Things to do in Atlanta on a Tuesday

Tuesday, by day-of-the-week standards, is kind of lame. While Monday has a reputation for being miserable, Wednesday proudly holds the hump-day throne and the rest exist in various forms of weekend, Tuesday mostly offers a hefty dose of vanilla. It is essentially the Delaware of days. Still, there is a handful of entertaining events, particularly at dive bars, each Tuesday in Atlanta. Here are some of the highlights:

Government in Exile at Manuel's Tavern

Around 1982, then-mayor Maynard Jackson's staff began to meet for happy hour at Manuel's Tavern, the legendary Virginia-Highland dive bar. The original group made a habit of blowing off steam together each Tuesday at the bar. At one point, the group gave themselves an intellectually amusing name -- Government in Exile -- and went about the business of making armchair philosophy the standard of Tuesday discourse at Manuel's. That is, until reports surfaced that a shadowy group of power brokers was hanging around the tavern making designs on the city. Though the group was little more than a real-life hybrid of television shows "Cheers" and "Friends," rumors continued for years that these meetings were actually the ill-intentioned strategy sessions of a secret society. More than 30 years later, and with no sweeping governmental strategy enacted (that you know of) from within the bar's walls, the GIE is a 6 p.m. Tuesday fixture.