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The Tennessean’s Toast Of Music City Is Back For Another Crispy Year

2 June 2009 | 11:24 am
Author: Morgan Levy

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Remember last year’s Toast Of Music City? If not, let us refresh your memory. The Tennessean’s readers voted Shoney’s, Golden Corral and Olive Garden as some of the top spots to grab a bite to eat, and Nashvillest readers were mortally offended. And so we’re begging you: Get over there and make things turn out right this year! 

Toast of Music City is the Tennessean’s annual Reader’s Choice Awards, and to be fair, the site and voting is greatly improved, and the 105 categories appear to be more Scene-esque than ever! To that point, there’s an, ahem, Best Local Blog category. We think you know the right thing to do…

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11 Comments

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  • http://www.harshmedia.com/ Sara

    Voted for you guys, of course! Jake is up for best visual artist @ http://bit.ly/9mixt I'd love it if you'd vote for him!!

  • http://loudestnoise.com David Cintron

    There are too many categories to vote for so instead I'm not going to vote yet be appalled by the results of my uncultured and less hip Nashville neighbors.

  • http://loudestnoise.com David Cintron

    I then decided I would vote for Nashvillest.com because obviously it is the best local blog, but was greeted by a very unfriendly “Service Unavailable” error mesage.

  • http://nashvillest.com Christy Frink

    Aww. @tndotcom says that the server is down temporarily. Yay internet?

  • http://mushinnoshin.com/ Jon

    Man.. I don't remember what the voting UI looked like last year, but if this is the greatly improved version, yikes. Unless you plan on voting in all 105 categories straight through, even the ones where you don't have a clue what you're voting on, be prepared for a nightmarish romp through opening and reopening the menus and submenus and re-clicking through multi pages of subcategories.

  • http://mushinnoshin.com/ Jon

    And I'll be shocked if the nominees on the first page of each category don't do mysteriously better than then nominees on the last page of their category.

    And you'd think the Tennessean could find a proofreader to keep the same nominee from appearing multiple times under 4 or 5 different spellings.

    Not that I'm being critical or anything ;)

  • http://nashvillest.com morganlevy

    You win, you win. After playing with it some more, it is pretty bad for the reasons you've listed (no way to skip categories unless you use the menus, multiple pages of nominees that are barely noticeable). But last year was worse, we promise.

    I think the multiples/mispellings are user-submitted nominations. But they should still be weeding those out. I noticed that there were two entries for CREMA Coffee today (but none yesterday).

  • http://tennessean.com/ Eric Shuff

    Sorry about all the issues with Toast. The majority of the site is human run, thus there will be human error. We're doing our best to correct everything as quickly as possible.

    About the problem with moving from category to category; we just added a new category link to the left navigation bar. It will take you to a new (but random) category. Due to odd database problems, we can't make it shift to the next category on the list, but we're trying to make it as pain-free as possible. (We're definitely learning for next years, at least.)

    If you have any other crazy issues that you find, please feel free to contact me at eshuff@tennessean.com. I'll do my best to get them fixed.

  • Twitterite

    Feel free to twitter your feedback on toast to @ToastMusicCity

    that's what I did

  • http://tennessean.com/ Eric Shuff

    Sorry about all the issues with Toast. The majority of the site is human run, thus there will be human error. We're doing our best to correct everything as quickly as possible.

    About the problem with moving from category to category; we just added a new category link to the left navigation bar. It will take you to a new (but random) category. Due to odd database problems, we can't make it shift to the next category on the list, but we're trying to make it as pain-free as possible. (We're definitely learning for next years, at least.)

    If you have any other crazy issues that you find, please feel free to contact me at eshuff@tennessean.com. I'll do my best to get them fixed.

  • Twitterite

    Feel free to twitter your feedback on toast to @ToastMusicCity

    that's what I did