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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.

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 8h
Senior Mary Beth Campbell wrote about the successful effort to update Louisiana's HIV criminalization law—famously one of the most restrictive and punitive in the United States—to reflect modern scientific knowledge around HIV transmission. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/dete...
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Detectable Freedom: The Law Catches Up to the Science of HIV with Act 177 - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
For many across Louisiana, the 2026 state legislative session was overwhelming and disheartening. Amidst the chaos, however, there were a few victories, including the passage of Act 177, which updates...
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Send us your own close encounters through our ANONYMOUS Google form or at closeencounters@antigravitymagazine.com, a place for missed connections. All email addresses will remain confidential. Don’t be a creep. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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ANTIGRAVITY'S Close Encounters
Hello and welcome to the form to submit your Close Encounters—anonymously. Here’s your chance to be brave—to take the active route instead of the passive one. Our goal here is to encourage us all to l...
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A vintage UNO ringer tee, a bookstore discussion, and a communal full moon on the bio appear in our Close Encounters this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/close...
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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...
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After Hi-Ho Lounge shuttered its doors on Halloween 2024, Kat Dilonno, co-owner of No Dice, took the opportunity to leave her mark on the St. Claude music venue strip, writes Elisa Gomez in this month's Alt Scene New Orleans. antigravitymagazine.com/column/alt-s...
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ALT SCENE NEW ORLEANS
Farewell, No Dice After Hi-Ho Lounge shuttered its doors on Halloween 2024, Kat Dilonno, co-owner of No Dice, took the opportunity to leave her mark on the St. Claude music venue strip. For almost…
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The 7th Annual “Let Us Not Forget” vigil is taking place at 700 Elysian Fields (Washington Sq.) on Sunday, October 11 at 3 p.m., memorializing and humanizing unhoused community members who our city, state, and federal government ignore, writes Jane Place. antigravitymagazine.com/column/jane-...
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Jane Place: The Slumlord Vampires Keep Sucking Away Your Money
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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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. We asked a handful of mothers to share their experience around pregnancy loss with us, and they were gracious enough to tell us their stories. antigravitymagazine.com/column/raisi...
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RAISING LOUISIANA
This month’s column features the stories of multiple authors, who are identified by first name or initial. We are grateful to each of them for their transparency and honesty about a topic that is…
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Knight of Swords, Ace of Cups, and Six of Wands are your tarot cards this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/tarot...
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TAROT
Knight of Swords § Ace of Cups § Six of Wands The Knight of Swords is relentless, not reckless. She plans for what she can reasonably predict but otherwise trusts herself to face the unforeseen. She…
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Time is a rubbery thing around the proverbial AG offices. This October issue, for example, is really a child of September, writes editor-in-chief Dan Fox. antigravitymagazine.com/column/lette...
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LETTER FROM AN EDITOR - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Time is a rubbery thing around the proverbial AG offices. This October issue, for example, is really a child of September, where we had to pretend to be feeling crisp autumn winds and spooky season en...
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Libra, with all its charm and balance, can find itself indulgent, reactive, and materialistic. The planets are asking this month: How are we navigating our place within a corrupt system without being swayed to complacency or escapism? antigravitymagazine.com/column/wild-...
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WILD WAVES - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Libra, with all its charm and balance, can find itself indulgent, reactive, and materialistic. Scorpio, for all its more obvious associations with death, sex, and poison, often brings sweetness and lo...
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Our comics, reviews, poetry, a crossword puzzle, and tarot reading haunt the rest of these pages, so keep a watchful eye. Happy Halloween!
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sabrina Stone wrangles a few members of LSD Clownsystem to discuss how they let everyone in on the fun; and our annual coverage of the New Orleans Film Festival returns for the fest’s 37th year.
