Journalist. Co-founder, Nerve Media Productions. Editor, @queencitynerve. Books & baseball. Perfect parallel parker. Alliterative asshole. [email protected]
Charlotte, NC
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Local trivia: The playground at the Eastway Rec Center was conceived by the same design architect as the infamous Boston cop slide. (Sasaki, whose work on Eastway was carried out alongside partnering firms Neighboring Concepts and LandDesign.) You can see the similarities.
That time on The Andy Griffith Show when Opie and his friend started a newspaper and ran right into the ol’ clickbait conflict. I know it well.
My mom gave me some old political paraphernalia today that her father had passed down to her and it includes these Jimmy Carter pamphlets complete with 50-year-old peanuts. They still look good to me. 🥜
Sometimes you gotta spend Friday night linking up to your outdoor speakers as loud as you can and play the ol’ Flex mixtapes that changed everything so your neighbors know…
Thinking of my seat neighbor Jim from last month’s trip to Fenway. Jim is 81 and retired from his original career, but for 11 years has served as an elementary school crossing guard near his home in Danvers.
This is his final year doing that job, which he loves, before he “really retires.” He wore a hat the kids from his school signed for him. His first time at Fenway was a 3rd grade field trip when he saw Ted Williams play. His most recent trip was Derek Jeter’s final game at Fenway
Coming to the end of this 2026 Pulitzer-winning novel by Daniel Kraus (with ties to Wilmington) and I am shook. The book is written as a single 300-page run-on sentence that portrays the hell of WWI more viscerally than any piece of fiction or nonfiction I’ve read, which is a lot
When Charlotte City Council shut down the I-77 toll lane project in May, it gave folks in this city a reason to believe that democracy and community organizing could still work despite all signs to the contrary at the federal and state levels.
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All these insane Red Sox games are just starting to merge together into one gigantic 2-month insane Red Sox game.
I knew I could trust Michael with our story. All the love to him for taking the time to put this together. Beautiful writing, as always. It hits different when you’re the subject. The full story behind our closure: charlotteoptimist.com/queen-…
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Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden is speaking out about two deaths that occurred in the Uptown jail in the span of five days last week as advocates plan to hold a vigil tonight for all those who have died while incarcerated there. qcnerve.com/jail-deaths/
They are really gonna keep us arguing over imaginary trans people in the WNBA as the American rivers that have provided the lifelines for colonialism for 200 years dry up. MAGA, never Trumpers, moderates, progressives …
We are so caught up in midterm primaries in the national news cycle. Who is electable?! Nobody is electable in a fascist state. Trump wants to pass the SAVE Act and we all feel good that he can’t get the votes yet. The damage is done, though!