Austin in Action
For the second consecutive year, the St. David’s Foundation announced it has awarded a $20,000 grant to the Live Oak Health Partners Community Clinic in Hays County. Representatives of the clinic say the money will be used to help unfunded patients receive needed...
Austin in Action
Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA), a national non-profit developing better athletes and better people through youth and high school sports, recently launched PCA-Central Texas, the organization’s 16th PCA chapter in the U.S. Led by Trennis Jones, the chapter’s...
Austin in Action
Austin nonprofit Latinitas is seeking afternoon coaches and career presenters for its Startup Chica Conference on Saturday, Oct. 22. The conference will help Latinas ages 9-18 turn their ideas into businesses. The one-day conference will bring together young...
Austin in Action
Earlier this week, Austin ISD (AISD) and Whole Kids Foundation celebrated “Take Your Parents to Lunch Day” at Sánchez Elementary School with the launch of a new, made-to-order salad bar. The event is part of a healthy eating initiative currently underway within AISD,...
Austin in Action
AGE of Central Texas will host the free caregiver support seminar “Medicare/Medicaid Updates – Insurance Options for Seniors” on Saturday, Nov. 12. Part of the on-going workshop series to help family members effectively care for an older loved one, the free seminar...
Austin in Action
The State Preservation Board is celebrating Texas Archeology Month with a new exhibit at the Texas Capitol. Over 25 years ago, archeologists conducted a dig at the Capitol’s north grounds on the site of the current Capitol Extension. They uncovered the ruins of...
Austin in Action
More than 100 national student finalists, teachers and principals from across the U.S. came together on Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Texas State Capitol for the 2016 Globey Game Design Competitions and Awards, a national game design and coding competition that...
Films
3 1/2 out of 5 stars Antoine Fuqua’s remake of John Sturges’s The Magnificent Seven (1957) is an entertaining, lively western that trades in the original all-star line-up of Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and James Coburn for Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan...
Recordando Mis Raíces
En el mes de octubre en México la celebración mas importante no es Halloween. Es el Día de la Raza, cuando en 1492 Cristóbal Colon descubrió América. Los jóvenes principalmente son los que hacen la celebración, tirando globos de agua a los otros jóvenes que van...
Feature Articles
by Sherida Mock Life for Jen and Brandon Hatmaker is hardly slow. The couple, who lives in Buda, just south of Austin, are both authors and tour the world on speaking engagements. They are also parents to five children. They are working to launch a nonprofit called...
