Ryan Pitkin
Journalist at Freelance
Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Queen City Nerve
Journalist. Co-founder, Nerve Media Productions. Editor, @queencitynerve. Books & baseball. Perfect parallel parker. Alliterative asshole. [email protected]
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qcnerve.com | Ryan Pitkin
Federal Funding Cuts Hit Local Theatre CompanyThe team at Three Bone Theatre announced this week that it has lost the $20,000 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant awarded to the company last year to support its run of the Luis Alfaro Trilogy, a modern-day retelling of Greek tragedies, due to funding cuts at the federal agency. “This is an unprecedented reversal of federal arts funding nationwide.
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qcnerve.com | Ryan Pitkin
On Wednesday, Mayor Vi Lyles joined five Charlotte City Council members and city attorney Anthony Fox at an impromptu press conference to deny and denounce comments made by fellow council member Dr. Victoria Watlington, who called recent actions by the council “unethical, immoral, and frankly, illegal.” Though vague, Watlington’s comments in an email to supporters on Tuesday appear to have stemmed from multiple recent closed sessions held by council to discuss a potential settlement offer for...
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qcnerve.com | Ryan Pitkin
In a video dropped on social media on May 5, actor, comedian and writer Danny McBride (The Righteous Gemstones) hammers away at a manual typewriter in a vast sun-dappled agave field. “Let’s be honest,” McBride intones in voiceover. “Cinco de Mayo is not about waiting two hours in line at a cheesy restaurant.”It’s the latest in a series of surreal videos that comprise the advertising campaign for McBride’s new brand of top-shelf tequila.
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qcnerve.com | Ryan Pitkin
City Manager Marcus Jones presented his proposed Fiscal Year 2026 budget to Charlotte City Council during a quick meeting. Council members were not able to ask specific questions or carry out in-depth discussions of the budget tonight as they received the 500-page book for the first time as they entered the meeting. They will have a chance for discussion following the May 12 public forum.
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qcnerve.com | Ryan Pitkin
For a split second after walking into Leluia Hall in Dilworth on a recent Thursday I got the briefest glimpse of what it might be like to work for Colleen Hughes, one of Charlotte’s most renowned mixologists and beverage director for the distinguished Tonidandel-Brown Restaurant Group.
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RT @queencitynerve: Airport workers, @32BJSEIU union reps, elected officials and advocates rallied in Uptown yesterday to urge the city to…
No spoilers but I do believe that, without hyperbole, that one scene in #SinnersMovie should and will be heralded as a definitive scene in all of cinema. I couldn’t believe the greatness I was watching unfold. Fully unexpected and so fulfilling. Rewatch value on 10 for all of it.
Random #househunting question: Anybody know an online source where I can look up how frequently a train passes a given spot on the tracks?
