After years of sitting mostly quiet, lights, camera and action will soon be returning to the former Millennium Studios at 300 Douglas Street in downtown Shreveport. On Tuesday, December 12, the Shreveport City Council unanimously passed an ordinance approving a lease for Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unit (his TV and Film business). Beginning Jan. 1, […]
There’s always that one ( or two, or ten) people on your holiday shopping list that are problematic. You know ‘that’ person. He has everything and what he wants, he buys. She wants nothing, and only likes specific colors, scents, styles. Fret no more. We have discovered yet again during our Lunch on Us lunch […]
There are several ways to know that Christmas is coming but one of the most loved has long been the Shreveport Opera Guild’s Les Boutiques de Noel. The shopping experience is the region’s very own holiday market, filled with gifts, stocking stuffers and seasonal goodies. One that recommend that provides a full mouth of delicious […]
Downtown is the place to be on Thanksgiving Day (Robinson Film Center, of course!) as well as Black Friday and Small Business Saturday! We have sales, door prizes, special meal deals, and SOOO much fun – from snowflake crafts to live music to Christmas at the aquarium to fireworks lighting up the night. Take a […]
Plans are in the works for two musical heavyweights downtown in 2024. Musical heavyweight James Burton wants to celebrate his 85th birthday with an international guitar festival in downtown Shreveport, August 17-19 at Municipal Auditorium. If you’ve had the chance to attend one of the six festivals or three holiday concerts in the past, you […]
Time is running out for you to get tickets to an event 150 years in the making- The Merciful Frost Victorian Banquet, the event celebrating the end of Shreveport’s 1873 Yellow Fever epidemic. Tickets to this once-in-a- sesquicentennial banquet are available now and are extremely limited. In the late summer and early fall of 1873 […]
Have you been to Shreveport Aquarium Mutiny yet? Time is running out to breakfast with the mermaids, sing with the pirates and try to defeat the dreaded Kraken. On October 28, plan to come for Breakfast with a Mermaid, but make your reservation now as slots are going quickly! After your breakfast, go meet some […]
Downtown’s historic Holy Trinity Catholic Church is celebrating its 150 birthday by going interactive! If you’ve ever wanted to explore the beautiful building, now you can with help from their new interactive photo tour. The tour, according to Fr. Duane Trombetta, utilizes Google 3D Indoor Streetview technology that allows you to navigate around the panoramas […]
PrizeFest is back with its first festive weekend filled with music and fashion, followed in quick succession with food, film and comedy. There are still tickets available for each, but they are going fast. Downtown will be hopping at venues ranging from the Music Prize Garage to Phoenix 2.0, the 600-700 blocks of Texas Street, […]
It was a beautiful day at historic downtown Oakland Cemetery for the Shreveport Yellow Fever 150th Commemoration Memorial Dedication. The dedication was at the site of the Yellow Fever Mound, in which nearly 800 souls lay buried, most of the nearly 25% of the population that perished in the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1873. Finally, […]
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