Welcome to the August 2026 ANTIGRAVITY—your annual Photo Issue!
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.
We listened to singer-songwriter Burris, Dre Perish's latest EP, K8A's debut, a new record from Modest Mouse, local egg punk band STEEF, a showcase of tunes from NOLA Mix Records, and the latest from Baton Rouge native Wakai and Luke MacKenzie. antigravitymagazine.com/reviews/revi...
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Prolific music engineer James Whitten spoke to Sabrina Stone about the value of being a considerate neighbor, touring on the road for a decade, and how bands used to have budgets. antigravitymagazine.com/column/sound...
SOUND CHECK - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
James Whitten If you’re into Louisiana hardcore, you’re into James Whitten. Thou, Eyehategod, The Pallbearers, SLOWHOLE, BRAT—he’s engineered and mixed them all, from an album or two to nearly entire ...
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Elisa Gomez discusses Latino experiences in the New Orleans scene with Willy Gantrim in this month's Alt Scene NOLA. antigravitymagazine.com/column/alt-s...
ALT SCENE NOLA - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Willy Gantrim: A Man with No Name, A Man with No Land Abraham Gavia-Frausto gave himself a new name around the time he was 18. Being really into 1920s-30s blues and folk music in his teenage years, an...
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Emily Farranto takes us to two three-person art shows—finite body, infinite field at Good Children and gentle as a breath at Staple Goods. antigravitymagazine.com/column/art-b...
ART BRINE - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Super Scientific Biased Triangulation: Two Three-Person Shows Data triangulation looks at multiple sets of information or methods to reveal or confirm a conclusion. It’s used by researchers in fields ...
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This article I wrote for @antigravitymag.bsky.social last October remains evergreen. As so many of us warned, there would be major consequences for dismantling public health systems, and the cyclosporiasis outbreak is just one of many. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/defe...
Defend Public Health - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Over the past few months, I’ve thought a lot about the late, great astrophysicist and science communicator Carl Sagan. More specifically, I’ve been thinking about his 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World...
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Associate Editor Dalton Spangler spoke to the founders of Gar Hole Records about the label's move to New Orleans, and their vision for country and unAmericana music. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/gar-...
Gar Hole Records - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Growing up in the rural South, I’ve always been surrounded by country music. I remember one of the first CDs I ever bought was a Charlie Daniels album—I loved “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” My (rad...
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Need to clean crystals or your essential oil diffuser? This month's Tips from Theriot has the answers. antigravitymagazine.com/column/tips-...
TIPS FROM THERIOT - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Hey! It’s July, and on July 4th we celebrate the 250th (maybe final) birthday of the good ol’ U.S. of A. Watching the dismantling of the Constitution by nihilistic idiots causes my cortisol to rise, p...
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From amplification to permits, @musicculture504.bsky.social explores some of the misconceptions around public performance in New Orleans. antigravitymagazine.com/column/maccn...
MaCCNO: Street Performance—Clearing Up Some Common Misconceptions - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Since MaCCNO’s inception nearly 14 years ago, one of our most consistent throughlines has been our ongoing support and protection of New Orleans’ longstanding street performance tradition. We’ve mitig...
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We are bound by the same fundamental intent—we love our kids and we are doing our best through fire days and zombie days, explains this month's Raising Louisiana on parenting with a chronic illness. antigravitymagazine.com/column/raisi...
RAISING LOUISIANA - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Megan C.W. is an artist and writer living waaay Uptown. When she’s not on heat-evading adventures with her kiddo, she’s usually writing emails or training to become a Pigeon Town Porch Geezer. “Slow d...
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Not every psychological spaghetti model indicates a hurricane, explains Danielle Nelson, LCSW, 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...
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This month's Soil Ed explains the differences between hybrid seeds, genetically modified seeds, heirloom seeds, and seeds of still other sorts. antigravitymagazine.com/column/soil-...
SOIL ED - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
THE FUTURE ALWAYS HAS BEEN: A SOFT TUTORIAL ON SEED SCIENCE When it comes to which seeds are healthy for the ecosystem and our own bodies, a great many fictions have been sowed into the minds of the w...
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The Louisiana State Treasury holds $25 million in Israel bonds—but that's down from $40 million after a public education campaign, writes James B., an organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace New Orleans. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/op-e...
OP-ED: Inside the Unlikely Successes from Louisiana’s Break the Bonds Campaign - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Whenever I table at an event as a representative of Jewish Voice for Peace’s New Orleans chapter, one of my top priorities is to make visitors to our booth aware that the Louisiana State Treasury has ...
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New Orleans' skilled film industry workers face an uncertain economic future, writes Senior Editor Holly Devon. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/belo...
Below The Line: Local Film Crews Brace For an Uncertain Future - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Ever since the first flickers of movement graced the silver screen, audiences have craved the thrill of getting lost in the movies. Entrepreneurs capitalized on this desire immediately, everywhere fro...
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A crushable Stetson hat at Soon Enough during Jazz Fest season and a front yard production of Rocky Horror are among our Close Encounters. 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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The Four of Wands, Six of Swords (Reversed), and Death (Reversed) are your tarot cards this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/tarot...
