ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

ATLRetro is the Kat’s meow this ho-ho holiday season! Come see what we’ve dug up for you!

Monday, December 12

Get fancy and swing on by the Hot Jam Holiday Soiree with Taryn Newborn & The Real Deal at the Garden Hills Community Center! Catch a screening of Stanley Kramer’s THE DEFIANT ONES (1958) at the Alpharetta Branch Library at 10:30am! Make your way to the Fox Theatre for an Irish Christmas – A Celebration of Carols! 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, December 13

Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Naughty or Nice event, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Get cozy at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Michael Curtiz’ WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) at 7:30pm! Catch the Devon Allman Band at City Winery! Rock out with Twin Peaks and Golden Daze at Aisle 5! Make your way to The Vista Room for a night with Rick Beato & Friends! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Get heavy Finnish-style with Children of Bodom and more at the Masquerade! Get geeky with Nerd-Core Tuesday Trivia Night’s special Star Wars Trivia at Diesel Filling Station! Tickle your funny bone ‘90s-style at the Fox Theatre with Adam Sandler, David Spade, Rob Schneider and more! Blind Willie’s gets down with the Boohoo Ramblers! 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, December 14

Charlie Brown it up as David Ellington performs “A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS” at Venkman’s! Rock out with The Jesus and Mary Chain at the Masquerade! Get your prog-rock fix with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra at the Gwinnett Center! Bluegrass it up with Chatham County Line at Terminal West! Get some soul with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get cozy at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for an encore screening of Michael Curtiz’ WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) at 7:30pm! TCM Big Screen Classics presents Fred Zinnemann’s FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) at theatres across Atlanta (7pm) [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]; and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Rock out blues-style with Titanium Blue at Smith’s Olde Bar (downstairs), or catch Jazz is PHSH upstairs! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Joe McGuinness! 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 raise a ruckus downstairs in the Little Vinyl Lounge with Cold Heart Canyon, Blood on the Harp and How & Why! 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, December 15

Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for their Bluegrass Pickin’ Party – Holiday Edition! Glam it up at The Star Bar with The Tip (vinyl release show), Gunpowder Gray, Motor Earth, Rad Rex and Sash the Bash! Get your holiday horror fix at Galactic Quest in Lawrenceville during their Spooky Christmas Party featuring the Possum Kingdom Ramblers and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures and more! Take a ride on the Dark Side and may the force be with you at Atlantic Station during their Star Wars Skate Night! Get some soul with The Shadowboxers at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out with Hot Wives and Pretty Please at The Earl! Get jazzy with Ken Ford at Eddie’s Attic! Get down and dirty with The Cazanovas at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night with Space Plow and tasty cocktails! 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, December 16

Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and T. Thomas Mahoney dish out their annual Charlie Brown Christmas shindig for two nights at The Earl with Kool Kat Chad Shivers & The Knights performing The Beach Boys’ Christmas album (night one)! Get down and dirty and psychobilly it up with Reverend Horton Heat, Nashville Pussy, Unknown Hinson and Lucky Tubb & The Modern Day Troubadours at Center Stage! Relive James Brown’s “FUNKY CHRISTMAS” with ATL Collective at Terminal West! Get down with Pasadena, The Howling Tongues and The Beggar Guild at Vinyl! Get your Saint Nick fix with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as they present A Very Merry Holiday Pops at the Woodruff Arts Center! It’s a night of rockin’ outlaws at Avondale Towne Cinema with Shooter Jennings and Jason Boland & The Stragglers! Rock out with The Head (Kool Kat Scott Walker) at 529! Make your way to The Vista Room for an Evening of Steely Dan with Yacht Rock Schooner! Jazz it up with Henry Conerway and Dwight Andrews at the High Museum! Smith’s Olde Bar rocks out with The Vegabonds, Boy Named Banjo, Lagoons and Station 7! Stomp on down for a Chicken Pickin’ Brunch with the Sweet Auburn String Band at Venkman’s and then eighties it up with Saved By the Band! Blues it up with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! Get folksy with the California Guitar Trio at the Red Light Café! Get the blues with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with The Vipers 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, December 17

