ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Spook it up in ATLRetro this week! Come see what sinister shenanigans we’ve dug up just for you!

Monday, October 24

Gore it up with screenings of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO (1960) [one night only] and John McNaughton’s HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (1990), at The Plaza Theater, running through Oct. 27!  Or get possessed at the Studio Movie Grill’s (Duluth) screening of William Friedkin’s THE EXORCIST (1973) at 8pm! Skank on down to City Winery for a night with The English Beat! Shimmy on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Sadie Hawkins’ Electric Glitterland, a rock-n-roll cabaret! Make your way to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for a night of hilarity with Carol Burnett! Blues it up with Barrelhouse Bob Page 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! Catch a screening of George Cukor’s BORN YESTERDAY (1950) at the Alpharetta Branch Library at 10:30am! 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 night with Larry Griffith!

Tuesday, October 25

Make your way to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for an encore night with Carol Burnett! Get intergalactic with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. (1982) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern at 7:30pm! Catch the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s Classics Series screening of Haskell Wexler’s MEDIUM COOL (1969) at 7pm! Get old-timey at the Red Light Café with Reverend Hylton, Chilly Winds and Riley Pinkerton! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! Get funky with the Ron Holloway Band and Lagoons at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get rootsy with Mandolin Orange at Terminal West! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Get down with J.T. Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, October 26

Johnny has a cure for what ails ya, so come on out and catch TCM’s Big Screen Classics screening of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! The Variety Playhouse delivers a post-punk revival with Catfish & the Bottlemen! Or catch “The Ghastly Dreadfuls” spooking it up with creepy stories, frightful songs and devilish dances at the Center for Puppetry Arts, haunting through Oct. 29! Rock out with Pennywise at the Masquerade! Get intergalactic with an encore screening of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. (1982) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern at 7:30pm! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of rhythm and soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays! The Electromatics delivers a night of West Coast and Kansas City blues at Blind Willie’s! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! The Star Bar gets down with their Okie Dokie Karaoke, every Wednesday at 9pm! Or rock on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm! 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 27

Get twisted with Kool Kats, The Hess Family with a complimentary screening of Horror Hotel Season 2’s “LIFE AFTER MEN” at Studio Movie Grill in Alpharetta from 6pm to 12am! Creep on down to The B Complex for the Art Exhibition and Performance Reception for “Will You Be My Nightmare” at 6:30pm! Get your cinephile fix at Beautiful Briny Sea in Grant Park with Film Love Atlanta’s “Cinephile” event, hosted by Kool Kat Andy Ditzler, featuring James Krell’s films of the 1970s and Gary Goldberg’s films of the 1990s, at 7:30pm! If ghastly things are your preference, haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2015 Ghost Tours, spooking it up this weekend (Oct. 27-30)! Catch RiffTrax Live’s screening of Herk Harvey’s CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962) at theatres across Atlanta at 8pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! It’s a night of ectoplasmic proportions at Venkman’s with a free screening of Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) at 7pm, followed by a Totally ‘80s Costume Party featuring Members Only! Rock out ghoul-style at The Star Bar with Elzig (Elvis meets Danzig), The Crush and B.S.O.L.! Honkytonk on down to the Clermont Lounge every other Thursday for a night with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and Ghost Riders Car Club! It’s a night of murderous clowns and gut splitting laughter as 1Up Comedy presents the Roast of Pennywise the Clown/Stephen King’s IT at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge! Get horrorified at the Clermont Lounge  as Captain & Maybelle present a Halloween Shock ‘n’ Roll Sideshow featuring terrifying tunes by Fiend Without A Face, Kool Kats the Casket Creatures and special guest Reggie Bugmuncher! Smith’s Olde Bar dishes out a night of Americana with Rod Melancon! Get folksy with Schneider & Mayfield and Jefferson Ross at the Red Light Café! Chicago Blues Hall of Famer Liz Mandeville blues it up at Blind Willie’s! Get your rock, blues and jazz fix with Joe Robinson at Eddie’s Attic! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s and swank it up with Bogey & The Viceroy! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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 28

It’s Halloween hysteria at Avondale Towne Cinema during Kool Kat Shane Morton, a.k.a. ghost host with the most, Prof. Morte’s Monsters of Mock Dance Party featuring Stephen Skipper’s Rolling Stones Tribute, Van Heineken and OC/DC at 8pm! Or make your way to ASO Symphony Hall for a screening of Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) with a live performance of the award-winning soundtrack by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at 8pm! Or spend the evening with Vincent Price with a screening of Andre DeToth’s HOUSE OF WAX (1953) at The Plaza Theater, running through Oct. 29! Spook on down to the Ponce City Market for their A Haunting on Ponce: Eat, Drink and Be Scary, horrifying through Oct. 31! Videodrome and JavaVino (JavaDrome) present another rare treat with a screening of David A. Prior’s SLEDGEHAMMER (1983) at 8:30pm! Cast a spell and make your way to the Mable House Arts Center’s Hogwarts Halloween at 6pm and 8pm! Or rattle your bones during Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX’s Fright Night Halloween Party, dripping with devilish drinks, costume contests and more! Gypsy jazz it up with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet at Eddie’s Attic! Celebrate 25 hellacious years of The Star Bar with their 25th Anniversary Bash rocking out with Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols tribute); Horror Business (Misfits tribute); and Nameless Nameless (Nirvana tribute)! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Motorhead’s! Or rock on down to Mammal Gallery for a night with Shellac with Shannon Wright! Blues it up with Blue Roads at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get some rockin’ soul with Tommy Castro & The Painkillers at City Winery. It’s a night of good ‘ol rock ‘n’ roll at Deep South Deli & Pub with Radio Cult! Get witchy during Atlantic Station’s Spooky Film Festival featuring a screening of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) at dusk! Get gritty with Strung Like A Horse at the Red Light Café! The Variety Playhouse dishes out a night of old-school southern rock with The Marshall Tucker Band and The Steppin’ Stones! Get down and dirty with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! 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 29

Celebrate Black Speculative Fiction Month with Kool Kat Balogun Ojetade and more during Alien Encounter 2016, featuring the best Black Speculative works and Afrofuturism in fiction, film and music beginning at 10am at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture & History! Rock out with the Blue Oyster Cult at the Variety Playhouse! Boogie on down to The Star Bar for their 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll ‘70s Disco Party & Halloween Bash featuring The Biters (as The Disco Bitches), Dinos Boys, Bad Spell and Gunpowder Gray!  Spook on down to the Buford Highway Halloween Parade and Pop-Up, from 5-8pm!  Maniacal laughter ensues during The Village Theatre’s Halloween Improv House Party featuring an improvised Salem Witch Trial and more!  Spook on down to The Beacon’s Halloween Haunted House Warming Party featuring a haunted house, costume contest, food trucks and rockin’ tunes with Smithsonian (Smiths tribute), Anna Kramer & The Lost Cause and the Rock*A*Teens! Rock out at The Earl with Kool Kats Gringo Star, Shantih Shantih, Art School Jocks and Count Vaseline! Time Warp it up and get naughty with an encore of some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975), featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight! Rock on down to the Lakewood Amphitheatre for a night with Gregg Allman, ZZ Top, Blackberry Smoke and Kevn Kinney! Or get rocked with Mac Sabbath and Black Juju at The Loft! Venkman’s dishes out a Cartoon Brunch featuring a screening of Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993), followed by a Chickin’ Pickin’ Brunch with Rodeo Twister, and then later get groovy with Swami Gone Bananas! Make your way to The Howard House in Kirkwood for the 11th Annual Scarendipity Halloween Bash featuring Voodoo Visionary, Mayhayley’s Grave and so much more! Rock on down to the Masquerade for their 6th Annual Boos & Brews Halloween Party! The BadAsh Allstar Team hosts a Halloween Monster Jam at 5 Seasons Brewing! Make your way to Club Famous for Coffin Classics Halloween: Goth, Darkwave, Industrial with Kool Kat VJ Anthony! Bluegrass it up with the Sweetwater Creek Bluegrass Band at the Red Light Café! Shimmy on down to City Winery for a Clubesque: A Contemporary Cabaret! Big Bill Morganfield & The Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Pay tribute to Pink Floyd with The Southern Floyd at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get down and dirty with Willy Jackson at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, October 30

Grab your favorite boil or ghoul and rock on down to the Red Light Café’s Halloween Prom featuring Roadkill Debutante, Burning Truck and Till Someone Loses an Eye (Kool Kat Aileen Loy)! Make your way to the Atlanta History Center for the Day of the Dead Festival featuring traditional dance, crafts, authentic Mexican food and more! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra gets phantasmal with their Phantom of the Orchestra event at 3pm! Put on your horrorific hiking boots and make your way to the Dolls Head Danse Macabre Halloween Hike at Constitution Lakes, hosted by The Georgia Conservancy from 7-11pm! Catch Emory Arts’ screening of Akira Kurosawa’s “King Lear”-inspired RAN (1985) at 3:30pm in White Hall 208! Jazz it up at Venkman’s with The Hot Club of Atlanta and The Atlanta Latin Jazz Orchestra! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And get the rockin’ blues with Fat Back Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2015 Ghost Tours, spooking it up this weekend (Oct. 21-23) and next weekend (Oct. 27-30)! (LAST CHANCE!)

Netherworld Haunted House haunts through Nov. 1!

Take a glamorous road trip with Out Front Theatre Company’s presentation of PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE MUSICAL, making a splash through Nov. 6!

Kick it up with the Atlanta Lyric Theatre’s presentation of “A CHORUS LINE” running through Nov. 6!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

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

Self-proclaimed “roving artist and makeshift film scholar” Bill Daniel is far from his various stomping grounds (Houston; San Fransisco; New York; Portland, etc.) and continues his nomadic journey touring the south and releasing upon Atlanta his “SFVHS: California Artists’ Video 1988-1999” event at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery this Saturday, June 18 at 7:30pm. Daniel plans to screen a cornucopia of rare and “nearly forgotten” VHS video works he filmed in the ‘80s and ‘90s during the height of San Francisco’s highly politicized environmental and anti-warmongering protest era, followed by discussions about DIY artistic strategies, his time spent teaching at the revitalized Black Mountain School and the state of art education today. “SFVHS: California Artists’ Video 1988-1999” is curated by Daniel and hosted by Andy Ditzler [March 2011; see ATLRetro’s Kool Kat feature on Andy, here] of Film Love Atlanta. You won’t want to miss out on this exciting and rare opportunity to delve into the work of legendary experimental filmmaker, Bill Daniel.

