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July is National Hot Dog Month, but here in North Carolina we eat them all year long, usually graced with a slide of chili and a mound of finely chopped cole slaw. That's how we do.
A blonde, a brunette and a redhead walk into a bar. That's not a joke and there's no punchline - it actually happens every Wednesday and Thursday night at Margaritas Grill in downtown Greensboro when Leena Joandi, Laurie Willis and Amy Runyun tend the bar for margaritas and other liquid pleasures. The three met just a few short months ago in Greensboro: Amy came in for a short-lived job with Skybus, Leena, who is originally from Sweden, moved here with a Skybus pilot and Laurie, the only North Carolina native of the bunch, grew up on the Outer Banks. Now they share a downtown apartment together and have crafted a nightlife scene all their own.
Sen. Barack Obama is a Muslim. He went to a Muslim seminary and is a citizen of Kenya. He doesn't recite the Pledge of Allegiance and took his oath of office on the Quran. He's in a pseudo-Christian cult that hates white people. He is a distant cousin of Saddam Hussein. He hates Jews.
Dana, a local fitness instructor and woman of many talents, swept our readers away in our first edition. She was, and still is, a favorite of YES! Weekly and our readers.
Heavens to Betsy, the gays are getting married in California, hugging and kissing and carrying on just like they're regular people. Can you sense the palpable damage it's doing to your marriage?
This week's Page Three model, Katie Schmidt, has a lot of balls in the air. She's a rising junior at UNCG, studying anthropology. And she waits tables at the Out West Steakhouse in Kernersville, where she grew up. They have their similarities. Of anthropology, she says, "Its just learning about different human cultures. It teaches you a lot about humans in general." And the steakhouse in K-Vegas? "It teaches me about a specific demographic of people - the people who come into a steakhouse in a small town. Lots of well-done steaks." And wouldn't you know it? She's got a modeling contract that will bring her to Mexico next month. "My latest thing is working for a promotional company called Traviesa. They represent Grey Goose and Bacardi, and we'll go to a bunch of different cities and go to clubs. We model for them and we get paid to party. It's a pretty good deal
Hanging Rock If you're like most people, rising gas prices are forcing you to reexamine your fiscal priorities. Especially this summer - a hot spell that promises record prices at the pump - when elaborate vacations may be beyond the reach of those unwilling or unable to take a second mortgage. We've got an idea: Stick to North Carolina. Save your money by booking a weekend getaway at Hanging Rock State Park outside Winston-Salem, where you can camp, hike, fish and swim.
You may not know the name Michael France off-hand, but you certainly know the movies he's written: Cliffhanger (1993), GoldenEye (1995), Hulk (2003), The Punisher (2004) and Fantastic Four (2005).
Greetings to you all. The last time I saw you was in April. What a spring we had! I had a wonderful mini vacation during the month of May which gave me time to catch up on my own personal "favorite things": couch potato sessions, reading and seeing movies - in a theater. On the subject of the first, I watched along with the rest of the country, the annual "American Idol" finale.
The 4Hers and Future Farmers of America descended on the NC General Assembly last week, turning the left quad into a sea of cloverleaf nametags and blue corduroy.
This weekend Janet and I will be making our final move. All the pieces somehow fell in place; all the contracts were honored, the loan went through, the checks cleared.
Gin and tonic You don't have to tell me how hot it is outside. But during my years in the South, I've developed a few strategies for summer survival. First and foremost is: Keep the liquids coming. Also, in the warmer months, a lot of people switch from brown liquors to clear. That's why so many gin and tonics get thrown back between March and October.
Seriously, this gas thing is out of control. You're feeling it... we're feeling it... the whole nation is feeling it, and soon the petroleum-drenched chicken will come home to roost in the form of increased prices. On everything.
Hanging Rock If you're like most people, rising gas prices are forcing you to reexamine your fiscal priorities. Especially this summer - a hot spell that promises record prices at the pump - when elaborate vacations may be beyond the reach of those unwilling or unable to take a second mortgage. We've got an idea: Stick to North Carolina. Save your money by booking a weekend getaway at Hanging Rock State Park outside Winston-Salem, where you can camp, hike, fish and swim.
June 2, 2008 Last week the two most senior members of the US Senate, Sens. Robert Byrd (D-WV) and Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), faced individual health crises. Kennedy, who eventually won the Senate seat vacated by his brother John in 1962, underwent surgery for a malignant brain tumor at Duke University Medical Center in Durham.
The Fourth of July crept up pretty quickly this year, but sure enough by the weekend the air will be filled with fireworks and the heady whiff of lighter fluid as its sprayed over the coals in preparation for a big meat feast. Tell me you're not going to eat at least some charred animal remains this Fourth, and I'll tell you you're helping the terrorists.
Last week the Asheboro City Council voted 4-3 to put in motion a series of events that might legalize alcohol sales in the city, the seat of Randolph County, which is one of four dry counties left in North Carolina.
In a rapidly transforming global economy in which our domestic political system seems all jammed up, it's easy for us in North Carolina to retreat into our provincial comfort zones and tune out a world of dizzying complexity.