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Enjoy a day on the northeast shore of White Rock Lake with the Wooden Boat Association of North Texas on Saturday September 26 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. for an amazing close up view of antique and classic wooden crafted boats at the Corinthian Sailing Club.

Guests will enjoy hot dogs, chips and soda and FREE sailboat rides all during the day at this FREE event! The Corinthian Sailing Club Members are proud to take you out and about on the coolest boats around. You’ll learn the history of wooden boats, appreciate the fine attention to the detail of antique boats and learn about the art of restoration.

Fall in love with the wonders of antique boats, make new friends and have a blast with the crew on the lake!

Everyone is invited! Tell your friends and neighbors! For more information, visit the association’s website at http://www.woodenboatassociation.com.

Mark your calendar, gals! GIRLS NIGHT OUT is coming Tuesday, September 28 to the Village Country Club!

GIRLS NIGHT OUT is designed especially for our VILLAGE LADIES! If you’re a sassy, classy Village Lady, YOU are invited to an awesome evening of music, food, drinks and prizes along with cool stuff to see and buy and so much more!

Lincoln Charities will benefit from your $2 admission ticket at the door and you’ll benefit from a night out with your best girl buds. Bring a friend and have a blast at GIRLS NIGHT OUT at the VCC the 28th.

Keep your eyes peeled for more details to come!

Sorry guys! It’s a NO testosterone zone!

I’ve found a cool and unique way to decorate my apartment without spending a small fortune!

With big Blik removable stickers, you can personalize any space without the mess of paint or wall paper. No matter what the decorating policies at your apartment, movable stickers make artistic decorating easy and affordable. And for people like me who LOVE instant results and satisfaction, this is the way to go!

With these artistic and unique removable wall stickers, you can create the illusion of a headboard, for instance, or a big arcade game right on your wall. Build a forest scene that reaches to the ceiling, add a simple tree, branches or a vine or just add a little depth beside a seating arrangement with any one of the cool designs available.

Customizing your art is easy through Blik, too. Let them know what you want and the space you’re filling and they’ll work with you to create just the right art for your space.

How about you? Do you have any inexpensive decorating ideas to share with your fellow apartment dwellers? Click the comment button!

We apartment dwellers are a clever crew. We come up with all kinds of creative ways to use our limited real estate. Even those of us who would love to have a garden refuse to give up the search for inventive ways to make it happen. Who needs a backyard, anyway? Especially when you have a great, big pot!

When it comes to growing herbs, it’s deliciously easy to do that in an apartment. The only real hitch in the works is for those whose buildings don’t get much sunlight. Can’t help you with that one but for those apartments that get plenty of sun, growing herbs is a cinch with the right pot, some soil and a little love.

What’s so great about starting a One Pot Indoor Herb Garden is that growing herbs like thyme, basil and sage is easy and cost effective.  Buying those little packets at the grocery gets expensive, especially if you’re a nut for fresh herbs like I am. I put them in just about everything, so having them on hand saves pennies and time PLUS I know there are no pesticides to worry about.

You don’t have to have a green thumb to enjoy growing your own herbs! Give it a try and see for yourself. It’s a great way to spice up your life!

The annual Restaurant Week in Dallas kicks off August 16 for a week of culinary mastery and all for a good cause! When you dine at one of the more than 120 participating restaurants, you’re helping to raise funds for the North Texas Food Bank and Lena Pope Home.

Lucky us … Café Pacific located just a few minutes away at 24 Highland Park is participating offering a 3 course prix fixe dinner for just $35 per person! Their Restaurant Week Menu is full of delights like Prosciutto Wrapped Salmon, Lemongrass Grilled Shrimp and Szechwan Grilled Braised Beef Short Rib.

Call and reserve your table today! (214) 526-1170

It’s easy to make Power Packed FOOD Swaps, but did you know that you can make other swaps in the kitchen that go BEYOND FOOD that are also healthy?

Many of the products we use on a regular basis in the kitchen can have a negative affect the central nervous system.   Simple irritability and edginess can result leaving you with a family of cranky people! Not good! Especially when the solution may be as simple as KITCHEN REHAB.

That no-stick Teflon coated skillet you’ve been using has got to go! For certain types of cooking, cast iron is a superior choice.  And while you’re at it, get rid of the fancy name brand cleansers that are loaded with harmful chemicals.  Making your own cleaners is a much safer alternative and you’re not giving up clean! Quite to the contrary.  Homemade Cleaning Recipes are VERY effective, easy to make and cheap, Cheap, CHEAP!

Take the toxins out of your kitchen by swapping plastic containers for glass and for heaven’s sakes, GET THE LEAD OUT!  Swap out those utensils containing led for healthier options. By making simple  KITCHEN SWAPS, you’re on your way to a healthier kitchen and a healthier you!

Are you totally TICKED OFF? Are you BENT OUT OF SHAPE, P.O’d or downright red-faced ANGRY?! Then it’s time to give ANGER MANAGEMENT THE BOOT at the annual FIGHT NIGHT 2010 at The Village Country Club!

Let’s face it, sometimes the only therapy you need is to punch someone’s lights out! If you’re mad at your bone-headed EX, if your boss is such a jerk you can hardly stand it or if you’re mad as a hornet with your freaky roommate, then EMAIL your gripes TODAY to p1@theticket.com and get ready to come out swingin’!