Daniel, jack-of-all-creative-trades dove head first into everything from experimental documentary filmmaking to installation art to zine publishing and much more. He’s lived the dream of every DIY artist, being awarded grants from the Film Arts Foundation and Creative Capital to being granted residencies at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Headlands Center for the Arts and the Center for Land Use Interpretation. His films have also screened at film festivals across the world, including Viennale (Vienna International Film Festival) and The Portland Art Museum’s Northwest Film & Video Festival, where he took home the award for Best Documentary for his documentary short, SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM STORY (1998). Daniel’s 2005 full-length “train-hopping graffiti doc” WHO IS BOZO TEXINO?, described by the Sacramento News & Review as, “a hypnotic, rail-rattling tone poem of subversive wayfarer wisdom,” submerged him into the land of “hobo jungles” and has made him the cream of the crop amongst today’s DIY visual artists and renegade nomadic filmmakers.

ATLRetro caught up with Bill Daniel for a quick interview about his VHS years; punk rock being the gateway to the subversive arts; his time spent with Artists’ Television Access (ATA); and more!

“Endless Endless Summer” (1988) – Bill Daniel

ATLRetro:  As a filmmaker in the field, we’re sure you’re quite aware that despite the technological boom that’s engulfed this generation, VHS has begun its own interesting resurgence (the viewing more-so than the filming), even if just among film addicts and history buffs. What do you think it is that draws people to the nostalgia that is VHS?

Bill Daniel: VHS is a glowy soft and fuzzy picture machine in a world of hard and sharp picture machines. Half-inch magnetic tape, passing across a spinning video head that reads an analog electronic pulse and then shoots tiny bursts of light onto a vacuum tube in the shape of a viewing screen—it’s a time machine that lets us look into the past with 20th century eyes. We are like bugs drawn to this weird enchanted light blob that functions as part of our memory.

Can you tell our readers a little about San Francisco’s Mission District Collective Artist’s Television Access, where your VHS tapes originally screened?

ATA was started in the mid-80s by a small group of friends as a low-cost video editing spot and a performance and media gallery. A weekly cable access show of artists’ work was produced and broadcast on the local cable channel, which was pretty wild—some really kooky and radical stuff that was kinda snuck into the list of program channels. I imagined how weird it must have been when unsuspecting channel surfers stumbled onto the ATA show!

Over the years ATA evolved, and amazingly endured. We survived multiple real estate booms and busts. The funky old storefront at the corner of Valencia St. and 21st is now a little island of weirdos in a roiling sea of hyper gentrification. There’s still a core community of people left in SF who are participants at ATA, so it’s like a safe house meeting place for survivors in a tech-money culture war.

In the early ‘80s, you photographed Texas punk shows and the punk scene in general. What drew you to that landscape and what you were trying to garner from that period of your life?

“Redwood Report” (1990) Greta Snider and Bill Daniel

Going to punk shows in Austin was my first exposure to any sort of subversive art and community. You know the story: punk rock as the gateway drug to the world of art and ideas. It’s a corny thing to say, but it’s true! I know that for a ton of people, all over the country and for decades now, punk shows were a first encounter with radical possibilities.

Who would you say are your biggest artistic influences? And why?

Well, especially in the context of this show of San Francisco video, one of my greatest influences and mentors is filmmaker Craig Baldwin, who has been at the core of ATA Gallery for 30 years. Craig lives in the space, has a crazy archive/editing zone in the basement, and has been programming film shows on Saturday nights there for three decades. His film series there, called “Other Cinema”, was pretty much my film education. Most of the videos I’ll be showing at the Eyedrum show screened in Craig’s weekly shows.

Can you tell our readers a little about the Black Mountain School Program and why these kinds of programs are important in the community?

Oh wow, too much to tell! Yeah, I’m just coming back from a month-long immersive experiment in art education and community. This was the first year of this project which aimed to start an alternative to teaching and learning art at the site of the original Black Mountain College. I’ll definitely be talking about this at the Eyedrum screening, and I’ll talk about the two classes I taught (a lecture about DIY touring strategies for media artists, and a workshop on no-budget b/w photography called Junk Camera). I hope people at the Eyedrum show will be down to have a discussion about what’s going on in arts education these days. You know, the whole cost/debt/administratively screwed up state of the art school deal. Everyone knows it’s time to start building new forms and structures and possibilities for change in how we share art-making skills and dialog.

As you tour the south with your SFVHS: California Artists’ Video 1988-1999 event, what kind of feedback are you getting from your audience? How does the current feedback differ from the feedback you received when the tapes first aired?

“Thought Crimes in the Satiation Pool” – Barney Haynes and Barry Schwartz

Well it’s pretty shocking to realize how long ago 1990 was. Haha! People have been digging this program, being able to see videos that are impossible to find now. The “EARTH FIRST!” tape is a real relic— hippies going wild wrecking logging machinery and bringing crucial issues of ecological and economic sustainability to light— but it also harkens to the Occupy movement, so I think there’s some lessons in these things.

Are there any filmmakers today (experimental and/or narrative) that you find intriguing?

There’s a new burst of life in experimental filmmaking these days. Actually, maybe two bursts. One is coming out of the academic side, since there’s been a big growth of experimental film teaching in the universities and so by now there’s a new crop of radical filmmakers who are professors and who are making progressive work and inspiring another generation. On the other side there are some thriving new non-institutional situations that are making and showing experimental work. There’s Mono No Aware in New York that does regular screenings and is running a lab to do experimental film processing; seems like there is a whole community building up around their facility and shows. In Oakland there’s Black Hole Cinema which is about as punk as a film scene there is. I dearly love that venue and the filmmaker who runs it, Tooth, who has been making brilliant and raw films, very much in the wild energy of the ‘60s/’70s days of 16mm.

Can you offer any advice to our readers about film, personal expression, and creativity?

I can relay something that was affirmed at a lecture I attended here at Black Mountain. Tim Kerr who is a painter and rad musician (was a member of the legendary Texas punk bands The Big Boys and the Lord High Fixers and a bunch of others) came up to the school to talk about his experiences through decades of DIY art and music culture and how the community of touring punk bands evolved. So one thing Tim has always said, painted, conveyed is “all self-expression is valid.” It’s such a simple statement, but it’s an idea to never lose sight of. Thanks Tim Kerr!

“Clarion Alley Mural Project”

What’s next for Bill Daniel?

I’m feeling incredibly regenerated and reaffirmed coming out of this month at Black Mountain School. I see that teaching is becoming a bigger part of my work as an artist. I’m not going to go back to school to get an MFA so I can become a professor, but I’m looking at ways that teaching can fit into my own practice. So these two classes I taught up here— touring strategies and black and white photography— I’m just going to smash these two things together and start touring with a photography workshop: Vagabond Photography College in a van.

Photos courtesy of Bill Daniel and used with permission.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s shakin’ in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, June 13

Get futuristic with Sean Connery at The Plaza Theater during their screening of John Boorman’s ZARDOZ (1974), running through June 15! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves 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 on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with The Pork Bellies!

Tuesday, June 14

Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: June in Jumpin! Edition, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Spend the night with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah in the Little Vinyl Lounge! Andrew Black gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Or get psyched blues-style with Reverend Freakchild at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 15

Skank on down to the Masquerade and funk it up with Fishbone! Or catch a screening of Wolfgang Peterson’s classic, THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7pm! Rock out at The Earl with Anvil, Against the Grain and Gunpowder Gray! Kool Kat Brooks Mason with The Georgia Flood get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Joe McGuinness Trio dishes out a night of roots and Americana at Blind Willie’s! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Or rock on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm! 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, June 16

Rock on down to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of IGGY POP: LIVE IN BASEL (2015) at 7pm! Or catch a screening of Paul Verhoeven’s SHOWGIRLS (1995) at The Plaza Theater at 8pm! “Party with the Past” at the Fox Theatre at 6:30pm! Rock on down to 529 for Small Reactions’ tape release party with Mantra Love, the OTONANA Trio and Pseudo Color! Rock out with Weezer at the Lakewood Amphitheatre! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents their “Great American Music” concert at the Verizon Amphitheatre! Skip school and catch a screening of John Hughes’ FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) at the Aurora Cineplex in Roswell! Lightnin’ Ray dishes out a night of acoustic classics at Venkman’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Get Rhythm & Soul with the Diamond Street Rhythm Machine in the Little Vinyl Lounge at The Star Bar! Blues it up with Sweet Betty & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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, June 17

It’s a night of surf ‘n’ soul at The Star Bar with Ex Wives, The Gartrells and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s The Compartmentalizationalists! Rock out with Hyperspace at the Highlander! Jazz it up with Matthew Kaminski at the High Museum! Grant Green Jr. delivers “The Jazz of Prince” at Venkman’s! Surf on down to the Decatur Beach Party featuring a boardwalk, food, games and live music with the Jugtime Ragband and Electric Avenue from 5-11pm! Bluegrass it up with the Dappled Grays at the Red Light Café! The Northside Tavern gets the blues with Stoney Brooks! Swing on by Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with Doug Deming and Dennis Gruenling & The Jewel Tones! A1A pays tribute to Jimmy Buffett at Park Tavern! Damon Fowler gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so cha-cha under the dinosaurs with the Salsambo Dance Studio while sippin’ a few cocktails!  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, June 18

