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So what do you really think of Muni? Write your wittiest, most entertaining review of a Muni line on the Muni Google Places page. Later this month, we’ll look over all of your reviews, and choose a winner, who will get a $100 gift certificate from Hog and Rocks, courtesy of Google Places!

Four more winners will get $50 each for your witty reviews!

The one-and-only Anna Conda will read/perform your review on stage at the Muni Diaries Reunion/Open Mic! Anna will help us choose the winning review, so go over to Google Places and let it all hang out. Use the hashtag #munidiaries to let us know you want your review considered for the contest.

Details:
What: Muni Review Contest on Google Places
Where: Muni Google Places
How: Write your wittiest review of a Muni line, using #munidiaries to enter the contest
Prize: $100 to Hog and Rocks and see your review performed on stage! Four more winners will receive $50 each. So get to it — we want to give you cash, oysters, or pork, or all of the above!

Muni Diaries was just voted San Francisco’s Best Public Transit Blog by readers and judges in the SF Weekly Web Awards! We are beyond excited about our win. And congrats to nominees Streetsblog SF, N Judah Chronicles, and Akit’s Complaint Department — we can’t do without the public transit coverage of these excellent blogs.

But really, it’s your Muni stories that won the award, so the honor really belongs to everyone who has ever contributed a story or photo, commented, or read about San Francisco’s life on public transportation.

So here is a big thank you from the Muni Diaries crew!

A few weeks ago, we told you about the opening of a Muni-themed art show at Fabric8 in the Mission. We were unable to attend the opening of “Back Door!” but we stopped by one day last weekend. We were pleasantly surprised at how charming Andy Stattmiller‘s Muni art is, and we snapped some pics that want to share with you.

As the show’s page explains, “Whether infrequent rider or relentless commuter, every Muni passenger has a memorable experience on the bus. Drivers with character, colorful passengers, hectic city streets, and general mayhem vary from route to route, yet always seem to possess that uniquely San Francisco flavor. With Back Door!, Stattmiller presents a truly entertaining overview in 27 illustrative vignettes that capture the feelings that only Muni can evoke.” We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

The show will remain up until Sept. 12 (one week from Monday), so be sure to stop by and peep the art for yourself.

Info:
Fabric8 (follow @fabric8)
3318 22nd Street (between Guerrero and Valencia)
Take the J-Church, 12, 14, 49, 48, or the 67 to get close

It’s time to nominate your favorite websites and Twitter feeds in SF Weekly’s annual Web Awards. SF Weekly wants you to tell them who is the “Best Public Transit Blog.” Naturally, we thought you might have an idea about that. (I would put a winky face here but I think that violates some kind of code of conduct.)

The awards also ask you to vote for other online favorites, including the best food blogger, best neighborhood blog, and best events website. So be sure to vote for sites that are your constant daily companions. For ideas, check out the awesome blogs in our sidebar to the right over there.

Oh, the last category of the SF Weekly Awards is a free-for-all write-in. If the @munidiaries Twitter feed keeps you entertained throughout the day, we wouldn’t mind if you wrote us in as best local Twitter feed.

SF Weekly has more details about the judges who will pick the winner from your top three choices.

Thank you for all your support and stories, and now, for all your votes!

Vote in the San Francisco Weekly Web Awards: 4. Best Public Transit Blog and 35. Wild Card: “@munidiaries for best local Twitter feed.”