Some people are thrilled over diamonds and pearls, some, a fancy new car. We, on the other hand, absolutely love infrastructure improvements! In November of 2021, District B councilwoman LeVette Fuller was quick to respond to the DDA’s request for a small amount of money to do some much needed repairs and improvements. Our belief […]
The Lot at 400 Crockett Street, wants you to be musical this holiday weekend. The Summer Tour of IV and the Strange Band, Kyle Turley, The Dover Brothers+ Cody Cooke + Oh Possum Where Art Thou is Thursday, June 30 starting at 7 pm. We do not know the cover. On Friday night, it’s DJ […]
July 4th weekend will end with a ‘bang’ downtown, but there’s a lot to enjoy before the fireworks! The July SBC Glo Fest is the 800-pound gorilla, but there’s more to experience. The long holiday weekend kicks off with the Shreveport Farmers’ Market at Festival Plaza. The Saturday musical guest is Dexter Duran (8:30-10:30am) and […]
If you haven’t seen the finished mural on the side of 331 Milam (The Office Hub/downtown post office building), you’ll want to come by this week. The 2-story paint and vinyl work was completed over the Juneteenth weekend. Many murals are beautiful, but this art is a combination of history, a poignant and important story […]
Many of you may be familiar the artworks of Paige Powell. Paige has created an interesting niche of digital collage and mixed media pieces that use unrelated pairings to create a fun nod to local places and spaces. Think llama in the foreground of the old Selber Bros. store, UFOs over the Centenary Gold Dome, […]
This was a good week for both the history and the future of an important block in downtown. The 500 block of Milam Street sits in the heart of the Central Business District. Across from the Caddo Parish Courthouse, for 60 years it was the home to the Rubenstein’s Department Store. For the past 35 […]
The Missing Link (TML), 504 Texas Street, downtown’s steampunk-themed eatery is generally best known for its deliciously creative hot dogs. But after the recent Bossier Arts Council’s Cirque du Artini martini competition, TML should now be known for something else, too. The creative mixologists from TML won the top TWO Artini categories- Judges’ and People’s […]
The long-awaited Bayou Grande apartments at 961 Caddo Street opened its doors to the community today, to show off our newest option in downtown living! Over the past couple of years, there have been a lot of questions about what was being built at the corner of Common and Caddo Streets downtown, but the efforts […]
We have been SUCH Sneaky Petes lately about the amazing new eatery that is COMING SOON to downtown Shreveport! A couple of weeks ago, we spilled the beans with a photo of a popular and talented local restauranteur standing in front of the new bright red doors at artspace, 708 Texas Street. Pepito Munoz, he […]
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