Make your way to EyeDrum to catch Kool Kat Andy Ditzler’s Film Love Atlanta’s presentation of Bill Daniel’s SFVHS: California Artist’s Video event featuring screenings of his classic ‘90s political shorts (see our Kool Kat interview on Daniel soon!) Wake the dead at the Historic Oakland Cemetery with their Tunes from the Tombs 2016 event, featuring the Atlanta Funk Society, James Hall, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Adron, The Return, The Dirty Doors, The B-53s, Fauxgerty, The Clermonts and more! Tiki it up at Trader Vic’s for their World of Tiki Collectibles Seminar at 5pm! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for their Monty Python Holy Grail Pub Crawl with five stops and a screening of MONTY PYTHON’S HOLY GRAIL, beginning at 7pm! Twist on down to the Little Vinyl Lounge (Star Bar) for Dusty Booze’s 50s/60s Rock and Roll Party! Sadie Hawkins delivers her Cheap Thrills! Burly-Q on a Budget event at the Red Light Café! Catch Brit Floyd at the Fox Theatre! Surf on down to Kavarna for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp! with Kenny Howes & The Wow!, Seawhores and Holy Mountain Top Removers! Get revived at the Decatur Music Fest featuring the Milk Carton Kids, Elephant Revival, Penny & Sparrow and Eliot Bronson! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s PORCO ROSSO (1992) at 10am and SPIRITED AWAY (2001) at 1pm! Or catch a screening of BABE (1995) at the Center for Puppetry Arts at 7pm! Yacht Rock Schooner grooves it up at Venkman’s! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Dixie Tavern, with Hillbilly Casino! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Delta Moon! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of rock ‘n’ soul with The Hollidays! Get bluesy with Grant Green, Jr. at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with Houserocker Johnson & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, June 19

Rock out with Richie Ramone, DDC and Cadillac Junkies at the Masquerade! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s PORCO ROSSO (1992) at 10am and SPIRITED AWAY (2001) at 1pm! Or catch a screening of Wolfgang Peterson’s classic, THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 2pm! Venkman’s delivers a Father’s Day Beatles Brunch with the Elegant Bachelors! Polka it up with “Weird Al” Yankovic at the Fox Theatre! Eddie’s Attic gets down with their “Let’s Go Crazy” Prince Cover Night! Make your way to Chastain Park for a night with Kenny Rogers! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

MacGillivey Freeman’s 2013 documentary, NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE, commemorating the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary at the Fernbank Museum’s IMAX screens through June 16! (LAST CHANCE)

The Fox Theatre’s Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival runs through August 27!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm! (On hiatus as of May 16 until further notice)

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

Retro Atlanta is red-hot this week! Come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve found for you! We’ve got all the ‘billy you could ever want; classic cinema on the big screen; rock in all varieties and of course a whole lotta’ down and dirty jazz ‘n’ blues! So get off that couch and come see what’s on the Retro menu!

Monday, June 6

All work and no play makes Johnny a dull boy, so get sinister at The Plaza Theater for their screening of Stanley Kubrick’s classic THE SHINING (1980), running through June 8! Jazz it up with Metro Quest at Avondale Towne Cinema! Make your way to the Red Light Café for Vinyl Night! Blues it up with Bill Sheffield 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!

Tuesday, June 7

Doo wop on down to The Earl for a night with King Khan & The Shrines, Giorgio Murderer and the Midnight Larks! It’s a night of ‘70s glam punk at 529 with Giuda, DINOS BOYS and Antagonizers ATL! Get your psychobilly punk fix at the Masquerade with Tiger Army and The Bellfuries!  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 adventurous at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Frankie’s Blues Mission delivers the blues at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with Mandi Strachota at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 8

Who you gonna call? You won’t want to miss Ivan Reitman’s classic, GHOSTBUSTERS (1984), screening in theatres across the Atlanta at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), Perimeter Pointe 10; Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Northpoint Mall 12 (Alpharetta); Regal Atlantic Station 18; AMC Parkway Pointe 15; AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 (Cumming); and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Or get adventurous at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their second screening of Steven Spielberg’s RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Get you classic rock fix at Lakewood Amphitheatre with Journey and The Doobie Brothers! Make your way to the Decatur Library for their screening of Joe Pytka’s SPACE JAM (1996) at 1:30pm! Blind Willie’s gets down with a night of triple pianos with Tigner, Page and Wauchope! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with the Rumpke Mountain Boys! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Or rock on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm! 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, June 9

Honkytonk on down to the Clermont Lounge every other Thursday for a night with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and Ghost Riders Car Club! Folk it up with The Brookses and The old Mill Road Band at the Red Light Café! Rock on down to The Drunken Unicorn for a night with The Casket Girls and Stardeath & White Dwarfs! Take a trip to Tromaville as the Horizon Theatre Co. presents “The Toxic Avenger” in Piedmont Park, running through June 12 (see our Kool Kat interview with Nick Arapoglou here)! Michael Chesin of the Elegant Bachelors delivers “Paul McCartney vs. Paul Simon” at Venkman’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! Get Rhythm & Soul with the David Ellington Trio in the Little Vinyl Lounge at The Star Bar! Catch “Disaster Aboard the Orlando,” a sci-fi horror comedy playing at 7 Stages through June 12! Blues it up with George Hughley at Blind Willie’s! 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! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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, June 10

The Star Bar rocks out with The Dwarves, The Queers, Teenage Rehab and The Sawed Offs! You’re gonna need a bigger boat at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre as they screen Steven Spielberg’s summer classic, JAWS (1975) at 8pm! Get geeky and game it up during the Southern Fried Gameroom Expo, featuring 250+ arcade and pinball games and more, running through June 12! Catch Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and Film Love Atlanta’s “Let’s Work Together” event at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center at 7:30pm! Smithsonian and Map of the Moon rock out at The Earl! The Fox Theatre’s Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival kicks off with John Hughes’ FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) at 7:30pm, and runs through August 27! Funk it up with The Mar-Tans at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Celebrate Elvis at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with “Heart of a King” at 8pm! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at Wild Wing Café in Alpharetta! Venkman’s delivers acoustic Beatles with Nick from Yacht Rock Revue! Damon Fowler gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! Rock out under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with Lethal Rhythm! 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, June 11

Today kicks off The State of Black Science Fiction Con, running through June 12, and promising the most comprehensive presentation of black speculative fiction, cosplay, Afrofuturism, Steamfunk and more (Keep your eyes peeled for our Kool Kat interview with writer and Con co-founder Ojetade Balogun)! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (1989) at 1pm! It’s movie night at Turner Field, so catch a game and a screening of John Hughes’ FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986)! Shimmy on down to the 19th annual East Point Possums Show, benefiting Lost and Found Youth, featuring 25 performances including Blast-Off Burlesque! Jazz it up with The Hot Club of Atlanta at Venkman’s, followed by the Atlanta Funk Society! Rock out at The Star Bar with Turnstile and The Accidents! The Earl Smith Strand Theatre screens Randal Kleiser’s GREASE (1978)!  Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Sportsline Bar! Swing on by Chastain Park for a night with Harry Connick, Jr.! Make your way to Stone Mountain Park for the 5th Annual Atlanta Street Food & Music Festival! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at Craze Tavern! Make your way to Kavarna for a night with The Skylarks! Get jazzy with Elgin Wells at the Red Clay Theatre! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Sal’s Soulful Sinners! Get bluesy with Tullamore Road at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, June 12

Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (1989) at 1pm! It’s your last chance to catch Ivan Reitman’s classic, GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) on the big screen, screening in theatres across the Atlanta at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), Perimeter Pointe 10; Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Northpoint Mall 12 (Alpharetta); Regal Atlantic Station 18; AMC Parkway Pointe 15; AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 (Cumming); and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Jazz it up brunch style with The David Ellington Jazz Trio at Venkman’s! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

MacGillivey Freeman’s 2013 documentary, NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE, commemorating the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary at the Fernbank Museum’s IMAX screens through June 16!

The Fox Theatre’s Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival runs through August 27!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm! (On hiatus as of May 16 until further notice)

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

Atlanta is burnin’ with all things Retro this week! Come on out and see what we’ve found for you! Live la vida Retro!

Monday, April 18

Rock out at The Drunken Unicorn with MDC, Deathwish, The Swingin’ Dicks and Nag! Get your New Wave fix at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Jonathan Demme’s STOP MAKING SENSE (1984) at 9:30pm, screening through April 21! Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library and catch a screening of Henry Koster’s HARVEY (1950) at 10:30am! Get the blues with the Larry Griffith Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves 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! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, “Big Sexy” edition, at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam!

Tuesday, April 19

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gets intergalactic and continues their “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” film series with a screening of Orson Welle’s CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (1933) at 7pm! Or catch Busby Berkely’s FOOTLIGHT PARADE (1933) at the Decatur Library 9:30am! The Fox Theatre presents Pattie Boyd & Henry Diltz’ “Behind the Lens”! Bluegrass it up with Smokerise at Steve’s Live Music! Stomp on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with the Ain’t Sisters! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get your rockin’ blues fix with Walter Trout and Seth Winters at Smith’s Olde Bar! Blues it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s dishes out a night of roots and Americana with Joe McGuiness! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, April 20

Rock out and get folksy with Robyn Hitchcock at the Variety Playhouse! Get science-y and geek it up with Neil deGrasse Tyson at the Fox Theatre! Find your inner child and catch a screening of David M. Evans’ THE SANDLOT (1993) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7pm!  Make your way to Steve’s Live Music for Annie Sellick’s The Babbas! Get funky New Orleans-style with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get psyched ‘70s-style with Kool Kats Spirits & The Melchizedek Children at The Earl! Get some rockin’ soul with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with the Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with Dr. Strangelove at Smith’s Olde Bar! Or make your way to Terminal West for a night with Thao & The Get Down Stay Down and the Seratones! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with The Mars Hill Porch Pickers! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Or rock on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm! 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, April 21

Trader Vic’s delivers one helluva island party during their 40th Anniversary Celebration featuring Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids, authentic hula dancers and more! Bend it like Bettie during Kool Kat Tori Rodriguez’ PiYo (& Pin-Ups) event celebrating the life of Ms. Page at Lift Yoga in Alpharetta! The Earl rocks out with the Roadkill Ghost Choir and Tedo Stone! Or catch Joel Kosche (Collective Soul) and The Howling Tongues at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jazz it up with David Liebman & The Expansions at the Red Clay Theatre! Get the country blues with Tito & The Chicken Raiders at the Red Light Café! Yacht Rock Revue gets intergalactic at Venkman’s and performs “DARK SIDE OF THE MOON”, followed by an acoustic set with Prince vs. David Bowie ! Blues it up with Liz Mandeville at Blind Willie’s! 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! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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, April 22

