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by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

We think This Week in ATLRetro is swell, so come on down and check out all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve dug up for you!

Monday, February 5

Catch the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s 25th Anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993) at the Tara Theatre at 7pm! The Earl rocks out with a night of bizarre shenanigans featuring The World/Inferno Friendship Society, Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & The Bicycle Eaters and Jeremy Ray! Get the blues with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Make your way to Avondale Towne Cinema for their first “official” Short Docs Festival, from 7pm-9pm! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, February 6

Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down with the Poverty Level Band! Rock out with Anti-Flag at the Masquerade!  It’s a night of acid jazz with Charlie Hunter at Red Light Café! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Get the blues with Larry Griffith at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, February 7

Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and Film Love Atlanta bring you “Films for One to Eight Projectors” with Roger Beebe in performance at Atlanta Contemporary at 7pm! Get old-school and pinball it up at My Parents’ Basement for their monthly Pinball Tournament kicking off at 6:30pm! Funk it up with Lettuce at the Variety Playhouse! Catch the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s 40th Anniversary screening of Franklin J. Schaffner’s THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (1978) at the Springs Cinema & Tap House at 7:50pm! Spend the night with the Jay Farrar Duo at City Winery! Catch a screening of Vincente Minnelli’s classic, GIGI (1958) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! David Lowery (Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker) gets down at Eddie’s Attic! Emory Cinematheque continues their “Black Lives on the Small Screen” series with screenings of PBS’s EYES ON THE PRIZE (1987), episode 1, “Awakenings” and episode 12, “A Nation of Law?” at 7:30pm! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get down with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up a night of acoustic blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, February 8

Get some soul with Heather Hayes as she brings you the Isaac Hayes Experience at The Vista Room! Get down with Steve Earle at City Winery! Catch the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s 40th Anniversary screening of Franklin J. Schaffner’s THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (1978) at the Tara Theatre at 3:20pm! Get old-timey with Reverend Hylton at Eddie’s Attic! Catch a screening of Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM (2003) at The Plaza Theater! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Heather Luttrell! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get your fill of suave swingin’ tones with the Tiki Tonk Quartet and a couple killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, February 9

The Mads from MST3K (Frank Conniff and Trace Beaulieu) invade The Plaza Theater for two nights (Feb. 9 & 10) riffing a different film each night! Yacht Rock Schooner dishes out An Evening of Silly Love Songs at Park Tavern! The Vista Room gets down with a Michael Jackson Sing-Along/Dance Party! Get the blues and make your way to the Variety Playhouse for Blues Traveler’s 30th Anniversary Tour! The Fernbank Museum delivers a night of science ‘n’ romance with their Fernbank After Dark: Love on the Brain event! Boogie down at Avondale Towne Cinema with their ‘90s Jam! Rockabilly it up with Lara Hope & The Ark-Tones and Skye Paige at The Star Bar! The Highlander dishes out an ode to love gone wrong with a Broken Hearts & Bloody Valentines Art Show! You are invited to the Spectacular Spectacular with RITUAL’s Moulin Rouge Valentine’s Party at Heretic! Funk it up for night one of Zydefunk’s King Cake Party at the Northside Tavern! Catch a screening of John Lasseter’s TOY STORY (1995) at SCADShow at 7pm! Folk rock it up with The Artisanals, Tedo Stone and Chick Wallace at The Earl! Folk it up with Angie Aparo at Eddie’s Attic! ATL Collective relives Maxwell’s URBAN HANG SUITE at Venkman’s! Abbey Road Live! pays tribute to The Beatles at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jazz it up with Diana Krall at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Sandra Hall & The Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Rock out with The Wild Hares at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, February 10

Make a date with fate and catch a screening of Michael Curtiz’ classic, CASABLANCA (1942) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm, followed by a Time Warpin’ good time with a screening of Jim Sharman’s THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at 11:59pm! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho Devilles rev it up at the Dixie Tavern! Bluegrass it up with Control Burn and the Justin Sams Band at the Red Light Café! Rock out with Marillion at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to The Earl for a night of ‘70s street punk with Dirty Fences, Bad Spell and Dinos Boys! Get your classic southern rock fix with the Atlanta Rhythm Section at Eddie’s Attic! Spend the night with Art Garfunkel at City Winery! ATL Collective relives Sade’s LOVE DELUXE at Venkman’s! Honkytonk on down to Kavarna for a night with Sean Mencher and Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers! Ghosts and love collide at the Historic Oakland Cemetery with their Love Stories of Oakland tours running through Feb. 11! Catch a screening of Michael Curtiz’ classic, CASABLANCA (1942) at Aurora Cineplex! Funk it up for night two of Zydefunk’s King Cake Party at the Northside Tavern! SCADShow delivers a PIXAR double feature with screenings of John Lasseter’s TOY STORY 2 (1999) and Lee Unkrich’s TOY STORY 3 (2010) beginning at 12pm! Make your way to the Fox Theatre’s 12th Annual Valentine’s Weekend Celebration featuring Jeffrey Osborne and Rachelle Ferrell! Little Joey’s Jumpin’ Jive gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Selwyn Birchwood dishes out a night of the rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, February 11

Get wickedly weird this season of love and lust and pick up some local art goodies at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s Lovecrafts: Valentine’s Edition from 1-6pm! Rain pays tribute to The Beatles performing Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band live at the Fox Theatre! Get a second chance to catch the Atlanta Rhythm Section at Eddie’s Attic! Spend a second night with Art Garfunkel at City Winery! Moon River on down to Rialto Center for the Arts for the GSU Jazz Band’s tribute to Johnny Mercer, featuring Joe Gransden and Francine Reed! Get funky with the Jazz of Prince at Venkman’s! Catch a screening of Michael Curtiz’ classic, CASABLANCA (1942) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get the blues with Garrett Collins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

7 Stages presents THE FOLLOWERS: A RETELLING OF THE BACCHAE, running through Feb. 25!

The Historic Oakland Cemetery offers free guided tours of African American Grounds, throughout Black History Month!

Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema, every Wednesday until March 28!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every firsts Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm! 

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Baby, it’s cold outside! But no worries ‘cause ATLRetro promises to get you warm and toasty with a week of rockin’ good times, filled to the brim with nostalgic holiday goodness! So get hep to the jive and come on out to see what ATLRetro has in store for you!   

Monday, November 27

Stay alive at The Plaza Theater and catch a 40th Anniversary screening of John Badham’s boogietastic SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977), through Nov. 30! Get countrified and folksy with Kristian Bush at Eddie’s Attic! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!” Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blues it up with Bob Page and more at Blind Willie’s! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 28

Vengeance is yours so make your way to Landmark Midtown Art Cinema as they continue their “A Dish Best Served Cold” Classics Series with a screening of Toshiya Fujita’s LADY SNOWBIRD (1973) at 7pm! Or haunt on down to the Fox Theatre for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s LOVE NEVER DIES, THE PHANTOM RETURNS, through Dec. 3! Take a trip to the North Pole with the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Jon Favreau’s ELF (2003), as part of their Retro Cinema series at 7:30pm! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Blind Willie’s dishes out a night of rockin’ blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, November 29

Rock on down to The Earl and catch a screening of Tim Irwin and Keith Schieron’s documentary, DON’T BREAK DOWN: A FILM ABOUT JAWBREAKER (2017) at 7:30pm! Or take a trip to the North Pole with the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s encore screening of Jon Favreau’s ELF (2003), as part of their Retro Cinema series at 7:30pm! Or catch a screening of Victor Fleming’s award-winning classic GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:15pm! Jazz it up with Kurt Elling at City Winery! Catch the Dead Affect at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Rock out with Cosmic Charlie at Vinyl! Make your way to the Elliott Street Pub for the Jordan Shalhoup Mini Big Band! Hang with The Dude as Videodrome presents a screening of The Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) at 529 at 9pm! Get down with Jetback & The Whachos at Blind Willie’s! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, November 30

