"IF YOU KEEP CRAPPING ON magazine.com YOUR HOME, FOUNDER Leo J. McGovern III PUBLISHER & PRETTY SOON EDITOR IN CHIEF Dan Fox magazine.com [email protected] YOU’RE NOT SENIOR EDITORbarryfest.com Erin Hall [email protected] GONNA HAVE A PHOTO EDITOR Adrienne Battistella HOME TO LIVE IN"PG. 29 [email protected] COMICS EDITOR Caesar Meadows I had big plans for Mardi Gras this year. For the first time in a long [email protected] time, I wasn’t encumbered by a heavy work schedule or inclement weather. Man, was I really gonna do it up: long bike rides, meet- ASSOCIATE EDITORS Kelly McClure ups with old friends, maybe even a costume! Then the throat [email protected] tickle started up Saturday afternoon, the coughing Sunday, and by Andru Okun Monday, I felt like death. I managed to rally enough on Tuesday [email protected] to catch Zulu and Rex, but short of a Lundi Gras Mucinex and a Sara Pic Tuesday morning Bloody Mary, it was the soberest, shortest-lived, [email protected] Elizabeth Vash Williams most exhausting Carnival I can remember. What’s that old saying? [email protected] We make plans and God says, “hold my beer.” ADVERTISING No matter. Though it was certainly a buzzkill to be back home, [email protected] checking emails, and returning to the work of finishing this issue CONTRIBUTING WRITERS before the sun set Tuesday evening, I was not alone in my self- William Archambeault imposed exile. Much gratitude goes to select members of the [email protected] ANTIGRAVITY team, who worked right through the holiday, Lyn Archer writing, editing, photographing, and even responding to my [email protected] Jules Bentley frequent, sometimes panicked e-nagging. Every year around [email protected] this time, I try to plan around the chaos, assuming everyone’s Corey Cruse productivity will crater starting right around Muses Thursday and [email protected] lasting well into Ash Wednesday. Imagine my horror, then, as I Yvette Del Rio [email protected] plotted out this year’s schedule only to find Mardi Gras’ late date Holly Devon barreling down on our usual end-of-month production week like [email protected] the asteroid from Armageddon. But to my perpetual astonishment Anton Falcone and delight, the AG krewe just kept right on chuggin’. If you’re [email protected] reading this now, we made it and it’s kind of a miracle. (But then Holly Hobbs [email protected] again, it always is!) Maeve Holler [email protected] As with my abandoned party plans, I also got a touch of the FOMO Christina Igoe this last week of production, missing out not only on Mardi Gras [email protected] Brandon Lattimore but TWO great shows by our pals in Hand Grenade Job, as well as [email protected] Valerie June’s set at the Republic. I’ve been fortunate enough to Morgan Lawrence catch Ms. June everywhere from the Circle Bar to Bumbershoot in [email protected] Seattle, but no such luck this go around. What’s that other saying? Dan McCoy Always the editor, never the bride? [email protected] Leo McGovern III [email protected] So again, many thanks to all of our contributors who do get Ben Miotke out there. It’s through your words and images that I get to live [email protected] vicariously. I hope these pages have the same effect for you, Chris Staudinger [email protected] beloved readers. Hope to see you on the streets... eventually. I’ll be Ian Willson sprung from this ink-stained cage yet! —Dan Fox [email protected] SNAIL MAIL P.O. Box 2215 Gretna, LA 70054 cover illustration by Luke Howard photo this page of Bourbon Street by David Joshua Jennings [email protected] FACEBOOK.COM/ANTIGRAVITYMAG @ANTIGRAVITYMAG / #ANTIGRAVITYMAG 4 * ANTIGRAVITY * MARCH 2017 MARCH 2017 * ANTIGRAVITY * 5 need to expand your relationships or end them altogether. You may be attracted to Star Hustler buying things during this time that you can’t afford. For some signs, it can be a “wild” time to buy a new shirt, whereas other signs will suddenly really need a diamond- by CHRISTINA IGOE illustrations KALLIE VAN TASSEL coated car. You will be able to afford some things and have a lighter feeling about spending, but don’t get too crazy. Aries loves action, and this Venus retrograde will be over the top this year. Your own heart is on fire, but so is everyone else’s. Be aware of the weight you push into the world. NEW RETROGRADE, WHO DIS? ARIES the people you are romantically linked There are a lot of horoscopes written to. The full moon on the 12th brings to Aries as if they are babies that need some upset to your home, which will to be directed in their every action. be needed to understand the kinds of Your strength, for better or worse, changes necessary for the year ahead. is that you get up and go whenever Make moves. something is happening that calls you. This month, your love life will be CANCER in focus in a way that it hasn’t been Your routines and habits are very for years. There may be some lessons personal, cancer. If someone else that you will be shocked to learn, and has encountered this with you, it is there may be some behaviors that you because you have granted them access have made into patterns because it to your secret world. Sometimes, served you just fine. Get ready to undo because of the nests you create within some things, and be comforted in the your most special relationships, it knowledge that these lessons bring can feel like you live secret lives. This incredible, new blessings. The new month, Venus asks that you live a little moon on the 27th is especially epic for more out loud. It is time to show your you because it is in your sign. If you friends and lovers how much they spend the month working harder than mean to you. It is time to declare your you ever have, consider this date the love. It is time to make it Facebook celebration of your fire, your power, official. These processes might feel and the worlds you can move with silly, because you take good care to your compassion and strength. be up front about your feelings, but professing love will feel just right TAURUS for you and the receivers of these This month, Venus (your ruling messages this month. planet) is retrograde, making a space of compassion and energy in LEO your most sacred and secret worlds. In astrology, there is a special power Practically, this is an important time given to the triangle. The shape for you to understand, especially as it needs all angles to work in order to relates to your relationships, where stay standing, so there is a trusting you feel safest. Are you staying in a pressure when something is angled relationship because you feel like a toward your sign. This month, Venus part of something? Are you holding (the planet of love) is making this on to something that won’t ever be relationship with your sign, holding as dreamy as you know you need it you up and helping you see spaces The astrological sign of Pisces, a water sign, is represented by the fish—there is no to be because of a common theme you can rely on more. On the 4th, better symbol. Pisces breathes feelings. It navigates the depths with a knowledge that running through the course of this this planet’s energy shifts into a is unattainable to someone who doesn’t have the patience or experience with this type relationship? Unfortunately, it’s retrograde, and while it will still be of terrain. In groups, it is equally protected by and vulnerable to being too connected time for a shake up, Taurus. While a cradling and empowering space, and too aware. Every March, the sun swims through the sign of Pisces until the 21st. this month might not shake you free it will also bring a lot of new and During this time, we feel more deeply, we pick up the feelings of those around us more of the limitations exactly in front of important lessons in what makes love naturally, and there is a tendency to need air. In a practical sense, this “air” can be you, it will change your ideas about happen the way it does for you. These any number of things to get you out of the current. Pisces brings an extreme need to go what makes you feel emotionally lessons aren’t meant to be necessarily deep, sit in the depth, and—just as it becomes too much—rise to the surface and take content. What is your gut telling you? easy, but it’s still an important your mind out of how real things can get. This year, there are a lot of realities to avoid, If you embrace change, there may be process in undoing some of the most and it is important that in a dreamy state of floating above your problems, you don’t a rollercoaster effect this month, but strongly held behaviors that are do harm to yourself. If you see yourself avoiding a personal reality this month, try you can handle it. not serving you well romantically. being absorbed by a family and world that needs you. Be careful in the ocean, and be Remember: these changes are for you caring of the openness and softness of the people close to you.