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Helga M. Grant, 78
Helga M. Grant, 78, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away Monday, Aug. 19, 2019, at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus-Rochester. Helga Maria Stroebele was born ...
Grace Heimsness, Author at Austin Daily Herald
Grace Heimsness
Warming to Christmas at Home
Those of us who are lucky enough to come home for Christmas may soon land on the tarmac, eyes glued to the seat belt sign, ...
by Grace Heimsness, Sunday, December 11, 2016 10:46 am
Austin ArtWorks Center
Katie Stromlund 1 of 2 featured artists
We’re barreling down on yet another gallery show at the ArtWorks Center, and Katie Stromlund is one of two artists featured starting April 8. Katie ...
by Grace Heimsness, Sunday, April 3, 2016 3:01 pm
Grace Heimsness
Flattery on stage at Paramount
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. They say a lot of other things about imitation, too. In fact, there are so many ...
by Grace Heimsness, Sunday, March 13, 2016 7:01 am
Austin ArtWorks Center
I’m some lucky mud
Kurt Vonnegut wrote a novel called “Cat’s Cradle,” and in it there’s a prayer about mud. It starts, “God made mud. God got lonesome. So ...
by Grace Heimsness, Sunday, March 6, 2016 10:01 am
Austin ArtWorks Center
Snowbound and profound
With the snow bearing down on us early this month, the ArtWorks Center closed up shop. That’s not to say that we went home and curled ...
by Grace Heimsness, Sunday, February 28, 2016 1:01 pm
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Dance group to show off athleticism
Zenon to perform at Paramount at 7 p.m. on March 11
by Grace Heimsness, Saturday, February 20, 2016 5:04 pm
Austin ArtWorks Center
ArtWorks hosting first Youth Gallery Opening
It’s hard figuring out what you want to be when you grow up. Probably because there are so many things to be. But even mired ...
by Grace Heimsness, Sunday, February 14, 2016 7:01 am
air force
Air Force ensemble performing Feb. 15
Mondays can be rough. There’s a reason that tired “Office Space” quote “Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays!” refuses to sink into ...
by Grace Heimsness, Sunday, February 7, 2016 7:01 am
Austin ArtWorks Center
Jazzing it up just a little
“Don’t play what’s there. Play what’s not there.” Such was the oft-repeated cryptic advice of jazz legend Miles Davis to his students. One would hardly ...
by Grace Heimsness, Sunday, January 31, 2016 7:01 am
Austin ArtWorks Center
Get to know the AACA’s Kelsey Ritchie
Visitors to the ArtWorks Center often pass through our second floor office and comment on how lucky we are to have such a view. While ...
by Grace Heimsness, Sunday, January 24, 2016 12:23 pm
Austin ArtWorks Festival
Celebrating King with ‘Selma’
In honor of Martin Luther King Day, the Austin Human Rights Commission will present “Selma” at the Paramount Theatre at 6:30 p.m. on Monday. “Selma” ...
by Grace Heimsness, Sunday, January 17, 2016 6:58 am
Austin ArtWorks Center
Sandy Ray to show off works
When it comes to welcoming newcomers, is America a melting pot or a salad bowl? I’ve always been one for the Goldilocks answers, and so ...
by Grace Heimsness, Sunday, January 10, 2016 7:01 am
Austin ArtWorks Center
A love letter to the Paramount Theatre
One of my orchestra conductors used to say that no sound ever truly dies. A former classmate recently reminded me of this philosophy, which we ...
by Grace Heimsness, Sunday, December 27, 2015 7:02 am
Austin ArtWorks Center
Paramount set for big start to 2016
With the last of our fall season in the books, the AACA is looking forward to a new year and a full spring calendar of ...