Before pole-dancing classes, flirty fitness was limited to holding hands with a stairmaster or romancing Jack LaLanne. Learn more seductive exercises with today's Groupon: for $20, you get two introductory pole-dancing classes at Beauty N’ Motion in Highland Park (a $40 value).
Focused on fun and fitness, Beauty N’ Motion specializes in eight-week, pole-borne workout classes, held in a resplendent aluminum forest flanked by vivid crimson drapery. The one-hour introductory classes offer a glimpse of the more specialized sessions, and include some stretching, a workout, and instruction in a pole trick that is suitable for beginners, yet more advanced than licking a flagpole in winter. Intro classes are scheduled at various times throughout the week, and more sessions may be added if there is demand. After building muscle strength, poise, and confidence in two introductory classes, students can choose to sharpen their skills with more nuanced lessons or by breaking into a tetherball court after-hours.
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The Groupon Guide to: Kitchen Basics
Whether you're a master chef or you thought that kitchens were just an old wives' tale and are only learning that they're real right now by reading this, you need a few basic cooking utensils to help you turn worthless, disparate ingredients into useable food. Every kitchen must have:
- One saucepan. This is a pan that you can melt down into a sauce.
- Ten mixing bowls. This allows you to mix 10 different ingredients separately so that they don't have to touch and get all over each other.
- Between six and seven stoves. If a "recipe" (that's just a snobby word for "food instructions") calls for a dish to be cooked at 300 degrees for 30 minutes, it's actually much faster to cook it for 10 minutes at a time in three different ovens set to 100 degrees.
- One refrigerator full of sharp knives.
- One whisk so that guests will see it and think you must really be good at cooking.
- One cutting board, which is a wooden block filed down to a serrated edge. You use it to chop vegetables, but you'll also want to have some sort of mat or hard, flat surface to cut them on.
- A family of chickens. They make food—eggs!—and turn into food! They're awesome.
- Nine 1-gallon jugs of olive oil. This delicious flavoring is used in practically every food instruction to make the food taste like olives.
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