Norcross Weekend Planner: St. Patrick's Day Celebrations and More

Check out what's happening this weekend in Norcross.

Whether you intend on downing Irish car bombs with your buddies or plan on doing something not related to the color green, Norcross has something for everyone this St. Patrick's Day weekend. For those celebrating the patron saint, locals can check out Iron Horse Tavern for goodies all weekend. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the pub will have live music, drink specials, and traditional Irish food such as corned beef and cabbage. Be sure to check out the tavern's St. Patrick's Day Weekend event page at the link. On Saturday, more holiday activities abound at the St. Patrick's Day Celebration in Lillian Webb Park. Hosted by St. Patrick's Catholic Church, the inaugural festival will have live music, food sales, sports activities, a children's…

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Hands-on Dinosaur Exhibit Coming to Norcross

Discover the Dinosaurs will roar into the North Atlanta Trade Center for the first time Feb. 22-24.

Discover the Dinosaurs, a hands-on exhibit including up to 60 animatronic and museum quality dinosaur replicas, is coming to the North Atlanta Trade Center in Norcross this weekend. From Feb. 22 to Feb. 24, the exhibit will showcase museum-quality pieces along with several moving animatronic dinosaurs, all in a fun and educational environment. The exhibit is scheduled to travel across the country all throughout the year. Kids and families are encouraged to get up close and touch some of the dinosaurs on display, an opportunity which isn’t usually available in museum exhibits and other dinosaur events. In addition to the exhibit, other activities included in the admission price are the Dino Dig, Dino Den play area, Dino coloring area, …

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Norcross Weekend Planner: Trains, Phones and More

Get ready for the weekend, Patch readers.

Get ready for the weekend, Patch readers. It's almost here, and Norcross has a few events lined up for it.  To start us off, the Golden Spike Train Show will be at the North Atlanta Trade Center from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12. With admission at $7 and no cost for kids under 12, the show will feature a variety of railroadiana for sale, model trains for sale, artifacts and lots of collectors. Check out the website for more details. From 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, the city of Norcross is having an opening on the welcome center's latest exhibit on Ravensbruck, the most notorious women's concentration camp where 140,000 women were sent to during the Holocaust. Held in Norcross Cultural Arts and Community Center, the opening will have …

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Norcross Weekend Planner: Outdoor Nativity, Live Music and More

Check out what's happening Christmas weekend around the Norcross area.

It's Christmas weekend, and if you are brave enough to handle the busy holiday streets, see what's in store in the Norcross area. On Thursday, head to 45 South Cafe for musician Kate Wright. Grab a drink and listen to the folk/blues/jazz singer and guitarist play originals and holiday tunes. The music starts at 6:30 p.m. Friday is the last day for Sparkle!'s Santa photos and free horse-drawn carriage rides in downtown Norcross. Sit in Santa's lap at 45 South and catch a ride from the horse in front of Taste of Britain any time between 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. for the last time this year If you're looking for more holiday cheer, go no further than the Pinckneyville Community Center for a Christmas Carnival and Toy Drive. Benefiting Lift Up …

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The Great Train Expo Steams Into Norcross This Weekend

The Great Train Expo, the nation’s largest coast to coast model train show steams into Norcross, GA this weekend! The show is Saturday & Sunday, October 27 & 28, 2012 at the North Atlanta Trade Center.

Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of miniature railroading October 27th & 28th at the North Atlanta Trade Center in Norcross, GA! Model & toy train experts will be on hand with exhibits and informative demonstrations to entertain the whole family! The event includes operating train layouts in a variety of sizes and scales, how-to hobby demonstrations, tables upon tables of shopping at the hobby marketplace and much much more. See huge operating railroads that are intricately detailed to familiar local scenes of the past and present or that exist only in the designer’s imagination. Get a chance to see the only hobby where you can be the city planner, structural engineer, and conductor all at the same time. You can also experience …

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Sally Toole

5:33 am on Monday, October 29, 2012

Agreed...sorry about that, I submitted early am Sunday.   more ›

The Norcross Weekend Planner

Norcross loves its arts scene.

