OCTOBER 2025 ISSUE

Welcome to your October 2025 ANTIGRAVITY—

We open with a plea to stop using AI, enter creative and equitable Libra season, get stains out of Magnalite pots, divvy the weight of invisible labor, appreciate the quiet in From the Storms of Our Souls: The Art of Ron Bechet, strategize our college campus tours for high school seniors, and talk sound engineering with the highly requested and extremely versatile Jenn O. Cide. MaCCNO highlights their top five cultural priorities for the next City administration, Jane Place updates us on the latest chapter of Airbnb headaches, and Alex Rawls discusses the LPO going indie. Our Close Encounters column features a murder of crows 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).

Senior Photo Editor Katie Sikora talks with Alfred Marshall of Voice of the Experienced about the importance of real community; Senior Editor Mary Beth Campbell asks us to defend public health like our lives depend on it; Associate Editor William Archambeault goes toe-to-toe with Canada’s most notorious interviewer Nardwuar the Human Serviette; and our annual coverage of the New Orleans Film Fest returns to help you navigate the embarrassment of riches slated for this year.

Seasonally appropriate comics, photos, reviews, a crossword puzzle, and tarot reading round out this spooky issue.