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.
If you’re anything like me, you’re itching to get out of the house as summer approaches. If you and your family are ready to get out and about, consider visiting these five wide-open spaces located…
Post last updated: 1:40 p.m., Wednesday, May 27 Governor John Bel Edwards’ statewide stay-at-home order was lifted on May 15, allowing many Louisiana businesses—including Shreveport-Bossier’s casinos—to resume operating with phase one restrictions in place. The…
Is it just me, or is there a lot of news to keep up with these days? In keeping with federal and state guidance for phase one business reopenings, lots of popular attractions in Shreveport-Bossier—including…
Featured photo: Mira Smith (guitar) and Margaret Lewis pose for a press photo at RAM Recording Studios in Shreveport. Interested in music history? Let us take you on a brief, online tour of addresses in…
The American Rose Center, a 118-acre rose garden that serves as national headquarters for the American Rose Society, has been located at 8877 Jefferson Paige Road in Shreveport since opening in 1974. A huge, beautifully…
It makes total sense that Downtown Shreveport would be an epicenter of reports of paranormal activity in Shreveport-Bossier. The original footprint of downtown—comprised of eight blocks running west from the Red River and eight blocks…
TL;DR: Download Shreveport-Bossier Zoom background images here. Perhaps you’re among the hundreds of millions of folks who’ve recently found themselves spending a lot of time in Zoom meetings. Zoom, a video conferencing software that many…
Post made at 12:25 p.m. on Monday, March 30. Please note that details of offers may change. Marilynn’s Place and Ralph’s Place are two popular Shreveport restaurants owned and operated by Chef Boz Baucum. Like…
Featured photo: A screen capture from Sci-Port Discovery Center’s #TodayAtSciport online programming. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect communities around the world, the vast majority of public attractions like restaurants, museums and non-essential retail…
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…
The Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau will be handing out king cake slices on Feb. 14 and 21.
This may sound silly, but I’m crazy about boudin kolaches. There’s not a gas station along I-10 or a Crispy Donut location anywhere in Louisiana where I haven’t stopped to grab one of these sausage-stuffed…
Dennis Beckman has made thousands of Carnival masks in the past 35 years, but he’s never made the same mask twice.
The thing to eat at Ralph’s Place will be anything on a bun.
The 2019 edition of Christmas in Roseland runs Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays now through Dec. 23.
If you picked up Glow Alchemy Kitchen, Chef Jessica Comegys’s beautiful new restaurant located at 955 Pierremont Road in Shreveport, and dropped it in Beverly Hills, it would feel completely at home. From the breathtakingly…
Deep-fried burritos, it turns out, are a beautiful thing.
Chef Gabriel Balderas and his wife and partner, Brooke, are detail-oriented people. This fact is in evidence everywhere you look inside of their soon-to-open second restaurant, Zuzul Coastal Cuisine. The Balderases, who also operate El…
