You discover that Biff Tannen did certainly turn into president. You shortly study new vocabulary phrases like “COVID” and “Ozempic.” And, there’s no fluoride within the water, so that you’re pissed you didn’t go into dentistry.
However after your head stops spinning like a DeLorean tire, you go searching and see the maturation of a metropolis that has lengthy appeared on the precipice of cultural and culinary maturity, and you are feeling a contact of pleasure.
That is the coming-of-age story we’ve been ready to learn. And it’s proper right here on this yr’s Miami New Occasions Better of Miami® problem.
For 2025, we honor our metropolis’s “Trendy Basic” interval. Positive, we could also be recognized for paving over our previous with careless abandon, however we’re additionally made up of communities that take time to protect and resurrect cultural anchors. We’re a blended bag, child!
Right here at New Occasions, our writers got here collectively in a mind-meld to compile this outsize compendium of Miami’s future landmarks and mainstays within the classes of Arts & Leisure, Sports activities & Recreation, Buying & Providers, and Eat & Drink.
You, pricey reader, additionally made your personal decisions in our annual Readers’ Ballot; you should definitely examine who got here out on high.
We encourage you to hunt out a print copy or save a hyperlink to this yr’s version to function a information to the current and the way forward for this Magic Metropolis. As a result of even when you’re not into it but, your children are gonna adore it.
—Liz Tracy, Better of Miami® editor
Better of Miami 2025® was written by Grant Albert, Celia Almeida, Clarissa Buch Zilberman, Carolina del Busto, Alex DeLuca, Jose D. Duran, Asha Elias, Naomi Feinstein, Cindy Ferreiro, Tom Finkel, Theo Karantsalis, Samuel Loetscher, Nicole Lopez-Alvar, Anna Magluta, Douglas Markowitz, Isabel Maza, Sophia Medina, David Rolland, Jesse Scott, Shanae Hardy, Michelle Solomon, Liz Tracy, Caroline Val, Isabel Wilder, and Ryan Yousefi
Design by Kristin Bjornsen. Cowl, part openers, and spot illustrations by Rocco Malatesta
