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March 2010 - Posts

    Girl on the Go

  • Weekly Spotlight: Arista-ed Development

     Other than a tattoo or body piercing, you can get just about anything you want done at the lovely Arista Spa in Buckhead. Get Botoxed, massaged, enhanced, de-haired, de-wrinkled, peeled and photorejuvenated on the medical side. And you can FitVibe and Slimdome on the fitness side.

    And just what are those last two things? Well I was lucky enough to experience both on a recent trip.

    We started with the FitVibe, which involves a workout with a personal trainer done while standing on a contraption that gently vibrates. The idea is that the vibrations “increase stability in the human body, stimulating reflexive muscle contractions to improve strength, power, and agility.” The trainer told me these were all the rage in Germany as she put me through the pace of several exercises targeted to certain areas – some with more success than others – seems my long-ignored ab muscles weren’t too thrilled with all that attention, which they continued to let me know for a few days.

    For the rest of the post, please visit here.

  • From Packards to Pork

    I'm not even a car person. For me, a car is a means to get me from point A to point B, and I'll even take point A ¾ if it isn't too far to walk and it means avoiding a car repair. I'd be happy to live in a city where I didn't even need a car.

    Unless I could tool around in one of the 18 gorgeous cars I saw last week at the new aptly named exhibition at the High Museum of Art, The Allure of the Automobile. These shining masterpieces of metal are jaw-droppingly beautiful and look way more at home in the galleries of the High than they would in the parking lot at Publix, where my H.W. Bush-administration-era car spends most of its time.

    For the rest of this post, including where you can pig out on pork this weekend, please visit Jan's blog.

  • Weekly Spotlight: St. Paddy's Day at Murphy's

     We’re all beer-swillin’, erin go brach-ing, Irish folk on St. Patrick’s Day, right? Hey, I love a holiday that requires no more of me than donning some green clothing, downing a beer or two and handling the flock of frisky leprechaun  who follow me home. You do see them too, right?

    If it’s St. Patrick’s Day, it’s Murphy’s restaurant for us. 

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  • Weekly Spotlight: 160 Free Events

    Sometimes the best things in life are free. This month  the Atlanta Preservation Center is offering 160 free events that are not only fun, but a great way to learn more about your city.

    The event is called Phoenix Flies, a Citywide Celebration of Living Landmarks. This is its 7th year, but I didn’t know anything about it until my friend Melissa asked me if I wanted to join her for a tour of Harmony Grove cemetery on Saturday. You have probably driven by it hundreds of times and never knew it. It’s right at the corner of West Paces Ferry and Chatham roads.

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  • Weekly Spotlight: Atlanta's Official Red Carpet Party

    I’m fairly certain I’ll never win an Academy Award. The closest I ever came to acting was when my daughter had the lead in the 8th-grade play and I helped her learn her lines. Which started a series of nightmares where I was in a play and didn’t know my lines, replacing the nightmares where I go out in public naked or only wearing a towel, so I guess that was an improvement.

    But that doesn’t mean I can’t walk down the Red Carpet during for the Oscars. And so can you at Atlanta’s only Official Oscar Party. This annual event is at The Cobb Energy Centre is March 7 at 7:30 PM. All proceeds go to The Center for Family Resources, which helps low-income families. But the tickets are cheap, cheap, cheap!

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