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.
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Welcome to your February 2026 ANTIGRAVITY.
We open with an invitation to find true Mardi Gras magic, enter authentic and dedicated Aquarius season, invoke our stern Catholic grandmother to make a bed properly, create a Carnival care plan, reflect on what we pass on to our kids...
We open with an invitation to find true Mardi Gras magic, enter authentic and dedicated Aquarius season, invoke our stern Catholic grandmother to make a bed properly, create a Carnival care plan, reflect on what we pass on to our kids...
Happy Valentine's Day!
This month's Close Encounters include a run-in with a cute musician near Jackson Square, joie de vivre at the Verizon store, and a Jordan Peele discussion at Barnes and Noble. antigravitymagazine.com/column/close...
This month's Close Encounters include a run-in with a cute musician near Jackson Square, joie de vivre at the Verizon store, and a Jordan Peele discussion at Barnes and Noble. 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...
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February 14, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Happy Valentine's Day!
This month's Close Encounters include a run-in with a cute musician near Jackson Square, joie de vivre at the Verizon store, and a Jordan Peele discussion at Barnes and Noble. antigravitymagazine.com/column/close...
This month's Close Encounters include a run-in with a cute musician near Jackson Square, joie de vivre at the Verizon store, and a Jordan Peele discussion at Barnes and Noble. antigravitymagazine.com/column/close...
@musicculture504.bsky.social explores the controversy around pay for Mardi Gras DJs at Gallier Hall. antigravitymagazine.com/column/maccn...
MaCCNO: The Mardi Gras DJ Controversy Was About More Than Just Fair Pay at Gallier Hall - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
If you’re a regular reader of this column, it’s very likely you’ve seen the clip of new Chief Administrative Officer (and former Councilmember) Joe Giarrusso discussing, in the context of the current ...
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February 13, 2026 at 3:32 PM
@musicculture504.bsky.social explores the controversy around pay for Mardi Gras DJs at Gallier Hall. antigravitymagazine.com/column/maccn...
Emily Farranto may not be the biggest Mardi Gras fan, but she visited Magda Boreysza's studio for this month's Art Brine, exploring her fantastical drawings and, yes, Carnival materials. antigravitymagazine.com/column/art-b...
ART BRINE - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Studio Visit With Magda Boreysza (This Time of Year) I don’t like Mardi Gras. At all. I saw barricades on the neutral ground the other day and it felt like a kick in the stomach. But this personal ave...
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February 12, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Emily Farranto may not be the biggest Mardi Gras fan, but she visited Magda Boreysza's studio for this month's Art Brine, exploring her fantastical drawings and, yes, Carnival materials. antigravitymagazine.com/column/art-b...
Our Lady of Good Counsel offers us a Mardi Gras care plan to help you find yourself and find balance this Carnival. antigravitymagazine.com/column/our-l...
OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
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 me...
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February 11, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Our Lady of Good Counsel offers us a Mardi Gras care plan to help you find yourself and find balance this Carnival. antigravitymagazine.com/column/our-l...
For this month's Raising Louisiana, @deecherrywriter.bsky.social wrote about parenting and mental health, including the struggles that can be passed from parent to child. antigravitymagazine.com/column/raisi...
RAISING LOUISIANA - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Frequent ANTIGRAVITY contributor Danny Cherry Jr. is a fiction writer and journalist who is a native of New Orleans East. He currently resides on the Westbank with his wife, 18-month-old son, and emot...
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February 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
For this month's Raising Louisiana, @deecherrywriter.bsky.social wrote about parenting and mental health, including the struggles that can be passed from parent to child. antigravitymagazine.com/column/raisi...
Ready to make a bed like a Catholic Mawmaw? Check out this month's Tips From Theriot antigravitymagazine.com/column/tips-...
TIPS FROM THERIOT - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Once upon a time, when I was 13 years old, my dad and I moved to Baton Rouge to help my Mawmaw Mary Ada take care of my Pawpaw “Pie” Theriot. Pawpaw was wheelchair-bound from a stroke years earlier, s...