Witch it up and catch HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE in Concert with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Atlanta Symphony Hall at 8pm, through Dec. 2! NOLA legends Joe Krown and Mitch Woods pay tribute to Fats Domino at The Vista Room! Folk rock it up with Roadkill Ghost Choir at Terminal West! Make your way to Venkman’s for ‘80s Soundtrack Night! Folk rock it up with Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties, Steady Hands, Chase Huglin, and Norwegian Arms at the Masquerade! Rock out with The Stacktone Slims and Black Cat Rising at The Star Bar! Get funky with the Yonrico Scott Band, Funk Xtreme and the Glen Pridgen Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to City Winery for a night with Mike Cooley (Drive By Truckers)! Flamenco on down to the Red Light Café with Jose Manuel, Francisco Orozco, Antonio Granjero and Julie Moon! Catch a screening of Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM at The Plaza Theater (2003) at 7:30pm, through Dec. 3! Blues it up with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for some rockin’ island tunes and a couple of cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, December 1

The Masquerade dishes out one hellacious hootenanny with the Reverend Horton Heat, Junior Brown, The Blasters and Big Sandy! It’s maniacal mayhem at The Star Bar with the Subsonics, Sit N Spin, Bad Spell and Nikki & The Phantom Callers! Film Love and Kool Kat Andy Ditzler presents The American Music Show #5: National Holidays at Whitespace Gallery! Rock out and honkytonk on down to The Earl for a night with Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires with BITTER and Hunger Anthem! Get naughty with St. Nick during The Plaza Theater’s screening of Terry Zwigoff’s BAD SANTA (2003), through Dec. 2! New Wave it up with Cut Copy at the Variety Playhouse! Alt rock out with Marc Roberge (O.A.R.) at City Winery! Have a Merry Funkin’ Christmas with Secondhand Swagger at Venkman’s! Boogie on down to Mammal Gallery for The Sock Hop Music & Arts Festival, bee bopping through Dec. 2! Get the ‘70s southern blues with Alex Guthrie at Eddie’s Attic! Folk it up with The Good Graces at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get down and dirty with Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials at Blind Willie’s! Cody Matlock gets the blues at Northside Tavern! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, December 2

Spend A Victorian Holiday at the Historic Oakland Cemetery from 11-4pm, with a Holiday Tour of Eternal Homes, carols, a reading of “The Night Before Christmas”, hot cocoa and more! It’s night two of maniacal mayhem at The Star Bar with Tiger! Tiger!, Sit N Spin and DJ Viki Vaden (Fringe Factory)! War gets funky at the Buckhead Theatre! Keep on keepin’ on with the Fare Thee Well Foundation 10th Annual Holiday Ball featuring the Donna Hopkins Band, Hoodoo Moon, The Missile Toes and Bolder Monkey at The Vista Room! Rock on down to The Earl for Roxonian (Smithsonian performing Roxy Music) with Parsons Rocket Project! Spend the night with Zen Time, The Western Sizzlers and Skye Paige at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get the blues with Revelator Hill at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Stomp on down to the Variety Playhouse for the 9th Annual Y’alltide Celebration with The Whiskey Gentry, Corey Branan and Pony League! Get to the root of it all at the Red Light Café with Hard Luck & Trouble, Cedar Hill and the Red Clay Poets! Get the old-school blues with Albert White at Northside Tavern! Boogie down to The Basement for their Heyday ‘80s Dance Party! Rock out with The Skylarks at Kavarna! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Randall Bramblett and Nick Johnson, followed by a little rockin’ soul with Diane Durrett! Get a second helping of Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, December 3

Get revived, swing-style with two helpings of the Squirrel Nut Zippers at City Winery! Support your local artists at the EAYC’s Lovecrafts: Local Artist’s Market from 1-6pm! Funk it up with Moses Mo (Mother’s Finest) at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get mischievous with the blood of gods with Gwar at the Masquerade! Make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall for ASO’s live accompaniment to Dianne Jackson’s animated film, THE SNOWMAN (1982)! Gypsy jazz it up with The Hot Club of Atlanta at Venkman’s! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Haunt on down to the Fox Theatre for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s LOVE NEVER DIES, THE PHANTOM RETURNS, through Dec. 3! (LAST CHANCE!)

Aurora Theatre – Lawrenceville presents A CHRISTMAS CAROL, bah humbugging through Dec. 23!

Center for Puppetry Arts presents your favorite traditional seasonal reindeer tale, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, jinglin’ through Dec. 31!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm! 

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Have a hellacious good time in ATLRetro This Week! Come see all the shenanigans we’ve found for you!

Monday, November 13

Jazz it up with Kathleen Bertrand at City Winery! Or get psychedelic with Carl Broemel at Eddie’s Attic! Get dirty and doo wop it up surf-style with The Frights, Hockey Dad and Vundabar at the Masquerade! Nitty gritty it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with Mo Lowda & The Humble, It’s What’s For Breakfast and The Dirty Soul Revival! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!” Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get the blues with Matthew Pendrick at Blind Willie’s! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 14

Spend the night in The Zone and make your way to Landmark Midtown Art Cinema as they continue their “A Dish Best Served Cold” Classics Series with a screening of Andrei Tarkovsky’s STALKER (1979) at 7pm! Or get witchy and make your way to Diesel Filling Station for a night of Harry Potter Trivia! Have a festive adventure with a screening of John McTiernan’s DIE HARD (1988) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern, as part of their Retro Cinema series at 7:30pm! Swing on by City Winery for a night with Louis Prima, Jr. and Gwen Hughes! Get bizarre and rock out with Captured! By Robots at The Earl! Shake a tail feather with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South during their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Stripsgiving event, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Bluegrass it up with the Kyle Tuttle Electric Band and the High River Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Andrew Black dishes out the old school blues at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, November 15

Kick off the wickedly weird and bone-chilling adventure that is the 12th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival (BAFF), Atlanta’s premiere independent horror film festival presented by Kool Kats Blake Myers and Luke Godfrey and more, with screenings at 8pm of the 2017 Sinema Challenge, a thirteen day filmmaking competition, judged by Kool Kat Millie De Chirico and Marcus Rosentrater, at 7 Stages! Raise a ruckus with Shilpa Ray and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s The Compartmentalizationalists at The Drunken Unicorn! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Michael Curtiz’ CASABLANCA (1942) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Prog rock it up with Goblin and Morricone Youth at The Loft! Videodrome presents a matinee screening of Jonathan Demme’s SOMETHING WILD (1986) at 529 at 4pm, followed by a raucous time with Lydia Lunch Retrovirus! Have a festive adventure with an encore screening of John McTiernan’s DIE HARD (1988) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern, as part of their Retro Cinema series at 7:30pm! Or catch a screening of Bruce Beresford’s DRIVING MISS DAISY (1989) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:15pm! Folk it up with Shawn Colvin at City Winery! Get countrified with Colter Wall and Ian Noe at The Earl! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get down with Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, November 16

The 12th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival officially begins tonight, horrifying through Nov. 19, and begins at 7pm! New Wave it up and rock out with Modern English and Entertainment at the Variety Playhouse! Tear it up with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Hans Chew and Nikki & The Phantom Callers at The Star Bar! The Sledgehammers pay tribute to Peter Gabriel at Avondale Towne Cinema! Shawn Colvin dishes out a folksy encore at City Winery! Indie rock it up with David Bazan and Michael Nau at The Earl! Get some soul with The Blind Boys of Alabama at Emerson Concert Hall (Emory)! Stomp on down to Terminal West for a night with Mipso, The Brothers Comatose and The Lil Smokies! Jazz it up with Euge Groove at Suite Food Lounge! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for some rockin’ island tunes and a couple of cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 17

