Everyone will be Irish for the next few days as businesses roll out green and beer and beards and bicycles and just about everything else for St. Patrick’s Day. We have a comprehensive list of all of the fun starting with a GleauxRide and ending with tunes by The Dead Irish ( who are very […]
The Mardi Gras parade season begins locally on Saturday with the Krewe of Sobek, but comes downtown on Monday with the Krewe of Harambee/MLK Day Parade. The popular Harambee Parade always draws a crowd so come early to stake out a great viewing spot. The forecast right now is a good one, but a bit […]
We thought you would be interested in this. Twin Blends Photography, LLC is constantly pulling historic photos from the files of the LSUS Archives and other places to share on their Facebook pages. They do a great job of sharing what downtown Shreveport used to look like and they ‘morph’ photos to show what the […]
Red River Brewing Co. at 1200 Marshall is about more than fine craft beers and fun times with friends. It’s also about the eats! Their new restaurant, The Smokehouse, is unveiling a new brunch menu. Their brunch is Sundays from 10:30 am- 2 pm. They are open Tuesday-Sunday, various hours.
It’s likely that you pass the Caddo Parish Courthouse often and have gotten so used to it that you never really see it anymore. We hope this helps bring it back into view. The current courthouse is the third one to sit on the same 2.5 acre spot in the middle of downtown’s Central Business […]
Reprinted from the Shreveport Times Our Opposition to Cross Bayou Point The Boards of Directors of the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) and the Downtown Shreveport Development Corporation (DSDC) have voted to oppose the current Cross Bayou Point plan proposed by Gateway Development Consortium (GDC). These votes are significant in that both of these organizations were […]
In 2020, you’ll see downtown in a whole new light! The improvement is thanks to Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell and SWEPCO’s participation in the LPSC Energy Efficiency program for public entities and political subdivisions. That’s a mouthful, but the upshot is that $2.5m from SWEPCO was used to fund nine lighting improvement projects in […]
Got all your Christmas shopping done? No? We can help! There are multiple cool yule options downtown, so jump in your sleigh to purchase some holiday joy. The Agora Borealis Art Marketplace at 421 Lake is filled to the brim with flights of fancy, one-of-a-kind art, jewelry, clothing, furniture, even Good Granoly granola, local coffees […]
The five week run of the Rainbow City installation is now gone, but the impressive numbers of people who came to experience the inflatables, art market, special events and bouncy houses are coming in. Shreveport Regional Arts Council is crunching the numbers, but initial tallies show that 5,600 students from surrounding schools came on field […]
If you’ve driven past the old Arlington Hotel on Cotton Street recently, you’ve seen the evidence of all that is going on inside, and it’s a-plenty. The Every Man a King Distillery is making solid progress though the opening date has -wisely- been set for summer 2020. Anyone who has ever rehabbed a challenged (and […]
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