Cathryn Moskow
If she's good enough for the aching legs and feet of the Boston Ballet, Moskow can surely handle the knot in your shoulders from hunching over a computer keyboard.
Workout Plus
For $299 a year, you get an enormous weight room, a cavernous aerobics studio, and a comprehensive cardiovascular area. A great place to stretch yourself and your dollar. 618 Washington Street, Dedham, MA .
Micaelian Jewelers
Are your family heirlooms falling apart? Take Grandma's gold jewelry to this tiny workroom, where Michael V. Micaelian will repair it meticulously for a modest fee. 333 Washington Street, Room 615A, Boston, MA .
Boston Coach Corporation
Courteous drivers and obsessive punctuality make Boston Coach's discreet gray sedans the Hub's best black-car service—as long as your employer is footing the bill. 151 Everrett Avenue, Chelsea, MA .
LaFlamme
Have your hair cut for $9 in the seat of power. Henry Kissinger used to have his hair cut at this eight-chair classic barbershop in Harvard Square. 21 Dunster Street, Cambridge, MA .
John de Jong
Besides the fact that he's very good, he makes house calls. You can't even get a people doctor to do that. Boston Mobile Veterinary Clinic, Boston, MA .
Mor Reale Sewing Machine Center
There's a long wait for service, but these people really care about your machine—enough to give one-year warranties on repair work. Waltham, Framingham, Woburn, MA
Black Magic Chimney Sweeps
Larry O'Connor is even honest enough to tell you that you don't need your chimney cleaned when you think you do. 10 Spring St., Cambridge, MA .
Walter Lopez, of Walter on Lewis Wharf
More than just a beauty treatment. Loquacious Walter works on the inside as well as the outside of your head . . . and slowly. At $20 a shot, he's cheaper than a shrink. MA
Paul Pierce
Paul Pierce, for leading that historic comeback only to miss two free throws that might have iced the series with 1.1 seconds left in game four.
The Legal Triumph of Billy Sullivan
Luckily, they found a jury of his peers: 10 people who think that they way to get rich is to invest in a rock and roll tour with Don King.
Constantine "Gus" Hampers, husband of Republican candidate for state treasurer Joyce Hampers
Charged by the government with illegally importing endangered species—two ocelots and one mountain lion, found stuffed and mounted in the Hamperses' house last spring.
Bill Cleary of Harvard and Jack Bicknell of Boston College
Cleary made hockey's Final Four, proving it is possible to build athletic powers in the Ivy League. And Bicknell simply proved that there was BC football after Doug Flutie.
Glad Day Gay Liberation Bookshop
The bulletin board out front has listings for everything from housing to theater to marches. The shop also has a great selection of cartoon books. 673 Boylston Street, Boston, MA .
Bloomingdale's
Enjoy the selection—from the classical quality of Baker to the stark modernism of Jay Spectre; and the style—the four separate showrooms show off the talents of the store's designers. the Mall at Chestnut Hill, Newton, MA .