Get your terrified tail during day three of the 12th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival for a helluva lot of monstrous goodness beginning at 6pm, including a special screening of Robert Wiene’s THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1921) at 10pm, with a live soundtrack by Samadha! Spend the night with Randy Newman at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Sleaze it up and rock out with Royal Thunder, Sons of Tonatiuh and Gunpowder Gray at The Star Bar! Avondale Towne Cinema dishes out a voodoo beach party hillbilly hootenanny with Southern Culture on the Skids! Shake a freaky side-show tail feather on down to the Red Light Café as Atlanta Speakeasy Electroswing presents The Freakeasy, featuring Tippy Tappage, Bette Machete, Lydia Treats, guest DJ Vourteque and more! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt gets acoustic and rocks out at the Backwoods Bar & Grill in High Falls! Get indie with Je Suis France, Dot.s, Small Reactions, Beije and Thousand Arrows at 529! Make your way to City Winery for a night with Leftover Salmon! Get absurd and bluegrass it up with the Packway Handle Band and Antigone Rising at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out with The Shins at The Roxy! The Grass Is Dead dishes out rockin’ bluegrass versions of Grateful Dead tunes with Jeff Mosier at Smith’s Olde Bar! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! The Steep Canyon Rangers bluegrass it up at Variety Playhouse! New Wave it up with The Swimming Pool Q’s and Love Tractor at The Vista Room! Rock on down to The Drunken Unicorn for a night with The Antarcticats, Jenny’s Henchmen and more! Film Love and Kool Kat Andy Ditzler presents The American Music Show #4: A Day in Forsyth County, A Night at Mardi Gras at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center! Folk it up and spend the night with John Prine at the Fox Theatre! Get bewitched at the Potter Pub Crawl #3, beginning at Diesel Filling Station, followed by the Rocky Horror Potter Show at The Plaza Theater! Get Victorian at the inaugural Atlanta SteamPunk Exposition churning through Nov. 19, and don’t miss the musical stylings of The Extraordinary Contraptions, The Gin Rebellion and Valentine Wolfe (including a live accompaniment to F. W. Murnau’s 1922 film, NOSFERATU)! Throw the dice and make your way to Park Tavern for their 4th Annual Casino Night! Rev it up at the Red Clay Theatre with Good Rockin’ Tonight and Rockabilly Revue! Get funky with Groove Centric at Venkman’s! Blues it up with the the Art Holliday Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! And blues it up with Stoney Brooks at Northside Tavern!

Saturday, November 18

Day four of the 12th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival kicks off at 2pm, with a screening of Kool Kat Vanessa Ionta Wright’s short “I Baked Him A Cake” (2017) and a hellacious good time with Blast-Off Burlesque’s film series TABOOLALA, featuring a live pre-screening performance, paying homage to Tim Burton‘s ED WOOD, followed by a screening of the 1994 film! In addition to the show, there will be Plan 9 Graveyard photo ops, an Angora Drag costume contest and more! Sleaze it up at The Star Bar with The GTVs, the Woolly Bushmen, Kool Kat Sen. Artie and The Mondellos and The Wildtones! Or horror punk it up with The Spectremen, Kool Kats The Casket Creatures and ELZIG at The Highlander! Spend the night with Peter Bradley Adams at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out with Interstellar Echoes and the Lennon Jones Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Funk it up with The Motet at the Variety Playhouse! Catch a screening of Disney’s THE LITTLE MERMAID (1989) at Venkman’s, followed by ATL Collective reliving D’Angelo’s BROWN SUGAR! Stomp on down to Kavarna for a night with Blood on the Harp and Mayhayleys Grave! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho Devilles revs it up at the Dixie Tavern in Marietta! Kick off your vintage holiday shopping at Indie Craft Experience’s Holiday Shopping Spectacular at Georgia Railroad Freight Depot! The Badash Allstar Team presents Pink Floyd’s THE WALL in its entirety at Avondale Towne Cinema! Mr. Chapman’s Quarterly Revue dishes out the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s gets down with Big Bill Morganfield! Get some soul with the Tyler Neal Band at Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, November 19

It’s your last chance to gore it up at the 12th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival, so come on out for some fangtastic films beginning at 2pm! Go straight to Hell and spend the night with The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, The Muckers, and Mateo & The Wayward Souls at the Masquerade! Swing on by City Winery for Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues dishes out their Friendsgiving with Radio Cult! Vinyl it up and make your way to The Atlanta Record & CD Show from 10am – 1pm! The Badash Allstar Team rocks out with their annual Steely Dan Jam at The Velvet Note! Kick off the Thanksgiving holiday with screenings of Jodie Foster’s HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (1995) and John Hughes’ PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES (1987), at The Plaza Theater! Get your indie folk fix with Hiss Golden Messenger and Takenobu at Eddie’s Attic! Pink Talking Fish rock out with a Pink Floyd/Talking Heads/Phish fusion at Terminal West! Make your way to Venkman’s for the Shakta Jazz Trio! Make your way to the Red Light Café as Sweet Lu Olutosin presents “Real Jazz Gives Back” benefitting the Atlanta Community Food Bank! Geek it up and make your way to My Parents’ Basement for Local Comic Shop Day! Get the blues with Garrett Collins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rock out with Band X at Johnny’s Hideaway! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

7 Stages presents the Home Brew Festival, through Nov. 18! (LAST CHANCE!)

Center for Puppetry Arts presents your favorite traditional seasonal reindeer tale, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, jinglin’ through Dec. 31!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm! 

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Let ATLRetro fill you with a week’s worth of swingin’ good times; from vintage, fuzzed out rock ‘n’ roll to steamy burlesque to classic cinema galore! It’ll be a bloody good time, so get out and get retro!

Monday, November 6

Spend the night with Rami Kleinstein at City Winery! Folk it up with The Strumbellas and Noah Kahan at Terminal West! Get your reggae fix with Jesse Royal at Vinyl! Spend the night with Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo and more as they perform a benefit reading of Thornton Wilder’s classic play, OUR TOWN, directed by Kenny Leon, at the Fox Theatre, with all proceeds going to Puerto Rico relief efforts! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get the blues with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 7

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their “A Dish Best Served Cold” Classics Series with a screening of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973) at 7pm! Get your psychedelic avant-garde pop fix with Ariel Pink and the Clang Quartet at The Earl! Center for Puppetry Arts presents your favorite traditional seasonal reindeer tale, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, jinglin’ through Dec. 31! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Rumble on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with The Red Stone Ramblers! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, November 8

Prog rock it up with Goblin and Morricone Youth at The Loft! Videodrome presents a screening of Terry Zwigoff’s GHOST WORLD (2001) at 529 at 4pm! The Plaza Theater valley girls it up with a screening of Amy Heckerling’s CLUELESS (1995) at 8pm! Glam it up and rock out with Barb Wire Dolls, The Breaknecks and more at the Masquerade! Spend the night with H.E.R. at Center Stage! Rock out with the DeadPhish Orchestra and Maradeen at City Winery! Raise a ruckus with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at Blind Willie’s! Emory Cinematheque continues their Resist Fascism Series with a screening of Costa-Gavras’ AMEN (2002) at 7:30pm! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, November 9

Rock out with Black Linen, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and Black Cat Rising at Gaja Korean Bar! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt gets acoustic and rocks out at Porterdale Bar & Grill! Rock on down to The Star Bar for Jabroni Fest (Nov. 9-11) featuring Burns Like Fire, Kool Kats Shehehe, Kool Kats The Joy Kills, Ganges Phalanges, Jaws the Musical and so much more! Or get your funk metal fix with Primus at the Tabernacle! Justin Townes Earl and Joshua Hedley dish out a night of rockin’ Americana at the Variety Playhouse! Get the blues with Kandace Springs at City Winery! The Ballroom Thieves folk it up with Chris Smither at Eddie’s Attic! Race a ruckus with The Good Graces, Chickens and Pigs, Emily Backus and more at the Red Light Café! Get countrified Texas-style with Reckless Kelly and The Trongone Band at Terminal West! Get some soul and make your way to The Vista Room for a Bill Withers Tribute! Or get your fiddler soul fix with Karen Briggs at Suite Food Lounge! Make your way to 7 Stages for the Home Brew Festival, through Nov. 18! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Heather Luttrell! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for some rockin’ island tunes and a couple of cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 10

