inn The Celtic Tavern The Lazy Dog Bay State Green Thomas Kinkade Signature Gallery Voting ends at 9 a.m. Friday. Because this poll is not scientific, it is not the sole consideration in choosing a winner. The winner will be determined by the Patch editor, based on poll results and reviews posted this week on the Patch Directory of businesses and services. Please vote only once per survey, per Patch. The …

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Mom in Northborough

7:20 pm on Wednesday, May 23, 2012

You must not eat there then.   more ›

Area Readers Make Sporting Goods Shop Selections

After a week of voting, MetroWest-area Patch readers have chosen their favorite places to buy sports clothing and equipment.

After a week of voting on the best places to buy sporting goods, readers have spoken. See below for the winners. Starting tomorrow, return to your local Patch to weigh in on the best place to get a cup of coffee. Framingham: Play it Again Sports Holliston: Grace Bicycles Marlborough: Sports Authority Milford: Soccer Spot Natick: Natick Outdoor Store Northborough/Shrewsbury/Grafton: Wal-Mart Wellesley: Lacrosse Unlimited Westborough: PR Running

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MetroWest Readers Choose Best Salons

Tell us: is your salon on the list?

Throughout the MetroWest region, Patch polled readers for their opinions on where to get their hair cut or styled. After five days of voting, the winners have been chosen. Do you go to any of these salons? What do you like about them? Starting tomorrow, come to Patch to vote on the best place to get breakfast. Framingham: Knockouts Haircuts for Men, Prisms Hair Design Studio Grafton: Cut Loose Hair Studio Holliston: Studio D Hopkinton: Jackie & Company Marlborough: Drumais Hair Salon Milford: Plaza Barber Shop and Hair Salon Natick: Shear Magic Northborough: Innovations Shrewsbury: Scizzors Westborough: Michelle's South Street Salon

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Best of Patch: Readers' Choice

Readers Pick Innovations as Best Salon in Northborough

Northborough folks like to get their hair done up at Innovations.

As Northborough Patch reader Vanessa Boyce wrote, "They've been doing my hair for as long as I can remember. A woman at a restaurant told me once, 'You just can't get that color from a bottle.' You can, but only at Innovations." Boyce's comment echoed an outpouring of support for Innovations in our contest for best hair salon in town. With nearly half the vote, the readers love the salon's longtime staff and ability to cater to all different ages groups. Debbie Dunn, owner of Innovations, said that owning her own salon has been a dream for a long time. In fact, it even says so in her high school yearbook. Learning "everything she knows" from her former boss, Jayne Rogers, Dunn says that she's "on a cloud, and living a dream that I thought …

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Best of Patch: Readers' Choice

Readers' Choice: What's the Best Salon in Town?

Where do you go to look (and feel) good?

My darling, you look beautiful. Where did you get your hair and makeup done? Must be that wonderful spa down the street. You know the one. And Northborough's got many: Spa at Nicholas Michaels; Studio West Hair Design; Hats Off Barber Shop; Louie's Trendsetters Barber Shop; Innovations;  Allure Hair Salon; Bill's Barber Shop; Jay Christopher's Salon and Spa; Personal Distinction; Pinnacle Hair Gallery; Beauty Born By Nature; Bella's Beauty Salon; New Leaf Salon and Spa; and Supercuts at Northborough Crossing. If we're leaving one off of the list, please let us know in the comments and we'll add it immediately. Also, share the story with your friends, family and fellow patrons to help your favorite salon earn the win! If you own or …

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Lisa Hodge

1:54 pm on Thursday, March 22, 2012

Allure Hair Spa - my entire family goes there.   more ›

MetroWest Readers Crown Best Gyms

Tell us: is your gym on the list?

Throughout the MetroWest region, Patch polled readers for their opinions on where to work out. After five days of voting, the winners have been chosen. Are you a member of any of these gyms? What do you like about them?  Next week, come back to vote on the best place to celebrate St. Paddy's Day. Framingham: XTreme Fitness Grafton: Anytime Fitness Holliston: Next Generation Martial Arts Hopkinton: bCalm Power Yoga Marlborough: New Life Health and Wellness Milford: Midtown Family Fitness Natick: Villari's Martial Arts Center Northborough: Shake Fitness Shrewsbury: MassDojo Westborough: Westboro Tennis and Swim

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Best Of Northborough

Best of: Gyms

Where's the best place to go and get fit in Northborough?

We want to pump .... you up! To vote. On gyms. Gyms, places to do yoga, karate and pilates — if it's a place to go and get fit, it's in the running for Northborough Patch's contest for the best gym. Where do you go to get your head, body and mind shaped up? Or, if you don't, where would you go? Dominick's School of Martial Arts, Shake Fitness, T Roses Karate School, Boost Fitness, YogaPlus Fitness Studio, The Northborough Recreation Department, The Core Connection or Teamworks? Voting in the poll below is open until 9 a.m. Friday. Vote, too, on the best gyms in some of our other MetroWest Patch towns: Marlborough, Grafton, Shrewsbury, Westborough and Framingham. Because this poll is not scientific, it is not the sole consideration in …

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