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Featured
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East Texas commentator, Gary Borders discusses a cast of newspaper characters.
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Host Cliff Shackelford will be joined this week by previous guest, Alix Matthews, PhD in Molecular Biosciences at Arkansas State University and Visiting Instructor of Biology at Rhodes College.
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Airs Monday, Feb. 12, 6 p.m. Mayor Tom Arceneaux joins hosts Marci Howard and Shannon Johnston on Visions and Ventures to discuss what he and his administration are doing to assist small businesses and their proprietors in the city of Shreveport. A graduate of LSU Law School, he is an attorney and has been active in civic affairs. Arceneaux has spent much of his adult life in Shreveport.
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Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, at 6 p.m. February is American Heart Month. On this episode of Health Matters, Dr. Randall Brewer talks with Dr. Wayne Orr, Director of the LSUHS Center for Cardiovascular Diseases and Sciences, and Dr. Steven Bailey, cardiologist and Chairman of the Department of Medicine, with LSU Health Shreveport, and Kevin Koch, Development Director of the NWLA American Heart Association about heart health and cardiovascular research happening in our area. Dr. Bailey is the principal investigator on a heart failure clinical trial underway at LSU Health Shreveport. Questions will be taken at 1-800-552-8502.
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FRIDAY AT 6 PM. Shreveport, Louisiana has long been a melting pot of musical influences. Join hosts Dan Garner and Winston Hall for conversations with musical legends, as well as impromptu jam sessions.On this episode, Chris Brown: Centenary College archivist and radio music show host for 18 years who is also an avid music collector who enjoys learning and discovering music that has a Shreveport interest whether it is jazz, blues, rock, gospel or rock and roll.
Cultural, Community, Information
Red River Radio's Kermit Poling speaks with Michael Butterman, music director of the SSO, and guest pianist Alessio Bax, about their upcoming performance this weekend.
Local Events
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Come party with Slive & Manifest @ ArtSpace (3rd Floor), on Tuesday, May 21, 2024!
From 7 PM - 9:30 PM, Manifest, a Shreveport-based artist collective, will host one of its signature open jams and art breakouts.
Slive will take the stage from 9:30 PM - 10 PM, performing tracks from his latest album, “Underdog,” an original soundtrack for Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Topdog/Underdog.”
To kick off the evening he will also present an original short play, “Couch Potato,” which tells the story of a man who travels back in time to find himself.
Slive’s performance is one in a series of Manifest Spotlight Sets highlighting prominent active members of Manifest Art Collective.
THIS EVENT IS FREE, ALL AGES, & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
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Vacations, camps and summer get-togethers are on the horizon, and Walmart wants to help make your health a priority for them all. Join Walmart for Wellness Day on Saturday, May 18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Customers can receive free health screenings for things like glucose, cholesterol, BMI and blood pressure, as well as affordable immunizations against COVID-19, shingles, tetanus, measles and others at pharmacies nationwide. Customers will also find a broad assortment of product offerings ranging from allergy relief options to vitamins and more.
Walmart Wellness Day encourages families to check in on their health by providing tools and resources to seek care, improve healthy lifestyles and maintain successful habits. Nearly 4,600 Walmart pharmacies across the country will host Walmart Wellness Day events from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time on Saturday, May 18. Select stores will feature vision screenings, in-store giveaways and demos of wellness products to make it even easier for customers to access the specialized services they need.
Walmart Wellness Day events feature the following health resources, administered by qualified pharmacy and Vision Center teams:
- Free health screenings, including glucose, cholesterol, blood pressure, body mass index and vision screenings (select locations).
- Affordable immunizations, including COVID, measles, mumps, pneumonia, tetanus, HPV, rubella (MMR), varicella (chicken pox/shingles), whooping cough (TDAP), Hepatitis A & B and more.
- Wellness resources and the opportunity to talk with pharmacists.
Since 2014, Walmart pharmacies have hosted Walmart Wellness Days, contributing more than 5 million free health screenings for customers. More than 4,000 Walmart stores are in medical professional shortage areas, which means Walmart is often the first stop for health care in these communities. -
Star on the Door
by Jack Sharkey and Leo W. Sears
May 30 – June 9: Presented by City Park Players. Cinema legend Doreen Lewis, nervously about to make her Broadway debut opposite her ardent admirer Paul Burnside, intercepts a phone call for her dresser who is secretly wed to Doreen’s son confirming that “Mrs. Lewis” is pregnant. A loony resolution caps this evening of non-stop guffaws. Tickets available at cpptheatre.com or at the door 30 minutes before showtime. -
The opening concert for the 47th season of the Shreveport Summer Music Festival. Free event. Features music of Mozart and Haydn. Featured soloist is John-Henry Crawford, cello. Conducted by Kermit Poling.
News Feed
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Cities are responsible for the vast majority of planet warming gas emissions. Many governments now track their emissions using annual estimates, but some scientists are pitching a new method.
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There's trouble in the town of Bad Göodsburg! A wishing well has stopped working! NPR's Tamara Keith talks with Jess Hannigan about her new children's book, "Spider in the Well."
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NPR's Tamara Keith asks Inverse critic and entertainment editor Hoai-Tran Bui about some of the buzz-worthy movies at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
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"Moon Trees" are starting to grow on Earth. They got that name because as seeds they spent some time in space.
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Spring brings lots to look at in the Adirondack Mountains and the concentration required for trail running means runners can't help but appreciate Spring's beauty.
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NPR's Tamara Keith speaks with Rohit Chopra, the director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, about a Supreme Court decision that validated how the bureau is funded.
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The families of the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during the October 7th attack held a rally Saturday night. A number of Western ambassadors attended.
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Former President Trump addressed the NRA's annual meeting in Dallas on Saturday. The meeting comes as the gun lobby group continues to reel from years of legal, financial, and internal turmoil.
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A London court could decide the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday: Will he be freed, or will he be sent to the U.S. to face 18 charges under the Espionage Act?
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A just-released, fictionalized film looks at the life of British singer Amy Winehouse. The music and career of the real Amy Winehouse still fascinate.
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