Queen City Nerve

5 days ago | qcnerve.com | Patrick Moran

On March 15, the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day, an affable group of people gathered at Divine Barrel Brewing in NoDa. Some were clad in the green T-shirts associated with America’s unofficial drinking holiday and a few ordered beers in the sunlit taproom.

1 week ago | 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.

1 week ago | qcnerve.com | Perry Tannenbaum

It’s amazing how public sentiment outpaces settled American law on some issues — specifically in the evolution toward the approval of marijuana, abortion, gay marriage and assisted suicide. When Marsha Norman’s ‘Night, Mother premiered on Broadway in 1983, the concept of physician-assisted suicide hadn’t really evolved into a public issue.

1 week ago | qcnerve.com | Darrell Horwitz

Despite finishing the 2024-25 season with a 5-12 record, there were reasons to be positive about the Carolina Panthers coming into the current offseason. That optimism can be based as much on what we did not see as what we did. For one, we didn’t see (or hear) much of David Tepper during last season, which means the owner felt the organization has been on the right track without him having to micromanage things at every angle. That never ended well.

1 week ago | 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...