{"id":912,"date":"2008-05-15T15:21:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T20:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:49:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:49:18","slug":"montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Montrealers’ fourth-favourite blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

The results of the Mirror’s annual popularity contest<\/a> are in and Montrealers have voted Spacing Montreal as the fourth-best blog<\/a> in Montreal. We were bested by Midnight Poutine<\/a>, the Montreal City Weblog<\/a> and Pregnant Goldfish<\/a> (a street style blog). All I can say is that they deserve their spots on the list. Thanks, Montreal.<\/p>\n

On a related note, I always enjoy reading the Best of Montreal, even though many of its results are the same from one year to the next and even if the whole thing is essentially an advertising grab. It’s entertaining, at the very least, and it’s also a good way to gauge what is currently in fashion among young anglophone Montrealers. (And I do mean anglophone — there is often a striking difference between the BOM’s results and those of its French counterpart, the Top d’ICI.) <\/p>\n

Below, I’ve cobbled together some results that might interest Spacing Montreal’s readers.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Best Neighbourhood<\/b><\/p>\n

1. Plateau
\n2. NDG
\n3. Mile-End
\n4. St-Henri
\n5. Westmount
\n6. Verdun
\n7. Little Italy
\n8. Downtown
\n9. Outremont
\n10. Gay Village<\/p>\n

Best Building<\/b><\/p>\n

1. Place Ville Marie
\n2. Sun Life Building
\n3. Bell Centre
\n4. Notre Dame Basilica
\n5. St. Joseph\u2019s Oratory
\n6. Belgo Building
\n7. Olympic Stadium
\n8. Concordia EV building
\n9. Habitat 67
\n10. Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale<\/p>\n

Best Montreal Weirdo<\/b><\/p>\n

1. Hollywood the Banana man
\n2. Spider-Man
\n3. Spoonman
\n4. Bearded guy on the tricycle
\n5. One Armed Man on Ste-Catherine
\n(aka Stumpy)
\n6. Mado
\n7. Maysr
\n8. Madness
\n9. Flute-Playing Guy on Stilts
\n10. Cary Tauben<\/p>\n

Best Busker<\/b><\/p>\n

1. Spoonman
\n2. Spider-Man
\n3. Nose Flute Guy
\n4. Stilt Man
\n5. Hugger Busker
\n6. Drum Guy on Ste-Catherine
\n7. Peruvians in the metro
\n8. Bad News Brown
\n9. Hollywood
\n10. Michael Jackson Dancer<\/p>\n

Best Non-Chain Coffee<\/b><\/p>\n

1. Caf\u00e9 Olimpico (124 St-Viateur W.,
\n(514) 495-0746)
\n2. Santropol (3990 St-Urbain, (514) 842-3110)
\n3. Art Java (837 Mont-Royal E., (514) 527-9990)
\n4. Club Social (180 St-Viateur W., (514) 495-0114)
\n5. Caff\u00e9 Italia (6480 St-Laurent, (514) 495-0059)<\/p>\n

