Remembering My Roots
The month of December is highly anticipated by Mexicans, because we celebrate the arrival of Christmas with traditional posadas. The week leading up to Christmas, we neighbors organize ourselves for the celebration. Every afternoon we gather at a certain place in...
KidZone
Photo courtesy of HelloHomebody.com It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Spread joy and a little sweetness this holiday season with DIY peppermint candy ornaments. This craft is a perfect way for parents and kids to spend time in the kitchen together, getting...
Humor
Maybe your child adores Santa Claus and has loved taking pictures with him since infancy. If so, this piece is not for you. It’s for the rest of us: the optimists, the believers—each year we take our kids to see Santa, hopeful we’ll snap the perfect shot, only to...
Films
Rules Don’t Apply, rated PG-13 Starring Warren Beatty, Alden Ehrenreich, Lily Collins, Annette Bening, Matthew Broderick, Martin Sheen, Candice Bergen, Alec Baldwin Austin Family Critical Rating: 4½ of 5 Austin Family Family-Friendly Rating: 3 of 5 Warren Beatty...
Austin in Action
In October, Austin+SocialGood announced its rebranding to SocialGood.us, a national platform for social innovation, impact and entrepreneurship. It also announced the creation of LevelUp Institute, an incubator for low income, first-generation college students. The...
Austin in Action
In time for gifting the nature lover in your life, Westcave Preserve has released Discovering Westcave: The Natural & Human History of a Hill Country Nature Preserve in celebration of the Westcave Outdoor Discover Center’s 40th anniversary. The book, by S....
Austin in Action
In October, educators from Shakespeare’s Globe in London, England, spent two weeks visiting classrooms in Round Rock as the beginning of a 10-year theatre-based language arts program. The program is the result of a nearly $49,000 grant from Round Rock ISD’s Innovative...
Austin in Action
Family Link at Legacy Ranch recently opened its newest location, the Legacy Austin Children’s Home, in south Austin. Founded nearly 10 years ago by Executive Director Mariah Wilde, Family Link is a Christian based foster care and adoption agency providing...
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Austin in Action
Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity solutions company, announced its recently-earned designation as a mother-friendly worksite. The company’s Austin and Irving, TX, locations earned the award through the Texas Mother-Friendly Worksite Program, administered by...
