Direct Yourself Downtown FRIDAY (May 24)

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Flip on the KTBS morning news at 9 am this morning to catch a spooky story!

One of the videos from our Louisiana’s Weirder Side: Downtown Paranormal Fest will be debuting along with details about all the fun planned for June 20-23 downtown! We’d love for you to: 1. buy a ticket and be a part of all the paranormal events and 2. enter a real (or imagined) ghost tale in our competition.  Winners will have the chance to tell their story to an audience and win trophies, swag and cash dollahs!

 

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It’s another full day of mudbugs, music and madness today at downtown’s Festival Plaza. Mudbug Madness’ 30th anniversary party is in full swing and you’re the guest of honor! Gates open at 11 am (and remember, it’s free to enter until 5 pm) and close at 11 pm. Tonight’s headliner is Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience, who’ll be lighting up the MetroPCS stage from 9 pm until 11 pm.

Food

Entertainment

Crafts

All that’s missing is you!

 

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Sam’s Town Hotel & Casino is getting in on the mudbug action with Blues, Bugs and BBQ on the casino rooftop today starting at 4 pm. $25 buys you a pass to hear The Pack, Jamie Bergeron, Rockin Dopsie & The Zydeco Twisters, plus all you can eat crawfish and BBQ! Tickets can be purchased at the casino gift shop or on ticketmaster.com

 

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Robinson Film Center welcomes The Sapphires and To The Wonder to the big screen tonight. Director Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life, Badlands) immerses a first-rate cast – Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams and Javier Bardem – into a drama that explores love, faith, fidelity and what it feels like to want something  you can’t define. The Sapphires are an Australian Aboriginal girls singing group who learn about love, friendship and war when their group entertains the US troops in Vietnam in 1968. Based just on the great trailer alone, Mail Monkey gives The Sapphires two thumbs up and double hoot!

 

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Speaking of fun events, Louisiana’s Weirder Side: Paranormal Fest tickets are officially FOR SALE. The June 20-23 downtown Shreveport event features all things ghostly, ghastly and historic. From the Yellow Fever Mound at the Oakland Cemetery Creep to Haunted River Cruises to live Ghost Hunts (with YOU helping in the investigation), the $175 VIP Pass gets you a ticket to everything, a total of 13 events over three days. There are also opportunities to purchase tickets to special movies and other weekend events. We know one thing- these tickets will move at a ‘spirited’ clip and once they’re gone…well, R.I.P.

 

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If you have a ghost story (true or not) or even a flair for the dramatic… then WE WANT YOU to enter the Paranormal Fest Ghost Storytelling Competition.  Grab your phone, record a video of yourself telling your story and upload it here.  Finals are LIVE on June23 at Paranormal Fest.

 

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Eat a great meal and help save an iconic shotgun house! The Norla Preservation Project is trying to save some historic shotgun houses abandoned and vacant for years behind the Shreveport Police Department. The houses are in various stages of terrible shape, but the goal is to move them somewhere else in the downtown district and rehab them for offices or retail. Today (and every Friday in May), Market 104 at the Shreveport Hilton will be donating a percentage of their sales to the project. When you eat, be sure to remind them that you support the Norla Preservation Project!

You can help again on Wednesday.  Stop by the Some Like It Hot Food Truck WEDNESDAY on the corner of Market and Milam (at the Phoenix Underground) and your lunch purchase will again benefit the Norla Preservation Project.

BE SURE TO THEM THEM YOU’RE DINING FOR NORLA!

 

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Speaking of brewskis, did you know downtown Shreveport has it’s own beer? The Red River Brewing Company has a new home at 1010 Marshall. Their fermenters are in place…next in are the brew house and brite tank. The company plans to start selling its beer to the public no later than July, so stay tuned!

 

 

 

 

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Boiled crawfish by the pound!  All you can eat catfish!  Plus steaks, shrimp, drinks and more.  Jethro’s (830 Fannin St) is open til 10pm on Friday & Saturday nights.

 

 

 

 

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Live Music & More

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Ongoing Events

• ARTSPACE  (214 Texas St; 318-834-0948)  |  SIXTY FEET (thru May 18)  |  Stephen D. Porter says ”Sixty feet is an appropriate name for my exhibit as there are sixty pieces of my work each piece approximately measuring a foot. Sixty feet of fantastic and incongruous imagery. Sixty feet of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations.”  | Tue-Sat 10am-5pm

• MULTICULTURAL CENTER OF THE SOUTH (520 Spring St; 318-424-1380)  |  The only Multicultural Center in the State of Louisiana with over 2,000 cultural exhibits representing 26 cultures. |  Tue-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 1-4pm

• NORSWORTHY GALLERY (214 Texas St; 318-834-0948)  |  Hoover Water Color Society Show (thru May 19)  | The Hoover Watercolor Society’s Annual Spring Exhibitions features over 80 paintings in a colorful show that will be juried to 40-50 paintings; there are 15 awards presented each year.  |  Tue, Thur & Fri, 2-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm

• OAKLAND CEMETERY TOUR  (Access Oakland Cemetery at Milam St @ Austin St; 318-200-0711)  |  Departs at 1pm; 90 min tour  |  $5/child; $10/person  |  Saturdays thru the end of October

• SCI-PORT: LOUISIANA’S SCIENCE CENTER (820 Clyde Fant Pkwy; 318-424-3466)  |  Science Museum and IMAX for kids of all ages  |  River Works Discovery Exhibit  |  A Journey of Imagination and Exploration of America’s Waterways is a hands-on, educational traveling exhibition designed to teach the importance of commerce, culture and conservation on America’s inland waterways.  |  Sea Life Encounters Exhibit  |  Touch and feed live, wild stingrays.  Also includes starfish, cownose stingrays, horseshoe crabs and southern stingrays.  |  Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun Noon-6pm

• SHREVEPORT WATER WORKS MUSEUM (142 N. Common St; 318-221-3388)  |  A National Historic Landmark.  Includes the Water Works Museum and a Railroad Museum.  |  Tue 9am-noon, Wed-Fri 9:30am-4pm, Sat 10am-4pm

• SHREVE TOWN GHOST WALK  (Begin / End at the front steps of the Caddo Parish Courthouse - 501 Texas St; 318-200-0711)  |  Departs at 8pm; 90 min tour  |  $5/child ; $10/person  |  Saturdays thru the end of October

• SPIRIT OF THE RED RIVER CRUISE  (Board from the dock off Clyde Fant Parkway, across from Sci-Port; 318-564-3560)  |  Boat will leave the dock at the top of every hour  |  $10/child; $15/adult  |  Sails several times a day Thur-Sun thru the end of November

• SPRING STREET MUSEUM (525 Spring St; 318-424-0964)  |  Housed in one of the city’s oldest structures, the Spring Street Historical Museum presents the history and geography of Shreveport, Caddo and Bossier Parishes, and the Red River. Rotating exhibits allow historic documents, photographs, and artifacts to tell the stories of the past and their impact on the future.  |  Wed-Fri 10am-4pm

• WOMEN’S BOOT CAMP @ THE KEY  (417 Lake St; 318-455-2330 x2344)  |  Women’s Boot Camp  |  $10/class  |  Mon-Thur @ 8am and 5:30pm  |  dawn@findyourkey.net

• THE DOWNTOWN SHREVEPORT LIONS CLUB – Meets at noon on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month at Sci-Port on Clyde Fant Parkway.

• THE DOWNTOWN SHREVEPORT ROTARY CLUB – Meets at noon every Tuesday at the Shreveport Convention Center.

• THE RED RIVER ROTARY CLUB – Meets at noon on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at Sci-Port on Clyde Fant Parkway.