If you love the little gold statuette and all the drama and intrigue that leads to the Academy Awards presentations, you need to be in the know about all the activities at downtown’s Robinson Film Center. From now through March 27 (Oscars night!), RFC will be showing Best Picture nominees, hosting Oscars 101 talks […]
Slava Ukraini. You may have seen this phrase in media reports or on Facebook. It’s most literal translation is ‘Glory to Ukraine’ and it has been become an international rallying cry in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of the country. To show solidarity with Ukraine and its people, Shreveport-Bossier’s new ‘Bakowski Bridge of Lights’ […]
2022 is a big year for the Southern University Museum of Art at Shreveport (SUMAS) It is the museum’s 20th anniversary of bringing African and African-American Art to the Shreveport area. The museum, inside Southern University’s Metro Campus at 610 Texas Street, isn’t large in terms of square footage, but has a significant permanent exhibit […]
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The Red River Revel, the area’s premier and longest-running arts and music festival, has welcomed a new Executive Director. Logan Lewis is taking the reins of the venerable organization, and we wish him the best! Here’s the press release from the Red River Revel. Red River Revel, Inc., proudly welcomes Logan Lewis as the new […]
John Cush is one of downtown’s most ardent and eager developers. His Ridgeway Square condo conversion at 721 Marshall Street sold out. He is already fielding calls about his adaptive reuse of the adjoining building at 719 Marshall. The two spacious apartments on the second floor and the commercial/restaurant space on the first promises to […]
The works of more than 100 area artists will be on display for the celebration of a decade of Critical Mass! The yearly event is a professional critical review of local art and this year, will feature a retrospective of the nine Critical Mass winners. It is going to be an amazing event, that will […]
Downtown’s Marshall Street is becoming ‘mural central.’ The grandmother of them all, the magnificent ‘Once in a Millennium Moon’ faces the 700 block of Marshall Street and beckons motorists on Interstate 20 to come and take photographs while passing through. More recently, muralist Ka’Davien Baylor and a group of Shreveport artists painted ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’ […]
Prize Fest, a celebration of Film, Food, Music, Fashion and Comedy, announced its winners from Weekend 2 (Film, Food & Comedy) at a live-broadcasted awards show watched throughout the country and the world. The festival, now in its tenth year, showcased the work of independent filmmakers, fashion designers, musicians, chefs and comedians during a festival […]
Prize Fest is going to be taking it to the streets to celebrate their first decade and all the fun starts Friday, Sept. 24! Over two nights, Fri. Sept. 24 and Sat., Sept. 25, ten bands will be playing their musical fingers to the bone to become the next Louisiana Music Prize winner, and recipient […]
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