Rev it up with Kool Kat Big Mike Geier’s Kingsized Holiday Jubilee & Toy Drive at the Variety Playhouse! Catch an encore of Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and T. Thomas Mahoney’s annual Charlie Brown Christmas shindig at The Earl with Kool Kat Chad Shivers & The Knights performing The Ventures’ Christmas album (night two)! Rock out with the Plastic Pinks, Skin Jobs and Bleach Garden at 529! Get naughty (or nice if you must) at The Star Bar’s annual Toys for Tots Show featuring Ghost Riders Car Club (Kool Kat Spike Fullerton); AM Gold; ELZIG; Bad Friend; Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters; JJ & The Hustlers; the Roxy Roz Dancers and more! Pick up some last minute gifts for the weirdos in your life at Pallookaville’s Pop-Up Art Show/Live Painting with JERT! You won’t want to miss the Rock ‘n’ Ska-liday Show at Avondale Towne Cinema with Braxton & The Renditions and Southern Ska Syndicate! Hey kiddies! You won’t want to miss SCADShow’s holiday film feast with free screenings of Dr. Seuss’ classic 1966 short, HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS, followed by Chris Columbus’ HOME ALONE (1990) at 6pm! Or catch a screening of HOME ALONE at Regal Atlantic Station 18; Regal Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); and Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 – (Chamblee) at 12pm! Get folksy with The Solstice Sisters at the Crimson Moon Café! Get to the root of it all with Cody Marlowe at Vinyl! Or folk it up holiday-style at the 25th Annual Celtic Christmas at the Rialto Center for the Arts, running through Dec. 18! Get the blues with Claudette King at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin at Blind Willie’s! The Northside Tavern dishes out a hootenanny and a half with Eddie Tigner and Lola’s Dueling Pianos! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, December 18

Spend the evening with guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel’s Classics & Christmas Tour at the Variety Playhouse, featuring Pat Bergeson, Annie Sellick, John Knowles and more! Rev it up with Rockabilly Kitty Rose at Kavarna! Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with Chickens & Pigs and The Aerials! Get ginger snappy at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s annual Gingerbread Trailer Park Contest! Get the blues with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Scrooge it up at the Alliance Theatre’s 27th season of “A CHRISTMAS CAROL” running through Dec. 24!

Make a trek to the Island of Misfit Toys a.k.a. the Center for Puppetry Arts as they present Jon Ludwig’s adaptation of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, directed by Tim Sweeney, running through Dec. 31!

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

Calling all ghouls and gals! Come see why we think you should raise hell in ATLRetro this Halloween season!

1. Head Rolling Tunes! Get sinister All Hallows Eve weekend with a helluva lot of rancid rock ‘n roll! Rock out ghoul-style at The Star Bar with Elzig (Elvis meets Danzig), The Crush and B.S.O.L. (Oct. 27)! Or celebrate 25 hellacious years with their 25th Anniversary Bash rocking out with Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols tribute); Horror Business (Misfits tribute); and Nameless Nameless (Nirvana tribute) (Oct. 28)! And you must boogie on down during 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 (Oct. 29)! 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 (Oct. 27)! Or get rocked with Mac Sabbath and Black Juju at The Loft (Oct. 29)! The BadAsh Allstar Team hosts a Halloween Monster Jam at 5 Seasons Brewing (Oct. 29)! Get monstrous and go, go Godzilla on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with the Blue Oyster Cult (10/29)! The Earl gets sinister and delivers a night of honkytonk rock ‘n ‘roll with their Halloween Party featuring The Goddamn Gallows, Gallows Bound, The Vaginas and Stump Tail Dolly (Oct. 31)!

2. Fangtastic Films!  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)] (Oct. 27 & 31)! It’s a night of ectoplasmic proportions at Venkman’s with a free screening of Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) at 7pm (Oct. 27)! 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 (Oct. 28)! Venkman’s dishes out a Cartoon Brunch featuring a screening of Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) (Oct. 29)! Or spend the evening with Vincent Price with a screening of Andre DeToth’s HOUSE OF WAX (1953) at The Plaza Theater, running Oct. 28 through Oct. 29! And don’t forget to Time-Warp it up with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975), featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight, with special Halloween treats (Oct. 28-29)! Get bewitched with a screening of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) at dusk at Atlantic Station during their “Spooky Film Fest” (Oct. 28)! Videodrome and JavaVino (JavaDrome) present another rare treat with a screening of David A. Prior’s SLEDGEHAMMER (1983) at 8:30pm (Oct. 28)! 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 (Oct. 27)!

