📣 MTG says no to Senate

The mother of all weekends

May 10 — Tomorrow is Mother’s Day, and Atlanta’s best restaurants are ready to help you tell your mom, “Thank you!” Discover Atlanta has the rundown on brunches, specials, and more ways to celebrate mom. Check out the list here, and make sure you make that reservation!

🌧️ Light rain today with a high of 61°. More of the same tomorrow.

MARKET UPDATE

📉 Stocks closed slightly down for the week as investors await the outcome of weekend trade talks between U.S. and Chinese officials. The S&P 500 hovered just above the flatline, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Composite both traded less than 1 percent.

LOCAL NEWS

📣 Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she won’t seek Georgia’s Senate seat against incumbent Jon Ossoff, but didn’t rule out a future gubernatorial bid.

🗳️ The field for Atlanta City Council seats continues to grow ahead of the November election. Rohit Malhotra is making a bid for city council president and Perrin Bostic is throwing his hat in for District 3.

⚽ The Dome/GWCC/Philips Arena/CNN Center MARTA station in Downtown will be renamed SEC – Sports Entertainment and Convention District station.

🧐 A controversial pickleball contract discussion has been taken off the May 12 Tucker City Council agenda.

🗣️ DeKalb County CEO Lorraine Cochran-Johnson delivered her first State of DeKalb address on Thursday at Assembly Studios in Doraville.

💸 The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) has awarded an $18 million grant to construct the middle section of the PATH 400 trail in Sandy Springs.

🇰🇷 Char Korean Bar & Grill will close the week of May 12 after nearly 10 years in Inman Park.

ELSEWHERE

⚖️ Former Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, who was named to the Supreme Court by President George H.W. Bush but often allied with the court’s liberal wing, died Thursday. He was 85.

✊ A federal judge in Vermont ordered the immediate release of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained in March.

🛫 Air traffic controllers at the beleaguered Newark Liberty International Airport experienced another outage yesterday, losing radar for about 90 seconds.

WHAT TO DO THIS WEEKEND

💰 “Millions,” a new musical from Bob Martin and Adam Guettel based on the 2004 Danny Boyle movie, premiered at the Alliance Theatre yesterday and will continue through June 15.

👣 The Downtown Marietta public arts festival M2R Trailfest is today, taking place all along portions of the Mountain to River Trail.

🌸 The Sweet Auburn Springfest is going on all weekend, from 11 a.m.-9 p.m. today and 1-8 p.m. tomorrow. Enjoy free concerts all day long.

🎨 The Dunwoody Arts Festival is today from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and tomorrow from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

➡ Here are some concerts to check out:

🤠 Wilco + Waxahatchee @ Synovus Bank Amphitheater (Tonight)

🎙️ Temptations + The Four Tops @ Fox Theatre (Tonight)

🍞 Jacquees + Dej Loaf @ Tabernacle (Tonight)

💐 grentperez @ Buckhead Theatre (Tonight)

🇲🇽 Ximena Sarinana @ Terminal West (Tonight)

🎚️ Post Malone @ Mercedes-Benz Stadium (Sunday)

👩‍🍼 Mother’s Day Throwback R&B Concert @ Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre (Sunday)

👗 Static Dress @ The Masquerade – Altar (Sunday)

IT’S TIME TO PLAY THE QUIZ

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Enjoy your Saturday!

Deborah Archer & Stacey Abrams In Conversation

SPONSORED BY SCAD

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🛣️ Archer will share insights from her new book, Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality, an eye-opening look at how roads, highways, and transit systems have preserved segregation after the fall of Jim Crow.

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