JANUARY 2025 ISSUE

Welcome to your January 2025 ANTIGRAVITY.

We open with an honest year-end personal inventory, enter hard-working and grounded Capricorn season, dig into the horrors of robot litter boxes, study the paintings in Arturo Kameya’s Whatever comes first, get ready to be a stay-at-home dad, learn how to grow and use cold season kitchen herbs, and compile public comments from a City Council meeting regarding Entergy's sale of its gas operations. Jane Place outlines their 2025 housing priorities, and MaCCNO highlights issues with the City’s prioritization of the NOLA Walk of Fame. And our Close Encounters column features a brutal read at Z’otz and more (send us your own close encounters through our new ANONYMOUS Google form, or at [email protected], a place for missed connections. All email addresses will remain confidential. Don’t be a creep).

Chris Staudinger maps the future of Grow Dat Youth Farm and City Park; associate photo editor Tammie Quintana interviews Basqo Bim about artistic ambitions and coming out of your shell; senior editor Marisa Clogher visits Future Shock Video to discuss the joys of physical media and ownership of art; while Break the Bonds organizer August Smith pens an Op-Ed in favor of the Louisiana treasury divesting from Israel Bonds.

Finish your entrance into the new year with our comics, photos, reviews, poetry, tarot reading, and a brand new crossword puzzle!