The Agora Borealis is featuring Native American artist Sonya Meshell. Proud to call Shreveport her home, Sonya, whose roots are Oklahoma Choctaw and Choctaw/Apache of Ebarb, is active in a variety of groups. She is a documentary photographer and has “spent the last 10 years photographing her native tribes.” Sonya’s work has been featured in […]
Just about everyone can be happy about this announcement…Noble Savage kicks off brunch at 11 am on Sunday, January 7, 2024. The popular eatery at 417 Texas Street is now open for lunch and dinner. Monday – Tuesday, 11 am – 9 pm; Wednesday – Thursday, 11 am – 11 pm, Friday – Saturday 11 […]
Fasten your seatbelts! Michael Mann’s high-octane biopic at downtown’s Robinson Film Center opens January 5th. The film, set in the summer of 1957, depicts Enzo Ferrari’s auto empire in crisis. His plan to save it puts everything on the line with the roll of the dice on one race – 1,000 miles across Italy. Kyle […]
See the new The Color Purple and get context on the emotions it creates. Play in the ‘sno’ one last time at artspace and make plans for both ringing in the New Year and brunch afterwards. It’s time for a little bit of Old Lang Syne in our #CoolDowntown. 1. The new The Color Purple […]
If you do much walking around downtown, you’ve likely seen a dead crosswalk. Crosswalks are important, especially given that both motorists and pedestrians are getting more and more distracted and less and less likely to clear both ways before crossing a street. A couple of months ago, Van Denison of Boy Scout Troop 1o based […]
In 2015, the City of Shreveport closed the Lake Street crossing just to the east of the Holiday Inn to work with Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to get a so-called ‘Quiet Zone’ established. The Mayor’s Office intended that the crossing would reopen, better and quieter than before. [box] CITY […]
Seven Weeks. 13 Restaurants. 700 lunches. The first couple of weeks of the DDA’s Lunch on Us, DDA staff had tickets left over and tried several times to stop people on the street and give them a $10 lunch coupon- to no avail. By the final weeks of Lunch on Us, all 100 of the […]
It’s the week before Christmas and all through the house at 431 Crockett Street creatures have been stirring – paint, that is- and climbing ladders and painting. Boy, have they been painting. “Yesterday I spent 16 hours painting,” said a weary-looking Chris Rhodes, one of the owners of the soon-to-open Crockett Street Trading Company. “We […]
We are one step closer to getting some additional color and greenery onto downtown sidewalks. If you’re not a gardener, you might not realize that all plant growing material isn’t created equally. The requirements for the wick-watered Earthplanter pots that are going to be deployed downtown is a peat-based medium, and the recommended brand is […]
Monday, Dec. 11 was a good day for Shreveport with back-to-back press events unveiling grant dollars being deployed for downtown. Centerpoint Energy Foundation and Sam Walters, the CenterPoint Energy North Louisiana District Manager, were on hand to give a ceremonial check, but a very real $30,000 to the Shreveport Regional Arts Council (SRAC). SRAC Executive […]
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