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Alicia Mingo is a dedicated healthcare advocate with over 20 years of experience serving families in the Shreveport area. As founder of Happy Healthy Pregnancy LLC and the nonprofit Birth Well Shreveport, she empowers mothers through personalized doula and lactation services while working to improve maternal and infant health outcomes across the community. -
On this episode of Visions and Ventures, Shannon Johnson speaks with Ron Smith. -
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, at 6 p.m. On this episode of Health Matters, we talk about homelessness in our community. Ranae Moran is joined by Pastor Larry Otwell, Executive Director of the Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission, Donna Otwell, Director of the Women and Children’s Program at the Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission, and Sharpel Welch, Executive Director of Providence House. -
Sept. 18, 2025. Dr. Anand Bhat is joined by Dr. Jaya McSharma, medical and creative director of MD Bestie, to talk about concierge medicine and the future of primary care and family medicine. -
Sept. 24, 2025. Host Dr. Tracey Burrell looks at BPCC's TEACH program. Community colleges not only offer students pathways to four-year institutions, but they also serve as a bridge to the workforce. Bossier Parish Community College's TEACH Program is a great example of a pipeline program that fuels the teacher workforce.
Spotlights
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Red River Radio's Kermit Poling speaks with Michael Butterman, music director of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, and Yizhen Chen, guest pianist in a spotlight about the SSO's opening concert, October 18th at Riverview Theatre. -
Red River Radio's Kermit Poling speaks with Michael Butterman, music director of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, and Yizhen Chen, guest pianist in a spotlight about the SSO's opening concert, October 18th at Riverview Theatre.
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Red River Radio's Mark Pizzolato speaks with Gregory Kallenberg, the head of Prize Fest, about the 2025 edition of the festival, including the Film Prize, Music Prize and more, coming next week to Shreveport.
Local Events
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The South Arkansas Symphony presents a program of Chopin and Dvorak, featuring Wideman Gold Medaliat Ilya Shmuckler in performance with the symphony. 7 pm concert at the Marshall Memorial City Hall performance center, repeating Sunday at 3 pm in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Jefferson. -
Natives, Pollinators and Shade Gardening Featured at SFA Garden Lecture
Nacogdoches—SFA Gardens will host the monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7:00 pm on November 13 in the Ina Brundrett Conservation Education Building at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center, 2900 Raguet Street, Nacogdoches.
Heidi Sheesley, owner of Treesearch Farms in Houston, will present “Natives, Pollinators and Shade Gardening” and share decades of experience choosing extraordinary plants that thrive in Houston’s unique climate.
Sheesley started Treesearch Farms in 1983, and she strives to provide unique, different and hard-to-find plants for the homeowner. As a wholesale grower, most plants are grown from cuttings or seed collected from Treesearch Farms demonstration gardens. Located in the heart of Houston, the nursery consists of over 25 acres of greenhouses, cold frames, gardens, chicken and turkey coops and a pond.
The Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series is held on the second Thursday of each month and includes a plant raffle after the program. Attendance is free, and donations to the lecture series fund are appreciated. Parking is available at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center and Raguet Elementary, 2708 Raguet Street.
For more information, call 936-468-4129 or email sfagardens@sfasu.edu. -
2025 SENIOR DAY EXPO will take place on Thursday, October 30th in Bossier City!
Make plans to attend the largest senior/boomer expo in Northwest Louisiana. The 15th annual “2025 Senior Day Expo” will take place on Thursday, October 30, 2025 from 9 am to 3 pm in the beautiful and fabulous ballroom at Live! Casino and Hotel located at 711 Live! Casino Blvd in Bossier City, LA 71111.
The Expo admission is FREE and parking is FREE. At admission, please bring canned goods to donate to the Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana. Enjoy the many gaming opportunities, restaurants, and cocktail bars at Live! Casino and Hotel. There will be lots of fun, live entertainment, presentations, hundreds of giveaways, hundreds of door prizes, many health screenings, flu and pneumonia and other vaccines, and valuable information from over 120 exhibitors.
Attendees can also register to win the many special GRAND DOOR PRIZES valued at over $1,000 each! Must be present to win any of the door prizes.
Important: To pre-register to attend the Senior Day Expo on October 30th and to enter a drawing to win a special prize package, please email your name and address to seniordayexpo@gmail.com
We hope to see you at the 2025 Senior Day Expo on Thursday, October 30th from 9 am to 3 pm at Live! Casino and Hotel in Bossier City, LA! -
Slow Food North Louisiana, a Shreveport-based nonprofit, will partner with Cultural Crossroads of Minden to host “Hand Them Down to Lift Them Up: An Heirloom Food Forum” at The Farm at Cultural Crossroads of Minden, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., on Saturday, Nov. 15. The Farm is located at 419 East Union Street in Minden, about a 30-minute drive from Shreveport. Tickets to the event, which will include a special, Edna Lewis-inspired lunch prepared by Chef Hardette Harris, are $40 each for general admission or $35 each for current Slow Food members. Tickets may be purchased in advance at slowfoodnorthla.org/events. Ticket sales will close on Friday, Nov. 14.
The event’s conference-like morning sessions will spotlight efforts of the North Louisiana Seed Preservation Program to track down and bring back to life regional foods believed to be extinct due to the impacts of industrial food production and budget cuts. In particular, attendees will hear the story of how the North Louisiana-born Red-N-Sweet watermelon was rediscovered and returned to grocery stores thanks to seed-saving efforts. Attendees will also learn how to acquire and save heirloom seeds in North Louisiana. Following lunch by Chef Hardette Harris there will be a screening of the 55-minute PBS documentary film Finding Edna Lewis and an in-person conversation with the film’s executive producer and host, Deb Freeman.
News Feed
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Courtesy of MUBIAn unemployed cabinet maker robs the local art museum — then finds himself plunged into a world of cops and gangsters and life on the run. The Mastermind is a sad movie that gets stronger as it goes. -
Apatow began collecting autographs and memorabilia when he was 10 — and he never stopped. He shares decades of photographs, letters, scripts and journals in a new memoir.
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The Dodgers beat the Blue Jays in Game 3 of the World Series after a thrilling 18 innings, matching the longest game by innings in postseason history.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America, about the looming expiration of federal food assistance and what it means for food banks across the country.
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As the government shutdown drags on, the Trump administration says Democrats will be to blame when millions of Americans will lose their SNAP benefits Nov. 1.
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President Trump addresses troops in Japan, SNAP benefits will run out for millions of Americans Nov 1., Hurricane Melissa barrels toward Jamaica as Category 5 storm.
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Code Switch explores the racial history of two seemingly opposing movements that inform today's declining birthrates.
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Farmers are serenading cows with smooth jazz. Studies on whether it boosts milk production are in-cow-clusive, but herds seem udderly delighted by the groovy tunes.
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With students back in class, school shootings are on the rise. NPR's Leila Fadel visits a school in Minnesota to see how it's preparing students for the worst while trying to minimize trauma.
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President Trump addressed U.S. troops in Japan Tuesday and met the country's new prime minister, emphasizing his "peace through strength" message.
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