On Stage Now

ZACH Theatre brings beloved children's story, Goodnight Moon, to life

By Shelley Seale

03.03.13 | 11:34 am

I remember when my daughter was a child, curled up on her frilly canopy bed, reading Goodnight Moon night after night. The classic American children's book by Margaret Wise Brown was first ...

Weekend Roundup

Fly a kite and listen to Texas music legends: Our top event picks for the weekend

By Aleksander Chan

03.01.13 | 3:15 pm

It's the last weekend before SXSW. Take a moment to enjoy everything that is still appropriate in Austin: the amount of people, the level of activity, the weather. Because, come seven days from ...

reversing obesity

The Wellgro Co. aims to bring real food back into our schools

By Shelley Seale

01.13.13 | 9:45 am

One in every three kids in America is overweight. One-third of those who were born in 2000 or later are expected to develop diabetes, while the percentage of children and adolescents in the U.S. wh ...

Namaste

Not your everyday yoga: Groovy new happenings hitting the Austin yoga scene

By Shelley Seale

08.16.12 | 4:13 pm

It may come as no surprise to learn that Austin is one of the hottest yoga cities in the country, with more yoga teachers and studios per capita than any other city. From the recent surge in po ...

CASA Volunteer Open House and Lunch

11.06.12

CASA of Travis County speaks up for children who’ve been abused or neglected by empowering our community to volunteer as advocates for them in the court system. When the state steps in to pro

pay it forward

Legacy of Giving engages children in the power of philanthropy

By Shelley Seale

06.05.12 | 10:45 am

In 2004, Linda Brucker’s son Conner came home from school and announced with excitement that he had been assigned a project. The first step in the multi-pronged project was to observe the hom ...

giving back

Kids can help, too: How Little Helping Hands encourages community service in children

By Shelley Seale

05.07.12 | 2:05 pm

When Marissa Vogel's young daughter started coming home from preschool and showing her schoolwork, it dawned on her that she wasn’t giving the four-year-old enough credit. The work showed ...

#withoutshoes

One Day Without Shoes: TOMS founder Blake Myocoskie on understanding your impact in a world of plenty

By Shelley Seale

04.09.12 | 11:30 am

Could you get through an entire day without wearing shoes? I don't mean while on vacation at the beach, but in your regular everyday life. That is what Blake Mycoskie and the rest of the te ...

get smart

New study confirms it: Nurturing moms may help boost their child's brain development

By Jennifer Walden

02.15.12 | 12:05 pm

It should come as no surprise that a new study has found young children with loving, nurturing moms tend to develop a larger hippocampus, an area of the brain involved in learning, memory and ...

giving back

Keep a child warm for the holidays with The Miracle Foundation

By Shelley Seale

12.06.11 | 6:00 am

Baby, it's cold outside and children need warm clothes! This holiday season, The Miracle Foundation is raising funds to provide 100 orphaned children in India with much needed winter clothi ...