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Play by Austin resident performed

By Jon Graef | July 12, 2011

Sweet Potato Pie depicts both the bitter and the sweet of raising a family in poverty.

Community

Drill team teaches a lot more than dance

By V.O.I.S.E. Academy | June 13, 2011

VOISE juniors Mario Shack and Akuamoah Waldon are part of the Golden Knights Drill Team.

News

Move Me Soul appears at the Chicago Theater

By Jennifer T. Lacey | March 30, 2011

The dance troupe comprised of students from the Austin high school campus as well as others from the West Side took part in the March 23 show. See what you missed.

Community

Maywood Fine Arts presents spring ballet

By AustinTalks | March 22, 2011

The Maywood Fine Arts dance school will perform Prokofiev’s Cinderella this Saturday.

News

Austin dance students will compete in After School Matters event

By Jennifer T. Lacey | March 22, 2011

Move Me Soul, a 30-member troupe, hopes to repeat last year’s showing when it won a best campus award.

Community

West Side school performs first jazz band show

By Devin Katayama | March 16, 2011

Students from May Community Academy are leaving their musical mark. The school is one of six across the city involved in the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic’s jazz alive program.

Community

West Side music center shines in Chicago

By Devin Katayama | March 10, 2011

Musicians from the Chicago West Community Music Center performed earlier this month at a downtown hotel.

Community

Local dance group gives West Side youth a positive outlet

By Vee L. Harrison | March 9, 2011

Dancers from Maywood Fine Arts will perform again March 26th.

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.

News

  • 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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