You’ve got until January 31 to help Birmingham be named The South’s Tastiest Town. Birmingham-based Southern Living announced earlier this month that the city was one of ten finalists in the competition. We’re currently in sixth place; the folks at Big Communications look like they can probably explain this a little better than we can.

Resist the urge to vote for the ham sandwich, though the folks in Prince William County seem to have some fun with this website still & the band looks interesting too.

While we’re at it, we do miss the musings of the Bham Sandwich – congrats to Dan on the new gig in NOLA).

You’ve also got one last chance this week to vote for A.skate Foundation’s Pepsi Refresh project – a disability friendly skate park in Alabama’s Magic City.

Speaking of voting, for five years there are folks in this city who’ve decided this site should receive votes in local readers polls. This morning we learned (despite my asking folks not to vote for us) that we’d finished in fifth place in the best website category of The Birmingham News‘ Birmingham’s Best readers poll – our fifth top five finish in that poll during our nearly five years of existence.

Thanks for the continued support and best wishes for a prosperous 2012!