After years of intending to do so, I finally got out to Blueberry Hill (5121 Bellevue Road, Haughton), a friendly little berry farm located just a few miles east of Bossier City, for their pick-your-own…
There’ll be a boatload of talent onstage during the June 20 Music Prize event at 211 Market Street in downtown Shreveport, but the star of the show could very well end up being the venue…
To be completely honest with you, I don’t know if I believe that there’s such a thing as “a bad snow cone.” On a hot enough Louisiana afternoon, even the most average snow cone is…
Featured photo: Chef Gabriel Balderas, of El Cabo Verde, will host a cooking demo during North Louisiana Seafood Week at SALT Restaurant. Photo by Jim Noetzel. Whether you’re a local food enthusiast, a home cook,…
Each May, the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau (publisher of this blog) and the Shreveport-Bossier Attractions Association partner to present Be a Fan of Shreveport-Bossier. This month-long promotion of local attractions offers dozens of exclusive…
Do you love sweet potato pie? If so, then you don’t really need to read any more of this blog post. You can save yourself some time by just going ahead and getting in the…
Be a Fan of Shreveport-Bossier is a month-long promotion organized each May by the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau (publishers of this blog) and the Shreveport-Bossier Attractions Association. Be a Fan includes valuable discounts from…
From April 22 to May 22, 2019, Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser will host a series of meetings in cities across Louisiana to help identify locations for the new Louisiana Civil Rights Trail. According to a…
Scott Auer’s The Little Shop of Music (1950 E. 70th Street, Shreveport) is a rare thing: a new and used vinyl record and CD shop that is clean and well-organized, with prices marked on products…
Popular local restaurant El Cabo Verde (1023 Provenance Pl. Blvd. #210, Shreveport) will host the proprietors of Mezcaloteca for three public, ticketed events, April 3-4, 2019. Mezcaloteca is a revered mezcal library and bar located…
For 318 Restaurant Week 2019, Whisk Dessert Bar‘s Chef Blake Jackson is partnering with Real BBQ and More‘s Harvey Clay for a one-night-only dinner called Where There’s Smoke, 6-8:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 19 at Real…
Ono’s Hawaiian Grill, the brick-and-mortar restaurant from the team behind Shreveport’s popular Ono’s Traditional Hawaiian Cuisine food truck, appears to be within weeks of opening their beautiful new restaurant at 4015 Fern Avenue. Ono’s founder…
318 Restaurant Week 2019 will be held, March 18-23, at more than 50 restaurants throughout Shreveport-Bossier. As in previous years, some of the most talked-about elements of the promotion are the one-night-only special dining experiences…
Each year, as sites like Eater.com release year-end “best of” lists, I’m tempted to write a 20×49.com post recapping Shreveport-Bossier’s most interesting culinary moments of the past 12 months. But, if I’m honest with myself,…
When I was growing up, for some reason, we called them “catfish camps.” These restaurants – always located outside of town, usually situated on the banks of a lake or creek, sometimes all-you-can-eat – have…
Bossier City’s restaurant community is finishing out 2018 strong, with two interesting new international eateries opening and one popular new restaurant already planning to expand. BeauxJax Crafthouse, the Cajun restaurant and bar that anchors the…
As far as epitaphs go, the words that are etched into Elder Utah Smith’s new grave marker in Shreveport are about as cool as they come: “Electric Guitar Evangelist.” At 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec….
Featured photo: Sione Maumalanga prepares food on his food truck, Ono’s. Photo by Jim Noetzel. If you were to ask me to name one person who will have an outsized impact on Shreveport-Bossier’s restaurant scene…
Need a mummified bat? Shopping around for ghost hunting equipment, serial killer-related memorabilia, or creepy, ancient medical equipment? Gina Marie’s Antiques, Oddities, & Curiosities – which gets my vote for the strangest shop in Shreveport-Bossier –…
One thing about the museums and galleries in Shreveport-Bossier: You never know what you’re gonna get. Sometimes, you get something so incredibly cool that you’ve kind of gotta pinch yourself. That’s the case with Pinball:…
