Laura Helle
Magic of our favorite nanny
Pamela Lyndon Travers created Mary Poppins. Born Helen Lyndon Goff in Australia and better known as P.L. Travers, the author wrote and published a series ...
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The same arts you’ve come to love
Austin Area Arts. New name, same great arts. Austin, the community in southeast Minnesota where our two physical sites — the Historic Paramount Theatre and ...
by Laura Helle, Saturday, June 23, 2018 11:30 am
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Creative energies good for health
For better health, invest your time into a creative activity. A 2010 research review by the American Journal of Public Health found that people engaging ...
by Laura Helle, Saturday, June 16, 2018 9:13 am
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A celebration on Fourth Avenue
Celebrate. Community. Culture. Connect. Help establish 4th Avenue as a cultural corridor for downtown Austin by attending the 4th Avenue Fest on Wednesday, June 13. ...
by Laura Helle, Saturday, June 9, 2018 10:45 am
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Join the Paramount for summer movies
Austin Area Arts completed a $56,000 upgrade to its movie projector and screen and you owe it to yourself to come see a movie on ...
by Laura Helle, Saturday, May 26, 2018 9:32 am
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Making a local economic impact
You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Whether the quote originated from Peter Drucker or William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), it holds true even in the ...
by Laura Helle, Saturday, May 19, 2018 10:11 am
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What are you celebrating this spring?
Tis the season for parties of all stripes: graduation, anniversary, bridal shower, retirement. The Austin Area Commission for the Arts has two venues that can ...
by Laura Helle, Sunday, May 13, 2018 11:40 am
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Treat mom to some art fun this Mother’s Day
What does your mom really want for Mother’s Day? As the mother of two, I speculate that most moms fall into one (or more) of ...
by Laura Helle, Saturday, May 5, 2018 9:53 am
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Tribute to Carpenters coming to Austin
Downey, California, 1965. A local production of “Guys and Dolls” includes a keyboardist and drummer who happen to be brother and sister. The first live ...
by Laura Helle, Saturday, April 28, 2018 9:37 am
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Mix media artist coming to Austin for classes
The Austin ArtWorks Center is expecting a visitor on April 28. This person has been to Austin before and co-owns Wyoming Machine, a sheet metal ...
by Laura Helle, Saturday, April 21, 2018 9:20 pm
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A taste of Branson is coming to Austin
Sometimes necessity is the mother of invention and the proof will be on stage at the Paramount on April 27. In 1990, theater owner and ...
by Laura Helle, Saturday, April 14, 2018 4:43 pm
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Matchbox presenting ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’
Have you read Roald Dahl’s books to your children? I have. “James and the Giant Peach,” “The BFG,” “The Fantastic Mr. Fox” and “Matilda” are ...
by Laura Helle, Saturday, April 7, 2018 9:29 am
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Celebrating art with a laugh
The artist asked the gallery owner if there had been any interest in his paintings. “I have good news and bad news,” the owner replied. ...
by Laura Helle, Saturday, March 31, 2018 12:11 pm
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Speeding through space-time with a laugh and a banjo
“In speculative theories of quantum gravity, the graviton is a hypothetical elementary particle that mediates the force of gravitation in the framework of quantum field ...
by Laura Helle, Saturday, March 24, 2018 11:28 am
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Wegner offering lecture classes through AACA
There are a few art icons in Austin, Minnesota and Jim Wegner is one of them. Through countless exhibitions of his own art work and ...