Make your way to Atlanta Contemporary as Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and Film Love Atlanta present “Politics, Narrative, Collage” at 7pm! Rock out during this year’s 3-day Sweetwater 420 Fest with a whole lotta rock harkening back to the 20th century, running through April 24! Tonight’s lineup includes Cypress Hill, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Hi Lo Ha and more! And get funky at Aisle 5 during the 420 Fest after party featuring Funk You! Make your way to the Landmark Theatre for their screenings of Dennis Hauck’s 35mm TOO LATE (2016)! Celebrate The Beatles at the Fox Theatre with Let It Be! Rock out with Sister Hazel and The Georgia Flood (see our Kool Kat article soon) at the Variety Playhouse! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Motorheads! Jam it up ‘80s-style with the BadAsh Allstar Team at Steve’s Live Music! Mother Falcon gets folksy at The Earl! The Star Bar gets down and dirty with Tchesh & Friends, Fiend Without a Face, Young Antiques, Bully, Bad Friend, The Scragglers and more! Get old-timey and bluegrass it up with I Want Whisky, Neo Tundra Cowboy and the Darnell Boys at Avondale Towne Cinema! Shake a tail feather during Sadie Hawkins’ The Men’s Room: Gentlemen’s Quarterly at the Red Light Café! Venkman’s celebrates 45 years of “LA WOMAN” with The Dirty Doors! Spend the night with Sammy Blue at the Northside Tavern! Nick Moss gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! Boogie under the dinosaurs with Dangfly! at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! 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 23

It’s a Rockabilly Throwdown in Kennesaw featuring live music with Atomic Boogie, Willie Heath Neal, Kool Kat Dave Weil and The Blacktop Rockets, Pin-Ups and more! Rock out at The Star Bar with Dr. Boogie, Gunpowder Gray, Stop Worrying About the Bomb (Ravagers) and more! The Heavy Pets pay tribute to The Beatles at Aisle 5! Honkytonk on down to Terminal West for a night with Hooray for the Riff Raff and Promised Land Sound! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire it up at Sportsline Bar in Lawrenceville! The Souls Grown Deep Foundation presents “To Honor Mr. Dial” at Grocery on Home! Rock on down to day 2 of the Sweetwater 420 Fest featuring Robert Randolph & The Family Band, the North Mississippi Allstars, The Roots, Tokyo Police Club, The Orange Constant, The Quaildogs, Funk You and more! Leftover Salmon gets down during the official 420 Fest after party at the Variety Playhouse! Swing on by the Red Light Café for DJ Doctor Q’s Atlanta Speakeasy Electro Swing! The Fox Theatre presents “Ragtime the Musical” running through April 24! Folk it up with The Masarie Gang at Steve’s Live Music! Kool Kat Rev. Andy and Southern Ska Syndicate get to skankin’ at Kavarna!  Blues it up with Mr. Sipp at Blind Willie’s! Robert Lee Coleman gets the blues at the Northside Tavern! Or catch Jeff Jensen at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get some soul Salsa with Orquesta Macuba at Venkman’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, April 24

Bluegrass it up with Steve Martin/Martin Short and the Steep Canyon Rangers at the Fox Theatre! TCM presents Elia Kazan’s ON THE WATERFRONT (1954), screening in theatres across the Atlanta at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), Perimeter Pointe 10; Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium (Newnan)]! It’d day 3 and your last chance to rock out at the Sweetwater 420 Fest, featuring Leftover Salmon, Manchester Orchestra, People’s Blues of Richmond, Bright Light Social Hour, The 200’s, Voodoo Visionary, Wrenn and more! Catch a screening of David M. Evans’ THE SANDLOT (1993) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 2pm! Make your way to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre for a night with Van Morrison! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Yesterday and Today: The Interactive Beatles Experience invades The Georgia Ensemble Theatre through April 24! (LAST CHANCE!)

MacGillivey Freeman’s 2013 documentary, NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE, commemorating the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary at the Fernbank Museum’s IMAX screens through June 16!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

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

Jane Wodening, first wife to acclaimed experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage, is a central character in the avant-garde film world. Jane is set to speak about her life in and out of cinema, her collaboration and marriage to Brakhage, as well as her own writing, at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center on Sat. Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. Included in this event is the screening of three short films focusing on Wodening, all shot in 16mm: WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (1959 – 12 min/Stan Brakhage); HYMN TO HER (1974 – 2 min./Stan Brakhage); and JANE BRAKHAGE (1975 – 10 min./Barbara Hammer). “Jane Wodening in Person” is hosted by Andy Ditzler [March 2011; see ATLRetro’s Kool Kat feature on Andy here] and Film Love Atlanta. Don’t miss out on this exciting and rare opportunity to delve into the life of Jane Wodening, in her own words.

Wodening’s marriage to Brakhage spanned three decades (1957-1987). Their marriage and family life, including rarely exposed intimate details, is the subject of many of Brakhage’s filmic endeavors. Although Brakhage is considered one of the of “the most important figures of 20th century experimental film,” Wodening’s collaboration with him is noteworthy in itself. She was not merely the subject, or “muse,” but was an active participant in the production of those films. Additionally, Wodening spent the last few decades churning out her own art; her written words (prose poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, etc.) can be found on her website here [FROM THE BOOK OF LEGENDS (1988); LUMP GULCH TALES (1993); BOOK OF GARGOYLES (1999); LIVING UP THERE (2013); BRAKHAGE’S CHILDHOOD (2015)] and most recently WOLF DICTIONARY (2016), which she will include at Film Love Atlanta’s event.

ATLRetro caught up with Jane Wodening for a quick interview about her life and collaboration with Stan Brakhage, her artistic influences,  the importance of the written word and her desire to write the biography of the Universe.

ATLRetro: You were a necessary component in the films of Stan Brakhage, as his wife and “muse.” Did you ever see yourself as something greater than the films themselves, or did you consider yourself a necessary part of the whole that was Stan Brakhage?

Jane Wodening: Naturally, I thought of myself as myself, but I felt that he was saying that I inspired him.

Stan’s films delved deeply into your marriage and family life. Did you ever feel overly exposed to the public? And how did you deal with that exposure?

When we were filming, we were alone. When the films were made and shown and people would ask me that, I’d say, well, that was then, and this is now. What I am is here before you, and I’m not those images.

Can you tell our readers about the roles you played in Brakhage’s films? Meaning, we see you onscreen, but did you assist in the techniques used? Did you work with Stan behind the scenes, preparing the films?

Yes. They were his films, always, but I did a lot. The world he photographed was my world; the children were under my guidance. Sometimes I’d run the camera, help him with editing, change things. We always discussed it if I did. Once or twice, I was the Sound Man. He said many times that “by Brakhage” meant by me also, AND the kids, and there was some truth in that. I was surely devoted to him and his work.

Stan, Jane – Still from WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (1959)

What are your thoughts on WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING? Were you supportive of Stan filming the birth of your first child? Looking back, what do you feel now that maybe you didn’t feel then?

I was agreeable to it. We were in this together. This was our life and he was a film artist. Naturally, he would want to film the birth. He filmed every birth. I liked having him there with me.

There must be an interesting story about how you and Stan met. Can you fill our readers in on your meeting?

I saw him twice before we met. The first time, I was coming out of the opera house with my date. We had gone to the matinee, and there on the street were two guys dueling. My date said, “Yes, they have a very off-beat little theatre in a tent.” But we didn’t have time to go to it. The duelists were Stan and Larry Jordan. The second time I was working across the street from Rockefeller Center in New York and I’d go to the Rockefeller Plaza to eat my sack lunch. When it rained I went into the mall where I found a Brentano’s Bookstore and bought books from him, but he would not look at me.

The third time was when I was introduced to him. He was renting a little house in Denver and my boyfriend at the time introduced me to him, said he was a genius. He started teaching a class unofficially with the film club, and my cousin Betsy and I sat in the back row giggling about “The Great Brakhage” because he seemed to be presenting himself that way. But one moment we stood together under a tree and fell in love. I was amazed when he didn’t contact me. He was with another girl who knew me, and finally said to him, “I think Jane Likes you.” By this time I was horribly depressed and sent him a letter, so he called me up and said he loved me and to come and visit him. It was about six weeks later that we married.

The ‘50s and ‘60s were a time filled with art and stories and experimentation in all forms. Can you tell our readers a little about your and Stan’s life in art before your children were born?

I entered the scene in 1957, and while the children were being born, we traveled a lot and met and befriended as many of the artists in all fields as we could. It was a very lively scene. We were all gods. We were very poor and we were going to change the world. We all knew each other, were drawn to each other like magnets, and we all agreed. It was exhilarating. And we did change the world.

We see that your most recent book, BRAKHAGE’S CHILDHOOD, is a retelling of Stan’s Depression-era childhood, as told to you in the ‘80s in conversations with Stan. In what ways do you think Stan’s formative years affected his art, his career, his family?

He was born a precocious child. He loved to get attention and he loved theatre. As a child, he put on shows, sang in the church, whatever. He had a rough childhood, pillar to post. He never outgrew being the center of the world.

Can you tell us a little about your most recent book, WOLF DICTIONARY?

I have it here. As a child, I ran with dogs, learned what they were communicating. I’ve always thought I learned dog language first and English as a second language. In my early 20s, I wanted to write a dog dictionary. Years later, three people told me about the time when they lived “way up the road beyond where the snowplow went across a winter and they watched a wolf and his mates.” I was very charmed by this story, but couldn’t figure how to present it. I finally realized that I could write it from the viewpoint of the wolf. But even then, people would read it and still they wouldn’t learn the language. So I added notes, talked about why the animal made that gesture, what it meant. To me it seemed obvious as pie. So that’s WOLF DICTIONARY. It’s a key to start understanding animals and what they are communicating.

How has your writing evolved over the years? Has there been a change in subject-matter? Tone? In your youth did you feel the need to express ideas that you don’t quite feel the need to express now?

In fact, I didn’t start writing until I was nearly 40, but even then, across the last 40 years, I have changed a lot in my writing. I never was interested in writing fiction. I always wanted to write to understand something that came to my attention. At first, I felt obliged to write a story with a beginning, a middle and an end, but then I got really excited about the realism of form that anecdote gave. Now I feel that biography can get to understanding the life if the motives and drives are shown and develop into acts and responses and perspectives. I’m now considering writing the biography of the earth, to clarify the legend that the scientists are excited about. It will be a sort of translation. I’m hoping I can show it as adventures.

