ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
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ANTIGRAVITY is a free monthly magazine distributed throughout the New Orleans metro region. We specialize in original content that spotlights local artists, politics, social justice issues, reviews, opinion pieces, comics, and original photography.
MaCCNO (@musicculture504.bsky.social) explores how musicians actually make money in New Orleans in this month's column. antigravitymagazine.com/column/maccn...
MaCCNO: Let’s Talk About How Musicians Actually Make Money!
There’s a degree of mystery around the nuts and bolts of how creatives earn a living. Since a general audience rarely has a chance to peer behind the curtain of the cultural economy, we’re going to…
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September 18, 2026 at 3:03 PM
MaCCNO (@musicculture504.bsky.social) explores how musicians actually make money in New Orleans in this month's column. antigravitymagazine.com/column/maccn...
Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand spoke to @dantigravity.bsky.social about their new, deeply researched, and fascinating book about late cartoonist and writer Bunny Matthews, joined by Bunny's son Jude.
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The People vs. Bunny Matthews
“Bunny Matthews—your cartoons are the best depictions yet of life in ‘N’awlins…’ But, Bunny, who the hell are you trying to impress with all the confusing shit you write?” —Disgruntled Figaro reader…
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September 17, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand spoke to @dantigravity.bsky.social about their new, deeply researched, and fascinating book about late cartoonist and writer Bunny Matthews, joined by Bunny's son Jude.
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We spoke to drag queen Laveau Contraire about her relationship with drag, the evolution of the scene, and how she uses her growing public platform. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/all-...
All the World’s a Stage with Laveau Contraire
Imagine the most unexpected thing you’ve seen or heard at a drag show—that bravery to push the envelope has kept drag queens on stage and in the cultural conversation. Historically, it was not only…
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September 16, 2026 at 3:04 PM
We spoke to drag queen Laveau Contraire about her relationship with drag, the evolution of the scene, and how she uses her growing public platform. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/all-...
Jane Place offers updates on the City's tenant Right to Counsel program and litigation over short-term rentals. antigravitymagazine.com/column/jane-...
Jane Place: May the Rain Wash the Slumlords Away! - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Our mission is to transform unjust housing policies, discriminatory practices, and inequitable development schemes by engaging in strategies that create permanently affordable housing, advance tenant ...
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September 15, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Jane Place offers updates on the City's tenant Right to Counsel program and litigation over short-term rentals. antigravitymagazine.com/column/jane-...
Danny Cherry Jr. (@deecherrywriter.bsky.social) spoke to librarian and Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship co-founder about her fight against harassment from the far right. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/aman...
Amanda Jones and The Battle of the Bans
In 2022, Livingston Parish librarian Amanda Jones spoke out against book banning attempts in her parish’s library system, saying, “Censoring and relocating books and displays is harmful to our…
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September 14, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Danny Cherry Jr. (@deecherrywriter.bsky.social) spoke to librarian and Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship co-founder about her fight against harassment from the far right. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/aman...
A dog at Lafreniere Park, a sandwich at Stein's, and interplanetary travel appear in our Close Encounters this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/close...
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
Aren’t you tired of swiping in the hopes of running into a specific someone you have an existing, lingering curiosity about? Here’s your chance to be brave—to take the active route instead of the…
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September 13, 2026 at 3:03 PM
A dog at Lafreniere Park, a sandwich at Stein's, and interplanetary travel appear in our Close Encounters this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/close...
Good hosting is less about being endlessly accommodating and more about setting everyone up to have a good time—including yourself, writes Danielle Nelson, LCSW, in this month's Our Lady of Good Counsel. antigravitymagazine.com/column/our-l...
OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL
Danielle Nelson is a practicing therapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on sexual health and wellness, trauma and recovery, self-esteem and resilience building, and general…
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September 12, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Good hosting is less about being endlessly accommodating and more about setting everyone up to have a good time—including yourself, writes Danielle Nelson, LCSW, in this month's Our Lady of Good Counsel. antigravitymagazine.com/column/our-l...
We spoke to musician Sasha Masakowski about her upcoming single, the joys of improvising live, and the challenges and joys of operating outside fixed genre lines.
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SOUND CHECK
Sasha Masakowski Don’t call Sasha Masakowski a singer. She can sing with an ethereal, angelic sound but she doesn’t think like a singer. She thinks like a composer, arranger, conductor, looper, and…
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September 11, 2026 at 3:03 PM
We spoke to musician Sasha Masakowski about her upcoming single, the joys of improvising live, and the challenges and joys of operating outside fixed genre lines.
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Associate Editor Jesse Lu Baum talked to organizers of Tulane's non-tenure track professors' union about what it took to win their historic first contract.
