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 –…
Featured Photo: A $50 gift card from Enchanted Garden (pictured), a cool boutique shop in Shreveport, is one of several great prizes in a new giveaway. Let’s cut to the chase, shall we? Summer is…
Featured photo: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your scanners. The fragile peace is about to be shattered — the center cannot hold — in the final seconds before the opening of “largest used book store in Louisiana,”…
This post is the first in a series of three posts by guest contributor Michelle Suhar, whose personal blog can be found at www.dianeprince.com. There’s this guy that I know named Jeremy Johnson. We used…
Do you need to purchase a bulk quantity of rubber chickens? Are you frustrated by the scarcity of stores where one can acquire Moon Pies (banana or chocolate) by the gross? Perhaps you’re not looking…
Editor’s Note: Guest blogger Randall Ross, proprietor of rare book store Modernism101.com, has blogged for 20×49.com on topics including architecture and public art. His latest post is about a popular local event, the annual Centenary…
Located at 1240 Shreveport-Barksdale Highway in Shreveport, set back from the street in a cluster of shops that almost looks like a storage facility, Rick’s Records is a new shop that carries used CDs, DVDs,…
To me, Friday nights are sacred. A hallowed time of unwinding and minimal effort is mandated, and this past Friday night was no different. Despite my commitment to personal laziness, I decided to put on…
The Agora Borealis, a local artist’s marketplace located at 421 Lake Street, will celebrate its Grand Opening – along with several other businesses that are opening nearby – during a public event called Cirque du…
UPDATE: As of 4 p.m., we have filled all of the spots on this scavenger hunt! Thank you very, very much! Look out for another scavenger hunt – with a lot more than three prizes…
When a small but popular grocery store in Bossier City closed in 2013, it left Shreveport-Bossier and the surrounding region without a local resource for Indian, South Asian and Mediterranean food products, spices and ingredients….
When you think of art, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Paintings? Sculptures? Some people view art as something very basic. To others, art is so much more. Art is the expression of…
(Editor’s Note: Occasional 20×49.com guest bloggers, Molly McCombs and her husband, Randall Ross, are wildly enthusiastic about the estate sale scene in Shreveport-Bossier. I asked Molly if she would share the story of a favorite…
Each September, book lovers from Shreveport-Bossier and the surrounding communities turn out in droves to dig through tens of thousands of used books at the Centenary College Book Bazaar. The 27th Annual Centenary College Book…
The Thrifty Peanut combines two of the best things in life – good books and bargains. This cool, second hand book and media store (they stock used CDs and DVDs as well) is located at…
Of the many fun, unique events that take place annually in Shreveport-Bossier, the Spring edition of the biannual Texas Avenue Makers Fair may be the most difficult to categorize. I say this as someone who…
With Thanksgiving on Thursday and the busiest shopping day of the year on Friday, we thought it might be fun to compile a list of restaurants that also house retail shops. These restaurant/retail combinations sell…
The Texas Avenue Makers Fair, a non-traditional arts and crafts fair, will return to downtown Shreveport’s historic Texas Avenue, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 10. Organizers have published a vendor map listing 165 vendors, with…
Janie Andre, one of the co-owners of Bergeron’s Boudin and Cajun Meats of Shreveport, seemed satisfied and exhausted when I met her on July 30, just four days after the specialty meat shop opened for…
As a life-long fan of garage sales, estate sales, junk shops and antique malls, one of my absolute favorite places on Earth is the Greenwood Flea Market in Greenwood, La. Located just off of Exit…