Which writers (poets, novelists, etc.) influenced you the most?

I think my first big influence was Rembrandt who looks at me through his eyes and we look at each other. He tells me to work, to pour out vitality. Gertrude Stein is reassuring. She tells me it’s perfectly okay to be an odd-ball. Henry James tells me it’s all right to talk at great length about little details; just dance it, and I’ll have it right. Poe shows me how to put rhythm into my writing, to write the percussion and the beat. Vivaldi says to make living landscapes with whatever media. My father taught me to be blown away by a squirrel or an anthill or a bush.

With regards to filmmaking and art, who were your and Stan’s biggest influences?

I think I was his and he was mine.

Are there any filmmakers today (experimental and/or narrative) that you find intriguing?

Ken Jacobs, Ernie Gehr, Nathaniel Dorsky, all close to my age. I wonder if there are any young people doing art? I know there’s much that has been done in comic format. Rap seems full of energy, but it seems hard to avoid selling a message. I don’t know. It may be an in-between time, or possibly I’m unaware of what’s going on with the young. There is always talent, and talent is a beautiful thing, no matter what one does with it, but great periods like Baroque music or the Impressionists seem to be the blooming times.

What is your take on compartmentalizing art and films into genres? Do you think these types of creative outlets can be properly tucked away into a single box? Or do you think most art (including film) overlaps several different genres?

When I tried to get agents or publishers to publish me, they’d say, but what is your genre? Evidently, if you’re writing in a genre, you know what you have to do and you get published. This doesn’t interest me. I write what I write.

Can you offer any advice to our readers about film, personal expression and creativity?

Whatever you do you’ll do what you’re told. The question is, who do you want to listen to? – The shop boss? There’s a steady job. – The pulse of the culture? – If you do that, you might starve and/or become famous. How about that inner voice? – How about writing what you want to know? – That’s where I’m at – I write to think.

What’s next for Jane Wodening?

I want to write the biography of the earth. There is some possibility that it will be the biography of the Universe. I’d like to put it all into common English, so anyone could know at least the theory of the moment – the amazing adventures of this planet and the life on it. I have a mess of little pieces of writing I’d like to put into shape – animal biographies, other thoughts. I really enjoy thinking. There’s nothing more fun than thinking.

Can you tell our readers what they can expect at Film Love Atlanta’s event, “Jane Wodening in Person,” on February 13?

They can expect to be surprised about a number of things.

We know you’ve done plenty of interviews, but is there something you’d like to tell our readers that they don’t know already?

I’m not sure what to say to this. I’m hoping they have open minds.

Photos courtesy of Jane Wodening and used with permission.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Retro Atlanta massacres this spooky season with all the haunting and bone-chilling madness your little black hearts desire! We’ve got horror and slasher flicks! We’ve got sinister seduction and the unruly undead! We’ve got ghosts and goblins and monsters, oh my! Become one with the creatures of the night this week and rock out with a helluva lot of spooktacular shenanigans!

Monday, October 19

Glam it up with The Struts and Karma Killers at The Earl! Get blood-splattered during The Plaza Theater’s screening of Brian De Palma’s CARRIE (1976), running through Oct. 22! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Elvis Costello! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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, October 20

Shake a tail feather during The Star Bar’s Halloween Burlesque Show with Roxie Roz, featuring performances by Candi Lecoeur, Kitty Capone, Luna Lynx, Annette Coquette, and rockin’ tunes by Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema screens Stanley Kubrick’s BARRY LYNDON (1975) in 35mm, during their “Midtown Cinema Classics” weekly event, at 7pm! Boogie on down to Terminal West for a night with Vintage Trouble and Greg Holden! Spook it up with William Castle’s HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959) at the Chamblee Library at 1pm! Spend the night with Audrey Hepburn at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) and Cinebistro (Brookhaven) during a 50th Anniversary screening of George Cukor’s MY FAIR LADY (1964) at 7pm! Catch Peter Bogdanovich’s WHAT’S UP DOC? (1972) at the Decatur Library at 9:30am! Or take a trip down the yellow brick road to the Charles D. Switzer Library for their screening of Walter Murch’s RETURN TO OZ (1985) at 12pm! Folk it up with War & Treaty at the Red Light Café! Bluegrass it up with Alex & Todd at Blind Willie’s! Or get the blues with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a night of trivia and corndogs at Pallookaville, with their “Trivial Matters” event! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, October 21

The day you’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived! BACK TO THE FUTURE mayhem ensues as Atlanta gets its ‘80s time travel fix with screenings of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE trilogy all over town! Catch BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985); II (1989) and III (1990), starting at 4:30pm at AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; AMC North Dekalb Mall in Decatur; AMC Fork & Screen in Buckhead; AMC Parkway Pointe and AMC Phipps Plaza! To catch the trilogy at 5pm, make your way to Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Regal Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Regal Atlantic Station! BACK TO THE FUTURE II (1989) screens at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern at 7:30pm; Landmark Midtown Art Cinema at 7pm; several show times at the Aurora Cineplex; the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7pm; and the Charles D. Switzer Library (free) at 6:30pm! Or make your way to Movies ATL 14 for their screening of BACK TO THE FUTURE I and II at 7pm! Then make your way to the Masquerade for their Back to the Future Party!

Make your way to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for a night with John Cleese & Eric Idle! Get funky with Bosley at Smith’s Olde Bar! Emory Cinematheque presents Hayao Miyazaki’s PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) at 7:30pm! Get down and dirty with Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds with Autumn Attics at Aisle 5! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Get your rhythm ‘n’ soul and rock ‘n’ roll fix with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Rock on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm! 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 22

Get your fill of Kool Kats galore at The Star Bar during the Butzer Birthday Bonanza with performances by The Compartmentalizationalists, Bruce Joyner & Atomic Clock, Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters, DJ Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, a puppet show and more! Film Love Atlanta is back with Kool Kat Andy Ditzler, so come on out to Beautiful Briny Sea in Grant Park for their Film & Site event, featuring avant-garde screenings of ‘70s films by Robert Smithson and J.J. Murphy at 7pm! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with The Membranes, Bataille and Eureka California! The Atlanta Bluegrass Cartel pays tribute to Tony Rice’s “Manzanita” at the Red Light Café! Get your old-timey and delta blues fix with the California Honeydrops and Caryn Womack at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jazz it up with Joey Sommerville at Suite Food Lounge! The Atlanta Independent Film Fest presents a screening of Kool Kat Ricky Hess’ web series HORROR HOTEL at the Pinch ‘n’ Ouch Theatre at 7:30pm! Make your way to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for a second helping of John Cleese & Eric Idle! Lazer Lloyd gets the rockin’ blues at Steve’s Live Music! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva island party! 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! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, October 23

Get immersed with Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse’s Dead-End event, presented by Red Robin Realtors, haunts through Oct. 24! If ghastly things are your preference, haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2015 Ghost Tours, through Oct. 31! Tiptoe through the graves, make a few new spirited friends and hear the hallowed tales of some of their eternal residents! Get your Kool Kat fix at The Star Bar with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Deadly Lo-Fi and Kool Kat Sen. Artie Mondello! Get sultry spook-style during DJ Doctor Q’s Spookeasy Electro Swing event at the Red Light Café, featuring performances by Kool Kat Persephone Phoenix and more! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Low Cut Connie, The Howling Tongues, Tesla Rossa and The Dirty Souls! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Leo Kottke! Atlantic Station screens Barry Sonnenfeld’s THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1991) during their “Spooky Film Fest” at dusk! Stomp on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with Paul Thorn! Kool Kat VJ Anthony delivers his 80s Music Video Dance Party at the Famous Pub! Celebrate 40 years with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Jim Sharman’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at AMC Phipps Plaza at 10pm! Blues it up with Albert White at the Northside Tavern! Get the blues with Funky Bluester at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get your folksy jazz fix under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with Mr. Blue Sky! 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 24

The Star Bar dishes out a rocking musical lineup with their Corndogorama #19 with Shocked Minds; The People; Love Letter; Rrest; Uncle Van; Twin Trances; Memes; Hip to Death; The Meeks Family; Muleskinner; Kool Kat Aileen Loy with Till Someone Loses and Eye; The Boy Jones; Chickens and Pigs; The Skylarks; and The Stixx! Haunt on down to DooGallery for their 12th Annual Haunted Art Show, featuring over 20 artists (including Kool Kat Shane Morton), live music, costume contests, raffles and more! Or catch The Halloween Puckin’ Fuppet Show at the Village Theatre! Make your way to LeFont Theatre as they screen Orson Welles’ classic, CITIZEN KANE (1941) at 10:30am! Andra Day gets some soul at Eddie’s Attic! Stomp on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a second helping of Paul Thorn! Gypsy jazz it up with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet along with 9-String Theory at the Red Light Café! Vinyl rocks out with The Black Cadillacs and Future Thieves! Paul Melancon does Ziggy Stardust at Kavarna! Shimmy on down to Jerry Farber’s Side Door for a night of Cheeky Belles Burlesque with performances by Kool Kat Kitty Love, JudyAnne Fox, Valkyre Jones and more! Get your old-time fix at the Variety Playhouse with The Devil Makes Three and The Deslondes! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets down and dirty at Northside Tavern! Get another chance to celebrate 40 years with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Jim Sharman’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at AMC Phipps Plaza at 10pm! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with The Hollidays! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, October 25

Stumble on down to Chambers of Horror Haunted House as Kool Kat Luke Godfrey leads the 10th Annual Zombie Walk Atlanta, haunting from 4-11:45pm! The Earl Smith Strand Theatre creeps it up with organist and Kool Kat Ron Carter during their screening of Paul Leni’s silent classic, THE MAN WHO LAUGHS (1928) at 3pm! TCM Presents a diabolical double feature with the English and Spanish versions of Tod Browning’s DRACULA (1931) at theatres across town at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; GTC Merchant’s Walk Stadium 12 in Marietta; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) delivers a second screening of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE II (1989) at 7pm! Hillbilly it up at The Earl with The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band and The Muckers! Or spook on down to the Fox Theatre as they get haunted during their annual Fox Theatre Ghost Tours, chilling your bones through Oct. 29! Get the blues with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Fox Theatre spooks with their annual Fox Theatre Ghost Tours, running through Oct. 29!