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February 9, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Ready to make a bed like a Catholic Mawmaw? Check out this month's Tips From Theriot antigravitymagazine.com/column/tips-...
The Devil, The Page of Pentacles, and the Six of Cups are your tarot cards this month antigravitymagazine.com/column/tarot...
TAROT - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
The Devil § The Page of Pentacles § Six of Cups The Devil lives for the pleasures of mischief and mayhem. We can expect him to be the first to arrive at the Twelfth Night party and the last to leave t...
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February 8, 2026 at 4:00 PM
The Devil, The Page of Pentacles, and the Six of Cups are your tarot cards this month antigravitymagazine.com/column/tarot...
It's Election Day in New Orleans! On the ballot are candidates for state representatives for the 97th and 100th House districts, and state senator for the 3rd Senate district. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/vote...
VOTER EDUCATION GUIDE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2026
This voter education guide is published primarily as a resource and does not constitute an endorsement of any candidate or proposition by ANTIGRAVITY Magazine. Welcome once again to your ANTIGRAVITY…
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February 7, 2026 at 12:00 PM
It's Election Day in New Orleans! On the ballot are candidates for state representatives for the 97th and 100th House districts, and state senator for the 3rd Senate district. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/vote...
Disposable throws are a centerpiece of the local Carnival economy, writes Megan CW—one that’s found itself in the crosshairs of environmental and budgetary challenges influenced by unpredictable changes in national trade policies. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/the-...
The Cost of the Catch - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
We’ve all experienced it: a sea of upturned faces packed along St. Charles Avenue, thousands of arms outstretched against a backdrop of ancient live oaks and glittering floats. Between the masked ride...
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February 6, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Disposable throws are a centerpiece of the local Carnival economy, writes Megan CW—one that’s found itself in the crosshairs of environmental and budgetary challenges influenced by unpredictable changes in national trade policies. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/the-...
We can anticipate an electric, demanding, high octane Mardi Gras Day. Godspeed to us all in this dystopic age, and may this Carnival season light the exact right fire under all of our asses.
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WILD WAVES - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Many folks with an interest in astrology who celebrate Mardi Gras might agree that there is a distinct difference between those that occur during Aquarius season and those that fall during Pisces seas...
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February 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
We can anticipate an electric, demanding, high octane Mardi Gras Day. Godspeed to us all in this dystopic age, and may this Carnival season light the exact right fire under all of our asses.
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There’s one night left of BrechtFest at AllWays Lounge!
Senior Editor Holly Devon spoke to the organizers of the annual musical revue in celebration of German modernist Bertolt Brecht, which benefits the Innocence Project.
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Senior Editor Holly Devon spoke to the organizers of the annual musical revue in celebration of German modernist Bertolt Brecht, which benefits the Innocence Project.
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Singing About the Dark Times With The BrechtFest Cabaret - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
When considering New Orleans’ cultural institutions, few would think to include BrechtFest, a satirical musical revue based on the songs and poems of the German modernist Bertolt Brecht, and a benefit...
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February 4, 2026 at 4:41 PM
There’s one night left of BrechtFest at AllWays Lounge!
Senior Editor Holly Devon spoke to the organizers of the annual musical revue in celebration of German modernist Bertolt Brecht, which benefits the Innocence Project.
antigravitymagazine.com/feature/sing...
Senior Editor Holly Devon spoke to the organizers of the annual musical revue in celebration of German modernist Bertolt Brecht, which benefits the Innocence Project.
antigravitymagazine.com/feature/sing...
Welcome to your February 2026 ANTIGRAVITY.
We open with an invitation to find true Mardi Gras magic, enter authentic and dedicated Aquarius season, invoke our stern Catholic grandmother to make a bed properly, create a Carnival care plan, reflect on what we pass on to our kids...
