JUNE 2025 ISSUE

Welcome to your June 2025 ANTIGRAVITY—we’re 21 years young!

We open with some accumulated wisdom for starting your own magazine, enter witty and discerning Gemini season, combat drain clog blob monsters, tell bedtime stories in a world on fire, meditate on leaving or staying in New Orleans, contemplate the ick and the Id in Vee Adams’ Collective Drip at UNO Gallery, discuss Bryant Watson’s lifelong drive to teach music, and compile public comments from an ordinance that would protect sex workers from prosecution after reporting a crime. Jane Place updates us on Louisiana’s 2025 legislative session and summer housing events, while Alex Rawls ponders Jazz Fest at a crossroads. Our Close Encounters column features Honey the Pomeranian 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).

Associate Photo Editor Katie Sikora commemorates 10 years of Solitary Gardens; Terra Durio attends the inaugural Toledano Street Comedy Festival; Danny Cherry Jr. outlines the rise and fall of right-wing chaos agents Citizens for a New Louisiana; while Dalton Spangler catches up with local punk and indie all-star group Coworkers.

Our photos, comics, reviews, poetry, crossword puzzle, and tarot reading are the candles on the cake. Happy 21st Birthday to your ANTIGRAVITY! Buy us a drink!