Now you have plans for the weekend

You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of event listings. In this post, all of our problems are solved.

This weekend is the biggie — the

American Royal Barbecue competition is back for its 30th year. More

than 500 teams are expected to compete between Friday and Sunday. Gates open today at 3 p.m. Tickets, $13, are

available online.

Your drink special of the weekend is at Granite City Food & Brewery in Zona Rosa, where (the first Saturday of every month) $3 gets you an Outdoor Concert: vodka, peach schnapps, chambord, cranberry and pineapple. After two of these, you’ll be dancing to a band that nobody else can hear. 

After spending the day over at Kemper, grab a slice of moon cake on Saturday night from the Fortune Star Chinese Restaurant in Shawnee Mission, and get over to the Kansas City Chinese Association’s Moon Festival in Olathe.