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Through more than five decades, the spot has served the famous and humble fried squash and other delectables from fresh its farm

By Kathleen Purvis

Photo by Peter Taylor

Welcome to our first-ever Great Fall Scavenger Hunt

By Taylor Bowler, Allison Braden, Greg Lacour, & Andy Smith

Illustration by Natalie Andrewson

For years, Charlotte has been one of the largest American cities that lacked a four-year medical school. The health care professionals who finally made it happen overcame a series of setbacks, false starts, and failures, and they plan to use their clean slate to create a new kind of community asset

By Greg Lacour

COURTESY ATRIUM HEALTH

We’ve named the Best of the Best every year for the past 22, and they’ve always meant something. This year, they mean a little more. Each restaurant, watering hole, beauty salon, recreational hub, and fitness studio—and the others, 396 in all—is a testament to resilience in the face of a public health crisis that tested everyone. So patronize, visit, play. We’ve gotten through it together. We’ll handle the future that way, too.

By CM Staff & Contributors

PHOTO BY LOGAN CYRUS

Leaders from Lowe’s, Truist, Red Ventures, and the Charlotte Hornets weigh in

By Ely Portillo

PHOTO BY RUSTY WILLIAMS

Things changed in 2020 at the world’s seventh-busiest airport, but CLT fared far better than others in the year of COVID. Airport leaders explain how they’ve kept the planes aloft when so much else was forced to remain on the ground

By Andy Smith

Photo by Tim Buchman

A decade after the mall closed, the city finally lands on a concrete plan for the east side’s anchor

By Greg Lacour

Photo courtesy of Charlotte Observer Archives, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

It’s come back to life with a revitalization strategy similar to Durham’s. Is it a new antidote to Charlotte’s skyrocketing real estate prices?

By Jen McGivney

PHOTO BY TRAVIS DOVE

As Charlotte continues to build, community leaders are making sure residents don’t get left behind

By Allison Braden

PHOTO BY LOGAN CYRUS

The WSOC anchor on her hard trek from one episode of loss and grief to another—and the meaning of resilience

By Taylor Bowler

Photo by Rick Hovis