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Arts & Entertainment
Monday, April 19, 2021

Finding Inspiration

By Betsy St. Amant Haddox
Jennifer Psalmonds is one local artist who is making a colorful splash. Her art is fresh, energetic and fun — certain to brighten up anyone’s day (and living room!) Psalmonds enjoys using a wide variety of mediums but primarily uses acrylics and oil sticks in most of her work today.
Community
Monday, April 5, 2021

Pooch Pawlor

By Betsy St. Amant Haddox
So, he started with his own dogs, and word got around. When everyone saw his poodles out on walks, they inquired who did their hair. When Maldonado confessed that he did it himself, Fernando’s Pooch Pawlor was inspired. “Friends would bring their pets over, and I would groom them, and one thing led to another,” Maldonado laughed.
Home
Monday, April 5, 2021

Advice From the Experts

By Betsy St. Amant Haddox
Spring has finally sprung, and community members are itching to get their fingers in the dirt! Two local gardening supply stores make it easy for gardeners — experienced and amateur alike — to get their bleak, winter-weary yards back into full bloom and ready for the new season.
Community
Monday, Feb. 8, 2021

Feathering Your Nest

By Betsy St. Amant Haddox
Rhodes started the booth set up inside Antique Shoppes at 1100 Barksdale in Bossier City after she retired in 2014 from her previous career. She describes the shop’s style as “cottage/farmhouse.
Dining
Monday, Jan. 25, 2021

Perfect Picnics

By Betsy St. Amant Haddox
ByGeorge provides two picnic menu options. The original menu consists of a charcuterie board, pinwheel and turkey melt sandwiches, Artisan bread with dipping oil, a variety of seasonal fruits, dessert, water and a choice of tea, soda or juice.
Community
Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021

COVID Culinary Chronicles

By Betsy St. Amant Haddox
Maura Querbes Pugh is living proof that one bad apple doesn’t spoil the entire batch – or in the case of 2020, the entire year. Despite the pandemic and subsequential quarantine, Pugh made lemonade from lemons and shared them with Shreveport via her very first cookbook: “Covid Culinary Chronicles.
Community
Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021

Camp Gladiator

By Betsy St. Amant Haddox
New Year’s resolutions are much easier to keep when they involve friendship, sunshine and a lot of encouragement. Camp Gladiator (CG) is a unique place to get fit in 2021. With outdoor workouts meeting all over Shreveport-Bossier multiple times of day, there’s no excuse not to get moving, meet your goals – and make new friends.
Community
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020

Sno-Port

By Betsy St. Amant Haddox
to bundle up! Sno-Port will be back in all its frozen and flurried glory this month at Sci-Port Discovery Center in Shreveport. With all the fun of snow without the cold mess, Sno-Port offers a winter wonderland experience for kids and adults alike with Sno- Port Winter Science Exhibition.
Arts & Entertainment
Monday, April 20, 2020

Creativity on Parade

By Betsy St. Amant Haddox
The country-wide quarantine due to COVID-19 has affected many elements of “life as we know it.” But not even a global pandemic can dull the vibrant strokes of the artist community’s brushes. Art is alive and thriving in northwest Louisiana, bringing joy and hope amid uncertainty.
Community
Monday, March 23, 2020

Pitch Perfect Kids’ Events

By Betsy St. Amant Haddox
Getting your beauty sleep has never looked so good! With Bayou Teepees, slumber parties, birthday parties or “just-because” parties are taken to the next level of unforgettable. The best part is, all parents have to do is pick a theme and stand aside while Bayou Teepees puts together an experience their child will not soon forget.

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