“As I looked through the lists of winners and finalists in this year’s Best of Coachella Valley 2024-2025 readers’ poll, one word kept coming to mind.
Community.
As we say farewell to 2024 and head into 2025—a year that very well could be, to make an understatement, chaotic—we’re going to all need community more than ever before.
In these pages, you’ll find hundreds of names of businesses, individuals, organizations and more, all of which are part of this amazing community. The next time you visit or interact with any of our winners and finalists, I recommend congratulating them—and thanking them for doing their part to make the Coachella Valley such a special place.
Thank you to our friends at KESQ News Channel 3, who again partnered with us on this Best of Coachella Valley readers’ poll; be sure to tune in as the station features some of the winners in the coming weeks. Also, thank you to all of the advertisers who helped make this issue possible. I’d personally like to thank all of the Independent staffers and contributors who helped with this year’s issue—especially designer extraordinaire Dennis Wodzisz, whose talent is apparent in both our logo this year and the pages that follow.
Finally, I’d like to thank all of you, our readers, who voted in this year’s readers’ poll. We could not do this with out you—literally.
Welcome to the Best of Coachella Valley 2024-2025…”
[Read the full list of winners at cvindependent.com]