Best Place to Have Public Sex<\/b><\/p>\n

1. Mount Royal
\n2. Parc Lafontaine
\n3. Parks in general
\n4. Old Port
\n5. The metro
\n6. Alleyways
\n7. My balcony
\n8. Washrooms (including Barfly, Wanda\u2019s,
\nTyphoon, McGill Library, Basement of McGill\u2019s new music building, 9th floor Con U, Saphir, Brutopia, Caf\u00e9 Melies, Dawson, John Abbott, RCMP HQ)
\n9. Botanical Gardens
\n10. Parc Jean Drapeau\/Ile Ste-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The results of the Mirror’s annual popularity contest are in and Montrealers have voted Spacing Montreal as the fourth-best blog in Montreal. We were bested by Midnight Poutine, the Montreal City Weblog and Pregnant Goldfish (a street style blog). All I can say is that they deserve their spots on the list. Thanks, Montreal. OnContinue reading “Montrealers’ fourth-favourite blog”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[2406,2402,2403,2405,2404,2413,760,2417,2169,2410,2415,2409,2411,2186,533,347,2414,2412,2416,125,275,601,426,861,2408,28,2407,641],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spacing","tag-514-495-0059","tag-514-495-0114","tag-514-495-0746","tag-514-527-9990","tag-514-842-3110","tag-advertising-grab","tag-belgo-building","tag-bell-centre","tag-cafe-melies","tag-cafe-olimpico","tag-cary-tauben","tag-club-social","tag-concordia-ev-building","tag-italy","tag-java","tag-jean-drapeau","tag-john-abbott","tag-mcgill-library","tag-michael-jackson","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-city","tag-notre-dame-basilica","tag-old-port","tag-olympic-stadium","tag-rcmp-hq","tag-spacing-montreal","tag-spider-man-3","tag-st-joseph"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMontrealers' fourth-favourite blog - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Montrealers' fourth-favourite blog - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The results of the Mirror’s annual popularity contest are in and Montrealers have voted Spacing Montreal as the fourth-best blog in Montreal. We were bested by Midnight Poutine, the Montreal City Weblog and Pregnant Goldfish (a street style blog). All I can say is that they deserve their spots on the list. Thanks, Montreal. OnContinue reading "Montrealers’ fourth-favourite blog"\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-05-15T20:21:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-01-21T16:49:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.montrealmirror.com\/2008\/051508\/images\/cover.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Christopher DeWolf\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Spacing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Spacing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Christopher DeWolf\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/\",\"name\":\"Montrealers' fourth-favourite blog - Spacing Montreal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.montrealmirror.com\/2008\/051508\/images\/cover.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-05-15T20:21:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-01-21T16:49:18+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#\/schema\/person\/8d797e2a77c30d58d1f6fe3d915ad3fd\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.montrealmirror.com\/2008\/051508\/images\/cover.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.montrealmirror.com\/2008\/051508\/images\/cover.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Montrealers’ fourth-favourite blog\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/\",\"name\":\"Spacing Montreal\",\"description\":\"Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Montreal Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#\/schema\/person\/8d797e2a77c30d58d1f6fe3d915ad3fd\",\"name\":\"Christopher DeWolf\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/93c8aca91d7cfbd895846128d058930b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/93c8aca91d7cfbd895846128d058930b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Christopher DeWolf\"},\"description\":\"Check out Urbanphoto!\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.urbanphoto.net\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/author\/christopher\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Montrealers' fourth-favourite blog - Spacing Montreal","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Montrealers' fourth-favourite blog - Spacing Montreal","og_description":"The results of the Mirror’s annual popularity contest are in and Montrealers have voted Spacing Montreal as the fourth-best blog in Montreal. We were bested by Midnight Poutine, the Montreal City Weblog and Pregnant Goldfish (a street style blog). All I can say is that they deserve their spots on the list. Thanks, Montreal. OnContinue reading \"Montrealers’ fourth-favourite blog\"","og_url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/","og_site_name":"Spacing Montreal","article_published_time":"2008-05-15T20:21:54+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-01-21T16:49:18+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.montrealmirror.com\/2008\/051508\/images\/cover.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Christopher DeWolf","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Spacing","twitter_site":"@Spacing","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Christopher DeWolf","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/","url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/","name":"Montrealers' fourth-favourite blog - Spacing Montreal","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.montrealmirror.com\/2008\/051508\/images\/cover.jpg","datePublished":"2008-05-15T20:21:54+00:00","dateModified":"2013-01-21T16:49:18+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#\/schema\/person\/8d797e2a77c30d58d1f6fe3d915ad3fd"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.montrealmirror.com\/2008\/051508\/images\/cover.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.montrealmirror.com\/2008\/051508\/images\/cover.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/15\/montrealers-fourth-favourite-blog\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Montrealers’ fourth-favourite blog"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#website","url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/","name":"Spacing Montreal","description":"Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Montreal Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#\/schema\/person\/8d797e2a77c30d58d1f6fe3d915ad3fd","name":"Christopher DeWolf","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/93c8aca91d7cfbd895846128d058930b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/93c8aca91d7cfbd895846128d058930b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Christopher DeWolf"},"description":"Check out Urbanphoto!","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.urbanphoto.net"],"url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/author\/christopher\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21419,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/21419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}