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Step by Step: Tulane’s Non-Tenured Professors Secure the First Union Contract of its Kind in Louisiana
Three weeks after Tulane University’s non-tenure track professors’ union announced their historic first contract, I met professor and bargaining team member Matt Toups at a cramped PJ’s Coffee in the…
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September 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Associate Editor Jesse Lu Baum talked to organizers of Tulane's non-tenure track professors' union about what it took to win their historic first contract.
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Global food systems have worked wonders for this (human) world, but they have rendered horrors as well, explains Ian Willson after recent food contamination outbreaks. antigravitymagazine.com/column/soil-...
SOIL ED
This, Here, Now, Is Literally The Whole Point. First they came for our iceberg lettuce. Then they came for all our lettuces. Then they came singularly for our shredded lettuces. Soon thereafter we…
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September 9, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Global food systems have worked wonders for this (human) world, but they have rendered horrors as well, explains Ian Willson after recent food contamination outbreaks. antigravitymagazine.com/column/soil-...
Thinking about a fall cleaning? Consider tackling the fridge, says this month's Tips From Theriot. antigravitymagazine.com/column/tips-...
TIPS FROM THERIOT
Well howdy, y’all! It’s September, the time in which we start drumming our fingers impatiently as we wait for any hint of less suffocatingly hot weather. It’s also the month that hosts the beautiful…
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September 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Thinking about a fall cleaning? Consider tackling the fridge, says this month's Tips From Theriot. antigravitymagazine.com/column/tips-...
The Two of Swords (Reversed), King of Swords, and Justice (Reversed) are your tarot cards this month antigravitymagazine.com/column/tarot...
TAROT
Two of Swords (Reversed) § King of Swords § Justice (Reversed) The Two of Swords inverted means we have the opportunity to release the stress of trying to choose. We are no longer in a holding…
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September 7, 2026 at 3:03 PM
The Two of Swords (Reversed), King of Swords, and Justice (Reversed) are your tarot cards this month antigravitymagazine.com/column/tarot...
Happy You season, Virgo! The spikes of fascism may feel sharp, but you are ever sharper. antigravitymagazine.com/column/wild-...
WILD WAVES
Our culture has often cast Virgo as virginal in the Western sense—a feminine figure of service and purity, meant to take us out of chaos and toward the light. However, the Babylonian version of the…
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September 5, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Happy You season, Virgo! The spikes of fascism may feel sharp, but you are ever sharper. antigravitymagazine.com/column/wild-...
Kyle McLean’s exhibition Gain of Function, at Sibyl Gallery until Sept. 6, kicks up some existential questions, writes Emilly Farranto in this month's Art Brine. antigravitymagazine.com/column/art-b...
ART BRINE - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Gain of Form Kyle McLean at Sibyl Gallery Kyle McLean’s exhibition Gain of Function at Sibyl Gallery kicks up some existential questions. All the works in the show are small, hand-fabricated lamps, mo...
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September 4, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Kyle McLean’s exhibition Gain of Function, at Sibyl Gallery until Sept. 6, kicks up some existential questions, writes Emilly Farranto in this month's Art Brine. antigravitymagazine.com/column/art-b...
We listened to music from Alfred Banks and Luther Vandals, power-pop quartet Badzy, multi-hyphenate musician Laura Fisher, band Sweeping Promises, Leeds quartet Yard Act, and a reissue from Portland female punk pioneers Neo Boys antigravitymagazine.com/reviews/revi...
REVIEWS - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
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August 18, 2026 at 2:56 PM
We listened to music from Alfred Banks and Luther Vandals, power-pop quartet Badzy, multi-hyphenate musician Laura Fisher, band Sweeping Promises, Leeds quartet Yard Act, and a reissue from Portland female punk pioneers Neo Boys antigravitymagazine.com/reviews/revi...
Medical equipment stands at the ready at the Creative Film Connections prop and set dressing warehouse in Gretna on June 21, as part of a massive liquidation sale due to the downturn in movie and film productions in Louisiana.
📸: Rodrigo Delgado Jr.
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📸: Rodrigo Delgado Jr.
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August 17, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Medical equipment stands at the ready at the Creative Film Connections prop and set dressing warehouse in Gretna on June 21, as part of a massive liquidation sale due to the downturn in movie and film productions in Louisiana.
📸: Rodrigo Delgado Jr.
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📸: Rodrigo Delgado Jr.
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“saint" by Kendall Burke is your poem this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/poetr...
POETRY - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
saint i remember me then, dressed down midwest toxic with one foot in, a dozen drinks down god forbid i stand in line god forbid i take a line god forbid i am the line god forgive the will to die god ...
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August 16, 2026 at 4:18 PM
“saint" by Kendall Burke is your poem this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/poetr...