Key it up with Tori Amos at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Cindy Wilson (The B-52s) New Waves it up at The Earl! Film Love and Kool Kat Andy Ditzler presents The American Music Show #3: Performance Practic at Eyedrum! Get to the root of it all with Delta Moon at The Vista Room! Shimmy on down to City Winery for a night with Wasabassco Burlesque! Patrick Davis & His Midnight Choir get down at Eddie’s Attic! Blues it up with the R ‘n’ B Revue at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a night of speakeasy shenanigans with The Hobohemians at the Fernbank Museum! It’s a night of rockin’ Mods at MadLife Stage & Studios with their Rod Stewart Experience! Make your way to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with The Caroline Aiken Trio and Suzanne Slair! It’s a night of rockin’ blues with Patrick Sweany, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and Truett at Smith’s Olde Bar! Bluegrass it up with Darrell Scott & Jim Lauderdale at Variety Playhouse! Brass it up New Orleans style with the Wasted Potential Brass Band at Venkman’s! The Georgia Players Guild presents their tribute to Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Band at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Get the blues with James Armstrong at Blind Willie’s! Funk on down to Northside Tavern for a night with Zydefunk! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, November 11

Boogie down ‘80s-style with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during his 80s New Wave Music Video Dance Party: Eurythmics Edition at Amsterdam Atlanta! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho Devilles revs it up at Sportsline Bar in Lawrenceville! Catch a screening of Jim Henson’s EMMET OTTER’S JUG-BAND CHRISTMAS (1977) at Center for Puppetry Arts at 7pm! It’s a night of jangle pop, psyche folk with Robyn Hitchcock at Eddie’s Attic! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rev on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a Trackside Hootenanny! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with The Bitteroots, Steve Baskin and Moody Hollow! Rock out with The Presmanes Brothers at the Red Light Café! Spend the night with Ringo Starr & His AllStar Band at the Fox Theatre!  Kool Kat Chad Shivers presents his Southern Surf Stomp! at Kavarna featuring Crazy Aces and The One and Only Bill Davis! The Del Rios and The Wheel Knockers! Blind Willie’s gets down with their Blues Stotts Fest! Funk on down to Northside Tavern for a second helping of with Zydefunk! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, November 12

It’s a night of jangle pop, psyche folk with Robyn Hitchcock and The Black Lillies at Eddie’s Attic! Here’s looking at you Retro Kiddies! It’s a night of surf noir garage psyche at Gaja Korean Bar with Midnight Larks and Groovy Movies! Hilarity ensues at Atlanta Symphony Hall with John Cleese! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Michael Curtiz’ CASABLANCA (1942) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Rock out with Badfinger: Straight Up at City Winery! Get bluegrassy with The Dustbowl Revival and Amythyst Kiah at The Earl! Get the blues with The Vipers at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Simply Three dish out a classical crossover at The Loft! Rock out with The Jesus and Mary Chain and Mark Rozer & The Rels at the Variety Playhouse! Get your gypsy jazz and western swing fix with Django Earnhardt, the Atlanta Jazz Orchestra and Orquestra MaCuba at Venkman’s! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

7 Stages presents the Home Brew Festival, through Nov. 18!

Center for Puppetry Arts presents your favorite traditional seasonal reindeer tale, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, jinglin’ through Dec. 31!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm! 

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s shakin’ in ATLRetro This Week!

Tuesday, October 3

Monster rock it up with Rob Zombie at the Coca-Cola Roxy! Or get your garage rock fix with Reigning Sound and Tiger! Tiger! at The Earl! It’s a night of neo-psychedelia occult shenanigans at The Drunken Unicorn with MOON DUO and Birds of Avalon! The Plaza Theater gets hell-bent and screens Lucio Fulci’s THE BEYOND (1981), through Oct. 4! Spend the night with The Dude at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of the Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) during their Retro Cinema series at 7:30pm! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, October 4

Eliminate Replicants at theatres across Atlanta with a screening of Ridley Scott’s BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT (1982) at 7pm (AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Dine-In North Point Mall 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow))! The Vibrators invade The Star Bar with a fury for all you rockin’ miscreants, with Rockett 77 and Bad Spell! Or surf on down to The Basement for a rip roarin’ night with Daikaiju, The Mystery Men? (with Kool Kat Chad Shivers), The Pinx (Kool Kat Adam McIntyre) and Zruda! Get your spooky geek on at Battle & Brew’s Halloween Geek Trivia sponsored by the Center for Puppetry Arts’ Ghastly Dreadfuls! Celebrate this bloody season with a screening of John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN (1978) at The Plaza Theater, through Oct. 5! Spend the night with The Dude at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s encore screening of the Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) during their Retro Cinema series at 7:30pm! Emory Cinematheque continues their Resist Fascism Series with a screening of Orson Welles’ THE STRANGER (1946) at 7:30pm! Or get your classic Western fix with a screening of John Huston’s THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:15pm! Swing on by the Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, October 5

Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt gets acoustic and rocks out at Porterdale Bar & Grill! Satan’s canine minion is man’s best friend, so join in on the fun as CINEPROV riff’s Curtis Harrington’s DEVIL DOG: THE HOUND OF HELL (1978) at The Plaza Theater at 7:00pm! Film Love and Kool Kat Andy Ditzler presents The American Music Show #2: Early Years at Whitespace Gallery! You won’t want to miss the hootenanny that is Hog Heaven: A Magical Tribute to Hee Haw at Smith’s Olde Bar, featuring Cherokee Ragtime Pals, The Waymore’s, Kenneth Johnson & Friends, Rodeo Twister, Atomic Boogie, Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley, and more! Rock out with the Hard Working Americans at the Variety Playhouse! Haunt on down to The Highlander for Something Wicked This Way Comes III, a multi-media art show! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s for some cool island tunes and a couple cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, October 6

Get your bloody fill of John Carpenter at The Plaza Theater with screenings of THE THING (1982) and VAMPIRES (1998), through Oct. 8 (this week)! Get your kaiju fix during Kennesaw Friday Night Frights – Japanese Monster Night, featuring a monstrous double-feature of Jun Fukuda’s GODZILLA VS. MEGALON (1973) and Noriaki Yuasa’s GAMMERA THE INVINCIBLE (1966) at 7:30pm, hosted by Carnival of Doom! Make your way to the annual AfroFuturism Festival, celebrating black sci-fi, fantasy and horror, through Oct. 7, at Atlanta Technical College’s Dennard Center and GSU’s Cinefest, hosted by Urban Mediamakers! Get to the root of it all reggae style with The Wailers at Center Stage! Rock out with the Georgia Players Guild as they pay tribute to Chicago and Boston at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Make your way to The Vista Room for a night with Geoff Achison & The Souldiggers! Funk it up with Freekbass at Venkman’s! Get freaky at the High Museum’s First Friday, featuring performances by Serenbe Playhouse, “Thriller” dance lessons, caramel apples and more! Rock out with The Muckers at the Masquerade! The Fox Theatre gets sludgy and rocks out with Mastadon! Spend the night with Kevin Smith at Center Stage! Electric Avenue performs Duran Duran’s Greatest Hits and other ‘80s tunes at Smith’s Olde Bar! Catch a screening of BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM (1993) at SCADShow at 7pm! And as always, time-warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, October 7

