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.
If you've driven in Buckhead, you've passed the Arista Spa, located near Restaurant Eugene.
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.
But I enjoyed the work-out and it’s always good to “shake up” your routine every now and then, right? Mine generally involves doing exactly 35 minutes on the elliptical machine at the Y. We each have our own TV and I watch Paula Deen add another pound of butter to everything and fell all martyr-ly because I’m exercising and not ingesting pounds of fat. Well at last not at that moment. Read the full post »
by admin on March 30, 2010
This Duesenberg was a gift from Carole Lombard to her husband Clark Gable, who owned it until her death in an airplane crash in 1942. He then left it in Canada with instructions that it not be driven in California as long as he was alive.
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.
Not only are many of them about as rare as pro-health-care reform Republicans, most of them were built during the Depression. Kinda hard to believe that when some folks were living in Hoovervilles, others were riding in cars with hoods longer than the soup lines.
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by admin on March 22, 2010
Tom Murphy at St. Patrick's Day 2009 holding a bottle of beer brewed for his dad, Joe Murphy.
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 leprechauns who follow me home. You do see them too, right?
If it’s St. Patrick’s Day, it’s Murphy’s restaurant for us. Every year Tom Murphy hires Irish dancers who perform throughout the restaurant and he serves up some delicious Irish fare that includes Murphy’s Corn Beef Cabbage and Irish Whiskey Bread Pudding. This year he is also welcoming Judith McLoughlin, an Irish chef and author of The Shamrock and Peach. Judith, who is also a cooking instructor, will prepare Guinness braised beef short ribs and other specialties.
Sure every bar is town claims to be Irish on March 17, but if you want the authentic experience, join us at Murphy’s. We’ll be in the ones in green.
by admin on March 15, 2010
One of the charming houses in Whittier Mill Village
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. Read the full post »
by admin on March 8, 2010
Party-goers at the 2009 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! Read the full post »
by admin on March 1, 2010
