DECEMBER 2024 : BEST OF 2024
We are winding up the year with a bang. This is one of my favorite issues because it allows us to spotlight our local businesses and citizens who work hard daily to make Shreveport and Bossier City a wonderful place to live.
In the Annual Best of SB, you will also enjoy reading about Will Andress, the man behind the Emmett Hook Theatre. Dr. Andress is now enjoying a well-deserved retirement. He has put his heart and soul into that theatre and produced some of the finest shows the SBC has seen. He will certainly be missed but never forgotten.
In politics, a subject I’m sure we’re all weary of by now, we offer a perspective on a new administration and what it could mean for the people in our area. On a lighter, more entertaining note, we have a delightful piece on one of Shreveport’s institutions: The Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet. This organization brings more to us than just point shoes and tutus.
As we look ahead to a new and bountiful 2025, we invite you along as we anticipate great things in this: our Silver Jubilee.
ON THE COVER
- JASON SMITH, PRESIDENT OF
BONVENU BANK - BILLY HARGROVE, HARGROVE ROOFING
- JAMIE KOCHAKIAN, JOLIE BLONDE
- NELL SHEHEE, ROSE-NEATH FUNERAL HOME
COLUMNS
10 EYE ON SB
14 HOME FEATURE
20 BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT DON JUANZ
28 ART & CULTURE WILL ANDRESS
82 GOOD TO KNOW
86 SB CALENDAR
92 ONE LAST THING
FEATURES STORIES
8 THE SHREVEPORT METROPOLITAN
BALLET
24 THE NEW ADMINISTRATION
88 THE 2024 ATHENA AWARDS
SPECIAL SECTIONS
30 THE BEST OF SB 2024
75 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2024