On October 27, 1976, Parliament-Funkadelic unveiled the original Mothership during a performance at the Municipal Auditorium in New Orleans. The Mothership returned this year to the Superdome for the band's Essence Fest performance. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/geor...
George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic at Essence - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
While much of the United States engaged in lively debates about how the country should celebrate its 250th birthday, Black Americans from all over the country journeyed to New Orleans to attend Essenc...
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August 15, 2026 at 5:37 PM
On October 27, 1976, Parliament-Funkadelic unveiled the original Mothership during a performance at the Municipal Auditorium in New Orleans. The Mothership returned this year to the Superdome for the band's Essence Fest performance. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/geor...
Sunny War performs at The Broadside during BlackAmericana Fest on September 27, 2025.
📸: Tamara Grayson
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📸: Tamara Grayson
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Photo Issue: Tamara Grayson, Steven Hatley, Temple Blacksnake, Dalton Spangler, Tammie Quintana - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Tamara Grayson @tamaragraysonphotography The Natural Light Allstars perform at Parkview Tavern for the beloved bar’s last call before closing permanently on May 29. Top: Sunny War performs at The Broa...
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August 14, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Sunny War performs at The Broadside during BlackAmericana Fest on September 27, 2025.
📸: Tamara Grayson
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📸: Tamara Grayson
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Alfred Marshall, a formerly and wrongly incarcerated man and chapter organizer for the New Orleans branch of VOTE (Voice of The Experienced) stands in front of a mural by Darryl Falls in the VOTE headquarters on Washington Avenue.
📸: Katie Sikora antigravitymagazine.com/feature/phot...
📸: Katie Sikora antigravitymagazine.com/feature/phot...
Photo Issue: Katie Sikora, John Stephens, Stephanie Tarrant, James Cullen, Ryne Hancock - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Katie Sikora @katie.sik Top photo: Alfred Marshall, a formerly and wrongly incarcerated man and chapter organizer for the New Orleans branch of VOTE (Voice of The Experienced) stands in front of a mur...
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August 13, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Alfred Marshall, a formerly and wrongly incarcerated man and chapter organizer for the New Orleans branch of VOTE (Voice of The Experienced) stands in front of a mural by Darryl Falls in the VOTE headquarters on Washington Avenue.
📸: Katie Sikora antigravitymagazine.com/feature/phot...
📸: Katie Sikora antigravitymagazine.com/feature/phot...
Angela Calonder captured the tall ship BAP Unión of Peru… antigravitymagazine.com/feature/phot...
August 12, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Angela Calonder captured the tall ship BAP Unión of Peru… antigravitymagazine.com/feature/phot...
It is with a heavy heart that we mourn the loss of Stevie Bodenmiller—a creative and intellectual force who left an undeniable mark on everyone she encountered, and whose unrelenting spirit helped shape the post-Katrina cultural and musical landscape.
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REST IN POWER STEVIE! - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
It is with a heavy heart that we mourn the loss of the indelible Stevie Bodenmiller—a creative and intellectual force who left an undeniable mark on everyone she encountered, and whose unrelenting spi...
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August 11, 2026 at 3:03 PM
It is with a heavy heart that we mourn the loss of Stevie Bodenmiller—a creative and intellectual force who left an undeniable mark on everyone she encountered, and whose unrelenting spirit helped shape the post-Katrina cultural and musical landscape.
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Mid-City metalheads, kindness at Creepyfest, and a child's delight at a friendly garbage truck driver are some of our Close Encounters this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/close...
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Aren’t you tired of swiping in the hopes of running into a specific someone you have an existing, lingering curiosity about? Here’s your chance to be brave—to take the active route instead of the pass...
antigravitymagazine.com
August 10, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Mid-City metalheads, kindness at Creepyfest, and a child's delight at a friendly garbage truck driver are some of our Close Encounters this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/close...
Strength, the Three of Cups, and the Queen of Cups are your tarot cards this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/tarot...
TAROT - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Strength § Three of Cups § Queen of Cups Strength says, there is more power within you than you might think, just look over the years behind you. Strength advises us to dig for the events in our lives...
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August 9, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Strength, the Three of Cups, and the Queen of Cups are your tarot cards this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/tarot...
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And don’t forget to mark your calendars for the inaugural ANTIGRAVITY Photo Expo happening Saturday, August 8 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Marigny Opera House. This event is free and open to the public—come meet and mingle with the Greater New Orleans photography community!
August 3, 2026 at 8:20 PM
And don’t forget to mark your calendars for the inaugural ANTIGRAVITY Photo Expo happening Saturday, August 8 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Marigny Opera House. This event is free and open to the public—come meet and mingle with the Greater New Orleans photography community!