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VOTER EDUCATION GUIDE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025

ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 7h

Polls are open Saturday, October 11, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/vote...

This voter education guide is published primarily as a resource and does not constitute an endorsement of any candidate or proposition by ANTIGRAVITY Magazine. Welcome once again to your ANTIGRAVITY…

VOTER EDUCATION GUIDE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025

ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 7h

Here is your Voter Education Guide for the Oct. 11 municipal election. You'll be voting on candidates for mayor, City Council, sheriff, assessor, and criminal district court clerk, as well as a City Charter amendment and, in some areas, a tax proposition. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/vote...

This voter education guide is published primarily as a resource and does not constitute an endorsement of any candidate or proposition by ANTIGRAVITY Magazine. Welcome once again to your ANTIGRAVITY…

LETTER FROM AN EDITOR - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 1d

I must take a moment to make a plea to the general public to please, for the love of fucking God, stop using AI, writes Senior Editor Marisa Clogher. antigravitymagazine.com/column/lette...

Two years ago, Senior Editor Holly Devon reflected on AG internal discussions surrounding the encroachment of AI, but remained steadfast in her assurance that those who lend their hand to this magazin...

TAROT - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 2d

The Nine of Swords, Page of Cups, and Knight of Wands are your tarot cards this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/tarot...

Nine of Swords § Page of Cups § Knight of Wands The figure in the Nine of Swords is a strong and complex character who successfully navigates the grinding thoughts that fill our hours of despair. The ...

Defend Public Health - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 3d

The fight to preserve public health and science is connected to every other issue we face. All our struggles, all our systems are intertwined, and we can't overtake fascism or ensure our survival without embracing this, writes Senior Editor Mary Beth Campbell.
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Over the past few months, I’ve thought a lot about the late, great astrophysicist and science communicator Carl Sagan. More specifically, I’ve been thinking about his 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World...

Willie vs. Nardwuar - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

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William Archambeault @guitarsox.bsky.social · 4d

My @antigravitymag.bsky.social interview with @nardwuarserviette.bsky.social is online now! It was lots of fun to dig into some odd topics with Canada's most notorious interviewer and even present him with a few gifts.

Nardwuar the Human Serviette is an odd one. Beginning with a humble Friday slot at the University of British Columbia’s radio station CiTR in 1987, Nardwuar has grown to become one of Canada’s most ic...

WILD WAVES - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 4d

Libra demands beauty, creativity, and pleasure, but under that grandeur there must be an enduring commitment to balance. antigravitymagazine.com/column/wild-...

Equality and fairness are arguably some of the most difficult ideals for our society to achieve. Whether it is economic, racialized, or gendered, our ruling class has built a socio-political hierarchy...

VOTER EDUCATION GUIDE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025 - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 7d

And of course our Voter Education Guide for the October 11 election is live! Dig in! antigravitymagazine.com/feature/vote...

This voter education guide is published primarily as a resource and does not constitute an endorsement of any candidate or proposition by ANTIGRAVITY Magazine. Welcome once again to your ANTIGRAVITY v...

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 7d

and our annual coverage of the New Orleans Film Fest returns to help you navigate the embarrassment of riches that are slated this year.

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 7d

… Associate Editor William Archambeault goes toe-to-toe with Canada’s most notorious interviewer Nardwuar the Human Serviette;

ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 7d

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…

ANTIGRAVITY'S Close Encounters

ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 7d

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. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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...

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 7d

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.

ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 7d

… strategize our college campus tours for high school seniors, and talk sound engineering with the highly requested and extremely versatile Jenn O. Cide.

ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 7d

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…

VOTER EDUCATION GUIDE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025 - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 7d

Welcome to your October 2025 ANTIGRAVITY.

Front cover of ANTIGRAVITY magazine featuring an assortment of monsters and spooky creatures rocking out

Back cover of ANTIGRAVITY featuring a photo: A hackberry emperor butterfly rests on a tree in New Orleans City Park’s Couturie Forest. (photo by Brandon Robert)

Centerfold of ANTIGRAVITY: Cherice Harrison-Nelson, Maroon Queen of the Guardians of the Flame Maroon Society, masks as a plague doctor on August 29 at the Katrina 20 memorial in the Lower 9th Ward where the levees failed. Photo by James Cullen.

Three copies of ANTIGRAVITY laid out on a wooden table, open to the front cover, centerfold and back cover

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 14d

We trust that you will keep a close watch on whoever is elected, alert to whatever means are being used to justify unsatisfactory ends. We know that you love this city, and inconvenient though it may be, you will fight for it like you’ll fight for life itself. Right?

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 14d

Our voter guide is offered without cost, but donations are accepted to help cover research fees and labor. A suggested donation of whatever your lifestyle considers $5 is appreciated. Payments can be made via Venmo or PayPal to [at]antigravitymag...
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This voter education guide is published primarily as a resource and does not constitute an endorsement of any candidate or proposition by ANTIGRAVITY Magazine. Welcome once again to your ANTIGRAVITY v...

VOTER EDUCATION GUIDE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025 - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 14d

Early voting runs Saturday, Sept. 27, through October 4, from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. (excluding Sunday). The deadline to request an absentee ballot is October 7 by 4:30 p.m (other than military and overseas voters)...
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This voter education guide is published primarily as a resource and does not constitute an endorsement of any candidate or proposition by ANTIGRAVITY Magazine. Welcome once again to your ANTIGRAVITY v...

VOTER EDUCATION GUIDE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025 - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 14d

Here is your Voter Education Guide for the Oct. 11 municipal election. You'll be voting on candidates for mayor, City Council, sheriff, assessor, and civil district court clerk, as well as a City Charter amendment and, in some areas, a local tax proposition...
antigravitymagazine.com/feature/vote...

This voter education guide is published primarily as a resource and does not constitute an endorsement of any candidate or proposition by ANTIGRAVITY Magazine. Welcome once again to your ANTIGRAVITY v...

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 15d

Spreading disaster, nutria for mayor, summer breezes, fast-moving time, band support, and Saints football feature in our comics this month. antigravitymagazine.com/comics-and-p...

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 15d

We're making our final passes and should have it up about this time tomorrow (Friday)! Stay tuned!

All Access: BlackAmericana Fest Turns Two

ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 16d

BlackAmericana Fest will take place on September 26 and 27 at The Broadside. Angela Calonder talked to musician Dusky Waters about organizing the festival and how it fits into New Orleans musical history.

Of all the tropes surrounding New Orleans, the city is perhaps known best for its musical spirit. It’s a mecca for musicians of all stripes who wish to live relatively cheaply, link up with fellow…

Local artist Tina Beef‘s newest cassette has six songs of brooding, yet hopefully romantic tracks that will make the listener reach for more. The standout track is “Icarus” with a haunting melody,…

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 17d

And checked out History or Premonition: A Legacy of Artistic Practice at the Joan Mitchell Center, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the center's art residency. antigravitymagazine.com/reviews/revi...

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