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Senior Editor @mbcampbell360.bsky.social reports on local HIV activists and the victories of Act 177; Co-EIC @marginalmarisa.bsky.social examines the power behind the Public Service Commission…
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Send us your own close encounters through our ANONYMOUS Google form or at closeencounters@antigravitymagazine.com, a place for missed connections. All email addresses will remain confidential. Don’t be a creep. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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ANTIGRAVITY'S Close Encounters
Hello and welcome to the form to submit your Close Encounters—anonymously. Here’s your chance to be brave—to take the active route instead of the passive one. Our goal here is to encourage us all to l...
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
@musicculture504.bsky.social suggests stewardship over citations for a healthier French Quarter, Jane Place works to stop the slumlord vampires from sucking our money away, and @altscenenola says farewell to No Dice. Our Close Encounters include a curious librarian at Pal's Lounge and more.
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Welcome to your October 2026 ANTIGRAVITY! We open with a riff on time, enter charming and balanced Libra season, remove smelly stains from our sofas, exorcise our disdain for the paranormal, grieve and recover from pregnancy loss, and endorse (controlled) flamethrowing in our gardens.
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And watched a documentary on Iron Maiden's first singer, the new Spider-Man film, "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma," and Orson Welles' Kafka adaptation "The Trial" (1962) antigravitymagazine.com/reviews/revi...
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REVIEWS
It’s been six years since Phoebe Bridgers released her last solo album, and in that time she has retreated from the ironic, hyper-online persona that helped establish her popularity. Her third studio…
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And read a time travel novella from P. Djèlí Clark, Don McLemore's memoir investigating their family history, a sci-fi collection from T. R. Napper, Andrew Sacher's look at the emo revival, James Sallis's last novel, and Steven W. Thrasher's latest nonfiction antigravitymagazine.com/reviews/revi...
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REVIEWS
It’s been six years since Phoebe Bridgers released her last solo album, and in that time she has retreated from the ironic, hyper-online persona that helped establish her popularity. Her third studio…
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We listened to new music from Phoebe Bridgers, saxophonist Euge Groove, local four-piece Swarm Comp, rising New Orleans stars Twisted Teens, U.K.-based Swedish artist Nina Winder-Lind, and The Strokes and The Rolling Stones. antigravitymagazine.com/reviews/revi...
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REVIEWS
It’s been six years since Phoebe Bridgers released her last solo album, and in that time she has retreated from the ironic, hyper-online persona that helped establish her popularity. Her third studio…
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Elisa Gomez spoke to artist George Anthony Jena, best known as Two Quarter George, for this month's Alt Scene New Orleans antigravitymagazine.com/column/alt-s...
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ALT SCENE NEW ORLEANS
Two Quarter George  Over coffee at Trumpet and Drum, I asked George Anthony Jena, better known as Two Quarter George, how he would describe his life. His answer was pretty simple: “Life hasn’t been…
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
MaCCNO (@musicculture504.bsky.social) explores how musicians actually make money in New Orleans in this month's column. antigravitymagazine.com/column/maccn...
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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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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For more information on Bunny Matthews: His Life, Art, and Obsessions, including Bunny Day, a multimedia celebration for the book’s release on September 19, check out hnoc.org/exhibitions/... . There will also be an author discussion at Octavia Books on September 24.
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A free history museum and research center devoted to the people, places, and traditions of New Orleans and the Gulf South.
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bunny Matthews would be amused by his legacy, wrote @alexrawls.bsky.social in his own look at the new book and Matthews' significant and complex impact on New Orleans in My Spilt Milk. antigravitymagazine.com/column/my-sp...
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MY SPILT MILK
Bunny Matthews And the Never-Ending Search for Cool Bunny Matthews would be amused by his legacy. After 70 years as a burr under the saddle of New Orleans’ culture, he died in 2021 without any…
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/the-...
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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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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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-...
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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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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Jane Place offers updates on the City's tenant Right to Counsel program and litigation over short-term rentals. antigravitymagazine.com/column/jane-...
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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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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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...