3. Dance with the Dead and BOOgie down!  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 (Oct. 28)! 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 (Oct. 28)! 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 (Oct. 29)! 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 (Oct. 29)! Rock on down to the Masquerade for their 6th Annual Boos & Brews Halloween Party (Oct. 29)! Make your way to Club Famous for Coffin Classics Halloween: Goth, Darkwave, Industrial with Kool Kat VJ Anthony (Oct. 29)! 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) (Oct. 30)! Radio Cult dishes out a “Japanese-Anime” themed Halloween bash at Deep South Deli & Pub (Oct. 28)! Get your ghouls, goblins and ghosts fix at Skyline Park ATL’s Haunted Heights Halloween Bash featuring acrobatics, THRILLER zombies, live DJ, themed cocktails, midway games and more from 8pm-12am (Oct. 29)! Boogie down to Opera Nightclub for their Atlanta Horror Story Halloween Spectacular, featuring costume contests, special drinks, prizes and more (Oct. 29)! Do the Monster Mash at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s annual Halloween Dance Party (Oct. 29)!

4. Gothic & Ghastly.  DJ Silkwolf and DJ Merlot will drag you to Hell at Mary’s during their Goth Nite featuring death rock, post punk, goth anthems and more at 9pm (Oct. 27)! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra gets phantasmal with their Phantom of the Orchestra event at 3pm (Oct. 30)! Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual hour-long Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2015 Ghost Tours, featuring music, a fortune teller and more! Come on out and tiptoe through the graves, make a few new spirited friends and hear the hallowed tales of some of their eternal residents, running from 5:30pm to 10:30pm, through Oct. 30! Or spook on down to the Fox Theatre as they get haunted during their annual Fox Theatre Ghost Tours, chilling your bones through Oct. 30!

5. Horrifying Hikes ‘n’ Haunts.  Nightmares are what this season’s all about! So, spook on down to Netherworld Haunted House in Norcross and spook it up through Nov. 1 (7:30pm-10:30pm week days; 7pm-midnight weekends)! Get terrified at Sinister Suites Hotel of Horror in Griffin, GA, spooking through Oct. 31! A little blood splatter never hurt ya, so trek on down to Carrolton, GA for a helluva lot of haunted hillbillies ‘n’ dead rednecks at Camp Blood, horrifying through Oct. 31! 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 (Oct. 30)!

6. Thrilling and Chilling Theatrics, Art ‘n’ Parades.  Creep on down to The B Complex for the Art Exhibition and Performance Reception for “Will You Be My Nightmare” at 6:30pm (Oct. 27)! Or wake the dead at the Michael C. Carlos Museum’s Mummies & Mixers event featuring music, costumes, as classic Boris Karloff film and more from 7-9pm (Oct. 27)! Be the Headless Horseman’s next victim and get your bones chilled at Serenbe Playhouse’s thrilling presentation of their immersive spooky attraction and show, THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, haunting through Nov. 6 (Wed-Sun at 8pm; Fri-Sat at 10:30pm)! 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 (Oct. 27)! Spook on down to the Buford Highway Halloween Parade and Pop-Up, from 5-8pm (Oct. 29) Make your way to the Atlanta History Center for the Day of the Dead Festival featuring traditional dance, crafts, authentic Mexican food and more (Oct. 30)! Terminus City Tattoo (Duluth) delivers a day full of tricks, treats and tattoos with their 2016 Halloween Bash featuring $50 Halloween tattoos (12-7pm), followed by a killer bash kickin’ off at 8pm, with a costume contest and more (Oct. 29)! 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!

7. Tricks, Treats & A Witchin’ Good Time! Cast a spell and make your way to the Mable House Arts Center’s Hogwarts Halloween at 6pm and 8pm (Oct. 28)! Spook on down to Callanwolde Fine Arts Center for their “Halloween Night on Callanwolde Mountain” family-friendly party featuring trick-or-treating, live music with the Callanwolde Concert Band featuring Matthew Kaminski, costume contests and more (Oct. 28)! Maniacal laughter ensues during The Village Theatre’s Halloween Improv House Party featuring an improvised Salem Witch Trial and more (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!