“The Ghastly Dreadfuls: Raising Spirits” spooks at the Center for Puppetry Arts, through Oct. 31!

Historic Oakland Cemetery’s Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2015 Ghost Tours, haunt through Oct. 31!

Chambers of Horror Haunted House terrifies with their adults-only gore-fest and blood-splattering through Nov. 1!

Netherworld Haunted House haunts every weekend through Nov. 1!

Be the Headless Horseman’s next victim at Serenbe Playhouse’s chilling presentation of THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, haunting through Nov. 1!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

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

Come see what’s on the Retro menu this week! From a whole ‘lotta revved up rock ‘n’ roll, to hillbilly hootenannies galore, to all the jazz and blues your rockin’ little heart could desire! And you won’t want to miss all the classic cinema we’ve found for you! So get off that couch and live la vida Retro!

Monday, May 11

Join Blast-Off Burlesque as they start your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday night at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Get folksy ‘90s style at the Variety Playhouse with Ani DiFranco! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Acid Mothers Temple, ST 37 and Guerilla Toss! 529 delivers a hoppin’ hootenanny with Ryley Walker, Moses Nesh and Steven Mann! Matt Pless, The Couch Hopper Band and The Black Buttons rock out at WonderRoot! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Funk it up with Greg Hester at Blind Willie’s! Catch Adam Carolla and Nate Adams’ documentary, WINNING: THE RACING LIFE OF PAUL NEWMAN (2015), screening at The Plaza Theater through May 14! Shake a tail feather at the Red Light Café with live Flamenco featuring Carlos Menchaca, Cristian Puig and Julia la Luna, presented by Berdole Flamenco! Or 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!’ Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, May 12

Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of Werner Herzog’s AGUIRRE THE WRATH OF GOD (1972) during their “Werner Herzog Retrospective” series at 6:45pm! It’s a night of burly-Q shenanigans with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South, at the Red Light Café with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: May Day! event featuring Annette Coquette, Fianna Flowerchild and more! Get rowdy and rock on down to Terminal West for Primal Scream and The Head! Get intergalactic at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Steven Spielberg’s extraterrestrial classic, E.T. (1982) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Celebrate 20 years of Live’s “Throwing Copper” with Ed Kowalczyk at the Variety Playhouse! Bluegrass it up with Curtis Jones & Primal Roots at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! The Boohoo Ramblers deliver a night of foot stompin’ Americana at Blind Willie’s! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, May 13

Splatter Cinema along with Kool Kat Blake Myers and Enjoy the Film (Kool Kat Ben Ruder) deliver a night of murderous mayhem at Cinevision Screening Room with their screening of Mary Harron’s gore-tastic flick, AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000) at 8:30pm! And don’t forget to come early for some chilling lobby shenanigans (Keep your eyes peeled for our Retro Review soon)! The Earl delivers a night of ‘80s Brit post-punk reeking of the Talking Heads with Imagination Head, Highlander and Book of Colors! It’s a night of lonesome cowboys and dustbowl folk with Ben Trickey, David Dondero and Pete DeLorenzo at 529! Get funky with Sugarfoot at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s your last chance to get intergalactic at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Steven Spielberg’s extraterrestrial classic, E.T. (1982) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or get girly and make your way to Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) for their screening of P.J. Hogan’s MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING (1997) at 7:3opm. Rock out blues-style with The Cazanovas at Blind Willie’s! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! 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 14

Rev on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Dusty 45s, The Mystery Men? and The Sideburners (upstairs), or stomp on downstairs for Hannah Aldridge and Betsty Franck! Blues it up with Ruthie Foster at SCADShow! Uncle Vann & the Buzzards of Fuzz, The Organ Machines and Bathhouse Janitors treat you to a night of surf rock and cow punk at Union EAV! Get rocked folk-style at The Earl with The Great Peacock and Book Club! Get your early UK punk rock (and more) fix at 529 with Zex, Bathrooms, Omotai and Waste Layer! Bluegrass it up with Benny Galloway & the Sleepy Cowboys and The War & Treaty at the Red Light Café for Bluegrass Thursday! Make your way to Philips Arena for a night with Bette Midler! Jazz it up country-style with Suzy Bogguss at the Red Clay Theatre! Get funky and get the blues with Tab Benoit, The Pimps of Joytime and The Dead 27s at Terminal West! Get some soul with Nik West at Suite Food Lounge! Get sultry every Thursday at St. James Live! with their South City Jazz event! Jam it up with Honeywood at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down and get your island tunes ‘n’ cocktail fix! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets red hot at Blind Willie’s! 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! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, May 15

Terminal West delivers a night of psych-rock with Reptar, the Breathers and Hello Ocho! Get your early American, Broadway and movie themes fix during Earl Smith Strand Theatre’s Symphony on the Square event at 7pm! Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and Film Love presents Curation & Cinema at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, which delves into the art of cinema curation, Film Love history and accompanied by Andy Warhol’s silent 1964 film of Taylor Mead and additional screenings of shorts, 8mms, the trippy and avant-garde and a few 1980s home movies! Consider the Source delivers a night of sci-fi middle-eastern prog rock ‘n’ funk at Aisle 5! It’s a night of ‘80s industrial metal at the Masquerade with Ministry! Then make you’re your way to the Famous Pub for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s Ministry After Party at 10pm! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Avenue of the Giants, Passionate Mayhem and the Pelvis Breastlies (all-female Elvis tribute)! Glam it up at the 120 Tavern & Music Hall with The Prophets of Addiction, Dusty Booze, The Night Terrors and Asphalt Valentine! Jazz it up with Alex Lattimore during the High Museum’s Friday Night Remix! The Crimson Moon Café dishes out a night with Jesse & Noah! Spend the night with Butch Walker at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Blues rock it up with The Brotherland at The Family Dog! Get some vintage swagger and Kansas City/West Coast blues jump with Atlanta Boogie at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get some rockin’ soul with The Rockaholics at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Stoney Brooks delivers the blues at the Northside Tavern! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues has the Bruce Katz Band! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs rocks out with The Barry Richman Band and his Allman Brothers tribute! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so cha-cha under the dinosaurs with the Salsambo Dance Studio while sippin’ a few cocktails! Francine Reed & the Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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 16

Go back in time for a cosmic reunion at the Georgia Renaissance Festival’s Time Warp Weekend at 10:30am! The East Atlanta Beer Fest rocks out with 230 different beers, tasty treats from our pals at Pallookaville and King of Pops and tunes by the Wasted Potential Brass Band and more! Or get some tasty treats and vittles at A Taste of the Highlands 2015 from 2-5pm with live music from the Sweet Auburn String Band and The People’s Republic of Jambodia! Get jazzy with the Melvin Jones Quintet, Theresa Hightower and more at the Atlanta Beltline Jamboree from 2-8pm! It’s a hootenanny and a half during the Shaky Boots Festival, stompin’ down to the KSU Sports/Entertainment Park through May 17, with The Whiskey Gentry and more! And haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their Malts & Vaults: Where Beer Meets History tour, from 7-8pm!

Get your old-school punk (Stooges/Bowie/MC5-esque) fix at Union EAV with Bloodplums (album release), The Love Agenda and Hot Wives! Or rock on down to 97 Estoria for Estoriafest 2015 featuring the Sealions, Easy Magick (members of Dinos Boys & Barreracudas), This Piano Plays Itself, Wyldlife, A Drug Called Tradition and more! Rock out with Pat Dinizio (The Smithereens), Nine Times Blue, Navajo Joe and Kenney Howes upstairs at The Star Bar! Or bluegrass it up with Alex Commins & Todd Prussin downstairs! Get your punk country fix at the Red Light Café with Lexi Street, wWAYLon and Will Mitchell! Rock out with The El Caminos, The Western Sizzlers and the Night Terrors at Smith’s Olde Bar! Getty jazzy at the Gwinnett Center with their The Art of Jazz event featuring The Jacques Lesure Group! Make your way to Terminal West for a night with Sonia Leigh, Lisa Goe & the Flashtastiks, Jacob Thomas Jr. and The Wheeler Boys! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Unknown Lyric gets classic at The Family Dog! Fatback Deluxe delivers some ‘40s-‘60s classic blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern for “Magic Fred’s Birthday Bash” featuring Eddie Tigner, Albert White and The Cazanovas! Get the blues with Stacy Mitchart and Bobby Thompson at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers an early show with The Nearly Normal String Band and Louis Robison during their “Fiddler’s Green” Coffeehouse Concert followed by Tony Levitas & Friends! Houserocker Johnson & the Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, May 17

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre screens Charlie Chaplin’s silent classic, THE GOLDRUSH (1925), with an organ accompaniment from Kool Kat Ron Carter, with a pre-show organ sing-a-long, during their “2015 Silent Films” series at 3pm! Get your acid rock ‘n’ blues fix at Vinyl with Bo Ningen and Alchemy! Stomp on down for day 2 of the Shaky Boots Festival with Old Crow Medicine Show, The Devil Makes Three, Cracker and more! Those Darlins deliver some retro rock ‘n’ roll at Park Tavern! Stomp on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Steve Earle & the Dukes and The Mastersons! It’s a night of rockin’ stompin’ blues at The Earl with Chickens and Pigs! Get jazzy with Virginia Schenck at Eddie’s Attic! Bluegrass it up with the Kris Youmans Band during Smith’s Olde Bar’s Bluegrass Brunch! Then shimmy on back in the evening for Awalim & Aziza Nowal’s Spring Bellydance Showcase! Jazz it up with Lisa Oakley and Deb Bowman at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Curtis Jones & Primal Roots delivers a night rowdy bluegrass at the Crimson Moon Café! Blues it up with Stephen the Blues Dude at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The High Museum presents “Gordon Parks: Segregation Story” (‘50s Life Magazine photos) and “Leonard Freed: Black in White America”, (1963-1966) exhibits through June 7!

The Georgia Renaissance Festival runs through June 7!