We open with an invitation to find true Mardi Gras magic, enter authentic and dedicated Aquarius season, invoke our stern Catholic grandmother to make a bed properly, create a Carnival care plan, reflect on what we pass on to our kids...
February 4, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Welcome to your February 2026 ANTIGRAVITY.
We open with an invitation to find true Mardi Gras magic, enter authentic and dedicated Aquarius season, invoke our stern Catholic grandmother to make a bed properly, create a Carnival care plan, reflect on what we pass on to our kids...
We open with an invitation to find true Mardi Gras magic, enter authentic and dedicated Aquarius season, invoke our stern Catholic grandmother to make a bed properly, create a Carnival care plan, reflect on what we pass on to our kids...
“Flat Out Stranded" by Mark Folse is your poem this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/poetr...
POETRY - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Flat Out Stranded The city was flooded floor to ceiling and up to the roofs with immigrants ready for the ugly work of gutting to the studs in clouds of black mold remember the rain of flat cap roofin...
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January 25, 2026 at 4:52 PM
“Flat Out Stranded" by Mark Folse is your poem this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/poetr...
Early voting runs 1/24-1/31, excluding Sunday, 1/25, for the February 7 state legislative election. On the ballot are state representatives for the 97th and 100th House districts, and state senator for the 3rd Senate district.
antigravitymagazine.com/feature/vote...
antigravitymagazine.com/feature/vote...
VOTER EDUCATION GUIDE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2026
This voter education guide is published primarily as a resource and does not constitute an endorsement of any candidate or proposition by ANTIGRAVITY Magazine. Welcome once again to your ANTIGRAVITY…
antigravitymagazine.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Early voting runs 1/24-1/31, excluding Sunday, 1/25, for the February 7 state legislative election. On the ballot are state representatives for the 97th and 100th House districts, and state senator for the 3rd Senate district.
antigravitymagazine.com/feature/vote...
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Our comics this month feature fried chicken larceny, ICE encounters with Spanish moss, the fizzling of New Year's resolutions, and the true story of the Neutral Ground Coffee House. antigravitymagazine.com/comics-and-p...
COMICS - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
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January 23, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Our comics this month feature fried chicken larceny, ICE encounters with Spanish moss, the fizzling of New Year's resolutions, and the true story of the Neutral Ground Coffee House. antigravitymagazine.com/comics-and-p...
We listened to Sydney's Big Heck, New Orleans' Captain Buckles, London's Dry Cleaning, and The Glue, who moved from Boston to New Orleans, as well as more local music from Hanoun Brass Band, HiGH, HOMEWORLD, Roy's Orb, and Maggie Koerner. antigravitymagazine.com/reviews/revi...
REVIEWS - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
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January 22, 2026 at 5:01 PM
We listened to Sydney's Big Heck, New Orleans' Captain Buckles, London's Dry Cleaning, and The Glue, who moved from Boston to New Orleans, as well as more local music from Hanoun Brass Band, HiGH, HOMEWORLD, Roy's Orb, and Maggie Koerner. antigravitymagazine.com/reviews/revi...
Senior Editor Mary Beth Campbell (@mbcampbell360.bsky.social) spoke to NOLA Freedom Forum directors Adan Murad and Thafer Abu Qamir about the first two years of the forum and the role of education as activism. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/thin...
Think Globally, Educate Locally with the NOLA Freedom Forum - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
There are so many issues happening in the world that it is hard to keep track of them all, hard to know which one to focus on—it is easy to become overwhelmed and to either dissociate or remain in our...
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January 21, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Senior Editor Mary Beth Campbell (@mbcampbell360.bsky.social) spoke to NOLA Freedom Forum directors Adan Murad and Thafer Abu Qamir about the first two years of the forum and the role of education as activism. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/thin...
Grown men playing Beyblade, and inspiring young allies at the ICE/know-your-rights training appear in 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
January 20, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Grown men playing Beyblade, and inspiring young allies at the ICE/know-your-rights training appear in our Close Encounters this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/close...
