Weekend Events for Shreveport/Bossier City: Mardi Gras Kicks Off, SEC Teams Playing in Bowl Games + More

There are all kinds of great events this weekend in Kiss Country. From the kick off of Mardi Gras to SEC teams playing in Bowl games. We’ve got a little something for everyone!
College Football:
Cotton Bowl 2012: Friday, Jan 4th, 2012 @ 7:00 pm
Texas A&M and Oklahoma. (on Fox)

Compass Bowl 2012: Saturday, Jan 5th, 2012 @ 12:00 pm
Ole Miss and Pittsburgh (On ESPN)

12th Night Celebration:
Sat, Jan 5, 2013 (6:30pm - Midnight)
Bossier Civic Center
- Music by: The Chee Weez (a popular, high-energy party band based out of New Orleans)
- $40 per person, 21 and over please
- Open bar
- Concessions/food available for purchase
- Dress: Mardi Gras festive

Natchitches Festival Of Lights 2012 -
Over 300,000+ Christmas lights and 100 plus riverbank set pieces are on every night at dusk through January 6, 2013. Downtown attractions include carriage tours through the historic district. Shops and restaurants are open late. All events take place in the Landmark Historic District along the Cane River Lake and along the Cane River Lake south of Natchitoches.
Visit www.Christmasfestival.Com or call 1-800-259-1714 for a complete up to date schedule and news.

Movies out this weekend:

‘TexasChainsaw 3D’

Years after the infamous—and murderous—Sawyer family was killed, a young woman inherits a house in rural Texas that contains some very dark secrets.

Starring Alexandra Daddario, Dan Yeager, Tremaine ‘Trey Songz’ Neverson, Tanya Raymonde

‘A Dark Truth’

In this thriller, Andy Garcia plays a former spy, now a talk-show host, who investigates a small South American town where a massacre occurred and a large corporation may have had a hand in it.

Starring Andy Garcia, Deborah Kara Unger, Eva Longoria,Forest Whitaker