Month: September 2020

PrizeFest Launches This Weekend

The Louisiana Film, Music, Fashion and Food Prize has gone mostly online for 2020, but the opportunities for fun remain! Louisiana Film Prize Instead of gathering in multiple venues to watch the Orange and Teal Slates of films this year, your ticket will allow you to watch the slates when you want Oct. 2-11. After you […]

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Five Things to Do Downtown!

Come to 605 Texas Street, our new crossroads of south Louisiana and north, dance and sing to Tank and the Bangas, peruse what local  entrepreneurs are creating, consider the path of resiliency and party like you’re one year old!   C’mon, baby and see what our #CoolDowntown has to offer. We believe good food can be […]

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Unique Airbnb Rentals Downtown

      Other cool Airbnb options downtown- The beautiful 1897 Logan Mansion has rooms from $115-$139, all decked out in turn-of-the-last century Victorian finery. Each room comes fulled equipped with a K-cup coffee maker, a mini-fridge stocked with fun snacks and other treats left by the amazing hosts, who want each visitor to have […]

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Bleu Beauty Med Spa Opens

The Bleu Beauty Med Spa in downtown Shreveport is now officially open to business. Located on the mezzanine of The Standard at 509 Market, Bleu Beauty offers a number of age-defying, revitalizing treatments to men and women including fibroblasting, hydrofacials, microneedling, and esthetic services. To see the full list of services and products they offer, […]

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New Normal Drive In Concerts Sept. 18 & 19

See the video of the bands talking about their return. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It’s better than ‘Cats’. DON’T WAIT. GET YOUR TICKETS NOW.  It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that 2020 was the year the live music died, or at the very least, was put on indeterminate […]

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Five Things to Do Downtown!

Lederhosen, glass pumpkins, two full nights of live music, Southern kitchen witchery and a much-needed date night top the list of 5 Things to Do Downtown. Pack up your VW for a drive-through concert, practice your yodel and experience the many things our #CoolDowntown has to offer. Eight musical acts, a giant LED screen, food, […]

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Lauren Ross’ 2020 PrizeFest Poster

Each year the Louisiana Film Prize works with a local artist to create a commemorate poster, but we think 2020’s version is pretty perfect. Artist Lauren Ross‘ take from a Louisiana Film Prize perspective pretty much says it all because whose head HASN’T exploded at some point in this dumpster- fire- of- a- year? Ross, […]

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Primetime Appeal: Space Available at Lofts at 624

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Some Bars Get a Restaurant Reprieve

At the September 8 Shreveport City Council meeting, council members approved a “Class AG-Restaurant Conditional Permit” that allows retail bar establishments the opportunity to legally operate as a restaurant. This 90-day permit will temporarily suspend certain provisions of the city’s ordinances regulating classification as a restaurant. See the Council Resolution here. The state had already […]

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Bleu Beauty Med Spa Opens Friday

You are invited to the opening of the new Bleu Beauty Med Spa & Laser Clinic at 509 Market Street, the Standard, on Friday, Sept. 11 from 4 pm- 6 pm. Meet the owner and tour the new North Louisiana space for this up-and-coming business in Slidell, Covington, and now, in downtown Shreveport. Welcome this […]

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