APRIL 2025 ISSUE

Welcome to your April 2025 ANTIGRAVITY.

We open with a plea to feed only the systems that keep us fed in return, enter fiery and impulsive Aries season, clean up after a crawfish berl, prioritize quality over quantity in our kids’ extracurriculars, grieve breakups and work on mindfully reading the news, and learn to play everything (and teach most of it) with multi-instrumentalist Ryan Batiste. Jane Place celebrates year three of the Right to Counsel eviction court program, Alex Rawls considers why dub never really took off in New Orleans, and our Close Encounters column features monsters in the Bywater and more Carnival passings.

Terra Durio gives us a peak behind the curtain of this year’s New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival; Dalton Spangler speaks with the organizers of Zero Proof, a sober oasis for Jazz Fest; senior editor Mary Beth Campbell updates us on the current measles outbreak; and Raphael Helfand doesn't overthink it with The Convenience.

We wouldn’t leave you without the usual bouquet of comics, photos, reviews, poetry, a tarot reading, and crossword puzzle to complete your issue.