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'Same Old Song' as Hornets Wrap Another Disappointing Season

1 week ago | qcnerve.com | Darrell Horwitz

Despite double-digit scoring from five Charlotte Hornets players in a game that featured no regular starters from either side, the Hornets dropped a seventh straight game on Sunday to wrap their season 2024-25 season on Sunday — winning just one of their final 13 games and ending the season with a 19-63 record.
North Carolina Universities Host Cannabis Research Programs

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.
Wild Recluse Spreads Message of Self Love and Exploration Through Multiple Mediums

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.
Council Quickies: Housing Trust Fund Proposals

1 week ago | qcnerve.com | Ryan Pitkin

Charlotte City Council held a business meeting on Monday, preceded by an action review presentation from Rebecca Hefner with the city’s Housing and Neighborhood Services (HNS) department in which she presented her staff’s recommendations for how council could spend its record $100-million allocation for the Housing Trust Fund during last year’s budget vote.
5 Things to Know: NC Supreme Court Rules on Griffin Challenge

1 week ago | qcnerve.com | Ryan Pitkin

NC Supreme Court Upholds Local Votes, Leaves Overseas Votes in QuestionThe saga of the country’s only remaining uncertified 2024 election is nearing a conclusion … but we’re not quite there yet. The NC Supreme Court made a major ruling late on Friday regarding who will occupy the seventh seat on the bench moving forward.
5 Things to Know: Republicans Repeatedly Delay Vote on DEI Bill

1 week ago | qcnerve.com | Ryan Pitkin

Republicans Repeatedly Delay Vote on DEI BillThe North Carolina Democratic Party called out their Republican counterparts for canceling a scheduled vote on House Bill 171, which would ban DEI policies and training sessions in all state government agencies, on Tuesday after dozens of protesters packed the House gallery to decry the bill.
Caffeto Partners with The Outsiders & Co. to Open The Outpost

2 weeks ago | qcnerve.com | Ryan Pitkin

When she moved from her home country of Colombia to Charlotte about five years ago, Valentina Castellanos knew she would like to work in the restaurant industry, but hadn’t quite figured out how she would do that. It was around that same time that her family members in Colombia bought a coffee farm.
CMPD Releases Promising Crime Stats to Start 2025

2 weeks ago | qcnerve.com | Ryan Pitkin

CMPD on Thursday released its first-quarter crime stats from 2025, lauding a drop in crime compared to the same three-month period in 2024. According to the department, citywide crime fell 6% overall during the first quarter of the year, which ranges from Jan. 1 to March 31, including a 17% drop in violent crime and 4% decrease in property crime compared to the same period in 2024.
'Violet' Crosses the Country in a Musical Filled with Blues and Gospel

2 weeks ago | qcnerve.com | Perry Tannenbaum

There are apparently two schools of thought on how to portray a horrifically scarred woman onstage, as we’ve learned over the past month in Charlotte’s theatre scene. Back in late February, Carolina Actors Studio Theatre took the cinematic approach at the original Mint Museum on Randolph, painstakingly applying makeup to their leading lady, Zoe Matney, down the entire left side of her body from head to ankle before every performance of Alabaster.
Bechtler Exhibit Celebrates Multi-Faceted Career of Virginia Jaramillo

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.