MACCNO: Surveillance And Culture - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine Surveillance And Culture: Life in the Spotlight Shouldn’t Mean Life Under a Microscope The cultural community and cultural practices are often on the forefront of conversations around public space, by...

Life as a performer comes with certain expectations, but having to deal with constant government surveillance shouldn’t be one of them, writes @musicculture504.bsky.social on a new proposal to surveil the French Quarter with drones. antigravitymagazine.com/column/maccn...

ANTIGRAVITY'S Close Encounters Hello and welcome to the form to submit your Close Encounters—anonymously. Here’s your chance to be brave—to take the active route instead of the passive one. Our goal here is to encourage us all to l...

Send us your own close encounters through our ANONYMOUS Google form or at closeencounters@antigravitymagazine.com, a place for missed connections. All email addresses will remain confidential. Don’t be a creep. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine Aren’t you tired of swiping in the hopes of running into a specific someone you have an existing, lingering curiosity about? Here’s your chance to be brave—to take the active route instead of the pass...

A Life is Strange tattoo at Creole Creamery, a winking Mini Cooper driver, and someone gambling at a ballet performance fill out our Close Encounters this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/close...

FOR THE RECORD - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine On March 10, the City Council Public Works, Sanitation and Environment Committee convened to talk trash (among other topics). Committee Chair Councilmember Jason Hughes acknowledged that there were se...

The City seems primed to lose $5 million in unused EPA grant funding for curbside recycling while proposing a raise in trash collection fees. We collected public comments on the issue from the March City Council Public Works Committee meeting.

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Crowbar: It’s a Long Way to the Top - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine Kirk Windstein has made some of the most impactful metal records to ever come out of New Orleans. As the leader of Crowbar and part of local supergroup Down, Windstein has spent most of his life trave...

Crowbar, Eyehategod, and Suplecs play at Tipitina’s on April 18. Associate Editor William Archambeault spoke to Crowbar leader about his decades in the scene and the unexpected anti-white power origins of the legendary band’s name. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/crow...

POETRY - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine Sunset at the Cemetery Let me lay with the lizards beyond the keyhole let me unlock the silent secrets of death and be warmed by the heavy blanket of earth embracing my cold bones let the living go on...

"Sunset at the Cemetery" by Emily Baumgarten is your poem this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/poetr...

SOIL ED - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine Go Eat Dirt, Nerd. From the same garden advisor who brought you Dirt Nerd, welcome to a new column that is exactly like the old column but with a different name. Neither of these columns have explicit...

Ian Willson focuses on the difference between soil and dirt for his new column Soil Ed, which is similar but different from his old column, Dirt Nerd. antigravitymagazine.com/column/soil-...

Crowbar: It’s a Long Way to the Top - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine Kirk Windstein has made some of the most impactful metal records to ever come out of New Orleans. As the leader of Crowbar and part of local supergroup Down, Windstein has spent most of his life trave...

Crowbar, Eyehategod, and Suplecs play at Tipitina’s on April 18. Associate Editor William Archambeault spoke to Crowbar leader about his decades in the scene and the unexpected anti-white power origins of the legendary band’s name. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/crow...

RAISING LOUISIANA - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine Nikki Mingledorff is the founder and executive director of Resilient Divorce Pathways and program director of the Family Mediation & Divorce Center. With a background in marriage and family therapy, s...

Connection is built on trust, communication, and care, writes Nikki Mingledorff in this month's Raising Louisiana, exploring the challenges of connecting with children (and young adults) across ages. antigravitymagazine.com/column/raisi...

(Dis)Connect with Fiend - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine When I sit down to research a band before an interview, I instinctively jump online and start reading and listening to everything I can. But with Fiend, I hit the immediate speed bump of them having n...

Local hardcore band Fiend spoke to Associate Editor Dalton Spangler about their focus on in-person connection and distribution before their tape release show 4/16 at Gasa Gasa. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/disc...

TIPS FROM THERIOT - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine Hello all! I have some exciting news! Big changes are on the horizon for my company Eco-Clean Cleaning Service. I’m exhausted by all the extra scrubbing necessary when using eco-friendly products, and...

This month's Tips From Theriot explains how to clean up semen, glue, and glitter. antigravitymagazine.com/column/tips-...

“Culture is the New Cotton”: The failed promises of the Musicians’ Village - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine Strumming a guitar on his porch after work every evening in McComb, Mississippi in the 1950s, Fread Martin’s father taught him two things that would shape the course of his life. The first was three g...

