Well folks, the results are in and tabulated. Big thanks to the 546 of you that voted. Winners, well those of you who are real human beings, can expect your prizes soon. Runners up, we've got something special for you too. I can hardly wait for next year's Damnies™. Maybe we'll have an award show too. Click through to see the results. Worst Bar:
Rick's 154, 34%Best after-bar food place:
Scorekeepers 95, 21%
Fleetwood 200, 43%Best trough urinal:
BTB 70, 15%
I'm a woman/are you joking? 198, 45%Best alley to pee in:
8 Ball/Blind Pig 102, 23%
Someone's backyard 100, 25%Worst alley to pee in:
Any alley 78, 19%
In the middle of Main St. 171, 44%Best bar for bar fights:
Anywhere on State St. 89, 23%
Scorekeepers 119, 30%Worst Bar to take your mom to:
Necto 88, 22%
Rick's 160, 37%Best Drunken Karaoke:
8 Ball 104, 24%
Circus 149, 38%Most cooperative co-op:
Blue Leprechaun 64, 16%
People's Food Co-op 293, 83%Most phallic structure:
Nakamura 18, 5%
Brick Dick (AKA the Ypsi Water Tower) 337, 76%Best place to people watch:
"all those fucking sky cranes for their stupid fucking highrises" 64, 14%
Diag 110, 25%Best meeting place now that Borders is gone:
Art Fair 105, 24%
Any coffee place 129, 30%Most public public-art:
Ashley's 85, 20%
The "4 heads" on Liberty at State 181, 43%Worst downtown street for biking:
Graffiti 113, 27%
State (especially between Washington and South U.) 168, 42%Most Attractive City Council Person:
Huron 107, 27%
"Jane Lumm. I can't find her picture on a2gov.org and she's listed as an "independent". Just giving me the ability to assign her any face, personality, and beliefs makes her perhaps the most attractive woman on the planet, but almost certainly better than the grinning homunculi that are the rest of the candidates." 168, 52%Most Craigslist Missed Connections:
Kunselmen 70, 21%
Whole Foods 137, 37%Ugliest building:
Men's locker room at CCRB 120, 32%
Embassy Hotel 71, 17%Best example of brutalist architecture:
City Hall 57, 14%
"City Hall? That place makes me want to rub crayons on my eyeballs, and that sounds pretty brutal." 158, 42%Worst use of downtown real estate:
AT&T Building 53, 14%
Surface parking lots 100, 23%Best local poster artist:
Mongolian BBQ 98, 23%
Jeremy Wheeler 140, 48%(least) Favorite tagger:
Nate Higley 61, 21%
Saes 155, 55%Best fries:
Gexir 125, 45%
Jolly Pumpkin (Truffle Fries) 162, 39%Best knick-knack store:
Frita Batidos 55, 13%
Vault of Midnight 77, 19%Best place to see a show:
Middle Earth 70, 17%
Blind Pig 167, 39%Best Bike Shop:
Hill Auditorium 69, 16%
Two Wheel Tango 125, 38%Best outdoor place/park:
Great Lakes Cycling 83, 25%
Arb 279, 68%Best Bartender (male):
Gallup Park 59, 14%
Bearded dude at Alley Bar 136, 36%Best Bartender (female):
Giancarlo/"That one dude with the beard at The Last Word." 101, 27%
Jessica/Allyssa at the Alley Bar 133, 33%Bar with highest median age of clientele:
Ronnie at Blue Leprechaun 99, 24%
Knight's 178, 43%Best cocktails:
Webers 105, 25%
The Last Word 136, 34%Most ostentatious cocktails:
Ravens Club 85, 21%
Last Word 107, 28%Top place to get away from the menial grind of existential horror that is experienced every day by the millennial generation:
Ravens Club 102, 27%
Old Town 104, 26%Best locally grown, organic, sweatshop-free, farm-fresh, hipster instagram worthy establishment:
Arb 92, 23%
Comet Coffee 94, 24%Worst intersection:
People's Food Co-op 88, 23%
State and South U 174, 41% Washtenaw & Carpenter/Hogback 123, 29%
The bearded dude at Alley Bar is Phil Attee.
ReplyDeleteI am all for an awards show next year. I nominate Billy Crystal as host.
ReplyDeletefor real, learn people's names, it's not difficult.
ReplyDeleteSorry for the lack of folks names. The Best Bartender (male) category was a reader suggestion and for the most part I just copied and pasted the nominations directly from the submissions. On one hand it opened up the field to a broader group of folks. On the other hand, it wasn't always clear who folks were nominating.
ReplyDeleteI'll make sure I do a bit more investigation next time so I can make sure I get people's names, not just their general description.
At one end of spectrum a person was submitted with description and no name. On another end we have this name, and the idea that the lack of description is the appeal of this city council woman. And then pointing out this namelessness is someone who remains nameless. And not a single soul is pointing out the injustice of mongolian bbq losing by TWO POINTS to "surface parking lots." I very much enjoy parking lots, of all varieties. What I do not enjoy is mongolian barbecue, it makes me all verklempt. Mongolian barbecue is neither mongolian or barbecue, discuss.
ReplyDeleteBest bar for bar fights:
ReplyDeleteScorekeepers 119, 30%
Necto 88, 22%
Is this because of our lack of fights and they usually end in people hugging it out?
We call BS otherwise
@ScoreAA, you'd have to ask the people who voted, but from what I hear people are jealous of the hugging it out situation at Scorekeepers.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone gotten their "prizes" yet? Seems like the Damnies were a ploy to up subscribers on Damn Arbor.
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