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Love & Kisses to Pepito XO @Artspace!

We have been SUCH Sneaky Petes lately about the amazing new eatery that is COMING SOON to downtown Shreveport! A couple of weeks ago, we spilled the beans with a photo of a popular and talented local restauranteur standing in front of the new bright red doors at artspace, 708 Texas Street. Pepito Munoz, he […]

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Juneteenth Mural Takes Shape This Weekend

The west side of 331 Milam Street, the building that houses the downtown post office and The Office Hub, is going to be undergoing a transformation this Juneteenth weekend. A new mural, entitled Absolute Equality is a collaborative project commemorating Juneteenth with Shreveport faces, people and places. The original art by muralist/artist Ka’Davien Baylor will […]

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Downtown’s 100-Year Plant

We stumbled across a great little human interest story in the 800 block of Texas Avenue. On the corner across from the Asian Gardens is a large agave plant (yes, the kind of plant Tequila is made from) that is about to bloom. We first saw and posted it on May 30, and shared it […]

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Update, 1229 Texas Avenue

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 […]

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Bus Shelter Installation to Begin Soon

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30 Years & Counting for Blind Tiger

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 […]

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Bally’s Shreveport, Take A Bow!

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 […]

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Fusion Nutrition Wants to Win You Over

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 […]

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Fast Work at Confederate Monument

The crew with Energy Services and Products Corp., the Tampa, Fla., company hired to remove the Confederate monument at the Caddo Parish Courthouse, are making quick work of the removal. Today (Thursday, June 9), they removed and wrapped the unknown Confederate soldier statue that had been at the top of the monument for transit. The […]

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