William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every second Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

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

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every 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

So many goodies on the retro menu this week! We’ve got all the honky-tonkin’ ‘billy that’ll rev you up all week long! We’ve got classic cinema galore! And come on out for all the rockin’ garage, punk and old-school shows you could ever want, including the King of Surf Rock, Dick Dale; Bob Dylan; The Who and Joan Jett! Be the Kat’s meow and rock out in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, April 20

Stomp out those Monday blahs with a night of the old-school rockin’ blues of Denny Laine (Wings/Moody Blues) at Eddie’s Attic! Folk it up with Lily & the Tigers, Valley Maker and Gary Eddy at Mammal Gallery! Or make your way to Grocery on Home for a night with Alicia Witt, the Ghost of Paul Revere and Max Garcia Conover! The 20th Anniversary edition of F. Gary Gray’s ‘90s classic FRIDAY (1995) screens at several local theatres [Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Southlake 24 (Morrow); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)] at 7:30pm! Get geeky with Blast-Off Burlesque as they start your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday night at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! 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! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of roots ‘n’ soul with Brandon Reeves! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And for a night of tasty blues, make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, April 21

It’s a night of folk rock and gypsy jazz at the Red Light Café with The Ragbirds and Carly Gibson! Folk it up with Willie Watson and Lauren Shera at Eddie’s Attic! The Georgia Tech Jazz Ensemble rocks out to the tunes of Radiohead, Soundgarden and Steely Dan at the Ferst Center! Holly Golightly on down to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Blake Edwards’ classic, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or make your way to the Decatur Library for their screening of Anthony Asquith’s THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (1952) at 10am! And catch the 20th Anniversary screening of F. Gary Gray’s FRIDAY (1995) at AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville) at 7:3opm! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! Fire it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get some soul with The Hollidays at Blind Willie’s! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, April 22

Get vintage and stomp on down to Aisle 5 for a night with Miss Tess & the Talkbacks and Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen! Folk it up with Darlingside and Bombadil at Eddie’s Attic! SCENE MISSING Magazine presents Atlantarantino, at the Highland Inn Ballroom, delivering a night of writing, comedy and other performances based on Quentin Tarantino films! Emory Cinematheque screens John Boorman’s eerie tale, DELIVERANCE (1972) during their “Movies Made in Georgia” series at 7:30pm! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Blake Edwards’ classic, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! And it’s your last chance to catch TCM’s presentation of the 50th Anniversary of Robert Wise’s classic, THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) screening in theatres across the Atlanta area at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), Perimeter Pointe 10; Merchant’s Walk Stadium Cinemas 14 (Marietta); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 (Cumming); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake 24 (Morrow); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Get funky in the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar with the Wasted Potential Brass Band! Or hillbilly it up in the Music Room with Cash O’Riley, Wyatt Espalin and Maya Neiada! For a night of scrappy punk and cosmic sludge, rock on down to 529 for MTN ISL, Muuy Biien and Bataille (formerly Georges Bataille Battle Cry)! Blues on down t0 Blind Willie’s for a night with The Boohoo Ramblers! Get jazzy with Sal Gentile at the Elliott Street Pub! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as Kool Kat Rich DeSantis and his band Honkytonk get smokin’ hot during their Slim Chickens’ Honkytonk Extravaganza event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Get some soul with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, April 23

Surf on down to The Earl for a night with the legendary ‘King of the Surf Guitar’, Dick Dale (See ATLRetro’s feature here) and Moonbase! The Who, with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, invades the Gwinnett Center! The “Master of Suspense” invades the Palmetto Branch of the Atlanta Public Library with their Alfred Hitchcock Film Fest from 2pm-7pm, featuring his THE 39 STEPS (1959) and PSYCHO (1960)! Get old-timey at the Variety Playhouse with The Earls of Leicester! Rock out with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and The London Souls at Smith’s Olde Bar! Never grow up and make your way to the Fabrefaction Theatre Company for their presentation of the timeless Broadway musical, PETER PAN, running through May 10! Blues it up at The Star Bar with “Brassier Blues” featuring Julie Gribble, Katie Martin, Halle Johnson, Allie Lee, Mandi Strachata, Barb Carbon and Skye Paige! Get really retro at the Rialto Center for the Arts as Georgia State University ensembles present an evening of Finnish music celebrating the 150th anniversary of Jean Sibelius’ birth, with a reception to follow provided by the Atlanta Finland Society! Jazz it up with Bryan Bromberg at Suite Food Lounge! Stomp on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with The Secret Sisters and Dean Fields! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down for a night of smokin’ island tunes! Jazz it up with Frank Barham during Oakhurst’s Jazz Nights! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at Red Light Café, so stomp on down for a night with City Hotel, American Hologram and the Georgia Mountain String Band! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of rockin’ Americana with Emily Kate Boyd! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village. And catch the 20th Anniversary screening of F. Gary Gray’s FRIDAY (1995) at AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville) at 7:3opm!

Friday, April 24

Make your way into the Final Frontier during Treklanta, Atlanta’s annual sci-fi con dedicated to space opera and Star Trek, running through April 26, at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center, celebrating the life of Leonard Nimoy! Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and Film Love Atlanta presents Jack Willis’ films chronicling the Civil Rights Movement [LAY MY BURDEN DOWN (1966) and THE STREETS OF GREENWOOD (1962)] at Emory’s White Hall at 7pm! Rock out at 529 (day shows) and The Earl (night shows) for Atlanta Mess-Around 2015! Daytime shows at 529 include Hector’s Pets, Paint Fumes, Slugga and the Zoners! Then make your way to The Earl for Pissed Jeans, GG King, Obnox, Whatever Brains, GHB and Wymyns Prysyn! The Dude invades the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema with their screening of the Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) during their Midnight Bowling and Cocktail Party!

Get old-school and folk it up with Bob Dylan at the Fox Theatre! The Red Light Café delivers a night of rowdy bluegrass with Heyday Revival and special guests, Joe Dunn & Ajay Chavez and hosted by Salome Cabaret’s Big Gay James and more! Yacht Rock Revue performs the Beatles’ “Abbey Road” and more at the Variety Playhouse! Get revved at Motorheads in McDonough with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles! Rumors and their Fleetwood Mac tribute rock out at The Star Bar! Get funky with Zach Deputy at Smith’s Olde Bar! Stomp on down to Java Monkey for a night with Blackfoot Daisy! Swami Gone Bananas rocks out ‘70s-style at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! The Villain Family, Mr. Blue Sky and Andrea Colburn deliver a night of garage country and folksy jazz at 529! Get some old-style southern blues at the Crimson Moon Café with Dave Boyd! Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month! Houserocker Johnson & the Shadows get red-hot at Blind Willie’s! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of Americana and blues with Heather Luttrell! The HoboHemians deliver a night of old-time ‘20s and ‘30s jazz at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so shake a tail feather under the dinosaurs while sippin’ a few cocktails! Blues it up with Atlanta Boogie 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, April 25

It’s that time of year again, folks! Rock on down to the 44th Annual Inman Park Spring Festival, running through April 26, featuring 3 stages of live music, home tours, a street parade, an artist’s market and more! Rockin’ retro performances include, Book of Colors, Mr. Blue Sky, the Myles Brown Band, 10 Degrees Off, Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers, Brian Ashley Jones, Cooper Tisdale, Kool Kat Amy Pike and Bonaventure Quartet, the Georgia Soul Council, Diamond Thief, A Moment Electric, R. Garcia and more! And it’s day 2 of Atlanta Mess-Around 2015, so rock on down to 529 for the Barreracudas, OBN IIIs, Giorgio Murderer, The Secret Prostitutes, Uniform and Easy Magick! Night shows follow at The Earl with the Flamin’ Groovies, Gentlemen Jessie & His Men, Blaxxx, NOTS, PAMPERS and The Gaye Blades!

Rev on down to The Star Bar for a night with Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys and El Capitan & the Band With No Name! Or rock on down to Union EAV for a night of the nitty gritty with Woven In, Swank Sinatra, Denderea Bloodbath, The Gnar Wave Rangers and mtvghosts! Get funky and avant-garde at the Goat Farm Arts Center with Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra with James Harrar’s collaborative artist think-tank, Cinema Soloriens! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Moonlighters and the Scott Draffin Quartet! Make your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts for their “Members-Only” screening of Jim Henson’s THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) at 7pm! Get your horror punk fix with Kool Kats, The Casket Creatures as they pay tribute to The Ramones at the Mule Camp Tavern in Gainesville! Or get your horror surf fix with Genki Genki Panic at the Burnt Hickory Brewery in Kennesaw! Put on those dancin’ shoes and get ready for a night of retro rock, Motown, funk, Big Band and more at The Basement for Electric Western’s Keep on Movin’ Rock and Soul Dance Party! Punk out Cramps-style at Kavarna with Air Wolves! Stomp on down to the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with American Hologram followed by Chuck Mead and Kool Kat Cletis & His City Cousins! Or get your classic rock fix in the Music Room with 68-75 and the Gasoline Brothers! For a night of dirty rock ‘n’ roll, head on down to the Elliott Street Pub for Nathan Kalish & the Wildfire! Jimbo Mathis & the Tri-State Coalition delivers a night of old-time blues and country at the Red Clay Theatre! The Family Dog delivers a night of Americana and folk with the Tyler Nail Trio! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Jimmy Webb! Folk it up with Kate & Corey and The Good Graces at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Get the blues with Francine Reed & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty with Damon Fowler! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s a night of rockin’ blues with The Stooge Brothers at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, April 26

Swing on by day 2 of the 44th Annual Inman Park Spring Festival featuring rockin’ performances by Flat Rock Swing, Black Lion, Larkin Poe, Sweet Claudette, Michelle Malone, the Rocket 88s, The Backyard Birds, The Rainmen, Webb Wilder, Ike Stubblefield, Sea Ghost, Woven In, Momcat, Man Up, Yancey, Plague of Pilgrams and more! Bluegrass it up at Smith’s Olde Bar for their Bluegrass Brunch with the Porch Bottom Boys! Stick around for a rockin’ night with Eddie Spaghetti (Supersuckers), Sean Thomason and Taylor Hollingsworth! Get some soul with Moonchild at Vinyl! Get your old-school radio drama fix with the premiere of Season 3 of HARRY STRANGE RADIO DRAMA on www.ksuradio.com at 10pm! Hula on down to The Lawrence and get your ‘50s and ‘60s surf and rock ‘n’ roll fix with Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids! Jazz it up with Joe Alterman, Houston Person and The Hot Sardines at the Rialto Center for the Arts! Blues it up at Grocery on Home with Water Liars and Marshall Ruffin! Rock over to the Masquerade for a night with Buckcherry, Sons of Texas and Needeep!, For a night of rockin’ blues, come on down to Steve’s Live Music dishes out a Spring Cabaret featuring the students of funky folkster, Heidi Pollyea! Get some soul and tasty vittles at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Fatback Deluxe! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Georgia Ensemble Theatre presents Don Farrell’s “My Fair Lady” through April 26! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Shakespeare Tavern presents Andrew Houchins’ adaptation of Thornton Wilde’s “Our Town” running through April 26! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

The Fabrefaction Theatre Company presents the timeless Broadway musical, PETER PAN, running through May 10!

