Hey guys! Its Friday, and seemingly out of nowhere it’s raining and gloomy. Here’s a quick run through of everything going on today in the city!

The Atlanta Science Festival continues on today (until Saturday), like usual there are lots of events, check the website for all of them, but these are my favorite ones:

Dances with Non Newtonian Fluids. Have you ever seen the YouTube video where they put the oobleck on a stereo and turn it up really loud?

Have you ever seen the YouTube video where they put the oobleck on a stereo and turn it up really loud? Death by Chocolate Murder Mystery is unfortunately sold out already, but sounded fun.

is unfortunately sold out already, but sounded fun. Science Improv is free at the DramaTech Theater tonight at 8pm.

Also continuing until the end of the weekend is The Laughing Skull Comedy Festival at the Laughing Skull Lounge as the Atlanta Auto Show at the GWCC, which are $15 and $10 respectively.

I don’t know if this is true, but Scoutmob has declared today National Something-on-a-Stick Day and provided us with a cool list of places to buy things on sticks. I’m dying to get to Palookaville and try a Cadbury Scotch Egg.

It’s the Japan-Georgia 40th Anniversary today, specifically the 40th anniversary of the Consulate General of Japan in Atlanta. The Millennium Gate Museum ( 395 17th St.) is opening their museum to the city today for free, and at 3pm they’re planting 40 Somei-Yoshino cherry trees and having some important politicians speak.

It was Holi last Monday, and GSU is organizing their own celebration in Hurt Park today at 5pm. Limited to the first 300 people, and you have to be a GSU ID holder (or one of the two friends each GSU student can bring), but you can always go and watch all the color thrown everywhere! The event is rain or shine.

Critical Mass is tonight at 6, meeting at Woodruff Park (91 Peachtree Street) and embarking on a 10-15 mile group bike ride, probably in the rain this evening! Get out and meet your fellow Atlanta bikers!

Tonight’s the opening night of the Atlanta Film Festival 2014 at the Plaza Theater (1049 Ponce). The movie tonight is Joe, about an ex-con played by Nicholas Cage. Because it’s opening night, tickets are $30, but for the rest of the festival (apart from closing night) tickets will be $10. 7pm.

The GameVid Expo 2014 is today through Sunday, tickets are $30, and there will be “internet celebrities, game developers, esports tournaments and much more.” Hosted at the W Midtown (188 14th St). This is a brand new expo, maybe it will turn into something great.

The closing reception for Iconned is tonight at the ArtMatch Gallery (659 Auburn Ave, no word on what’s happening, but if you haven’t seen the gallery yet and wanted to, now’s your last chance. 7pm, free.

Shows tonight (image):

Also:

Free Spin at Octane (1009 Marietta Street NW) tonight, all-vinyl funk/boogie/soul DJ'ing in the best coffeeshop-bar in the city! No cover, 9pm.

at (1009 Marietta Street NW) tonight, all-vinyl funk/boogie/soul DJ'ing in the best coffeeshop-bar in the city! No cover, 9pm. Robert Ansley at Midcity Café, breaking in their brand new soundsystem with house tunes, 10pm, no cover.

at breaking in their brand new soundsystem with house tunes, 10pm, no cover. Death From Below at The Music Room (327 Edgewood Avenue) tonight, house/indie/pop/edm on the Music Room dance floor from 11pm onward, no cover.

at (327 Edgewood Avenue) tonight, house/indie/pop/edm on the Music Room dance floor from 11pm onward, no cover. If you guys like mashups, Bootie ATL do some of the best in my opinion (check out David Bowie vs Deadmau5 or The Killers vs Guns n Roses), and tonight they’re bringing their mashup party to Atlanta, at The Legend Café (2421 Van Fleet Circle), $5 before 11pm, $10 after, but free admission all night if you dress like a pirate. 21+

There’s also the regular Friday stuff, plus all the ongoing events, and check out the week’s concert listings if you like to plan ahead!

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Cosmonauts, Mercy Killings, the WonderRoot show, or Sonen all sound great, so it mostly depends on how far I feel like paying to take a cab, but if the weather doesn’t pick up it might just be a friends-at-the-local-bar night. Spring time, spring time, where are you?! As usual, let me know what you guys get up to and what turns out to be fun!

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