DECEMBER 2025 ISSUE

Welcome to your December 2025 ANTIGRAVITY.

We open with a plea to keep ICE out of our future, enter fiery and impulsive Sagittarius season, prep and clean our HVAC systems for winter, revisit the top therapy trends of 2025, learn how not to suck as an artist, gather the ingredients for a good parenting recipe, and talk with Bella Blue about burlesque and making her venue the Original Nite Cap accessible. We compile public comments from City Council’s recent “housing day;” MaCCNO warns of the severity of the suspension of cultural grants; Jane Place offers some year-end thoughts on forced displacement; and Alex Rawls discusses AI in Christmas music (and other 2025 music industry trends in AI). Our Close Encounters column features a kind high school acquaintance and more (send us your own Close Encounters through our ANONYMOUS Google form or at [email protected], a place for missed connections. All email addresses will remain confidential. Don’t be a creep).

Angela Calonder talks career change, funding projects, and documenting trauma with photographer Wayan Barre; Dalton Spangler sits down with Theo Hilton (Nana Grizol) to discuss making a home away from home in New Orleans; Associate Editor William Archambeault reviews Acid Bath’s historic show at the UNO Lakefront Arena; while our annual Top 5 helps us round out this jam-packed year.

Comics, photos, reviews, a crossword puzzle, and tarot reading help spread the holiday cheer!

Inside you’ll also find a zine on how to report ICE along with instructions on how to fold it together. We keep each other safe.