Chef Hardette Harris - from Minden to Houston to San Antonio and back to Shreveport. Us Up North restaurant, open for lunch on Wed, Thursday, Friday. The Official Meal of North Louisiana. Greens cooked down with salt pork, cabbage, purple hulls, smothered pork chops, meatloaf, fried catfish, baked chicken, hot water cornbread, tomato and cucumber relish, pepper sauce, sweet tea and the only way to cook a white perch - fry it up whole.

E15: Danielle Richard & LeVette Fuller

Oct 25

E15: Danielle Richard & LeVette Fuller

Danielle Richard is the Owner and Creative Director of Richard Creative. In 2009, with a one-year-old at home, Danielle left a fulfilling position in the print industry to begin a freelance career. In the 10 years since, the business has evolved and grown into a full-fledged creative agency, employing a team of freelance designers, writers, photographers and content managers. With husband James managing the business aspects since 2016, and Danielle serving as Creative Director, they are passionate about helping businesses grow and thrive with marketing and design strategy that is both pretty and practical.

LeVette Fuller is the Shreveport City Council representative for District B. She is a graduate of Caddo Parish Magnet High School and Centenary College. In addition to her work with local schools and community partners through the public library system, she serves on the Leadership Council for Step Forward, an organization focused on cradle-to-career success for North Louisiana.

Fuller has also served as a board member for the Shreveport Caddo Metropolitan Planning Commission and is a founding member of Re-Form Shreveport, an organization dedicated to bringing citizens together to share ideas and find implementable solutions to improve Shreveport’s built environment.

John Perkins is a third-generation Shreveport resident working as a freelance television producer. You've seen his work over the years on networks from ABC on to MTV. He became interested in Infrastructure and the built environment of Shreveport after a chance encounter in 2015 at Buffalo Wild Wings on Youree Drive on his way home from covering the Lafayette Theater Shooting for Good Morning America. He thinks out loud on Facebook about Shreveport's infrastructure and Urban Planning and is active in local groups, Allendale Strong and the Allendale Corner Store Co-op.

In terms of identifying and cultivating a cultural identity here in Shreveport, this is the most important conversation we’ve recorded.

Grant Nuckolls, proprietor of Twisted Root and Jacquelyn’s, interviews Winston Hall, a local musician, songwriter, and historian. These two have known each other for a few years and have a passion for our local historical music scene - from Huddie Ledbetter to Van Cliburn to James Burton, the Hayride, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Elvis leaving the building and Stan’s Records selling to Robert Allen Zimmerman (Bob Dylan) in Minnesota . . . “It’s in the dirt” says Winston Hall.

Shreveport history, Louisiana history, American history, and world history were made with the music that originated here in Bottoms blues clubs, music that Elvis heard, that the Beatles heard, and sounds that were broadcast around the country on the KWKH Hayride. So listen in and pay close attention to the discussion of a Shreveport Music Museum. We deserve to think better of ourselves and celebrate our history.

WHY BUILD IT? The tourists are already coming, WHY NOT build it?

Candice Battiste is the Power Coalition’s North Louisiana Organizer where she is committed to building voices and power in traditionally disenfranchised communities and bringing together groups across the North with a mission to organize in impacted communities, educate and turn out votes, and fight for policies that create a more equitable and just system in Louisiana. She graduated from Haughton High school where she was elected the first black woman student body president in their 100 year history, is an alum of Louisiana State University and earned her law degree from the Southern University Law Center. There, she served as President of Law Students for Reproductive Justice and was a recipient of the prestigious Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Fellowship. Upon graduation, Candice helped form the Family Law Unit of Legal Services of North Louisiana. She was the past LA State Director of Project ID, former Shreveport-Bossier Field organizer with the Unanimous Jury Coalition/Yes On 2 campaign, worked for Mayor Adrian Perkins' campaign as his Public Relations and Social Media strategist, serves on the Citizen She Board of Directors, was recently elected to the ACLU of Louisiana Board of Directors, past Vice President of the Women's Democratic Club of Northwest Louisiana, serves on the executive board of the New Leaders Council as the Selections Co-Chair, is on the Downtown Development Authority for Shreveport, and was selected as a United Nations Association Delegate. When Candice is not discussing progressive politics and working to affect positive change, she is with family and friends or can be found traveling to one of Louisiana’s many food and music festivals.

Episode 11: Sara Hebert - In Pursuit of Quality by Josh & Thomas

Demetrius Norman is an energetic and passionate advocate for STEM education and out-of-the-box thinking. From Queensborough to Shreveport Job Corps to Grambling to NOLA to his newly-created Maker's Space, Demetrius is a born tinkerer. He applies this same engineer-brain thinking to Shreveport: Take a problem, break it down into its component parts, figure out how it works, perform diagnostics, and put it back together in a better way. Listen in and enjoy!

Tim Wright is a civil engineer and downtown enthusiast, passionate about connecting people who see Shreveport’s potential. He writes, explores and shares ideas about what makes a city great. Re-Form was born out of what he saw as the key issue defining Shreveport: finding areas of our underpopulated city that needed to be invested in and re-formed to help address today’s challenges. Tim sees educating Shreveport’s leaders as only one piece of the puzzle, the other is getting the citizenry involved in small projects that make their block of the community better. If Shreveport’s leaders can be in tune with the citizenry, and the citizens can in turn trust local leaders, then the city’s trajectory can only be pointed upwards.

Demetrius Norman is involved amazing projects such as this upcoming weekend's Shreveport-Bossier Mini-Maker's Faire, NWLA Makerspace and the North Louisiana STEM Alliance. Demetrius is helping change the future of Shreveport. We can't wait until you guys hear what he has to say!

Killer Bees. ECS. JRM Ventures. Andress Ford remodel. Shreveport Music. Red River Brewing. Investor. Mentor. Bass player. And helluva nice guy. Meet the creative force behind a number of exciting ventures here in Shreveport. Six months ago, a conversation between Jim, Thomas, and Josh was essentially the genesis of the Three180 project. Jim is a doer. He follows his passions and inspires others to do the same. His latest project, the Andress Ford Artist and Entrepreneurial Center, has been officially announced. Sitting one block off the corner of Common and Crockett streets in downtown Shreveport, this shell of structure was once a showroom and garage for Ford automobiles. Listen in to see how Jim has reimagined the space and will reconfigure the building to serve the creative forces at work in our area -- both in the entrepreneurial and visual arts sectors of the community.