ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

ANTIGRAVITY is a complimentary monthly magazine printed in ledger-sized, black and white newsprint and circulated across the New Orleans metropolitan area. Our focus is on creating original content that highlights both emerging local talent and visiting artists. With a touch of irreverence, we cover a wide range of topics, including pet care, anarchist theory, advice columns, interviews, reviews, opinion pieces, comics, and photography. Celebrating its 10th anniversary with over 100 issues published, ANTIGRAVITY hits the stands during the first week of each month. You can also find us online at

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LETTER FROM AN EDITOR

1 week ago | antigravitymagazine.com | Steven Melendez |Jesse Baum

Ever since I was a teenager, one of my favorite holidays has been May Day—the first of May. This holiday has the wonderful distinction of syncretism between the European pagan traditions that celebrate the return of spring, and the more-recent International Workers’ Day—both known as May Day. May Day (the pagan holiday) comes with its vernal traditions of flower crowns and maypoles garlanded with trailing ribbons. May Day (the workers’ holiday) is observed with marches and demonstrations.
TIPS FROM THERIOT

1 week ago | antigravitymagazine.com | Steven Melendez |Isabel Ryan Theriot

The few who dare, must speak and speak againTo right the wrongs of many. Speech, thank God,No vested power in this great day and landCan gag or throttle. Press and voice may cryLoud disapproval of existing ills;May criticise oppression and condemnThe lawlessness of wealth-protecting lawsWelcome to May! Not only is this month perfect for basking in sunny and temperate weather, but on one special day we get to celebrate the freedom to speak our minds in print.
OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL

1 week ago | antigravitymagazine.com | Steven Melendez |Danielle Nelson

Danielle Nelson is a practicing therapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on sexual health and wellness, trauma and recovery, self-esteem and resilience building, life transitions, and general mental health concerns. Though Danielle is a trained professional, this column is not a substitute for advice or care provided by your licensed medical or health care professional. My general process for writing this column is to read what you’ve given me and mull it over.
DIRT NERD - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

1 week ago | antigravitymagazine.com | Steven Melendez |Ian Willson

A SPRING AWAKENING IN THREE PARTSA STAR IS BORNThe sins are washed away the moment the smell enters the brain, before it’s even caught up with the senses proper. It’s not that the jasmine has actually saved you, the religion it holds is deeper than that, simpler than that. Your sins are still yours to carry one way or another and no plant is going to change that.
ART BRINE - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

1 week ago | antigravitymagazine.com | Steven Melendez |Emily Farranto

Pulp Fictions Aside, Tom Walton is a Serious PainterTom Walton’s paintings, a series of interiors, are on view in his current solo exhibition titled Recent at The Parlour Gallery. There’s a perceptible correlation between the historic interior of the gallery—presumably once the building’s parlor—and the illusion of domestic space within the paintings.
MaCCNO: AFTER A DECADE OF NEGLECT, THE ROYAL STREET PEDESTRIAN MALL IS MORE AT RISK THAN EVER

1 week ago | antigravitymagazine.com | Steven Melendez

On the first night of this year’s French Quarter Fest, country vocal trio Chapel Hart had just started their set closing out the Chevron stage on Decatur Street when frontwoman Danica Hart recounted the group’s ties to New Orleans. While most people became aware of the band after their breakthrough appearance on America’s Got Talent, far fewer, she said, knew that they actually got their start just a few blocks away from the stage, singing on Royal Street.
JANE PLACE: LOUISIANA’S 2025 LEGISLATIVE SESSION

1 week ago | antigravitymagazine.com | Steven Melendez

This month, our state legislature is in session all month long. This means our elected representatives—state senators and House members—will be discussing bills that would greatly impact housing justice for all Louisianans, so let’s dive into a few. Housing Bills to Focus OnHouse Bill 262This bill, brought by Representative Tammy Phelps (Democrat, District 3), expands upon an anti-squatter bill passed last year to apply to any “adverse possessor” of a property.
“You Care About HIV Criminalization, You Just Don’t Know It Yet”

1 week ago | antigravitymagazine.com | Steven Melendez |Mary Campbell

The Louisiana legislature’s 2025 regular session is scheduled to last from April 14 through June 12. One of the bills to keep a close eye on is House Bill 76 (HB76)—originally authored by Representative Pat Moore (Democrat, Monroe)—which “creates the crimes of felony and misdemeanor intentional exposure to a sexually transmitted disease.” HB76 is similar to a law already on the books in Louisiana that criminalizes HIV exposure.
FOR THE RECORD - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

1 week ago | antigravitymagazine.com | Steven Melendez |Jesse Baum

On April 3, the joint Governmental Affairs Economic Development Committee of the New Orleans City Council met and discussed a resolution “Prioritizing transparency, public engagement, and an effort that restores Lincoln Beach in a manner driven by community-based decision-making.” Lincoln Beach is an historic beach on Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans East that was a recreation space for Black New Orleanians in the Jim Crow era, when Pontchartrain Beach was segregated.
SOUND CHECK - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

1 week ago | antigravitymagazine.com | Steven Melendez |Sabrina Stone

Kendall Burke a.k.a. Warm AdviceKendall Burke is an extraordinarily can-do human. In the two weeks we were in touch for this article, she drove back and forth from Pensacola to New Orleans five times.