Month: May 2022

30 Years & Counting for Blind Tiger

There are places people who’ve been in Shreveport for a while remember fondly. Shreve Square. Nanking’s restaurant. The Florentine. These are the businesses in which wild plans were hatched, friendships begun, drunken ideas were debated long into the night, and memories were made. Those places are gone, but over the years, others have taken their […]

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Bally’s Shreveport, Take A Bow!

Bally’s Shreveport was on a roll in the most recent Casino Player ratings for service, scoring 2022 wins in Overall Service, Best Breakfast, Best Romantic Restaurant, Best Lounge, Best Happy Hour & Best Casino Cocktail Service. Casino Player has been giving the awards for almost 30 years, “asking our readers to tell us about their […]

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It is the beginning of the end of the Confederate Monument at the Caddo Parish Courthouse. Equipment has been stationed and soon, work will begin on moving the monument to its new home-

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Fusion Nutrition Wants to Win You Over

Downtown’s Red River District, the pretty, tree-lined area of shops under the Texas Street Bridge across from Bally’s Casino, is shady, welcoming, and quiet. Too quiet. The quiet is mostly because the district’s three largest retail/restaurant spaces are empty, waiting for tenants to bite, funding to be acquired and leases to be approved. This is […]

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Fast Work at Confederate Monument

The crew with Energy Services and Products Corp., the Tampa, Fla., company hired to remove the Confederate monument at the Caddo Parish Courthouse, are making quick work of the removal. Today (Thursday, June 9), they removed and wrapped the unknown Confederate soldier statue that had been at the top of the monument for transit. The […]

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All Aboard for Train Day at the Museum!

Come one, come all, for Train Day at the Museum on Sunday, May 15 from noon- 4 pm. The Shreveport Railroad Museum at 142 North Common Street is going to be the place for all things trains and railroad-related Sunday, May 15! Come enjoy an afternoon of train talk, memorabilia, food trucks, magic and museum tours. […]

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