Loren Steffy has been a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly since 2013. In 2020, he founded Stoney Creek Publishing Group, an independent publisher that focuses on Texas narratives. He is also an executive producer for Rational Middle Media and a managing director for 30 Point Strategies, where he heads the 30 Point Press publishing imprint. Steffy is the author of five nonfiction books: Deconstructed: An Insider’s View of Illegal Immigration and the Building Trades (with Stan Marek); The Last Trial of T. Boone Pickens (with Chrysta Castañeda); George P. Mitchell: Fracking, Sustainability, and an Unorthodox Quest to Save the Planet; The Man Who Thought Like a Ship; and Drowning in Oil: BP and the Reckless Pursuit of Profit. His first novel, The Big Empty, was published in May 2021. He is the writer and producer of the six-episode narrative podcast Putin’s Oil Heist, and he was cohost of the award-winning Trial of the Century podcast with Tom Fox in 2021. Steffy is a forme
The new film "Unexpected Modernism" was written and directed by Gregory Kallenberg and follows the unexpected, modern journey of two Shreveport brothers.
Credit Courtesy: Rational Middle Films
THE WIENER BROTHERS - Louisiana Public Broadcasting will air a documentary this evening where the focus is on two Shreveporters brought modern architecture to Northwest Louisiana and the rest of the country. From the 1930’s through the 1960’s – brothers Samuel G. and William B. Wiener designed residential, institutional, and commercial buildings in Shreveport and throughout the South.
Their work made quite a mark in the world of architecture as Shreveport was an early hub of International Modernist Design; some of their buildings are still in use today. They brought post-modern architecture to this city and to this country. And for us to be able to put that work out there and show people what Shreveport s all about and what Shreveport has is a real gift. Gregory Kallenberg, filmmaker-Rational Middle Media