Charlotte Magazine - May 2021

‘This Is How We're Going to Make Your Child Better'

Pediatric neurosurgery is technically and emotionally complex—and traditionally dominated by men. As Novant’s first female pediatric neurosurgeon, Dr. Erin Kiehna Richardson has had to learn the intricacies of a demanding field and battle sexism along the way

The Dumbledore of CMC

A surgery resident wrote a series of children’s books and created a special kind of medical magic

LGBTQ HB2+5

Five years after the furor of House Bill 2, the LGBTQ community—in Charlotte, in North Carolina, and across much of the nation—fights attacks on new fronts

Oh, Snap!

New ‘selfie museum’ in Concord celebrates the 1990s

ALLISON LATOS

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

GOOD HEALTH

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

Summer Partee

From woodwork to retail, the kindergarten teacher-turned-designer has learned how to do it herself

Uptown or Downtown?

Archives illuminate how long we’ve argued over the perennial question

NOW OPEN NOVEL ITALIAN

Paul Verica brings a simpler version of the city’s hottest food trend to NoDa

TOP DOCTORS 2021

The annual list you can't without