The rules are:
Fighters must be between the ages of 18 and 35 (no exceptions)

Fighters must be within 10 lbs of the opponent

You have until AUGUST 26TH to get REALLY CHAPPED!

WHEN: August 26, beginning at 5pm

WHERE: The Village Country Club. Park at the Dallas Children’s Theater for free and take the P1 Shuttle

COST: No cover for Village Residents

MORE INFO: Theticket.com

Here at the Corners we can take our pick of awesome steak houses. From Bailey’s Prime Plus over on Park Lane to Kirby’s just down the street, there’s no shortage around here for a good hunk of beef! But how’s a well-behaved carnivore going to fully enjoy the steak experience when she’s got healthy eating on her mind and bloomin’ onions on her plate?

Thankfully, it is possible to choose wisely at a steak house and still enjoy the meal! With a few thoughtful selections, we CAN carve away those pesky, extra, unneeded calories and still satisfy the taste buds and tummy.

For instance, happy little house fries will likely add about 500 calories to your meal. A large baked potato in all its glory will leave your thighs battling an extra 300 calories.  But if you go with those creamy, yummy, thoroughly decadent mashed potatoes, you’ll squeak through the spuds department barely topping out at the 250 calorie mark! Mash them puppies up and role around in them if you want … the caloric damage is minimal compared to the dreaded bloomin’ onion!

Being a purist when it comes to beef, I find it unfathomable that anyone would slather a fine steak with ANY type of sauce.  Barbeque, Béarnaise … It doesn’t matter to me. You might as well put a ski mask on the Mona Lisa and march me backwards through the gallery.  But if you MUST deface your steak, get a big black magic marker and mark Béarnaise OFF your list of options for the rest of your steak eating life.  It’s the worst of sauce offenders as it’s simply egg yolk and butter. Oh Me! Wrong on so many levels! Instead, order something like Peppercorn, a brandy and beef stock based sauce or even blue cheese crumbles. Just a little bit will bejewel a steak with less catastrophic calorie consequences than most sauces and still leave a precious smile on Mona’s face.

I know you’ll groan when you read this next part, but in good conscience, I cannot do a post about eating healthy at a steak house and not address the meat itself.  That would be negligent and irresponsible … of which, I am neither.  The cut you select makes all the difference. I’ll just rip this bandage off in one fell-swoop and save us both the agonizing pain: Rib Eye has one-and-a-half times the fat of sirloin. It comes down to this, my steak loving friend … The more marble in the meat, the more fat upon your bum. Keep that in mind the next time you sit your bum down and entertain ordering that fat riddled Rib Eye from ole Bessy’s rib section.

A delightfully tasty middle ground is a strip steak. Of course, the leanest cut you’ll find on a menu (aside from my all time fav, a filet mignon) is a sirloin. Keep your serving size at 9 oz and you’ll stay under 500 calories, which will have you skipping all the way to the Village Health and Fitness Center next week!

The brilliant folks at Eat This Not That have come up with some more ways to eat healthy at your favorite steak house. How about you? Do you have any tips for fellow calorie counting carnivores?

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Hey, all you WILD  animal lovers! Enter your amazing Dallas Zoo Photos in the 8th Annual Dallas Zoo Photography Contest and WIN!

If you’re one of those people who sees a photo opp around every turn AND you also happen to love, Love, LOVE animals, here’s your chance to snap a few shots of your favorite creatures at the Dallas Zoo and WIN!

Through your creative lens, capture the whimsical expression of a meerkat or frame an odd okapi in all its mixed-up glory on the Nature Trail. Get an up-close shot of a crocodile’s  scaly hide or creepy eyes at Crocodile Isle or hang around the Kimberly-Clark Chimpanzee Forest long enough to catch a chimp striking an adorable pose!

The RULES are simple and anyone can enter from ages 12 and under through advanced photographers with photos judged within each category. Only photos taken of Dallas Zoo animals between the months of April and September are eligible. The entry fee is only $15 for up to 3 prints BUT make a note … the deadline is September 30th so start planning your trip to the Zoo today!

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House plants bring the beauty of nature indoors with great health benefits!

You already know that house plants balance the humidity in your apartment but did you know that house plants can help you fight a cough or cold? According to a STUDY at the University of Agriculture in Norway, indoor plants can help to reduce fatigue, coughs, sore throats and  cold-related illnesses by as much as 30 percent or more!  It is believed that because house plants increase humidity levels in the home and decrease dust, the air you breath is better for you and therefore reduces illness.

If you’re like me and you unwittingly execute plants with a mere blink of the eye, you’re in luck! Just 5 minutes from The Corners is HELP for us hopeless plant killers!  Calloway’s Nursery can guide you to the right plant for your apartment. Before you head over there to select plants for your pad, think about what you like and where you want to put the plants. Low light or no light areas will require a certain type of hearty plant that Calloway can tell you about. If you want a pretty blooming plant, tell them what you have in mind and go ahead and confess your green-thumb weaknesses! They’ll sympathize. They’ll help and they’ll guide you to a GREENER life!

Calloway is located at 7410 Greenville Avenue, just a short drive from The Chase!

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