Hey guys! It’s Thursday, the month is almost over, it even looks like it might not be horrible outside! Party With the Past was really interesting last night, apparently when Clark Gable stayed in the Georgian Terrace Hotel for the premier of Gone With The Wind, the morning after he left there were people calling the hotel requesting his room to stay in, specifically before they changed the sheets. I guess crazed fanatics have always been a thing.

Turns out Atlanta is the number one city for events according to USA Today! “Atlanta, a city of 443,775, had the highest levels of event-going people relative to its population than any other city.” Awesome job guys! Keep going out to stuff, keep organizing cool events, and keep making this city an amazing place to live!

Here’s a quick run-through of everything that’s happening today:

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:

The Laughing Skull Comedy Festival continues at the Laughing Skull Lounge (878 Peachtree St, inside the Midtown Vortex), the schedule of events is here. $15-$25, 8pm.

A Movable Feast: the Atlanta Food Truck Park’s 2nd Anniversary VIP Tasting Party is today at 5pm at the Atlanta Food Truck Park (1850 Howell Mill). Tickets through Scoutmob get you five food tickets and two drink tickets for $32. The list of vendors attending is incredible, I really want to try some of those tandoori wings, and that philly cheese steak truck sounds super tasty.

MINT Gallery (636 N. Highland Ave. NE) has a new installation going up today, called The Association of 4 Objects Through Documented Action. Normally I read the descriptions of these things and have no idea what they’re talking about until I actually see the artwork in person, and this time is no different, but at least the artist is on board with me too! “Using a video piece as the crux, I am teasing out new associations, exploring connections between objects and self, and playing between media. (what am I talking about? I don’t know either!)”

If you went to the W Midtown (188 14th St) for the Blondie/Clermont Lounge event the other month, the next event in the series is tonight, Locals We Love: Dashboard Co-op. Romy Maloon and David Batterman from Dashboard Co-op will be there showing off two new large-scale interactive art pieces they’ve created for the event, as well as appetizers and cocktails. Free, 7pm.

Tonight is The Root Ball at Greystone in Piedmont Park (1320 Monroe Dr) which is an event by Trees Atlanta to celebrate the planting of their 100,000th tree in Atlanta! Thanks for helping make the city beautiful, guys! There’s live music from Blair Crimmins & The Hookers, as well as a farm-to-table buffet! Unfortunately, tickets are $100, 7pm.

The Rialto (80 Forsyth St) has the 2014 Alliance Drag Show tonight at 7pm, but you have to be a student, although it sounds like you don’t have to be a GSU student, just a student somewhere. Doors at 6:30, but this is always packed, so get there early.

I don’t know if you guys saw the news, but Taco Bell does breakfast starting today. I want to not want an AM Crunchwrap so badly.

The Big Le-Bowl-Ski is a Scoutmob event happening tonight at Midtown Bowl (1936 Piedmont Cir). $27 gets you admission to the bowling alley (plus shoes and a bowling ball), and one white Russian, and they’re going to be playing The Big Lebowski on the bowling alley screens. Buy tickets in advance, and “BYO-bathrobe.” 7:30pm.

The Plaza Theatre (1049 Ponce De Leon) sponsored by the WonderRoot, is holding the Generally Local, Mostly Independent Filmmaker’s Night tonight at 8pm, which is the kick-off for the Atlanta Film Festival. Tickets are $7 and I think they’re good for the festival as well as tonight, but don’t quote me on that.

Terminal West (887 West Marietta St NW) has another installment of RAW Artists tonight, MOSAIC featuring August Riche. Check out this guy’s art at that link, it’s really cool and gives you a taste of what kind of things will be at the show. $20, 8pm.

Not too many shows tonight (image):

Thursday Band Venue Details Comments The Bohannons The Earl 9:30pm, $7 Slow heavy sludge rock, probably ear-shatteringly loud. Scarlett 529 10pm, $5 Instrumental (I think) technical metal music, to be honest the video was so stuttery I could barely tell, vimeo always sucks on my internet connection. Arsonists Get All The Girls The Masquerade (Purgatory) 6pm, $13 I’m not going to look these guys up, but I’m going to apply my patented “number of words in the band name multiplied by the fact that they’re at the Masquerade” formula and assume they’re probably screamo/post-hardcore music and I wouldn’t know what to say about them anyway. Lydia Vinyl 8pm, $12 music. radio music. kind of catchy I guess?

In retrospect, I don’t think I actually wrote anything about any of those bands…

Also:

The Deep End Vol. 6 is tonight at the Edgewood Speakeasy, no cover for five solid hours of deep house in the coolest “secret” bar around. Starts at 10pm.

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

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I’m ashamed to admit that I’m going to see if I can get Taco Bell breakfast for lunch or something, but I’ll probably go to Locals we Love tonight. If I had $$ and wasn’t busy at 5pm I’d be at the food truck park though, seriously check out that list of vendors and tell me you aren’t salivating just reading it. As usual, let me know what you guys get up to and what turns out to be fun!

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