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 […]
If you’ve seen the work going on in suite 100 in downtown’s Red River District, know that the woman behind it has – quite literally- been here before. Cassandra Pipkins-Johnson, most recently of Cassandra’s Louisiana Kitchen in Houston, Tex., and a restaurant of the same name on Jewella Avenue, also helped set up and run […]
Working on all the things needed downtown is a big job, and we really appreciate the help recently from Heard, McElroy and Vestal, the Shreveport Aquarium, Barksdale Air Force Base and Chimp Haven! The Aquarium pitched in with volunteers on Saturday, Nov. 4 to help clean up the serious overgrowth around the Waddell A-Truss Bridge […]
Before you know it, the holidays will be upon us- as will our gift-giving conundrums. We may have a solution, because we have found that no one can resist: Good Eats. Products that support cool local Mom-and-Pop shops. In those regards, the new and existing items being offered by Fertitta’s Deli at 1124 Fairfield will […]
Tee up, this year we are are giving our downtown #Small and #Local businesses an added holiday push! We have joined in with a small national moving pushing Pink Friday, Nov. 17 – and we’re adding Pink Saturday, Nov. 18, too! Our goal is to encourage you to #ShopSmall first and have some fun doing […]
If you have ever wondered what a ‘kid magnet’ looks like, wonder no more. It looks like a spray park. This is a typical day at the Clyde Fant Parkway Riverview Park Spray Park before 2015. In 2015, the kiddos and the dancing water went away, victim to a pretty terrible Red River flood that […]
For years, the beautiful five or six story (referred to as both in historical records) building in the 700 block of Milam Street in downtown Shreveport has been called the Uneeda Biscuit Building. The Uneeda Biscuit ad on the west wall is iconic and much loved, but that building was never owned by Uneeda Biscuit, […]
Stray Cat is now more than your go-to place for a late afternoon drink or late night burger. The little bar at 222 Travis Street now offers Dish’n Out lunch options Monday-Friday 11 am- 2 pm and dinner late night Friday and Saturday from 8 pm until close. Stray Cat will still have pizzas in […]
More great food options in downtown Shreveport! Last week, the DDA office was the happy recipient of a heaping pan of delicious food from Next Level 318 Sports Bar & Grill at 220 Travis Street. For some time now, the late night bar and grill has been serving up food to its nighttime/early morning crowd, […]
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 […]
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