The Downtown Day Spa and Barber Shop is up and cutting (and polishing and plucking and trimming). Samoiya and hubby Greg Perkins’ new business at 327 Market Street is open and waiting for you for a variety of feel-good, look-better treatments. Samoiya is handling all the manicures and pedicures and Greg is making sure the […]
After a discussion that went in several directions, the City Council this week opted to preserve the status quo on bar hours throughout the city. Two ordinances, one up for vote on July 12; the other to be voted on July 26, looked to either 1.) leave downtown bar hours at the current 6 am […]
Developer John Cush invited us to take an updated look at the units at 721 1/2 Marshall, the second phase of Ridgeway Square. The first phase in the adjacent 719 Marshall building were five upscale condos that all sold. The top floor of 721 will be three living spaces- two roughly 700-850 SF apartments overlooking […]
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 […]
1229 Texas Avenue is not a building that would generally elicit any response other than ‘Oooh’, and not in a good way. Many downtown buildings- from the former Sears Department Store at 624 Texas Street, to the Interstate Wholesale Furniture at 816 McNeil- covered all their windows once air conditioning became available. Apparently, cooled air […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
(This column was written for SB Focus during the height of the Covid outbreak. Though the restrictions have been lifted, the need to support our small and local businesses is just as important!) By Liz Swaine A friend recently quipped that it takes seven times doing something to form a habit. I’m not sure if […]
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