The City That Breeds » Entries tagged with "publications"

The Baltimore Sun Mobbies 2010 – get your voting fingers ready

Roughly a year and change ago, the creative minds at the Baltimore Sun decided to fire up a contest honoring the state of Maryland’s “finest” blogs, across a range of topics from Arts n’ Crafts to the Ravens to …Food. The Mobbies were born and The City That Breeds was nominated in a few categories, and even took a few wins. This year, we / I / the royal we have been nominated in four categories, including a new category to the awards – “Best Twitter Feed.” So it is with great gusto I thank whomever nominated this site, blog, whatever you like to call it, and big shoutouts to Pat for his Boozetime! writeups, SpaceManAndy for his advice, and all the other people I just forgot to mention. Voting starts … Read entire article »

Filed under: Contests

The City That Breeds – the b Interview

If you’re a reader of this heeeere site and ever wanted to know a little more “about we,” check out today’s spot on b, an interview with site-starter and primary (pronounced the European way) writer Evan. Check it! … Read entire article »

Filed under: Links

Happy Hour App for Baltimore!!

City Paper has scored it Big Time with the folks at Go Time. Their new site section, unleashed last Friday, is dedicated to cataloging Baltimore’s finest and bestestest happy hours is in full effect, and even comes in a delicious app flavor for your smart phone of choice. I took a test drive with the app today, it lists every happy hour in the Baltimore area, which you can sample and vote on whether it’s good or not. The most popular happy hours are listed on CP’s site in order, but can be sorted in other ways. You can also filter the listings by cuisine, features (A/C, outdoor seating, etc), and a few other things. Or if you’re feeling lucky, shake the phone and it’ll generate a random happy hour for you … Read entire article »

Filed under: Boozetime!, Technology

Event Plug – The Mobbies Gala

On October 14th, at the Metro Gallery (1700 N Charles St, Mount Vernon) in Baltimore, MD USA Planet Earth, the collected masses crammed into the mixed use venue will convene for the Baltimore Sun’s 1st annual Maryland’s Outstanding Blogs contest results, and will additionally celebrate this incredibly well crafted graphic: The festivities begin at 7pm and I am going to look fantastic. … Read entire article »

Filed under: Events

Fuzzy Hearts to a Baltimore Food Examiner

It was called to my attention while I was away last week that a particular Baltimore Restaurant Events Examiner (quite the mouthful), Jasmine Touton, has given wicked mad props to the WILDLY POPULAR and current long term City That Breeds project, NachoQuest. Knowing full well what she’s talking about, she had the following to say about NachoQuest: Nacho Quest 2009 is nothing short of genius. Well stated, Jasmine, well stated. BONUS PIC: Here are some nachos I made while on vacation. The best nachos in Baltimore are the ones you make yourselves, folks! … Read entire article »

Filed under: Food and Drink, Links, Semi-Official