SEPTEMBER 2025 ISSUE

Welcome to your September 2025 ANTIGRAVITY.

We open with a reckoning of Why Bother? mentality, enter the controlled chaos of Virgo season, experiment with Super Glue removal, ask if ethical non-monogamy really works, head back to school for Jordan Ann Craig’s it takes a long time to stay here at Newcomb Art Museum, sing the praises of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, discuss the survival tactics of mangoes and poison ivy, ask Grammy-winning audio engineer Mack Major a lot of questions, and compile public comments from a City Council meeting to address bike safety on St. Claude. Jane Place preps us on where exactly housing issues are addressed within City government, and Alex Rawls looks at Arcade Fire’s New Orleans years. Our Close Encounters column features a Matrix dance party and more (send us your own close encounters—a place for missed connections—through our ANONYMOUS Google form or to this email account. All email addresses will remain confidential. Don’t be a creep).

Danny Cherry Jr. interviews Trans Income Project Executive Director Natalie Rupp about TIP's partnership with CrescentCare, and more; Sabrina Stone offers sound advice for protecting your ears as a working musician; Angela Calonder speaks with Dusky Waters about the second year of BlackAmericana Fest; while Senior Editor Marisa Clogher celebrates cinema film projection in 2025.

Our comics, photos, reviews, crossword puzzle, and tarot reading complete this brimming issue.