Hey guys! Anybody go to that Pizza Underground show last night? It was like a highway accident: awful but I couldn’t look away. That was easily the most packed I’ve ever seen the Mammal Gallery though, so that’s great. If you didn’t go, there was literally cooked pizza nailed to the walls and labeled like art, there was a video of people being covered in pizza toppings, my mind barely even knew how to comprehend what I was witnessing. Just remember that all pizza is beautiful.

Today is a packed day, which makes up for all the slow days this week!

Today is the International Day of Happiness! There’s an event going on at Peachtree Mall all day long today where you can pledge to do things to make people happy.

Margaret Edson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright is going to be at the Emory Conference Center Hotel (1615 Clifton Road) at 5pm talking about and presenting scenes from her play Wit.

If you know someone who thinks they’re too good to eat Ramen noodles, Poor Calvin’s (510 Piedmont Ave) is having a Ramen night starting at 5pm, featuring Ramen dishes made with roasted pork belly, tiger shrimp, and lobster. That sure sounds better than throwing in a boiled egg…

The Mint Gallery (636 N. Highland Ave) is displaying its newest exhibit, Sumptuary, with the opening reception at 5pm today. “A five-week-long hyper-saturated series of installation, performance, and social encounter commissioned through guests’ incremental donations on food and drinks.” There are going to be other event nights throughout the hosting, so if you don’t make it out tonight there are still lots of other exciting opportunities to come out!

The Rialto Center for the Arts (80 Forsyth St) is starting a new ballet called Flyin’ West, which is playing all weekend, tickets start at $40

Tonight in Olmsted Linear Park (that long park on Ponce by the Ponce/Moreland intersection) the annual Spring Fling is happening, which involved selling powder dye, dye-filled water guns and water balloons, everybody wearing white, and then covering everywhere and everybody with bright colors to celebrate the arrival of Spring. I had no idea this happened here! 6pm, supplies (“ammunition”) ranges from $2-$3.

Everyone’s favorite one night stand art gallery Mindzai Creative (728 Ralph McGill Blvd) is doing another one night only exhibit opening at 7pm today, Valkyries, showcase prints, sculptures, photography, and original paintings from more 20 local Atlanta ladies. There’s always free PBR, and there’s occasionally free pizza too!

The Fourth Annual Southern Fried Burlesque Festival starts today and goes all weekend, but it’s almost OTP and I don’t particularly care for burlesque, so I’m just going to give you the (sfw) link and let you decide if you’re interested.

There’s some kind of crazy latte art showdown tonight at Octane Coffee (1009 Marietta St)with DJs and prizes, I think anyone can sign up at 7pm, but there’s only 32 slots so get there early if you’re interested!

At 8pm it’s Nerd Nite at Smoke Ring BBQ (309 Nelson St) again! They have $1 jumbo smoked chicken wings! The three talks this time cover how the brain interprets music, how it keeps a beat, and how Atlanta is pedaling into the future. I’d get there early if you want to sit down and eat for any of this! $5 cover, and free parking.

This is really cool. For the next ten days (March 20th-30th) Red Bull Illume, the world’s largest international photography competition, will be setting up nighttime displays in life-size light boxes, from dusk to 11pm.

Quite a few shows going on tonight:



Thursday Band Venue Details Comments Dum Dum Girls The Earl 9:30pm$15 Female-led noise-pop, reminds me of an updated Blondie. Non-smoking show. Solids 529 10pm, $8 Fuzzy noise rock, but crystal-clear vocals, kind of like Wavves. Bizarrely summery feeling, definitely a show to wear earplugs to! MK-ULTRA The Drunken Unicorn 11pm, $7, 18+ $5 admission for over 21. There are so many bands with this name, and unfortunately they are all more interesting than this one. House/dubstep music, I’m so burned out on everybody making this stuff these days. The Glitch Mob The Tabernacle 8pm, $23 Stadium EDM, essentially. These songs feel massive and make you feel like you should be in a car chase. We Butter the Bread with Butter The Masquerade (Hell) 6pm, $12 Any time a band has this many words in their name you know it’s going to be palm-muted screamo warp-tour style. These guys are German and seem to share more in common with Rammstein than a lot of acts like this though, including the theatrics. Ellie Goulding Fox Theater 7pm. $30+ Ellie was huge in the UK but didn’t take off that much over here, she does slightly electronic pop music that you’d expect to hear on the radio. I think my mum will be at this. Pigpen Theatre Co The Vinyl 7pm, $12 More bluegrass banjo music. At least these guys sound more authentic than most. Greensky Bluegrass Terminal West 8pm, $20, 18+ I guess if you just can’t get enough of it you could head over here after the vinyl. These guys do have a very talented banjo picker though. No Sleep WonderRoot 9pm, $5 Local indie/alt rock, sounds like the classic emo bands of the late ’90s. FB Event Les Rhinoceros The Mammal Gallery 9pm, $5 Crazy complex experimental music, like Lightning Bolt or HEALTH.

I’m told that Ellie Goulding is sold out already, but check Stubhub!

Also:

Underground Railroad Hip Hop Concert at the Apache Café (64 3rd St), 9pm, $25

E-dubble at the Star Bar (437 Moreland Ave), also Meek Freaks, Cosmo Knox, & Dot.s. No cover, 10pm. Check out their promo video for the show (nsfw language)!

There’s also all the usual Thursday Stuff, plus all the ongoing events, and check out the week’s concert listings if you like to plan ahead!

Nerd Nite and the latte art showdown both sound fun, and I’m definitely going to see the Red Bull Illume stuff one night before it closes. I might try to make it to the Mindzai Creative gallery and enjoy historic fourth ward park if the weather’s nice this evening. As always, let me know what you guys get up to and what turns out to be fun!

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A few things for Friday: