Category Archives: My Birmingham

My Birmingham: Your thoughts on Siegelman & Scrushy sentences

We’ve already updated our poll question on the front page to see what our readers think about Siegelman’s and Scrushy’s sentences, but we thought we’d go that extra mile today and ask you to articulate your points. Go on over to My Birmingham and let us know what you think about last night’s decisions.

But of course we want to have you vote on this as well. Keep an eye out on My Birmingham for a piece on Sunday about our recently closed poll about the 2007 mayoral race.

The Terminal’s mobile CS guide is up!

This is for the benefit of those that subscribe to the site’s RSS feed. While it is not finished, a significant portion of our unofficial guide to City Stages is now available for you to look at and critique.

The idea is simple – take advantage of the instant feedback feature of blogs while providing links to many of the scheduled performers’ official websites and MySpace profiles, allowing people to check out some of the bands in a little more depth.

It will also be accessible via mobile devices, meaning that you can comment on a band while standing in the crowd (though you may want to stand off to the side and do that). Continue reading

“My Birmingham” begins

Take a look at the far sidebar and you will see an RSS feed for My Birmingham.

My Birmingham serves as the editorial section of The Terminal. It is not completely finished as of yet; however, considering that tomorrow is an election day, we figured we’d start it up with a post about the amendments we’re voting on tomorrow.

If you want to take a turn at My Birmingham, check out our submissions page and then send an e-mail to André Natta @ andre@bhamterminal.com.

Some food for thought this Friday

We’re still in the process of setting up our editorial section to the site. We hope to have it operational by the beginning of next week. However, we did receive a submission that we could not wait to post until then. It probably best exemplifies the reasons why this site was set up to begin with. Click on to read it; it’ll be a good way to start the weekend. Continue reading