Get your bathing suits and your sun tan lotion ready because this weekend is going to be a beautiful mess of sun and warmth. Saturday looks like it is shaping up to be the best day of the weekend with clear skys and highs in the seventies, which will be perfect if you are planning to rock out at the SOCO festival in Centennial Park. No matter what your plans, the one thing it looks like you won’t have to plan around this weekend is the weather.

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On Sunday, Stella will be hosting a benefit for the victims of the March tornado. They will have $1.50 slices of pizza, lots of cold beer and be holding their first annual yelling contest. Participants in the yelling contest will be asked to be asked to do their best version of “Stella!!!!”and the best  Marlon Brando will receive $100 bucks. So if you were looking for something to do on Sunday, you just got another option.

Find out more at Stella’s website

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How excited were you when McDonalds knocked off Chick-Fil-A and created the Southern Style Chicken sandwich? Finally, you could eat a fast food chicken sandwich on a Sunday when you needed it most…hung over and lazy. McDonalds launches it’s clone nationally this week and in celebration, is giving it away free. On Wednesday, May 14, McDonalds will set up a 50 x 50 foot table (these are the perimeters of the “while supplies last” fine print) loaded with FREE Southern Style Chicken Biscuits at the Center For Puppetry Arts (1404 Spring Street at 18th Street in Midtown Atlanta) from 6-9am.  Then, on Thursday May 15th, you’ll be able to swing buy any McDonalds store for a free Southern Style Chicken Biscuit or Chicken Sandwich (depending on when you wake up) when you purchase a drink. 

The Dunwoody Beer Festival returns on Saturday, May 17th at Perimeter mall. This festival is no different from other beer festival in Atlanta, where you sit around with you friends and get drunk off a lot of beer served in small amounts while cover bands rock out mid 90’s hits. Now one thing does set the Dunwoody festival apart from the other festivals in Atlanta, it’s home is in a mall parking lot. Yes, that is right, there is nothing better than drinking your beer while searching for a nice piece of hot black concrete to find refuge. Now the festival is not all bad, it’s easy to take MARTA to if you feel like you are going to get drunk and if you underdress, well your only a few steps away from the mall where you can correct your error. I went last year and I had a good time but I just wish they would find a home that has some green grass.

Tickets - $30 in advance, $35 at the door

Dunwoody Beer Festival

Dubbed as the “World’s Largest Adventure Series, City Chase tries to mimic the TV show, The Amazing Race, but without the foreign countries, cheesy storylines and Jerry Bruckheimer. Instead, City Chase allows local teams to compete against each other through a series of odd and end events around their town. This year the event takes place on May 17th and will have contestants chasing around clues in midtown, downtown and Buckhead. So if you ever dreamed on being on The Amazing Race, grab your twin or you ex that your not sure you like and form a team.

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City Chase Atlanta

The Southern Comfort (Soco) music festival is back for a second year and will arrive in Atlanta on May 17th at Centennial Olympic Park.  The festival this year will bring to town a solid lineup of acts that include: Against Me!, Bang Camero, Ghostland Observatory, Ryan Shaw, and the Supersuckers.   The festival is a 21+ event and is most importantly, it is free.  Doors will open at 3pm and hopefully we will get some good weather for this event.

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Southern Comfort Music Festival