Project Pabst 2017 rocks out with Iggy Pop, Dinosaur Jr., The Coathangers, Kool Kat Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics, Gentleman Jesse & His Men, The Difference Machine, The Powder Room, RMBLR, A Drug Called Tradition and more! It’s a Chicken Picken’ Brunch with Dusty Roads at Venkman’s! Skank on down to City Winery for a night with Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley and Southern Ska Syndicate! Kick off the Halloween season with a Ghastly Gathering at Center for Puppetry Arts! Spend the night with Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band at the Infinite Energy Center! ATL Collective relives Portishead’s DUMMY at Venkman’s! Skate on down to Piedmont Park for the Atlanta Roller Girls: Running of the Bulls event! Electric Avenue performs Tears for Fears’ Greatest Hits and other ‘80s tunes at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get gussied up and make your way to the Fernbank Museum’s Time After Timeless Gala After Party! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, October 8

Geek it up at the Atlanta Comic Convention 2017, at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center, from 11am – 5pm, hosted by Atlanta Comic News! Catch a screening of HAROLD LLOYD’S SAFETY LAST (1923) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 3pm! Get your rockin’ art fix at the Little Five Arts Alive: Artist and Maker Market, featuring Kool Kat Amber Taylor of The Sexual Side Effects, and so much more! Rock out with Wilco at the Fox Theatre! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Get intergalactic with Wicket: The Musical at Dad’s Garage Theatre Company, geeking it up through Oct. 7! (LAST CHANCE!)

Haunt on down to Norcross for Netherworld Haunted House’s horrorific 21st season, gorrifying through Nov. 1!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm!

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Get rocked, get shocked and come see what’s shakin’ in ATLRetro This Week!

Monday, August 21

It’s a night of gangs, girls and rock ‘n’ roll as The Plaza Theater screens Philip Kaufman’s THE WANDERERS (1979), through Aug. 24! The Fox Theatre dishes out some culture with their legendary Behind the Scenes Tours through Aug. 26! Sludge on down to The Earl for a night with EYEHATEGOD and Negative Approach! Get some soul with Durand Jones & The Indications at the Masquerade! Rock out old-school with Deep Purple and Alice Cooper at Chastain Park! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, August 22

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema claims their kingdom with their Classics Series screening of Kenneth Branagh’s HENRY V (1989) at 7pm! Or shake a tail feather and celebrate 30 years of Emile Ardolino’s ‘80s classic, DIRTY DANCING (1987) during the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Retro Cinema series at 7:30pm! The Real Deal Blues Band gets down at Blind Willie’s! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, August 23

Get mischievous and rock out with Jack Oblivion & The Sheiks, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and Deadly Lo-Fi at The Star Bar! Or raise a ruckus with Social Distortion at the Tabernacle! Honkytonk it up with Dale Watson at Smith’s Olde Bar! Have a jazzy good time with Joe Gransden at Valenza in Brookhaven! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Or shake a tail feather and celebrate 30 years of Emile Ardolino’s ‘80s classic, DIRTY DANCING (1987) during the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Retro Cinema series at 7:30pm! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Get your southern soul fix with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, August 24

Celebrate 5 Years of Nightmares with Horror in Clay at the Highlander (see our Shop Around feature here)! Get teleported to theatres across Atlanta for RiffTrax Live: DOCTOR WHO: THE FIVE DOCTORS (1983) at 7:30pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); and Merchant’s Walk (Marietta)]! Rock on down to The Earl for Small Reaction’s LP Release Show, featuring Deep State and The Sticky & Smooth Variety Show! Folk it up with Michelle Shocked at City Winery! Grinder Nova rocks out and surfs it up at Trader Vic’s Mai Tai Thursday! Get smooth and sail on down to Venkman’s for a night of acoustic Yacht Rock Revue! Kristen & The Honey Badgers get down at Blind Willie’s! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, August 25

Film Love and Kool Kat Andy Ditzler presents How to Live in the City: The Story of the American Music Show at Whitespace Gallery! You won’t want to miss Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s screening of RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD (2017), a documentary by Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana about American Indian rock guitarist Link Wray, through Aug. 31! Get old-timey at The Vista Room with Trey Dahl & The Jugtime Ragband with Back in the Saddle! Get possessed at Videodrome (JavaDrome) with a screening of Sam Firstenberg’s NINJA III: THE DOMINATION (1984) at 8:30pm! Street Fighting Band rocks out and pays tribute to The Rolling Stones at Good ol’ Days Irish Pub! Sample wines and jazz it up with Joe Gransden at the Georgia Aquarium’s 12th Annual Aqua Vino event! Get hellacious with Raven at The Earl! Get your Americana fix with Jim Lauderdale at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to The Star Bar for a night with the Young Antiques, Zen Arcade, The Highriders and The Accidents! Get to rockin’ with Rik Emmett (Triumph) at City Winery! Venkman’s dishes out The Music of Michael McDonald! Get the blues with Jontavious Willis at Avondale Towne Cinema! Make your way to the Red Light Café for a night with The Presmanes Brothers! The Cody Matlock Band dishes out the blues at Blind Willie’s! Jazz it up with Denise Kirkland at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a night of rockin’ bluesy mayhem with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & The Atlanta Horns, featuring Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Northside Tavern! And as always, time-warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, August 26

Get sinister at Avondale Towne Cinema as Kool Kat Shane Morton, a.k.a. ghost host with the most, Prof. Morte and his Silver Scream Spook Show presents a live Spook Show followed by a screening of Jacques Tourneur’s CURSE OF THE DEMON (1957) at 1pm and 10pm!End the summer with a bang at the 15th Annual Summer Shade Festival in Grant Park, through Aug. 27, featuring tasty food, an artists’ market and live retro tunes on two stages! Saturday’s lineup includes Blue Spirit Wheel, the Wheeler Boys, Mia Green, Jimmy Galloway, Grinder Nova, James Hall & The Steady Wicked, Grant Green, Jr. and Kool Kat Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics on the Boulevard Stage; with Moody Hollow, the Foe Killer Creek Band, Honeywood, Blue Mother Tupelo, Rockabilly Kitty Rose and the Front Porch Session Players on the Cherokee Stage! Jesse Colin Young (Youngbloods) folks it up at City Winery! Make your way to the Donald Nixon Centre for the Performing Arts (Newnan) for Joe Gransden and Carmen Bradford’s “Happy 100^th to Ella Fitzgerald” event! Get trippy and rock out with Interstellar Echoes as they pay tribute to Pink Floyd at The Vista Room! Or rock out with The Cherry Bomb and Learning to Count at Tin Roof Cantina! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade at the Dawsonville Tavern! Haunt on down to Amsterdam Atlanta for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s COFFIN CLASSICS: Goth Industrial Music Video Dance Party featuring Goth, dark 80s and more! Dwan Bosman with Morgan Bosman jazz it up at the Red Light Café! Groove on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Perpetual Groove! It’s an encore night of rockin’ bluesy mayhem with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & The Atlanta Horns at Northside Tavern! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for Jackson County Line! Back N Black pays tribute to AC/DC at Venkman’s! Delta Moon gets rootsy at Blind Willie’s! Get down and dirty with The Vipers at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get some soul with Grant Green, Jr. at Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, August 27

It’s your last chance to rock out at the final day of the 15th Annual Summer Shade Festival featuring a rockin’ musical lineup with Saturation, Indianapolis Jones, Greg Lee (Yacht Rock Revue), Adron, Michelle Malone and Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers on the Boulevard Stage; with Anti Trance, Yes Maam, Lord High Admirals, The Skylarks, Rust and the Matt Wauchope Trio on the Cherokee Stage! GKids Presents Studio Ghibli Fest 2017 with a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (1989) at theatres across Atlanta at 12:55pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Regal Mall of Georgia 20 Plus Imax (Buford); Studio Movie Grill (Duluth) and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Get the blues with Jackie Venson at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to City Winery for a night with Shooter Jennings and The Cordovas! Get down with Max & The Italians at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Catch the Andy Warhol exhibit at the High Museum through Sept. 3!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm!

