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Arts & Culture
Questions Surround Light Factory Crowdsourcing Campaign to Honor Late Artist
A recent Facebook post from Charlotte artist Sharon Dowell has raised questions about what happened to thousands of dollars in funding that was raised three years ago to launch a photography mentorship program in honor of late artist Deborah Triplett. Charlotte photography studio The Light Factory raised more than $6,500…
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Arts & Culture
Multi-Hyphenate Talent Germôna Sharp Expands Repertoire with Writing, Directorial Debuts
In one story, a 6-year-old Black boy is suddenly transported into a strange new world that floats above a planet. There he meets his grown-up self, who is lauded as the savior of this future society. In another, set in the 1950s, a magnetic and ambitious Black singer and dancer…
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Guides & Events
Lifeline: 5 Things to Do in Charlotte This Week
Queen City Nerve’s motto has been the same since our start: If you think nothing is happening in Charlotte, you’re not trying. While we’ve always included a Lifeline in our print issue, here’s our online version to help give you weekly reasons to engage. Melanie A. Davis & the Madness…
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Guides & Events
Lifeline: 5 Things to Do in Charlotte This Week
Queen City Nerve’s motto has been the same since our start: If you think nothing is happening in Charlotte, you’re not trying. While we’ve always included a Lifeline in our print issue, here’s our online version to help give you weekly reasons to engage. Pat Metheny Tuesday, March 24 •…
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News & Opinion
Camp North End Tenants React Cautiously to Property’s Sale
Sometimes standing on business means standing up for your actual business. “Yes, we acknowledge Camp North End is sold,” Davita Galloway, co-founder of Black-owned creative business DUPP&SWAT, posted on her business’s Instagram account on Feb. 14, two days after tenants at the sprawling, 76-acres campus were informed that a new…
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Guides & Events
Lifeline: 5 Things to Do in Charlotte This Week
Queen City Nerve’s motto has been the same since our start: If you think nothing is happening in Charlotte, you’re not trying. While we’ve always included a Lifeline in our print issue, here’s our online version to help give you weekly reasons to engage. ‘Her Story’ Now through March 28…
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Music
LAMÄR Weaves a Spell of Heart and Soul with Moonseeker Trilogy
Screeching tires cut through the sounds of onrushing traffic before we hear the sudden crash of crumpled steel and breaking glass. A few seconds of silence follow. Then LAMÄR’s husky whisper emerges amid the chirping of crickets: “In shadows cast by silver light/ A wonder roams through the night/ With…
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Guides & Events
Lifeline: 5 Things Happening This Week
Queen City Nerve’s motto has been the same since our start: If you think nothing is happening in Charlotte, you’re not trying. While we’ve always included a Lifeline in our print issue, here’s our online version to help give you weekly reasons to engage. BrizB, Bedrumor, Lucid Amethyst Wednesday, March…
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Arts & Culture
Way Out Open Mic Encourages Performers to Get Experimental
“We’re just looking for people that are doing something that’s outside of the box,” says Dylan Gilbert says. “We try to let that definition stay loose, because what might be outside of the box for a dancer might be different for a musician.” The songwriter, producer and sound artist is…
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Guides & Events
Lifeline: 5 Things Happening This Week
Queen City Nerve’s motto has been the same since our start: If you think nothing is happening in Charlotte, you’re not trying. While we’ve always included a Lifeline in our print issue, here’s our online version to help give you weekly reasons to engage. Nelward, Sweat Transfer, Hi I’m Chris…
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Guides & Events
Lifeline: 5 Things Happening This Week
Queen City Nerve’s motto has been the same since our start: If you think nothing is happening in Charlotte, you’re not trying. While we’ve always included a Lifeline in our print issue, here’s our online version to help give you weekly reasons to engage. Just Gather Tuesday, Feb. 24 •…
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Music
Indie-Rock Foursome Camisole Puts Community First
Guitarist Justin Thompson kicks off “Vertigo,” the title track on Camisole’s latest four-song EP, with an insistent cantering riff that seems ingrained in our DNA. Then Briella Franciosi’s vocal sweeps in — shorn of illusions and indomitable — surrounded by a whirlwind of propulsive drums, growling bass and slashing guitars:…
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Guides & Events
Lifeline: 5 Things To Do in Charlotte This Week
Queen City Nerve’s motto has been the same since our start: If you think nothing is happening in Charlotte, you’re not trying. While we’ve always included a Lifeline in our print issue, here’s our online version to help give you weekly reasons to engage. Fat Tuesday w/ Soda City Brass…
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Arts & Culture
How to Catch 10 Classic Black Films Screening This Month at Charlotte’s Indie Theaters
Ben Klein tells a story about two Black women, a mother-daughter duo, who came to Carolina Theatre in Uptown for a screening of Selma, the 2014 drama about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s heroic campaign for civil rights, in January. Despite using a walker, the mother had purchased tickets in…
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Arts & Culture
Theatre Charlotte Brings Thespians to the Movies with ‘The Flick’
When was the last time you saw a play performed in a movie theater? And did it take place among the cinema’s seats? If you answered those two questions with “never” and “no … because never,” you’re not alone. Theatre Charlotte’s Queen City premiere of The Flick, which runs from…
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Music
‘Fueled By Ma’ Marks Singer/Songwriter’s Expansion, Adding Energy to Heartfelt Tunes
Ma’s March 2025 single “Gaza Sunset,” opens with plaintive coils of guitar, joined by vocals that surge like wind over water. The song’s impressionist lyrics bear a message of empowerment: “It may be dark/ But there is hope/ Although it’s hard to see/ If we’re united we can cope/ And…
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