Thicket will be the newest magazine about Alabama to hit area newsstands and bookstores when it arrives early January. If you want to know how and why Todd and Julie Keith (formerly of Portico Magazine) settled on that name for the new publication, check out this entry (and then all of the other ones) on the magazine’s blog.

The magazine will thrive to focus and celebrate the good that exists here in Alabama. Here’s to hoping that they succeed.

We’re about to embark on a new journey ourselves - one closer to what was originally intended when we got started. The wake up call came when I took a look at an old email…