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

ATLRetro gets down this week! Come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve dug up just for you!

Monday, May 8

Get suspenseful at the Alpharetta Branch Library for a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954) at 10:30am! Rock out with Derek St. Holmes at City Winery! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!” Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Blues it up with Barrel House Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, May 9

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Classics Series with a screening of Akira Kurosawa’s RASHOMON (1950) at 7pm! Prog rock it up with Carl Palmer at City Winery! Funk it up with Mother’s Finest at Eddie’s Attic! Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South help you spring into spring with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: May Flowers event, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Branches and the Ain’t Sisters! Get folksy and rock out with Citizen Cope at Center Stage! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Get down with The Real Deal Blues Band at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more!  And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, May 10

Get weird and chase demons with Atlanta author Kristi DeMeester and help celebrate the launch of her newest novel, Beneath at FoxTale Book Shoppe in Woodstock (get a sneak peak with her ATLRetro piece here)! Rock out with Shonen Knife’s “2017 Ramen Adventure Tour”, Starbenders and Floral Print at The Earl! Get a funky second helping of Mother’s Finest at Eddie’s Attic! Follow the yellow brick road to the Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Duluth) screening of Victor Fleming’s THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) at 7:15pm! Or boogie down and celebrate 40 years of John Badham’s SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Rock on down to The Star Bar for the Midnight Larks’ Record Listening Party! Joe Purdy folks it up at City Winery! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Reggae it up with The Elovaters, Rhythm Earth and Kaya’s Embrace at the Masquerade! Rock out with Bush and The Kickback at the Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre! It’s a night of boot stompin’ Americana at Blind Willie’s with The Boo Hoo Ramblers! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, May 11

Hilarity ensues with Cineprov at The Plaza Theater as they get intergalactic and riff Antonio Margheriti’s BATTLE OF THE WORLDS (1961) at 7:30pm! Get hellacious and rock out with The Damned and The BellRays at the Masquerade! Get the blues with the Teresa Lynn Band featuring George Price at Avondale Towne Cinema! Rock out with Carbon Leaf and Me and My Brother at City Winery! The Obsessed, purveyors of doom, along with Karma to Burn and Lo-Pan rock out at The Earl! Get to fiddlin’ with Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas with Tony Furtado at Eddie’s Attic! The Lennon Jones Band rocks out at the Red Light Café with Aaron Lebos Reality! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Slowdive and The Casket Girls! Surf down to Trader Vic’s for a Mai Tai and a night with The Sundogs! The Madrid Express keeps the music alive in memory of Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton at The Vista Room! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Get down and dirty with Sweet Betty & The Ramblers at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, May 12

Jazz it up and catch a screening of John Scheinfeld’s CHASING TRANE: THE JOHN COLTRANE DOCUMENTARY (2017) at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, screening through May 18! Day one of the 3-day 2017 Shaky Knees Festival has arrived at Centennial Olympic Park, chock full of retro-inspired tunes! Rock on down and catch the Pixies, Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, The London Souls, The GROWLERS and more! Get funky with The Main Squeeze and The London Souls at Vinyl’s Shaky Knees after party! Get Avant-Garde and make your way to Kool Kat Andy Ditzler’s Film Love Presents: Happy Mother’s Day Mrs. Warhol, featuring a screening of Andy Warhol’s MRS. WARHAL (1966) at 7pm! Get your Gene Wilder fix at SCADShow’s screening of Mel Brooks’ THE PRODUCERS (1968) at 7pm! Make your way to Avondale Towne Cinema for a night with The Deep, W8ING4UFOs and Duet For Theremin and Lap Steel! Cross the pond and catch Abbey Road Live! at the Buckhead Theatre! Bluegrass it up with Old Salt Union at the Crimson Moon Café! Get raucous with the Whores at The Drunken Unicorn! Get rootsy with Anderson East and Great Peacock at The Earl! Folk it up with Charlie Mars at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to the Fox Theatre for a night with Carlos Vives! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with Watermelon Slim! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola! ATL Collective relives Maxwell’s “URBAN HANG SUITE” at Venkman’s! Blues it up with Dani Mac & Company at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, time-warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, May 13

Rock out at 529 with the Subsonics, Material Girls, GG King and Borzoi! Boogie on down to Amsterdam Atlanta for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s 80s New Wave Music Video Dance Party: John Hughes Edition! Get some soul with Kitten Fontaine at Avondale Towne Cinema! Day two of the Shaky Knees Festival brings you The Record Company, Shovels & Rope, The Revivalists, Mondo Cozmo, Catfish & The Bottlemen, Moon Taxi and more! Get Victorian and make your way to the Historic Oakland Cemetery’s “Love Stories of Oakland” Mother’s Day tours through May 14! Get the blues with Ron Cooley & The Hard Times at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Big Bill Morganfield gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Blues on down to the Northside Tavern for Magic Fred’s Birthday Party featuring Eddie Tigner, Albert White, the Casanovas and more! Stomp on down to Venkman’s for a Chicken Pickin’ Brunch with Banjolicious followed by a night with Lloyd’s Rocksteady Revue! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, May 14

Sci-fi it up and celebrate 20 years of Luc Besson’s THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997) at theatres across Atlanta (2pm/7pm) [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Regal Atlantic Station 18; AMC Parkway Point 15; Regal Mall of Georgia 20 plus IMAX; AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough);]! Catch Day 3 of the Shaky Knees Festival featuring Con Brio, The Quaker City Night Hawks, Great Peacock, Saint Motel, J. Roddy Walston and The Business, Third Eye Blind, Ron Gallo, The Shins and more! Gypsy it up and swing on by Venkman’s for a day with Django Earnhardt! Make your way to City Winery for a night with Ed Roland & The Sweet Tea Project! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm!

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what we’ve dug up just for you in ATLRetro This Week!

Tuesday, March 28

Folk it up with Six Organs of Admittance and Duet for Theramin Lap and Steel at The Earl! Bluegrass on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Old Salt Union, Brian Elmquist and Jenni Lyn Gardner! Pop on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with The Magnetic Fields! Get down and dirty with Gray & The Bad Boys at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more!  And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, March 29

Get the rockin’ blues with Davin McCoy at Eddie’s Attic! The Hollidays deliver a night of rhythm ‘n’ soul and rock ‘n’ roll at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Bluegrass it up at The Vista Room with The Vista Stringband! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, March 30

It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Vista Room with Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton & the Madrid Express! Make your way to Grady High School and Meet the Authors of Black Speculative Fiction, including Milton Davis, Kool Kat Balogun Ojetade, Gerald Coleman, Valjeanne Jeffers and more! Get your Cretan lute fix with Xylouris White and White Magic at The Earl! Rock out with Los Lobos at City Winery! The Masquerade dishes out a night of gritty garage punk-y grass with Strung Like a Horse and Bella’s Bartok! Stomp on down to Terminal West for a night with Whiskey Myers and The Steel Woods! Or make your way to Venkman’s for a night with Jackson County Line! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with The Hooten Hallers, Andrea Colburn & Her Low Standards and more! It’s Mai Tai Thursday and a night of Dick Dale-esque shenanigans so get swanky with Grinder Nova at Trader Vic’s! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, March 31

Videodrome (JavaDrome) continues their Frank Perry retrospective with a screening of his THE SWIMMER (1968) at 8:30pm, with an introduction by Justin Bozung, Perry’s official biographer, and out soon-to-be Kool Kat of the Week! Get experimental and make your way to the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center for Kool Kat Andy Ditzler’s Film Love Presents: The Most Human Desire event, focusing on the films of Chick Strand! Rock out with the Starbenders at Avondale Towne Cinema! Orchestra Noir, The Atlanta African-American Orchestra invite you to “A Night at the Symphony” at Center Stage! Funk it up at City Winery with Paul & Fred and the New Orleans Suspects! Get to bluegrassin’ with Noam Pikelny at The Earl! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for Twirly Whirly Burly-Q featuring classic burlesque with a classic twirl! Folk rock it up with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at Atlanta Symphony Hall! It’s a rockin’ feud at the Variety Playhouse with Led Zeppelin vs. The Who performed by Yacht Rock Revue, with special guest Peter Stroud! Spend the night with Drivin’ ‘n’ Cryin’ and Five-Eight at The Vista Room! And as always, time-warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, April 1