Ben Lieber writes about parenting an autistic child as an autistic dad in this month's Raising Louisiana. antigravitymagazine.com/column/raisi...
RAISING LOUISIANA - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Ben Lieber is an alumnus of the Chicago DIY punk community, frontman for Secret Agent Bill, and a co-founder of Riot Fest. He writes and performs in New Orleans, where he lives with his two sons and h...
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January 19, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Ben Lieber writes about parenting an autistic child as an autistic dad in this month's Raising Louisiana. antigravitymagazine.com/column/raisi...
@alexrawls.bsky.social offers a cloudy forecast for this year's festival season. antigravitymagazine.com/column/my-sp...
MY SPILT MILK - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
A Cloudy Forecast for Festival Season It’s easy to process music festivals in aesthetic terms (does the lineup look good?) but as the last month in Gulf South festival news reveals, it’s never that si...
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January 18, 2026 at 5:36 PM
@alexrawls.bsky.social offers a cloudy forecast for this year's festival season. antigravitymagazine.com/column/my-sp...
The post-holiday slump is real, y’all. Danielle Nelson addresses "hermiting" and rebuilding social connection in this month's Our Lady of Good Counsel. antigravitymagazine.com/column/our-l...
OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
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 me...
antigravitymagazine.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:05 PM
The post-holiday slump is real, y’all. Danielle Nelson addresses "hermiting" and rebuilding social connection in this month's Our Lady of Good Counsel. antigravitymagazine.com/column/our-l...
On December 4, residents came to the New Orleans City Council’s chambers to urge the Council to do more to protect New Orleanians from ICE. Associate Editor Jesse Lu Baum captured public comments—including when Councilmember JP Morrell repeatedly cut the mic. antigravitymagazine.com/column/for-t...
FOR THE RECORD - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
On December 4, residents came to the New Orleans City Council's chambers to urge the Council to do more to protect New Orleanians from ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), including creating ICE...
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January 16, 2026 at 4:57 PM
On December 4, residents came to the New Orleans City Council’s chambers to urge the Council to do more to protect New Orleanians from ICE. Associate Editor Jesse Lu Baum captured public comments—including when Councilmember JP Morrell repeatedly cut the mic. antigravitymagazine.com/column/for-t...
Justin Nobel offers a eulogy for Dan Bright, whose book with Nobel told the story of Bright’s wrongful conviction and the events around it. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/a-eu...
A Eulogy for Dan Bright - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
One night in New Orleans, about 10 years ago, I was unexpectedly called to the hospital downtown. A man named Dan Bright had been shot seven times at close range and was drifting in and out of conscio...
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January 15, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Justin Nobel offers a eulogy for Dan Bright, whose book with Nobel told the story of Bright’s wrongful conviction and the events around it. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/a-eu...
Do you have sugar crusted onto a plastic container after this holiday season, or dough stuck in your hair? Check out this month's Tips From Theriot. antigravitymagazine.com/column/tips-...
TIPS FROM THERIOT - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Happy 2026, y’all! It’s the 26th year of the Third Millennium, MMXXVI! As we scream through the ether towards certain death, I’m so happy that we have Twelfth Night, the official start of Carnival, to...
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January 14, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Do you have sugar crusted onto a plastic container after this holiday season, or dough stuck in your hair? Check out this month's Tips From Theriot. antigravitymagazine.com/column/tips-...
At each corner of the CP3 skatepark, located next to Burke Playground in the Irish Channel, a different collection of regular and new faces populate the space. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/old-...
Old Dogs, New Tricks: Holding it Down for the Great New Orleans Skate Spots - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
It's a Tuesday afternoon, the warm evening sun peering out behind a canopy of oak trees. Someone hands me a cold beer from one of the many coolers scattered around the court. A discordant array of '90...
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January 13, 2026 at 5:05 PM
At each corner of the CP3 skatepark, located next to Burke Playground in the Irish Channel, a different collection of regular and new faces populate the space. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/old-...