Downtown Shreveport

The Texas Avenue Makers Fair returns...next month! The Texas Avenue Community Association is hosting the Spring 2012 edition of the fair Saturday, April 14th, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event, described by organizers as "not your momma's craft fair," spans the 800 block of Texas Avenue in downtown Shreveport, and admission is free...

Police have arrested a local man for a March 13th robbery near downtown Shreveport. Just after 8:15 last night, officers were called to the 900 block of Texas Street to an assault and battery report. That's when they learned that the assault also involved a robbery...

Downtown Shreveport will be then center of attention tomorrow when the Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation meets here.

Downtown Shreveport's new 12-unit condominium project is entering the contstruction homestretch! On Fat Tuesday, the ribbon will be cut, signaling the official opening of the new $2-million project, called The Novena. Afterward, media members and Realtors from all over the region will be treated to the first Realtor Open House and Tour...

Movie filming in and around downtown Shreveport will lead to a number of street closings tomorrow.

...that's the question proposed by the Downtown Development Authority, which has released a list of the top nine reasons.  And YOU get to choose the number one thing!  Here are the top nine: 2) the Unwind Downtown Pub and Culture Crawl  3) the James Burton Foundation  4) the McNeill Street Pumping Station Waterworks Museum and its associated music festival  5)  painted advertisements on the sides

It's now legal for singers, magicians, musicians and other performance artists to set up on the downtown Shreveport streets.  An ordinance authored by District B City Councilman Jeff Everson and recently approved by the council made it possible...

If you were looking to do a little early Christmas shopping, here's the place to do it! Saturday is the Texas Avenue Makers Fair, which I have really been looking forward to. Over 100 "makers" of original and handmade goods will be onhand, along with street performers and many added surprises...

Most people in town know by now that the TNT Express runs every third Thursday night of the month -- and that would be this Thursday. But this week, artspace is "Takin' It to the Street," with a free sidewalk art and unique vendor fair, downtown art gallery walk and music by the Prevailing Winds Orchestral Band...

No, it's not the Zombie Apocolypse...but the zombies WILL be roaming downtown Shreveport Saturday afternoon. Local "Zombie Queen" Michelle McCrary says the Shreveport Zombie Walk is to benefit the Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana. It's normally held at Mall St ...