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Final Explosion celebrates a decade of dance

By AustinTalks | November 14, 2019

The West Side dance troupe will celebrate its 10-year anniversary Saturday, Nov. 16 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Kehrein Center for the Arts, 5628 W. Washington St. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door.

Community

Free dance classes start Monday at the library

By AustinTalks | March 30, 2018

Young people ages 5 to 19 are invited to sign up for the classes, which begin Monday, April 2 and run through May 31. Instruction will be provided by Final Explosion Dance Studio.

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West Side dance team seeking support for Tampa competition

By Ramona Meadors | April 24, 2016

Final Explosion is still collecting donations from the public as it gets ready for the April 30th contest.

Community

Tickets still available for Saturday performance and praisefest

By AustinTalks | January 29, 2016

Final Explosion will perform at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 30th at Douglass High School, 543 N. Waller.

Community

Local dance troupe seeking performers

By AustinTalks | January 13, 2015

Final Explosion is recruiting girls ages 4 to 20 and boys ages 5 to 19.

Community

Talent show Saturday in Austin

By AustinTalks | April 23, 2014

Final Explosion Team of Performing Arts presents its annual “stop the violence” event at Douglass High School, 543 N. Waller Ave.

Community

Final Explosion team in need of temporary practice space

By AustinTalks | February 6, 2013

The dance troupe’s founder is asking for someone to donate a large room for a few hours for two days leading up to a Feb. 23 performance.

News

Local group gives youth a safe place to party

By Vee L. Harrison | December 3, 2010

Latricia Walker and Collette Carter paid for last weekend’s celebration held at the Austin YMCA. They hope to have a even bigger event on New Year’s Eve.

Community

Dancers perform again

By AustinTalks | September 25, 2010

The 20-member troupe has danced several times this year.

Community

Local troupe dances again

By AustinTalks | June 29, 2010

Check out Final Explosion’s performance earlier this month in FEETDCo’s 4th annual Reach for the Stars competition.

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  • Expungement, record sealing event helps West Siders get jobs after leaving prison

    Austin resident Anthony Jefferson has been working over the past six years to expunge his criminal record. With help from the Monroe Foundation, he's moving toward the clean slate he wants to achieve to secure employment.

  • Get free groceries, other help from these Austin groups

    On a recent Thursday, volunteers from What About Us Charitable Enterprises spent the morning filling dozens of grocery bags with fresh food and staples that soon filled the arms of West Side residents in need. Dorin “Pastor Mac” McIntyre, executive director and co-founder of What About Us Charitable Enterprises and pastor of Mount Olivet Missionary Baptist Church, is one of many helping Austin residents struggling with food insecurity.

  • 29th Ward residents invited to holiday events on Tuesday

  • 29th Ward residents invited to propose how to spend $450,000

    Austin residents are invited to participate in this year's participatory budgeting cycle. The annual process lets ward residents ages 14 and up decide how to spend a portion of the aldermanic menu money.

  • Forty Acres Fresh Market marks important moment this week in bringing store to Austin

    Austin moves one step closer this week to getting a new grocery store with the groundbreaking of Forty Acres Fresh Market in the heart of the Soul City Corridor. Another effort to expand food offerings on the West Side continues with the Austin Community Food Co-op, which held a virtual info session last week on its efforts to bring a grocery store to the area.

  • Healing in nature workshop set for Saturday

    The Westside Cultural Alliance continues its "See, Feel and Heal" nature series Saturday at Garfield Park Nature Area, 100 N. Central Park with a workshop on making memory boxes. The workshop sessions focus on art and nature as vehicles of healing through art therapy, which provides wholistic healing for the body, mind and spirit.

  • Illinois residents can apply for help with paying gas, electric bills

    Applications are now open for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) for qualified residential customers who are over the age of 60, have a disability or have children under the age of 6 to receive financial assistance to pay their energy bills. LIHEAP is a federally funded bill payment assistance program that helps low- and fixed-income families pay their utility during the winter heating season.

  • West Siders turn out for chili cook off in Austin’s Soul City

    Over a dozen local chefs competed in the second annual "It’s Getting Chili in Soul City" event on Saturday. A team of five who make up the Austin African American Business Networking Association board – Malcolm Crawford, Shirley Fields, Sharmine Rickett, Ronald Smith and Marshawn Felton – created the chili contest last year.

  • Chicago Marathon runner raises money for West Side girls

    Over the last 20 years, Ashley Graham has run 56 marathons - including the Chicago Marathon five times. Several of those marathons she raised money for charity - and this year was no different.

  • Stop by Austin farmers market this week

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