MARCH 2025 ISSUE

Welcome to your March 2025 ANTIGRAVITY.

We open with a guest column about "the best magazine I have read in years," enter dreamy and surreal Pisces season, remove rose petal stains (ooh la la!), contemplate crude aesthetics in artwork via Donald Duck and The Simpsons, have “The Talk” with our preteen daughters, appreciate the resiliency of plants (post-blizzard), talk about sharing spicy videos in our new advice column, and compile public comments about the mayor’s refusal to pay the Orleans Parish School Board settlement. Jane Place argues that the time to ban short-term rentals is now, MaCCNO discusses the need for less incarceration of our youth, while Alex Rawls dives into the making of Emily Mikesell & Kate Campbell Strauss’ Give Way. Our Close Encounters column features Gamera at Chewbacchus 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).

Danny Cherry, Jr. considers the future of marriage equality if the GOP overturns Obergefell; associate editor Jesse Lu Baum speaks with UMC nurses after another trip to the picket line; Nijah Narcisse sits down with multidimensional artist and poet Wesley Chavis to go deep on the intersection of sexuality and spirituality; Senior Editor Mary Beth Campbell provides an update on H5N1 (bird flu), while Senior Editor Holly Devon admires the handiwork of R Kay and friends at Audubon Zoo's Louisiana Swamp Exhibit.

Our comics, photos, reviews, poetry, tarot reading, and crossword puzzle wrap up this month’s offerings.