All Y'all Podcast · Haunted: Cristal Willcox, "Cat People" You can tell a lot about someone from the way they treat the animals in their lives. When storyteller Cristal Willcox’s beloved cat Kashmir passed away, her friends gathered for the…
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A young, gay man comes of age in the Deep South, where he is the son of a pastor. If you’re expecting this story to end in tears, you may be right…
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All Y’all Podcast · Haunted: Kathryn Usher, “Flies” Who doesn’t love a good ghost story? During our November 2016 live event, “Haunted”, we heard stories about personal demons, phantasmagoric chicken wings, and haunted houses. Artist Kathryn Usher ended the night with a…
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All Y’all Podcast · Fought The Law: Boz Baucum, “Titties in the City” Some folks are just born storytellers. Boz Baucum, the gregarious and bawdy chef/owner of Marilynn’s Place in Shreveport, is one of those folks. When Boz volunteered to…
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All Y’all Podcast · Momma and Daddy: William Joyce, “A Mother’s Love” William Joyce may be Shreveport, Louisiana’s most celebrated storyteller. He’s won an Academy Award, several Emmys and countless other honors during his career as an author, illustrator and…
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Laura Crawford’s father, Dr. Robert Popper, narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Nazis during the antisemitic pogrom known as Kristallnacht. The unbelievable journey that ensues is a globe-spanning journey of courage, luck, endurance and love. Crawford, who founded…
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Ghost stories can be a lot of things: visceral, frightening, unnerving. But very seldom do they drift into territory that could be described as intimate or personal. Storyteller Steven Abney took the stage at our Nov. 12, 2016 live event,…
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On May 11, 2016, Christopher Louis Wilson published a post on his blog, From the Desk of Mr. Coach Wilson, about his lifelong love affair with Shreveport-based restaurant Wing Taxi. Within 24 hours, the post had gone viral in Shreveport,…
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During the second half of our July 2016 storytelling event, “I Fought The Law,” we featured stories from three attorneys who shared an insider’s perspective of our complex legal system. Our last storyteller of the evening, Meghan Shapiro, moved to…
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Few All Y’all storytellers have ever seemed so comfortable in the spotlight as “Momma and Daddy” storyteller Dr. Jaya McSharma. Jaya had our sold-out audience in the palm of her hand from the moment that she stepped onstage, eliciting roars…
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