Month: December 2019

New Smokehouse Sunday Brunch Menu

Red River Brewing Co. at 1200 Marshall is about more than fine craft beers and fun times with friends. It’s also about the eats! Their new restaurant, The Smokehouse, is unveiling a new brunch menu. Their brunch is Sundays from 10:30 am- 2 pm. They are open Tuesday-Sunday, various hours. 

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Take a Tour of the Caddo Courthouse

It’s likely that you pass the Caddo Parish Courthouse often and have gotten so used to it that you never really see it anymore. We hope this helps bring it back into view. The current courthouse is the third one to sit on the same 2.5 acre spot in the middle of downtown’s Central Business […]

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DDA/DSDC’s Stand on Cross Bayou Point

Reprinted from the Shreveport Times Our Opposition to Cross Bayou Point The Boards of Directors of the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) and the Downtown Shreveport Development Corporation (DSDC) have voted to oppose the current Cross Bayou Point plan proposed by Gateway Development Consortium (GDC). These votes are significant in that both of these organizations were […]

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DDA Scores Downtown Lighting Grant

In 2020, you’ll see downtown in a whole new light! The improvement is thanks to Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell and SWEPCO’s participation in the LPSC Energy Efficiency program for public entities and political subdivisions. That’s a mouthful, but the upshot is that $2.5m from SWEPCO was used to fund nine lighting improvement projects in […]

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Last Minute Gift Opportunities Downtown!

Got all your Christmas shopping done? No? We can help! There are multiple cool yule options downtown, so jump in your sleigh to purchase some holiday joy. The Agora Borealis Art Marketplace at 421 Lake is filled to the brim with flights of fancy, one-of-a-kind art, jewelry, clothing, furniture, even Good Granoly granola, local coffees […]

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Caddo Common’s Early Success

The five week run of the Rainbow City installation is now gone, but the impressive numbers of people who came to experience the inflatables, art market, special events and bouncy houses are coming in. Shreveport Regional Arts Council is crunching the numbers, but initial tallies show that 5,600 students from surrounding schools came on field […]

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Every Man A King Moves Forward

If you’ve driven past the old Arlington Hotel on Cotton Street recently, you’ve seen the evidence of all that is going on inside, and it’s a-plenty. The Every Man a King Distillery is making solid progress though the opening date has -wisely- been set for summer 2020. Anyone who has ever rehabbed a challenged (and […]

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Rainbow City’s Swan Song

It’s been a fun, floaty and colorful five weeks, but the end is near for the installation known as Rainbow City at Caddo Common park. The installation’s final weekend will be full of fun, though, starting with Saturday’s Whimsical Waffles gathering. Whimsical Waffles  10:00 AM – 12:30 PM COST: $10-$20 Bring the family for the […]

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Lift Your Spirits at This Hilton Event

The Shreveport Hilton Hotel has a festive new event planned to make your spirits bright, just in time for the holidays. The Making Spirits Bright sipping & tasting experience is Friday evening in the newly-rehabbed Hilton lobby bar just unveiled to the public. This is going to be a cool yule deal. The Hilton will […]

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Shreveport Hilton’s New Look

Nov. 20, 2019 UPDATE– The Hilton Shreveport (the world class business hotel we fondly know as the Hilton Downtown) is in the final days of a big new ‘do. Work on a massive re-do of the lobby, the bar, restaurant, meeting rooms, common spaces…even of wiring and lighting, is coming to an end. Plans are to […]

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