People
Full Potential
City Year is a national organization with several cities of focus, and Miami is leading the way to help students reach for the stars in and out of the classroom.
Garden Gem
Eddie Fuentes, one of Cocktail Cartel Co.’s homegrown cocktail kings, serves up sensational sips under the shade of breezy trees at Glass & Vine’s secret garden by the sea.
Shape Shifters
Motivation comes in many forms, and getting in the best shape of your life is just an effective workout regimen away. The fitness professionals you are about to meet can help you attain the body of your dreams in no time.
Wow Factor
Meet a few of Miami’s top professionals of perfection to find out how they can help you yield the best version of yourself possible — no matter what your aesthetic goals.
Mindful Leadership
Monique Catoggio, CEO of Illumined Life Leadership, helps professionals and leaders illuminate their path toward mindful leadership so that they may focus their lives and energy with sufficient passion and intention.
Personal Commitment
The Roads Dental Specialty understands that every patient is unique. In addition to providing first-rate service, they work hard to create a comfortable and welcoming environment to help overcome patient’s traditional dental anxieties.
Car-less Miami?
Ralph Rosado nixed his car for 30 days to complete a challenge that helped shed light on transit options and opportunities to help keep Miamians mobile and less car-dependent. Here’s what he learned.
Professional Insight
After conceptualizing and designing Brickell Flatiron for several years, the feeling of putting the shovel in the dirt at the groundbreaking has been Vanessa Grout’s most rewarding experience so far.
THE FORCE IS WITH YOU
In recent months, Officer Nick Perez and his full-time team at Miami PD have gotten a lot of attention for the funny, insightful and creative communication platform they’ve built online, most recently with their video response to the Miami Beach PD’s Running Man Challenge. The viral masterwork culminates with a breakdancing routine in the lobby of the police station that has made its rounds around the world.
Family Matters
Everyone dreams of having a family, those nearest and dearest to us to share life’s joys with. But for some, that dream isn’t easily achieved, which is where fertility treatments and IVF come in.
Fare Warning
A trip to Ariete may cause you to have too much of a good of a time and develop a severe addiction to fine dining, mouthwatering cocktails and outstanding customer service.
Eye Wonder
More than windows to our souls, our eyes interpret a flurry of stimuli in a split-second and can reveal stories of love, life and health.
Style Minds
Meet a carefully curated selection of Miami fashion designers ready to have you looking your best from head-to-toe this season and beyond with collections that will make jaws drop and eyes flutter.
Style Prodigy
Ariel Swedroe Weinberg’s bold, colorful prints are both alluring and eye-catching. This 13-year-old fashion entrepreneur is making a name for herself in the world of fashion, art and tech with Swedroe Art To Wear by Ariel.
Look Luster
Like a crown on a queen, a masterfully coiffed mane is the best accessory a lady can don. Lutz Karpf has the ladies lined up for fierce looks that turn heads throughout The Magic City and beyond.
Mission Accomplished
When Bestselling Author Jeffrey S. Stephens launched his nail-biting, page-turning first novel in 2007, its success would result in an unprecedented series that has the world on the edge of its seat anxiously awaiting the next installment.
Artist’s Touch
For Carlos Alves, creating big and small works of art from scratch with his wife J.C. is what makes living amongst art worth all the hard work it takes to create them.
Key Honor
Getting a “Key To The City” is a meaningful distinction given to highly esteemed residents and visitors, and Jose Luis Melo of The Melo Group is one of the latest local visionaries to have received the honor.
Genuine Gins
Ready to take flight? Let Alexis Sanchez show you the way around the world with 40 types of gin and plenty of flight options at The Traymore Gin Bar, the only gin-tasting destination in the region.
Sparkling Success
When you’re looking to buy that dazzling diamond sparkler for your special someone, Freddy’s Certified Diamonds & Fine Jewelry should be the one and only stop on your quest for the perfect piece.
Immersive Views
The way we view and experience real estate has been transformed by technology and innovation. Learn how Gonzalo Navarro is visualizing projects and giving them life via fully immersive digital experiences.
Shining Bright
Little Lighthouse Foundation’s new Executive Director, Jonahtan Babicka, is shining new
light on the organization’s mission to inspire caring, passionate locals to take action
in the community to benefit children.
Live Securely
The world is ever-changing…and not always for the better. Specialized Protection Services understands this and offers professional executive, personal, property, private event, place-of-worship protection and much more.
Elegantly Eclectic
Tiffany Dominguez takes creativity to a whole new level with her out-of-this-world, timeless jewelry line that puts the “magic” in Magic City.
Exhilarating Times
Javier Cuadros helps build cities, one building at a time, one community at a time. It is a collaborative effort between the city, the community and the development team with the goal of improving quality of life.
Everyone’s Favorite
Perricone’s has been serving homestyle Italian cuisine in the heart of Brickell long before the neighborhood became a household name. This month, the restaurant celebrates its 20th anniversary — but don’t expect velvet rope parties and fancy invites to commemorate the occasion…this is the kind of place where ordering the usual will never disappoint.
Mighty Fine Pour
The Magic City’s drink scene is heating up with Roy A. Roig’s sip-worthy creations at Trust & Co. in Coral Gables that perfectly please with every pour.
Interior Influx
These interior design pros are ready to help you create the home of your dreams with stunning insight and expert attention to every last detail.
Craft On!
Pops of flamingo pink, blue ocean hues and crisp whites set the backdrop for TV personality and DIY “Queen Of Craft” Amber Kemp-Gerstel’s trés chic blog Damask Love, where craft is always in session.
Tasty Surprise
When New York hospitality expert Steven Kamali was tapped for the much-anticipated Triptych Luxury Hotel in Miami, the fact that he will bring years of lavish culinary programming to the groundbreaking development straddling Wynwood, Midtown and the Design District did not go unnoticed.
Pampered Life
When one imagines the life of ultra-affluence, private at-home massages, lavish dinner parties and personal helicopters nixing the Dixie Highway’s gridlock spring to mind. Scott & Angelique Gerow of 360 Concierge & Staffing make such daydreams a reality.
Fantastic Flair
Victor Merino has plenty of tricks up his sleeve as he serves fantastic cocktails with flair from Segafredo Brickell’s hip bar.
Artistic Plans
Peggy Hollander, Founder & Managing Partner of The Succession Group, helps create and implement sophisticated, custom-tailored planning strategies for art collectors to frame their legacy.
Movin’ On Up
Brian Gordon is a big-name in real estate development across the Midwest, putting his personal touch on some of Chicago’s most exciting condominium complexes. His next focus? The Magic City.
Local SheRo
William Shakespeare once exclaimed: How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. Victim’s Advocate and all-around champion for women’s rights, Kattia A. Castellanos, is a prime example of that sentiment.
ANTIQUE AUTOS
It takes a special kind of fanaticism to devote one’s life to something like classic cars. And it takes a certain set of smarts to make money doing it. Palm Beach Classics has both in spades.
Party Pointers
What screams party more than a freshly cracked bottle of bubbly? Figuring that an expert in Prosecco would also be a celebration savant, we had J. Eugenio Cavallin Attias of Foss Marai give us some pointers on flawless festivities.