Artists around the city say they were shocked but not surprised to hear about the sale of Musicians’ Village properties by New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity and rapid rent hikes, writes @wadrewhawkins.bsky.social. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/cult...

This month's Our Lady of Good Counsel takes on professional jealousy in the idealistic art world. antigravitymagazine.com/column/our-l...

For almost as long as the Cuban revolutionary government has been in power, the U.S. has been devoted to its demise, writes Senior Editor Holly Devon, looking at the long history of U.S. intervention in the Caribbean nation. antigravitymagazine.com/column/lette...

The Six of Cups, Six of Swords, and Eight of Pentacles are your tarot cards this month antigravitymagazine.com/column/tarot...

JANE PLACE: LEGISLATION TO WATCH OUT FOR - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine Our mission is to transform unjust housing policies, discriminatory practices, and inequitable development schemes by engaging in strategies that create permanently affordable housing, advance tenant ...

Jane Place is participating in a rally and day of action on homelessness at the state capitol today. See their thoughts on legislation to watch out for here. antigravitymagazine.com/column/jane-...

WILD WAVES - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine Aries season’s arrival marks the beginning of the new astrological year, as well as the beginning of spring, and the suddenness with which our city’s flora blooms mirrors the pace of our lives and wor...

Aries season’s arrival marks the beginning of the new astrological year, as well as the beginning of spring, and the suddenness with which our city’s flora blooms mirrors the pace of our lives and world events. antigravitymagazine.com/column/wild-...

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This issue is blooming with a bouquet of comics, photos, reviews, poetry, a crossword puzzle, and tarot reading. Breathe deep!

and @wadrewhawkins.bsky.social investigates the failed promises of the Musicians’ Village.

Senior Editor Erin Hall catches up with Rotary Downs ahead of their upcoming show celebrating 20 years of Chained to the Chariot; Associate Editor Dalton Spangler unplugs with Fiend; Associate Editor William Archambeault (@guitarsox.bsky.social) tracks the long way to the top for Crowbar...

ANTIGRAVITY'S Close Encounters Hello and welcome to the form to submit your Close Encounters—anonymously. Here’s your chance to be brave—to take the active route instead of the passive one. Our goal here is to encourage us all to l...

Send us your own close encounters through our ANONYMOUS Google form or at closeencounters@antigravitymagazine.com, a place for missed connections. All email addresses will remain confidential. Don’t be a creep. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

... My Spilt Milk (@alexrawls.bsky.social) is here, there, and everywhere with Junior League, and Alt Scene NOLA poses for visual artist Jamie Chiarello. Our Close Encounters column features a blue-haired Creole Creamery worker and more.

… get a glimpse into the many hats (and walkies) of tour-manager-violinist Molly Graham, and compile public comments about the City trashing recycling. Jane Place puts upcoming housing legislation on our radar, @musicculture504.bsky.social explains how surveillance tech hurts cultural workers...

We open with a lesson in Cuban history for some local inspiration, enter brazen Aries season, remove semen stains and hardened glitter, have a 20s-30s life crisis, connect with our kids of different ages, dig into the distinction between dirt and soil...

Native foliage in bloom surrounds Antigravity cover featuring embracing possums alongside Jazz Fest and Pride flags

Back cover of Antigravity depicts "later nerds" text on closed Checkpoint Charlie's concert listing chalkboard

Antigravity centerfold: Community members gather at the intersection of St. Claude and Elysian Fields to stage a “pop-up protest” on March 4 to stand up for democracy as a response to the U.S. invasion of Iran. (Photo by Katie Sikora)

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Welcome to your April 2026 ANTIGRAVITY.

Billboards, Monday greetings, water main breaks, back-of-the-house discussions, and loud concert conversations fill out our comics this month. antigravitymagazine.com/comics-and-p...

And watched Best Picture nominee Hamnet and Morgan Neville's Paul McCartney documentary Man on the Run antigravitymagazine.com/reviews/revi...

And read new historical fiction from Lila Cain, veteran music writer Cree McCree's memoir, the semi-satirical thriller Murder Bimbo by Rebecca Novack, Alex Segura's new Daredevil crime novel, and a look at Walt Whitman's brief time in New Orleans. antigravitymagazine.com/reviews/revi...

We listened to music from Dash Rip Rock, Mancunian industrial noise punk quartet Mandy, Indiana, local band Mars & Other Planets, scene stalwart Laura Fisher, New Orleans five-piece Oh Dang, a sophomore release from Twisted Teens, and W-9's self-titled demo. antigravitymagazine.com/reviews/revi...