Get intergalactic at 529 with W8ing4UFOs, Shawnthony Calypso, the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra and Kool Kat Aileen Loy with Till Someone Loses and Eye! Skank on down to City Winery for a night with Kool Kat Rev. Andy and the Southern Ska Syndicate! Don’t be the fool who misses Kool Kat “Big Mike” Geier a.k.a. Puddles Pity Party at Center Stage! Or geek it up at Studio Space Atlanta for Hair of the Dragon VI, the premiere costume studio party! Jam it up with Dead Affect with special guest Honeywood at Avondale Towne Cinema! Spend the night with Radiohead at Philips Arena! Rock out with Drivin’ ‘n’ Cryin’ and Five-Eight at The Vista Room! Come on out to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Michelle Malone, Gareth Asher and more! Blues it up with Rough Draft at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, April 2

Head on down to City Winery for a night with Micky Dolenz! Get down with tunes of the ‘60s and ‘70s with Boomers Gone Wild at the Crimson Moon Café! Rock out with The Flaming Lips at the Tabernacle! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! Blues it up with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm!

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s shakin’ in ATLRetro This Week!

Monday, February 20

Get folksy with Devendra Banhart at Terminal West! Shimmy on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Sadie Hawkins’ Electric Glitterland Rock ‘n’ Roll Cabaret with Kool Kat Ursula Undress, Nikki Nuke’m and more (upstairs)! Or honkytonk on downstairs for a night with Mike & the Moonpies and the Andrea Colburn Band! Get some soul with Nick Rosen at City Winery! Get the blues with Matthew Pendrick at Blind Willie’s! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, February 21

Get some rockin’ garage soul with our Kool Kat of the Week Emily Robb and Louie Louie with A Drug Called Tradition at The Earl! Jazz it up with legendary crooner Tony Bennett at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Landmark Midtown Art Cinema kills it with their Noir Film Classics Series with a screening of John Huston’s THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950) at 7pm! It’s a night of old-fashioned radio show goodness with The Rookery Radio Hour at the Highland Inn Ballroom & Lounge at 8pm! The hills are alive at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with a screening of Robert Wise’s classic, THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Rock out with Eddie Rascal, A Sunday Fire, Like Mike and Holders at 529! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Muddy Magnolias! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Nick Johnson Trio gets down at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Or come down to the Little Vinyl Lounge for Kenny’s Record Club featuring Kenny Howes dishin’ out George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass”! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, February 22

Rock on down to City Winery for a night with Candlebox! Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” comes to the Fox Theatre as part of the new North American Tour, haunting through March 5! Funk it up with a screening of Jason Orr’s DIARY OF A DECADE: THE STORY OF A MOVEMENT (2012) at The Plaza Theater! The hills are alive at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with an encore screening of Robert Wise’s classic, THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Or catch a screening of Vincente Minnelli’s FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1950) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:15pm! Rock out with The Cadillac Three and The Quaker City Night Hawks at the Variety Playhouse! Get some bluesy southern soul with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at Blind Willie’s! Get horrified with a deadly double feature with Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Victor Halperin’s WHITE ZOMBIE (1932) and John H. Auer’s THE CRIMES OF DR. CRESPI (1935) at 7:30pm as part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive Festival of Preservation Tour! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! The Star Bar gets down with their Okie Dokie Karaoke, every Wednesday at 9pm! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, February 23

Rock out at 529 with the Holy Ghost Tent Revival, The Go Rounds and Slow Parade! It’s a night of surfy rock ‘n’ pop at The Earl with Small Reactions, Art School Jocks and Fake Flowers! Get hellacious with Joe Buck (Hank III) and Sash the Bash at The Star Bar! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so get funky and hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night with The Mar-Tans! Rock out with Sick Of It All, Murphy’s Law and Death Card at the Masquerade! Get down with This Way to the Egress and Eli August and the Abandoned Buildings! You won’t want to miss the “Modern Day Buddy Holly” Girls, Guns & Glory, Rachel Rowland and Kira Annalise & The Trainwrecks at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Vista Room with Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton & the Madrid Express! Catch a free screening of Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986) at Venkman’s at 9:15pm! Get down and dirty with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, February 24

For those who prefer alternate history to reality and Victorian-era lifestyles and fantasy, travel back to the 60s (1960s, 1860s, 1760s and more!) during this year’s 3-day event (Feb. 24-26), AnachroCon 2017, celebrating historical reenactments, Steampunk, science-fiction, classic horror, literature, fashion and a cornucopia of indulgences!  So, catch a train and head on over to the Atlanta Marriott Century Center, where you’ll catch Guest of Honor, author Christopher Stasheff, performances by Dreaming Shadows (performing during the Psychedelic 60s Rock Show), The Gin Rebellion, Wasted Wine, informative panels discussing Steampunk as Victorian science-fiction, time travel, Gothic literature, vintage tales of terror (Lovecraft, Poe, Stoker), ghost stories and the classic monster flicks of Universal and Hammer and a vendors room chock full of goodies, including our pals at Horror in Clay (see our Shop Around feature here) and so much more! Boogie on down to The Heretic for RITUAL’s Steampunk Party!

It’s a night of intergalactic debauchery ‘n’ shenanigans with Kool Kat Sen. Artie Mondello, The Nude Party, The Ar-kaics, Wahya’s and Roadkill Debutante at The Star Bar! Videodrome (JavaDrome) continues their Frank Perry retrospective with a screening of PLAY IT AS IT LAYS (1972) at 8:30pm, with an introduction by Justin Bozung, Perry’s official biographer, and out soon-to-be Kool Kat of the Week! Come on out to Avondale Towne Cinema for A Sondheim Cabaret! Make your way to Gallery 992 for Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and Film Love Atlanta’s “Two Films by Horace Ove” featuring BALDWIN’S NIGGER (1969) and REGGAE (1971) at 8pm! Get festive and Mardi Gras it up at The Vista Room during Fare Thee Well Foundation’s 9th Annual Mardi Gras Ball featuring live tunes by String ‘n Bones, Electric Codpiece and Hoodoo Moon! Banjo it up with The Wooks and Little Country Giants at the Red Light Café! Make your way to The Earl for a two-night stand with the riotous ruckus that is Kool Kat Blair Crimmins and the Hookers (CD release) and the Jon Stickley Trio! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade at Suburban Tap (Marietta)! Get down and dirty with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Terminal West dishes out a night of vintage psychedelic disco fun with BoomBox! Get the blues with Tab Benoit at the Variety Playhouse! Get groovy and make your way to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Disco Tendencies, The Orange Constant and Lagoons! Get the blues with Victor Wainwright at Blind Willie’s! Get funky New Orleans’ style during Zydefunk’s Annual King Cake Party at the Northside Tavern! And as always, time-warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, February 25

It’s day 2 of AnachroCon 2017, dishing out anything and everything Victorian, steampunk, the ‘60s and more! The Earl dishes out night two with the riotous ruckus that is Kool Kat Blair Crimmins and the Hookers (CD release) and the Banditos! Get your ‘70s vintage rock fix with Thelma & The Sleaze and M.O.T.O at The Star Bar! Get brassy with the Rebirth Brass Band in Heaven at the Masquerade! Or go to Hell and catch Save Ferris, Baby Baby and Burns Like Fire! Bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café with the Todd Prusin Experience and Void Luna! Make your way to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Little Perks in Paradise, the Bridget Kelly Band and Tony Levitas & The Levitations! Folk rock it up at Vinyl with Frontier Ruckus! Get your classic rock fix with The Barbaric Gentlemen at The Vista Room! Make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with The Vipers!  Blind Willie’s dishes out a night of blues with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows! Stoney Brooks dishes out the blues at the Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, February 26

Get squeaky clean with The Clermont Girls Bike & Car Wash at B3 Bar & Grill (Austell)! Folk it up with Arlo Guthrie at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Step right up folks! It’s day 3 and your last chance to experience the Victorian life and alternate history at AnachroCon 2017! Jackson County Line delivers a night of Americana at the Crimson Moon Café! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And blues it up with Dr. Dixon at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

Get haunted Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” at the Fox Theatre, running through March 5!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm!

