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Orlando, Florida is the most popular tourist destination city in the world and Mark Baratelli owns the most successful culture blog in it: TheDailyCity.com. The Orlando Weekly said "If everyone in Orlando who claims to care about the arts had 1 percent of Baratelli’s energy and commitment, this city would be a world culture capital." Mark tries to live up to that high praise daily by being a strong community partner through the blog and live events in the city.
Featured on MSN.com, Curbed.com and Culturebot.org in 2010, The Daily City highlights select upcoming events, shares photo & video event coverage, and helps with movie and music reviews.
Readers are also treated to in-person recurring live events including Mobile Art Show (Editors Pick 2010, Best of Orlando, Orlando Weekly), Orlando Improv Festival, Taco Truck Taste Test, the annual Audience Choice Awards 2009 + 2010 and Meeting of the Orlando Minds.
Awards
2010
Best Blog in Orlando (Orlando Weekly)
Best Website in Orlando 2nd place (Orlando Weekly)
Best Website 3rd place (Orlando Magazine)
Best Arts Advocate 2nd palce (Orlando Weekly)
Critics Pick: TheDailyCity.com Mobile Art Show (Orlando Weekly)
2009
Best Blog in Orlando (Orlando Weekly)
Best Arts Blog (Orlando Sentinel)
Top Three Blogs in Orlando (Orlando Sentinel)
Our Live Events
Taco Truck Taste Test
food meetups at food trucks
TheDailyCity.com Mobile Art Show
art show in a UHaul
Audience Choice Awards
Awards ceremony for Orlando Fringe Festival
Meeting of the Orlando Minds
early morning creatives-only gathering
Panel Series
informal public talks
Reader Feedback
We have a longer list of what readers have to say about The Daily City. Below are a few of our favorites.
"Maybe, like me, you’re one of the readers who rely upon (Mark Baratelli's) indispensable arts and events website TheDailyCity.com, where he blogs and tweets on any and everything stewing in Orlando’s cultural cauldron (somehow scooping us even when he’s out of town – how does he do that?)."Other Fun Stuff
-Orlando Weekly | July 9, 2009
"But my favorite things about Orlando’s art world in 2009 were two people who expanded my definition of what it means to be an advocate for the arts.... Mark Baratelli, even while often living out of town, broadened his indispensable blog, The Daily City, to encompass Meeting of the Minds (MOOM) meet-ups, Taco Truck Taste Tests and the vehicular-venued Mobile Art Show. If everyone in Orlando who claims to care about the arts had 1 percent of Baratelli’s... energy and commitment, this city would be a world culture capital."
-Orlando Weekly | January 6, 2009
"I believe your web site truly elevates Orlando to the level of other metropolitan cities, and I stop by at least once a day."
-Stephanie Pancratz | July 7, 2009
"If you live in Orlando, this is THE news social/cultural news source."
-Dawn Schreiner | January 8, 2010
"I gotta say the perfect sorta arts blog for me is thedailycity.com. It covers so many cool corners of the arts realm in O-Town. There is so much on that blog that I didn't even know was HERE in the city. It sorta makes me fall in love with Orlando."
-Beth Marshall | September 9, 2010
"I’ve been living her in Orlando for 22 years... You have opened my eyes up to a few new things that I wasn’t aware of. That surprised me. I thought I knew this town inside and out. I enjoy reading your blog on a daily basis. Please keep doing what you are doing."
-Brian OHalloran | August 3, 2009
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