TAROT - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Four of Wands § Six of Swords (Reversed) § Death (Reversed) The Four of Wands represents the happy home: a dynamic yet stable place that allows for growth, experiment, and disagreement. Wands symboliz...
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Jane Place offers advice on laws around rental home repairs, updates on the criminalization of homelessness, and a listing of events where you can get informed and involved when it comes to housing issues. antigravitymagazine.com/column/jane-...
JANE PLACE: Get Informed Now to Protect Yourself Later - 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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Much like the ocean, Cancer’s energy is regarded not only for its healing capacity, but also for its destructive power, and we will likely experience unexpected turbulence unleashed by Uranus this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/wild-...
WILD WAVES - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Much like the ocean, Cancer’s energy is regarded not only for its healing capacity, but also for its destructive power. The United States itself is a Cancer, a country born on the 4th of July that has...
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Senior Editor Holly Devon writes about honoring Interdependence Day on July 4. Let’s remember what we’re fighting against. Then grab some friends, cook from a recipe that requires group effort, and toast to the better world we’re fighting for. antigravitymagazine.com/column/lette...
LETTER FROM AN EDITOR - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Some years ago, I had the good fortune to be brought into an intergenerational community based around a land project in Mississippi. Founded in the late ‘70s, it was one of many at that time to experi...
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The release show for A New Orleans Protest Song Compilation, featuring 16 artists from the album and a house band, will take place at Chickie Wah Wah on 7/4. Angela Calonder talked to organizer Paul Faith about his music and the community he's helped foster. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/say-...
Say Yes to a Lot of Things with Paul Faith - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
An unassuming fellow with not-quite-Coke-bottle frames, a cherubic face, and a kindly grin, I first saw Paul Faith perform at a bygone Coffee Science open mic in 2021. I wasn’t quite ready for the pas...
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Election Day is today, 6/27, for Democratic and Republican senator primary runoffs, Republican party runoffs for state school board and Public Service Commission, and two local taxing districts. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/vote...
VOTER EDUCATION GUIDE: SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 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. AI was not used to write or compile any…
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We listened to new music from Dremm, local hardcore band Fiend, NYC jazz guitarist Tomas Janzon, Irish rap trio Kneecap, New Orleans singer-songwriter Keaton Schiller, egg-punk band TONYA, and Tank and the Bangas antigravitymagazine.com/reviews/revi...
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Community isn’t ambient—community is infrastructure. And as New Orleanians know all too well, infrastructure is fragile. 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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Poop is an integral part of our being in more ways than we know. antigravitymagazine.com/column/soil-...
SOIL ED - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
POOP. IT’S NEVER WHAT’S FOR DINNER. Ecosystemic evolution made a genius move when it added waste products to the circle of life, proactively making it as disgusting as possible to anything that was me...
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Sabrina Stone talked to music engineer Keenan McRae about his mentors and his gear, before noodling around on Dr. John's guitar. antigravitymagazine.com/column/sound...
SOUND CHECK - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Keenan McRae Whether or not the name Keenan McRae sounds familiar to you, there’s a good chance you’ve heard his work. He co-owned Artisound Productions on St. Claude for eight years, recorded (there ...
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Eric Martinez took us on tour with BRUCEY, Oh Dang, and a dog named Beef. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/smug...
Smuggling the Beef: On Tour with BRUCEY and Oh Dang - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
THEE ROAD DAWGZ are: BRUCEY Brittanny—everyone's favorite sad gyrl powerviolence singer and world-famous New Orleans archivist. Guitar/singer of this band as well as the main songwriter of Night Medic...
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Senior Editor Mary Beth Campbell talked to New Orleans band WAR BUNNIES about their influences and origins, the risks and rewards of covering Chris Cornell, and the role of live music in providing community. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/aggr...
Aggressive Self-Help with WAR BUNNIES - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
WAR BUNNIES were formed in 2021 by music journalist and lead singer/bassist (and ANTIGRAVITY contributor) Sabrina Stone and guitarist Aaron Younce (Them Ol’ Ghosts) as a counter to the uncertainty and...
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Alex Rawls (@alexrawls.bsky.social) took a look at the controversy around The New York Times' list of “The 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters.” antigravitymagazine.com/column/my-sp...
MY SPILT MILK - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
“Best of” Lists: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly The New York Times must have anticipated the shitstorm that “The 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters” article would provoke. Writers like lists beca...
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On April 16, the New Orleans City Council voted 4-3 to approve a $250,000 expansion of the NOPD’s drone program. We gathered some of the public comments for this month's For the Record. antigravitymagazine.com/column/for-t...
FOR THE RECORD - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
On April 16, the New Orleans City Council voted to approve a $250,000 expansion of the NOPD’s drone program, which passed in a 4-3 vote. Councilmembers Eugene Green, Jason Hughes, Freddie King III, an...
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Tips from Theriot takes on pesky pollen stains on clothing and the task of cleaning Formica. antigravitymagazine.com/column/tips-...
TIPS FROM THERIOT - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
“Apex. The throaty world sings ripen. Our grove slips past the sun’s long kiss. We dress. We head home in other starlight. Our earthly time is sweetening from this.” Hey y’all! It’s June, and as my hi...
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