Savory Kids Cooking Classes

Savory Spice Shop Teams Up With LiveMom.com For Savory Kids Cooking Classes AUSTIN, Texas – Savory Spice Shop has teamed up with LiveMom.com (Austin’s great resource for Moms and families) to launch Savory Kids, a series of cooking lessons for children ages 7-12. The lessons will provide children with a fun and interactive way to [...]

GIVEAWAY: Family Membership to The Blanton Art Museum

It’s been too long!  I blame it on having to prepare and administer students for the TAKS test, but we’re back with another giveaway.  (By the way, look for more giveaways to come this summer.) We’re giving away the Groupon deal from today, a one year family membership to The Blanton Museum of Art plus [...]

Meet n’ Greet with Zoe Mantarakis

Zoe Mantarakis has seen Austin’s yoga community explode over the twelve years that she’s lived, practiced and taught here. She arrived—after growing up in LA, majoring in philosophy at Berkeley and living briefly in New York— with a regular yoga practice under her mentor, Brigitte Snyder. Like most one-time coastal transplants, Mantakaris is now proud to [...]

Kid’s Block at Art City Austin (April 2+3, 2011)

Art City Austin continues its tradition of engaging children through art by partnering with local organizations to create a Kid’s Block where young artists can create their own masterpieces. Partners and activities include: Abrakadoodle: Art Makes Austin postcard installation Armstrong Community School of Austin Lyric Opera: Spin art on recycled CDs and DVDs The ARC [...]

Ready Set Roll exhibit at Austin Children’s Museum

I probably had as much fun as my kids if not more at the Austin Children’s Museum with the current exhibit “Ready Set Roll” that began late January and will run through September.   Rolling a golf ball through a series of loops and on tracks is just a blast.  It’s classical mechanics at its [...]

Save Texas Schools

As I am sure most of you have heard on the news, Texas schools are under budget constraints severe enough to impact the classroom.  This means it impacts our children.  It impacts our educators.  It impacts our future. I am feeling and witnessing the stress the budget crisis is having because I am a teacher [...]

Date Night: Imperia Sushi (downtown Austin)

My sister passed along her Groupon to Imperia Sushi and offered up babysitting so we left the kids with her, peeled out of her driveway, gleefully cheering.  So long suckers!  We’re going on the town, on a weeknight even! Imperia Sushi is about 1.5 blocks from the Austin Children’s Museum so we parked in the [...]

Ruta Maya’s Free Sunday Kid’s Show

Ruta Maya’s Free Sunday Kid’s Show Presents Laura Freeman & The Hey Lollies Children’s Music When: Sunday November 28, 2010 at 10:30am Where: Ruta Maya Coffee House at 3601 South Congress Ave., Austin, TX Price: FREE with Suggested Donation Walk, bike, run to see Laura Freeman and The Hey Lollies for a Sunday morning full [...]

PEI WEI ASIAN DINER GIVES OUT FREE THAI STREET FARE ON 10-26-10

PEI WEI ASIAN DINER GIVES OUT FREE THAI STREET FARE ON 10/26 Austin Pei Wei Fans Will Receive Free Lunch On Tuesday, October 26, Pei Wei Asian Diner will host a free lunch for its local fans. Executive Chef Eric Justice will be on-site preparing a Thai-spiced aromatic chicken dish paired with lettuce cups and [...]

Hickory Street Bar and Grill (downtown Austin)

I love salad bars.  Hubby hates them because it forces him to eat vegetables which he eats because he is supposed to eat them.  My kids will eat steamed, roasted, sauteed veggies but raw veggies…we’ve gotten as far as the carrot stick.  That’s it.  I was hoping to change that, and besides I love Hickory [...]

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