Arts & Culture
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Queen City New Play Initiative Launches Local Festival
Stacey Rose is the artistic director of Queen City New Play Initiative, and if I had my way she’d be…
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The Nerve’s 2023 Guide to Summer Events in Charlotte
They say spring goes out like a lamb, but in this case it went out like a … winter? Despite…
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Theatre Charlotte’s ‘Detroit ’67’ Spins Motown into History
Baked into many great American plays is the notion that dreaming big, striving for the golden apple of success, is…
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Spoleto Festival USA 2023: Sorting 300 Artists Over 17 Days
With so many theatre, dance, opera, jazz, orchestral, choral, and chamber music events to choose from — more than 300…
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Charlotte Native John Hoogenakker Talks Drama, Debate and ‘Waco: The Aftermath’
Coming up as a student at South Mecklenburg High School in the early 1990s, John Hoogenakker wasn’t sure what his…
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Local Illustrator Explores What Makes a Hero in Debut Comic Book
As a kid, Batman was everything to Frank Antonio. He would spend hours at a time glued to the TV…
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NoDa Pioneer Ruth Ava Lyons Turns to Community in Health Battle
Ruth Ava Lyons, one half of the duo credited with founding north Charlotte’s NoDa arts district in the late-1980s and…
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QC Concerts Aims High with ‘Angels in America’
The Queen City has played host to historic productions of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America before, most famously the Charlotte…
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Institutional Changes Slowly Arriving in Textured Hair Care
In March, Queen City Nerve wrote about a call from local hair stylists and their customers for more education on…
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Charlotte Brothers Put Family Values to Work at Loyd Visuals
It’s rare when someone can find something they’re passionate about and manage to make a living off of it. It’s…
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‘The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks, and Curls’ Explores Black Hair Magic
For much of American history, Black hair has been a source of contention in society. Forced to hide behind Eurocentric…
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We Rock Charlotte to Release New Student Album with Visuals
It may seem that, with the rise of streaming and decline in popularity of cable channels like MTV, music videos…
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Voces con Pablo Highlights Picasso Exhibit, Latin Culture
Collaborating for this week’s Wednesday Night Live event in Uptown, The Mint Museum and Opera Carolina are partnering to host…
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‘Sister Mary Ignatius’ Takes Dogma and Certitude to the Limit
For playwright Christopher Durang and now for the Queen City, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You has a…
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‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ Is an Explosive Small-Budget Indie
From the first shot of How to Blow Up a Pipeline, the feature film adaptation of Andreas Malm’s book of…
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Charlotte Conservatory Theatre Takes ‘POTUS’ to Cain Center
After the morning press conference, there’s China, an international meeting on nuclear proliferation, followed by a photo op with…
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