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Take a peek at what’s shakin’ in ATLRetro this week!

Monday, January 23

Rock out with Doyle Bramhall II at City Winery! Get really retro and catch a screening of Stephen Roberts’ THE EX-MRS. BRADFORD (1936) at the Alpharetta Branch Library! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for a screening of Kunihiko Ikuhara’s newly restored SAILOR MOON R, THE MOVIE (1993), running through Jan. 26! Make your way to the Tabernacle for a rockin’ night with Breaking Benjamin! Get the blues with Matthew Pendrick at Blind Willie’s! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!” Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues it up with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Tuesday, January 24

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema kills it with their Noir Film Classics Series with a screening of Charles Laughton’s NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955) at 7pm! The Atlanta Film Festival kicks off tonight with a screening of Vincent Perez’ ALONE IN BERLIN (2016), and runs through Feb. 15 at theatres across Atlanta (keep your eyes peeled for our coverage of their upcoming classic cinema screenings)! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Penny Marshall’s ‘80s classic BIG (1988) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Get rocked by Black Cat Attack, Children of October and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures at 529! Get your folk rock fix with Cloud Cult at The Earl! Get nostalgic with The Lark and The Loon at the Red Light Café! Get nitty gritty at the Woodruff Arts Center for a night with Warren Haynes, The Last Waltz Ensemble, Michael McDonald and more! Get the blues with Ross Pead & Friends at Front Page News (L5P)! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Get down with J.T. Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Nick Johnson Trio gets down at Blind Willie’s! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, January 25

Make your way to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night with Jason Webley, Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and George Kotler-Wallace! Catch Emory Cinematheque’s screening of John Ford’s THE LONG VOYAGE HOME (1940) at 7:30pm as part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive Festival of Preservation Tour! Or spend the night with the Dread Pirate Roberts at the Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta) screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at 7pm! Spend the night with Geoff Tate (Queensryche) at City Winery! Surf on down to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for a night with The Beach Boys! Billy Joe Shaver dishes out a night of outlaw country at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out with Future Babes and Ben Millburn at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s a night of Chicago/West Coast blues with The Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! Venkman’s gets some soul with Kyshona Armstrong, Shannon LaBrie and Jess Nolan! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their encore screening of Penny Marshall’s ‘80s classic BIG (1988) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Get the rockin’ blues with the Michael Preston Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! The Star Bar gets down with their Okie Dokie Karaoke, every Wednesday at 9pm! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, January 26

Rock out with The Pinx (Kool Kat Adam McIntyre), The Crush and Ham Bagby & The Siege at The Earl! Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and our pals of Film Love Atlanta are back at it with a screening of Melissa Llewelyn-Davies’ controversial BBC documentary THE WOMEN’S OLAMAL (1984) at Atlanta Contemporary with doors at 6pm! The Star Bar dishes out a night of mischief with Skin Jobs, Vincas, Nate & The Nightmares and Roadkill Debutante! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Vista Room with Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton & the Madrid Express! The Talking Dreads reggaes up the Talking Heads at Venkman’s! Get funky at Elmyr with DJ Cozy’s 4th Annual Rick James Birthday Tribute Bash!  Get the rockin’ blues with ANA Popavic at City Winery! Cicada Rhythm gets old-timey at the Crimson Moon Café! Get old-fashioned with Steve Poltz at Eddie’s Attic! Gypsy jazz it up with UltraFaux and 9 String Theory at the Red Light Café! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of rockin’ island tunes with Kool Kat “Big Mike” Geier with Tongo Hiti! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, January 27

Videodrome (JavaDrome) delivers a night of “motherly malice” as they kick off their Frank Perry series with a screening of MOMMIE DEAREST (1981) at 8pm, with an introduction by Justin Bozung, Perry’s official biographer! Rockabilly it up with Wanda Jackson at City Winery! Honkytonk it up with Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires at The Earl! Stomp on down to The Vista Room for a night with Bluegrass & Beyond! Get intimate with Casey Camp & Co. and Andrea Colburn in the Little Vinyl Lounge! Spend the night with Indy at the Woodruff Arts Center with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) accompanied by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s performance of John Williams’ score at 8pm! Get your Yacht Rock Revue retro fix at the Variety Playhouse as they perform “ABBEY ROAD” and “DARK SIDE OF THE MOON”! Get your Americana fix with Caleb Caudle and Eliot Bronson at Eddie’s Attic! Skank on down to the Masquerade for a night with Reel Big Fish, Anti-Flag, Ballyhoo! and more! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade at Wild Wing Café (Alpharetta)! Catch a screening of Mel Brooks’ ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS (1993) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Groove on down to The Plaza Theater for their screening of Cosmo Feilding-Mellen’s 2015 documentary about Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the “unlikely duo at the heart of the 1960s American drug counter-culture,” THE SUNSHINE MAKERS! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Deja Blues get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s dishes out a night of blues with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows! And as always, time-warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, January 28

Kool Kat Shane Morton, ghost host with the most, and the Silver Scream Spook Show kills it with a riotous ruckus with his riff raff at Avondale Towne Cinema followed by a screening of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s monstrous classic KING KONG (1933) at 1pm and 10pm! Or get chummy with Peter O’Toole during the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s 35th Anniversary screening of Richard Benjamin’s MY FAVORITE YEAR (1982) at the Tara Theatre at 7:50pm! The Jugtime Ragband dishes out old-time pandemonium at The Vista Room! Get the electric blues with Delbert McClinton at the Variety Playhouse! It’s a night of mischief at The Earl with Material Girls, Muuy Biien, DiCaprio, Shepherds, Mannequin Lover and more! It’s adventure times two at the Woodruff Arts Center with a second screening of Steven Spielberg’s RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) accompanied by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s performance of John Williams’ score at 8pm! Get bizarre with filmmaker Kool Kat Brian Lonano and Video Video Nasty’s “It Does A Body Good” event at JavaVino! Folk it up with Jim White and Cicada Rhythm at Grocery on Home! Rock out roots-style with Steve Earle at City Winery! Marshall Crenshaw and the Bottle Rockets get down at the Crimson Moon Café! It’s a night of ‘70s era pop at Eddie’s Attic with Susi French Connection! Jam it up at the Red Light Café with gr8FLdude and Honeywood! Groove on down to The Star Bar for Romeo Cologne’s Granny Panty Hootenanny with DJ Quasi Mandisco! It’s a Chickin’ Pickin’ Brunch with the Sweet Auburn String Band at Venkman’s! Get to the root of it all with Damon Fowler at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Get the rockin’ blues with the Michael Preston Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, January 29

The Masquerade revs it up with A Rockabilly Riot in Hell with the Legendary Shackshakers, The Brains, The Delta Bombers and Kool Kat Rev. Andy! Or get your dancin’ shoes on and catch the 30th Anniversary screening of Emile Ardolino’s DIRTY DANCING (1987) at theatres across Atlanta (2pm/7pm) [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Rock out with The Muckers, American Myth and Cadillac Junkies at Smith’s Olde Bar! Marshall Crenshaw and the Bottle Rockets get down at City Winery! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And blues it up with Fat Back Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm! 

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.