Atlanta Forgets Recession For a Night

A deejay with a towering burnt orange afro supplied soulful background music for Thursday's Men's LUXE Night at the W Hotel-Buckhead. But he might as well have kept some synthesized version of Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" on a constant loop.


Bert Weis of "The Bert Show" fame greets a morning radio fan


The 3rd Annual affair hosted by The Atlantan magazine and Jim Ellis Porsche had some of the suavest guys in town scratching their heads, wondering: "Who could ask for anything more."

Munchies from the Market restaurant, sips from the small batch Marques reserves of Crown Royal, a putting green (with a wicked break right) installed by European Autovault, massages from Blue MedSpa, and custom clothes fittings by Guffey's of Atlanta.





Courtney and Krissy

The icing on the cake, of course, was the strong turnout of lovely ladies who seemed not to mind at all as wafts of hand-made cigar smoke wafted from the terrace into the ballroom and men's eyes darted from one beauty to the next.












Models (Jodie Baity, Tonika Davis, Ashley Carson and Brittainy Jefferson) wear private label shirts and ties by Guffey's while sandwiching the Buckhead haberdashery's accessories expert Tim Richey









The '09 Porsche Cayman, waiting for you to test drive









Real estate and music industry execs Venice Brinkley and Lisa McCall













Atlanta's No. 1 Porsche saleswoman, Stacey Frith











Atlanta's perennial "top model" Veronica Best


Noteworthy attendees of the event included: the Reynolds Plantation's golf coordinator, Rob Muggleston; AmericasMart leasing director, Terence Morris; publicity stalwarts, Nick Gold and Lilian Raji; alternative educator Chasity Rosier; lifestyle enhancement guru Chloe Taylor Brown; and Frank Heath, owner of the all-new Sebastian's Closet men's boutique in Buckhead.




Jim Ellis Porsche GM Doug McIntyre posts up by the iconic crest
All Images: JimiFlix Photography