Covid 19

Beef, Beans & More at Retro Downtown BBQ

An icon in local barbeque is now downtown. The taste and experience of Cobb’s BBQ is now available at Retro Downtown Barbeque at 500 Texas Street, just across from the Caddo Parish Courthouse. The business is a partnership between Retro Down Town Cafe owner Kristi Tift and Shawn Feaster, a 30-year employee of the former […]

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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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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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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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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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Sunday Brunch Returns to Red River Brewpub

Red River Brewpub has resumed their popular pre-COVID Sunday Brunch with a menu sure to please. The brunch fest happens every Sunday from 11 am – 2 pm and features a wide variety of breakfast specialties. Check out the menu to see what you’d like to try. While there, join the new Mug Club! Not […]

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Changes in Downtown Eats & Drinks

  Our friends at StrayCat, 222 Travis St., are back in the fray and we’re happy to see them! Wednesday through Saturday from 5 pm- 11 pm you can order to-go Old Fashioneds, Long Island Iced Teas, and Sex on The Beach drinks, 20 ounce Strawberry Daiquiris and Vodka Freezes, and a variety of vodka […]

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Caddo Common’s Art Project!

Stroll around downtown’s newest park to take in a new art exhibit now through August 30. Caddo Common is hosting a variety of artworks created by Bossier Parish Community College’s Communications Media students. The BPCC Communications Media Showcase takes into account all the restrictions of COVID-19 and deals with them in a fun way that […]

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