The High Museum presents “Gordon Parks: Segregation Story” (‘50s Life Magazine photos) and “Leonard Freed: Black in White America”, (1963-1966) exhibits through June 7!

The Georgia Renaissance Festival runs through June 7! William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every second Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

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

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every 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

Retro Atlanta is the bee’s knees this week with rockin’ shenanigans, flicks of yore to a whole ‘lotta of honky-tonk, blues and rock n roll! If you’re lookin’ for a thrill and the weather’s got you down, get off that couch, put on your dancin’ shoes and live la vida Retro!

Monday, February 16

The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival brings you Barry Levinson’s AVALON (1990), screened in 35mm, celebrating its 25th Anniversary at the Lefont Theatre at 7:50pm! Jazz it up NOLA-style with Harry Connick, Jr. at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Get geeky with Blast-Off Burlesque as they start your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday night at 8:30pm! Blues it up with Barrelhouse Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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 17

Spend the night with Orson Welles at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of his classic masterpiece, CITIZEN KANE (1941), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or make your way to the Decatur Library for their screening of Lou Breslow’s YOU NEVER CAN TELL (1951) at 2pm! Shimmy down southern-style to the Red Light Café for the Mason Dixie Burlesque Tour featuring Atlanta’s own, Sadie Hawkins and performances by Hazel Honeysuckle, Ula Uberbusen, Deanna Danger and more! Or pop on over to the Variety Playhouse for a night of vintage ‘60s jazzy film tunes with Kat Edmonson and Robert Ellis! Get the blues folk-style with The Sweeplings and Marshall Ruffin at Smith’s Olde Bar! Swear and Shake get to stompin’ at the Red Clay Theatre with special guest The Sea, The Sea! Petite Auberge delivers a night of opera with Capitol City Opera Company’s “Dinner & A Diva” series with their “Valentine’s Day Love Songs” edition! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns get down and dirty with their Mardi Gras Party at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! The Crosstown All Stars dish out a night of stompin’ rock ‘n’ blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! Get your Cajun honky-tonk fix at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Hair of the Dog’s Mardi Gras Party! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, February 18

Emory Cinematheque screens Giulio Paradisi’s sci-fi classic, THE VISITOR (1979) during their “Movies Made in Georgia” series at 7:30pm! It’s your last chance to catch Orson Welles at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of his classic masterpiece, CITIZEN KANE (1941), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or take the family to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for their screening of Chris Noonan’s BABE (1995) at 7pm! Groove on down to the Variety Playhouse for the Dark Star Orchestra! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get jazzy with Sal Gentile at the Elliott Street Pub! Stomp on down to the Mammal Gallery for a night with Cute Boots, Susto, Ruby the Rabbitfoot and Tedo Stone! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Little G. Weevil! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during Slim Chickens’ Honkytonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! 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 19

Callanwolde Fine Arts Center delivers a night of classic Hollywood glitz during their 2015 Atlanta Film Festival Preview Party & Fundraiser! So, get dolled up, get glamorous and start off the 39th Annual ATLFF with a bang! And don’t miss the official feature film selection preview being held at The Plaza Theater prior to Callanwolde’s glitzy gala! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down and get your ‘50s and ‘60s surf and rock ‘n’ roll fix with Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids! Rock over to The Earl for a night with the Starbenders and Chevy Galore featuring Michelle Malone and Linda Bolley! Get your fill of some traditional Scottish tunes at Eddie’s Attic with Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas! Union EAV delivers a night of grungy ‘90s punk and garage rock with Bleach Garden, Uncle Van & the Buzzards of Fuzz and Bottle Kids! It’s a night of rockin’ roots with Donna Hopkins at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café with Kelen Rylee and Sylvia Rose Novak! 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! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Blues it up with Sweet Betty & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, February 20

Get your retro film fix at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center with Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and his Film Love Presents: Fall-Apart Films event at 7pm, featuring rare archival material, including Albert Maysles/David Maysles’ MEET MARLON BRANDO (1965)! DJ Doctor Q and Atlanta Speakeasy Electroswing get dark and risqué during their Blackhearts Ball at the Red Light Café, featuring dangerous dames, gritty gents and femme fatales; with performances by Sin Tillating, Lucy Purr, Sunshine Divine and more! Jazz it up with The Stanley Clarke Band at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out ‘90s-style at The Earl with The Grifters and The Preakness! Honkytonk it up at The Star Bar with Strung Like a Horse, Darling Norman and Hothouse Peaches! It’s a night of garage rock ‘n’ blues at Union EAV with Bloodplums, Hooka Hey and Poison Coats! Blues it up with Rumblefish at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! It’s a night of ‘80s guilty pleasures at Famous Pub with their Dark 80s: Guilty Pleasure dance party with Kool Kat VJ Anthony! Jazz it up with Hotlanta Dixieland Jazz at the High Museum during their Friday Night Music Remix event! Get eaten alive at OnStage Atlanta during their presentation of the infamous horror rock musical, “Little Shop of Horrors” at 8pm, horrifying through March 28! Skank on down to The Highlander for their “Reggae/Punk/Ska/Glam” dance night! It’s a night of funky jazz at the Elliott Street Pub with Jessie Davis! Hop across the pond to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Please PleaseRock Me! Get bound at The Jungle Club with their Fixation: Bound for Love event, featuring theatrical entertainment, fashion fantasy, synth pop and new-wave! Get mellow ‘70s-style at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Red Head Diamond! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles rev it up at the Foundry Grillworks in Newnan! Blues it up with Willie Jackson at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Francine Reed & the Shadows jazz it up at Blind Willie’s! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so cha-cha under the dinosaurs with the Salsambo Dance Studio while sippin’ a few cocktails! Get bluesy with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! Bluegrass it up with Jim Lauderdale at Eddie’s Attic! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Sean Chambers! 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 21

Splatter Cinema and Enjoy the Film (Kool Kat Ben Ruder) deliver a night of murderous mayhem at Cinevision Screening Room with their 35mm screening of Jonathan Demme’s ‘90s deliciously deviant thriller SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) at 8:30pm! And don’t forget to come early for some chilling lobby shenanigans! Get geeky with Kool Kat Sketch MacQuiner and more at the Atlanta Science Fiction & Fantasy Expo being held at the North Dekalb Mall in Decatur! Surf on down to Kavarna for Southern Surf Stomp! dishing out a rockin’ lineup with Crazy Aces, El Capitan & the Band With No Name and Flat Cat! Rock out at 120 Tavern & Music Hall with drivin’ n’ cryin’, Warner E. Hodges (Jason & the Scorchers) and Blackfoot Gypsies (keep your eyes peeled for our Kool Kat interview)! It’s day 1 of the 28th Annual Oyster Fest at The Steamhouse Lounge with a rockin’ line-up featuring Steady Common, Jerry on the Moon, Secondhand Swagger, Radiolucent and The Black Cadillacs! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Katharine Cole and Roxie Watson! Blues it up with Tinsley Ellis at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Dixie Tavern in Marietta! Oi! Oi! Oi! on down to the Drunken Unicorn for Patriot, Hub City Stompers, Antagonizers ATL and DDC! Rock out folk-style at the Red Clay Theatre with Zangaro’s album release show, with Avenue of Giants, The Bitteroots and The Lost Boys! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Ron Cooley! Or blues it up with Barry Richman at Steve’s Live Music! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Folk it up with Tom Rush at Eddie’s Attic! Smith’s Olde Bar dishes out a whole lotta blues in the Music Room with Chris Duarte and the JP Blues Band followed by the Phish cover band, Strange Design! Or for some old-school rock ‘n’ roll, make your way to the Atlanta Room for a night with Back on the Freakout and Slambango! Funk it up with the Rebirth Brass Band and Flow Tribe at Terminal West! Get bluesy with Big Joe & the Dynaflows at Blind Willie’s! The Stella Vees deliver a night of rockin’ blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, February 22

Get really retro at The Strand Theatre during their screening of King Vidor’s silent classic, THE BIG PARADE (1925) at 3pm, accompanied by organist Kool Kat Ron Carter! Rock out at The Earl with Georges Bataille Battle Cry and A Place to Bury Strangers! It’s day 2 of 28th Annual Oyster Fest at The Steamhouse Lounge with City Mouse, Marshall Ruffin, The Western Sizzlers and The Sundogs performing “The Tom Petty & the Hearbreakers” show! The Possum Kingdom Ramblers dish out a night of rockin’ bluegrass covers with Which Dave at the Red Light Café! It’s Sultry Sunday, so jazz it up with Evan Christopher during his Mr. Clarinet Dinner Show at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Blues it up with John Hammond at Eddie’s Attic! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers their Bluegrass Brunch with the Stovetop Ramblers in the Bar Room. Stick around and get funky with Naughty Professor, The Heard and Those Cats! Geek it up on day 2 of the Atlanta Science Fiction & Fantasy Expo at the North Dekalb Mall in Decatur! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! Stephen “The Blues Dude” gets bluesy at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And take the family to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for their screening of Chris Noonan’s BABE (1995) at 2pm!

Ongoing

The Alliance Theatre presents the musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s “Tuck Everlasting”, running through Feb. 22! (LAST CHANCE)

OnStage Atlanta dishes out the infamous horror rock musical, “Little Shop of Horrors”, horrifying through March 28!

The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center presents the “Gilda Radner Research and Translation Center”, an unofficial academic-ish platform for the analysis of Radner’s life and comedy, running through April 11!

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every second Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

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

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every 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.