The weekend is starting a bit earlier this week with Norcross' first Third Thursday Arts Party. Head to historic downtown Thursday, Sept. 20, for arts galore: Vargas & Harbin Studio Gallery will be celebrating its first year anniversary of being in Norcross, and Bella Vita Gallery next door is making its grand opening to the city. Other goodies lay in store at The Nest, Kudzu Art Zone, and other shops and restaurants downtown, so for the full details, click here. Everything starts at 6 p.m. "Of Mice and Men" at Lionheart Theatre will continue this week with performances Friday through Sunday. Reserve your tickets for the John Steinbeck classic. Just around the corner from downtown, the Down The Street Bead Show will be at the North Atlanta…

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The Norcross Weekend Planner

A little bit of WWII education, folk art and live music.

Get pumped for the weekend with a little of everything in the entertainment department. Start the weekend with one of the last summer concerts of the summer featuring A-town A-list. Having shared the stage with Bruce Springsteen and Dave Matthews, A-town A-list sings pop songs from the last 50 years with a very "current, modern edge." Music starts at 7:30 and end at 9:30 p.m. in Thrasher Park. It's another artsy weekend in the Norcross area with Folk Fest 2012 at the North Atlanta Trade Center. Kicking off this Friday at 5 p.m., the 19th annual art show will have more than 80,000 square feet of vendors in the self-taught art spectrum, Southern folk pottery, outsider art and more. The Folk Fest attracts around 12,000 visitors every year, …

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Micro Wrestling Puts the Smack Down on Norcross

The “sports entertainment” spectacle got the audience out of their chairs.

A raucous crowd shouts in unison, “Micro Superstars!” and the bell rings, sending two wrestlers after each other. The Enforcer gets slammed hard by The Beast, a wild wrestler with clown make-up who plays to the crowd. The Enforcer tries to get scrappy with small blows but gets pinned again, then “dragged” up by his hair. Just another Saturday in Norcross. This was not your usual WWF smack-down, though. The Micro Wrestling Federation visited the North Atlanta Trade Center this weekend, with showmanship and crowd-pumping antics at full tilt. They are a travelling group of little people entertainers that style their show after WWF, with over-the-top body slams and gloves-off moves inside—and outside—the ring. Their mission is to “show the …

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Five Things To Do This Weekend

Five Things To Do This Weekend

Talent on Display, Motorcycles and A Big Green Ogre.

Even if it is freezing, the sun is shining. So get out and do something:  1. As if saving your dastardly soul isn't enough, many men of the cloth are quite talented. They have been proving so over the past four years and will again this weekend at the "5th Annual Fabulous Fathers Priest Talent Show." Proceeds will benefit Norcross's own Regina Caeli Academy.  2. With the popularity of Orange County Choppers, interest in motorcycles is getting a bump. If you're one of the millions who fit into this category, the Great American Motorcycle Show is taking place all weekend at the North Atlanta Trade Center. Unique, custom bikes along with accessories and bike dealers will fill over 100,000 square feet of showroom space. I guess you could say …

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Dan Fontaine

10:36 am on Friday, February 4, 2011

You got Rob! Nice pipes on you too :]   more ›

Five Things To Do This Weekend

5 Things To Do This Weekend

Boats, street poetry and films galore.

This will definitely be an artsy weekend. Just in time too. It's safe to say most Atlantans are sick of sports at the moment (thanks Packers). So pull out your tweed jacket and your corduroys and try to learn something. Who knows, it might even be fun. 1. For the second consecutive weekend, Gwinnett is playing host to top-notch stand-up comedy. Aurora Theatre in Lawrenceville presents their first "Funny Fridays" of 2011 with two great comics in local great, Dan Mengini and veteran Joe Morrison. Most comedy shows give you a feature act (usually a younger comic working their way up) and a headliner (the person you came to see). This show gives you two headliners with credits from Comedy Central and Cartoon Network to national TV spots and …

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