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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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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Send us your own close encounters through our ANONYMOUS Google form or at closeencounters@antigravitymagazine.com, a place for missed connections. All email addresses will remain confidential. Don’t be a creep. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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ANTIGRAVITY'S Close Encounters
Hello and welcome to the form to submit your Close Encounters—anonymously. Here’s your chance to be brave—to take the active route instead of the passive one. Our goal here is to encourage us all to…
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A dog at Lafreniere Park, a sandwich at Stein's, and interplanetary travel appear in our Close Encounters this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/close...
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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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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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...
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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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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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. antigravitymagazine.com/column/sound...
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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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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/step...
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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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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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-...
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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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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thinking about a fall cleaning? Consider tackling the fridge, says this month's Tips From Theriot. antigravitymagazine.com/column/tips-...
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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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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Two of Swords (Reversed), King of Swords, and Justice (Reversed) are your tarot cards this month antigravitymagazine.com/column/tarot...
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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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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Happy You season, Virgo! The spikes of fascism may feel sharp, but you are ever sharper. antigravitymagazine.com/column/wild-...
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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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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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...
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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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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
As well as The New Orleans Shakespeare Festival’s production of Macbeth antigravitymagazine.com/reviews/revi...
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
And watched Her Private Hell, The Invite, The Odyssey, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, La Bamba, and The Last Picture Show antigravitymagazine.com/reviews/revi...
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
And read a new collection from New Orleans barroom poet Todd Cirillo, Meaghan Garvey's travelogue/memoir, Devin Thomas O'Shea's look at an elite St. Louis parading krewe, and a new look at X-Man Kitty Pryde from Rebecca Podos antigravitymagazine.com/reviews/revi...
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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...
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Amazing Henrietta performs as part of Holy Diver’s Piano Happy Hour on July 8. 📸: Gary LoVerde
Double exposure of a smiling woman playing the piano and singing
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Joy, a regular at J&J’s Sports Lounge, holds Taz the cat, who was dropped off at the bar and is known for toxic farts (November 2025). 📸: Eric Martinez
A bar patron holds a flatulent cat in front of a radiation warning sign
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
WTUL DJ Dead Lloyd poses with a promo copy of Black Sabbath’s 1971 album Master of Reality inside the radio station’s studio on June 15. Shot on Fujifilm 400 speed film with a Canon Autoboy Luna 35 camera. 📸: William Archambeault
Someone with bangs poses with a Black Sabbath record
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Members of Krewe of PhantAsia take part in the Krewe Bohème parade in the Marigny on January 30. 📸: Brandon Robert
An Asia-themed parade float
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/phot...
A skeleton in a sea of medical equipment
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“saint" by Kendall Burke is your poem this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/poetr...
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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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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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...
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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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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Lillian Aguinaga poses for a mini session of self-expression in City Park on January 14. Shot on a medium format Mamiya RB67 with Ilford HP5 Plus 400 speed film, pushed 1 stop. 📸: Tammie Quintana
Lillian Aguinaga poses for a mini session of self-expression in City Park on January 14. Shot on a medium format Mamiya RB67 with Ilford HP5 Plus 400 speed film, pushed 1 stop.
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New Orleans grindcore artist Shitload (a.k.a. Bobby Paranoize) performs in the parking lot outside UNO Lakefront Arena on November 15, 2025, one of many impromptu “sets” he did before Acid Bath and company performed. 📸: Dalton Spangler
New Orleans grindcore artist Shitload (a.k.a. Bobby Paranoize) performs in the parking lot outside UNO Lakefront Arena on November 15, 2025, one of many impromptu “sets” he did before Acid Bath and company performed.
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
British-born, New Orleans-based electronic punk and visual artist Tashi Delay performs at Gasa Gasa on October 20, 2025. 📸: Temple Blacksnake
British-born, New Orleans-based electronic punk and visual artist Tashi Delay performs at Gasa Gasa on October 20, 2025.
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