On Saturday, June 27 at 6 p.m., the Northwest Louisiana Walk of Stars in downtown Shreveport will finally get to do something they’ve been hoping to do for years: they’ll induct Shreveport native and blues…
Updated June 30, 2020, 4:24 p.m. If you’re among the thousands of folks who have spent the last decade heading to Festival Plaza in downtown Shreveport for KTBS 3’s annual Independence Day festivities, we’d like…
If you’re anything like me, just the sight of colorful hot air balloons soaring overhead is enough to bring a smile to your face. This weekend, June 12-13, 2020, lots of colorful hot air balloons…
As the official destination marketing organization for Caddo and Bossier Parishes, the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau—publisher of this blog—sees lots of photos of our region. Each June, our social media timelines are filled with…
While the 2020 Sunflower Trail and Festival is canceled, the popular annual sunflower photography contest will proceed as planned.
Shreveport Little Theatre, one of the oldest continuously producing community theatres in the United States, is currently sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic. Thankfully, the 99-year-old organization has some pretty impressive friends. According to a press…
Featured photo: Louis Charles (center) is presented the Excellence in Hospitality Award for Outstanding Food Server in 2019. Flanking Louis are Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser and Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau President Stacy Brown. The…
For Chef Brad Jones, one-half of the culinary team at The Revenir, the upcoming 318 Restaurant Week Beer Dinner at Great Raft Brewing has special significance. A few years back, at his first-ever job in…
Us Up North Kitchen, Shreveport’s outstanding, lunch-only eatery run by Chef Hardette Harris, will host 318 Restaurant Week: “Made Up North” on Tuesday, March 17 at 7 p.m. This casual, five-course dinner will feature food…
Catch one of these cups during the Krewe of Highland XXV Parade and you can redeem it for a free beverage!
The Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau will be handing out king cake slices on Feb. 14 and 21.
“One of the things that I think is so neat this year is that one of our princes is actually a pig,” said Parade Chairperson Ronda Rivers.
The earliest Mardi Gras parade on Shreveport-Bossier’s annual Carnival calendar is hosted by the Krewe of Sobek, whose parade will roll at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020. They’ll also host their popular ball…
Ready or not, here we come again: The 2020 Shreveport-Bossier Mardi Gras Pop-Up Party will return to event1013 in Downtown Plano on Jan. 23.
Enter our latest contest and you and a friend could ride in the Krewe of Highland Parade on Sunday, Feb. 23.
The 2019 edition of Christmas in Roseland runs Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays now through Dec. 23.
Are you an out-of-towner planning a visit to Shreveport-Bossier during the 2019 holiday season? Or a local who’ll be hosting out-of-town guests for Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s festivities? If so, you might like to…
Featured photo by Shannon Palmer Photography If there’s a bigger holiday fireworks event in North Louisiana than the Rockets Over the Red Fireworks Festival, I don’t know what it is. The 2019 edition of Rockets…
The SBC Zombie Walk will rise from its shallow grave to delight fans of the zombie horror genre this Saturday, Oct. 19, 4-9 p.m. For the 2019 event, the SBC Zombie Walk will relocate from…
Two wildly independent chefs team up for a different kind of beer dinner.
