MAY 2025 ISSUE

Welcome to your May 2025 ANTIGRAVITY.

We open with a celebration of May Day in all its forms, enter grounded and homely Taurus season, clean old lace and cast iron, explore the toll hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) takes on a pregnancy, air out our non-orgasm shame, relish spring's duality with jasmine and buck moths, get serious about painting in Tom Walton’s "Recent," just do it with Kendall Burke a.k.a. Warm Advice, and compile public comments from a Lincoln Beach City Council committee meeting. MaCCNO sounds the alarm for the Royal Street Pedestrian Mall, Jane Place previews the housing issues at stake in Louisiana’s 2025 legislative session, while Alex Rawls speaks with Sarah Quintana’s chorus of inner voices. Our Close Encounters column takes us from Trader Joe's to Flora's and more.

Senior Editor Mary Beth Campbell interviews advocates with the Louisiana Coalition on Criminalization and Health about HIV and STI criminalization in the state 2025 legislative session; Angela Calonder discusses preserving the NOLA ‘Nacular with Anthony DelRosario; Senior Editor Erin Hall catches up with "composer era" Walt McClements; Dalton Spangler embraces imperfection with Lafayette's Kid Charleroi; while we recover from Overlook Film Festival and Nijah Narcisse explores how PATOIS Film Festival maintains its righteous purpose.

And of course our usual bouquet of comics, photos, reviews, tarot reading, and a crossword puzzle complete your extra stuffed (64 pages!) issue.