It's spring again, and that means it is time for Detroit's Eastern Market to welcome vendors and shoppers back to the outdoor sheds.

I love the fact that the market is open year round, and your shopping experience at the Winter Market can include sighting someone suspiciously resembling Santa among a sea of poinsettias while you pick up supplies for your holiday parties.

Rows of poinsettia plants at a market

    

Here’s the thing most Orlando advice gets wrong right out of the gate: it treats parks like they’re interchangeable. Like you just swap one logo for another and the day feels the same. It doesn’t. Not even close.

Each park pulls on a different emotional lever: immersion, adrenaline, or room to breathe. And in 2026, when crowds, heat, and fatigue are part of the deal whether anyone admits it or not, stacking similar experiences back-to-back is how trips can fall apart.

For many travelers, the mental image of Brazil is a vivid montage of Rio’s Carnival, the thundering cascades of Iguazú, and the sprawling green canopy of the Amazon. Yet, as we move through 2026, the essence of Brazilian travel is shifting.


This February, Mills Gallery will host a powerful and emotionally charged exhibition titled "The Scream of Miroslav," featuring the work of Cuban artist Miroslav de la Torre Kozorez. Curated by acclaimed Cuban-American artist Rafael Hernández as part of his Grand Art Society initiative, this exhibition promises to shake audiences with its poignant narratives and bold visual storytelling.

Product teams and marketers usually face a binary choice regarding visual assets: pay thousands for a custom illustrator to build a proprietary brand language, or settle for a "Frankenstein" UI cobbled together from disparate stock libraries.

Most startups and lean agencies ask the same central question: can an off-the-shelf library actually support a coherent brand system? Or are you doomed to look like a template until you raise Series A funding?