Patrick Moran

1 week ago | qcnerve.com | Patrick Moran

Even as state lawmakers continue to waffle over marijuana legalization, placing residents in a confusing holding pattern where certain hemp products are allowed and others aren’t, two universities have seen their cannabis research programs blossoming as of late, as they focus on the burgeoning potential for the cash crop.

1 week ago | qcnerve.com | Patrick Moran

On a warm April night, Petra’s is packed for “Sam on Someday,” a multi-act, genre-fluid jam launched by Sam Tayloe, founder and frontman of Charlotte folk rock band Time Sawyer. The talent onstage is prodigious — guitarist Justin Clyde Williams, drummer Tim Haney, bassist Kerry Brooks, piano player Jason Atkins (Greazy Keyz) and more. Darian Parham, who performs as Wild Recluse, is the final act of the evening.

2 weeks ago | qcnerve.com | Patrick Moran

Throughout a career lasting nearly seven decades, visual artist Virginia Jaramillo has remained a pioneer. Among other accomplishments, Jaramillo was the first Mexican American woman to exhibit abstract paintings in a US museum and the only woman included in one of the first racially integrated art shows in America, the 1971 DeLuxe Show in Houston. Despite breaking those barriers, Jaramillo has often been left out of the conversation about the most iconic Latin American visual artists.

2 weeks ago | qcnerve.com | Patrick Moran

Around 3,500 people gathered in front of the Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services on Billingsley Road on Saturday morning to protest draconian cuts to agencies and services by the Trump administration.

2 weeks ago | qcnerve.com | Patrick Moran

Above a stately metronomic beat, skirling rock guitars soar while Petrov frontwoman Mary Grace McKusick unleashes a preternaturally powerful and sustained vocal: “Dreams in a different hue/ I know they’re from you…”The differences in “Protector,” the latest single from Charlotte indie-rock powerhouse Petrov, are not confined to the colors mentioned in the tune’s lyrics.