8. Decaying Eighties.  Eighties it up at Venkman’s with a Totally ‘80s Costume Party featuring Members Only (Oct. 27)! Get strange at Criminal Records during their “Stranger Things: Vol. 1 Soundtrack” Listening Party with special guest Randall P. Havens (Mr. Clarke), a costume contest and more at 7pm (Oct. 28)! BOOgie on down to The Music Room for DJ Jaycee’s Edgewood “Thriller” Michael Jackson Tribute and costume party (Oct. 28)! ATL Collective delivers an evening of rotting flesh as they raise the dead with their performance of Michael Jackson’s Halloween classic, “Thriller” at Terminal West (10/29)! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade deliver a rockin’ ‘80s Halloween Party, featuring a costume contest, a “Thriller” dance class and more at the Wild Wing Café in Suwannee (Oct. 29)!

9. Get Funky and Groove Like a Ghoul!  Put on those dancin’ shoes groove like a ghoul at The Basement as they get down with forty thousand years of funk during their Keep on Movin’ Halloween Dance Party (10/29)! Get terrified from beyond the grave with Here Come the Mummies at City Winery (Oct. 31)!

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

This Week in Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s Meow! Take a peek and see what we’ve found for you!

Monday, May 9

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! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia 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, May 10

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” film series with a screening of Michelangelo Antonioni’s ZABRISKIE POINT (1970) at 7pm! The Atlanta Chamber Players gets retro as they perform “Pierrot Lunaire” with Lucy Shelton at SCADShow! Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: May Flowers edition, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Be at the top of the class at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! 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, May 11

Rock out with Collective Soul at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get a second chance to be at the top of the class at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! 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! 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, May 12

It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Get a second helping of Collective Soul at Smith’s Olde Bar! 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, May 13

Day one of the 3-day 2016 Shaky Knees Festival has arrived at Centennial Olympic Park, chock full of retro-inspired tunes spanning five stages! Rock on down and catch Saintseneca, Kaleo, Craig Finn, Brian Fallon, Baroness, The Struts, Jane’s Addiction, The 1975 and more! It’s Friday the 13th and The Star Bar kills it with a night of punk tributes: Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols), Road to Ruin (Ramones), Horror Business (Misfits) and Salad Days (Minor Threat)! 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 14

Rev on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Blasters, Kool Kat Dave Weil and Blacktop Rockets and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s The Compartmentalizationalists! Day two of the Shaky Knees Festival brings you Strand of Oaks, Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors, JJ Grey & Mofro, Shakey Graves, Deer Tick, The Vaccines, Huey Lewis & The News, The Decemberists and more! Or rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for RatAid 2016, featuring Scarred But Smarter, The Swimming Pool Qs, Kool Kat Ray Dafrico and The Nightporters and Pylon Reenactment Society! Make your way to the 2016 Kirkwood Spring Fling and catch The Glumson Brothers, CC Booker III, Secondhand Swagger, the Atlanta Funk Society, Cadillac Jones, Small Reactions, Kool Kats Gringo Star and more! Catch a screening of Albert Magnoli’s PURPLE RAIN (1984) at the Fox Theatre at 7:30pm! Kool Kat Chad Shivers delivers his Southern Surf Stomp! at Kavarna, surfin’ it up with Tiger! Tiger!, The AmpFibians, The Surge! and DJ Dusty Booze! Shimmy on down to Taverna Plaka for Kool Kat Kitty Love’s Cheeky Belles: Glamour Goddess Revue! 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, May 15

Get your fill of BBQ, Bands and Booze during the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s 29th Anniversary Party, featuring Whoa Nelly, Uncle Daddy & The Kissin’ Cousins, Kool Kat Sen. Artie Mondello, The Evils, Heather Luttrell, The Scragglers, Wasted Potential Brass Band, Boohoo Ramblers, Kool Kat Aileen Loy and Till Someone Loses and Eye, Brawful, Lust and more! Horror it up with Buried Alive Film Fest’s “Beast of Atlanta” event and catch a few screenings and mingle with local indie horror filmmakers at the Joystick Gamebar! Catch Day 3 of the Shaky Knees Festival featuring Murder by Death, Adia Victoria, The Orwells, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Deftones, The Head & The Heart, At the Drive-In and more! 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 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

Hey all you lovers and hep vintage rockin’ romantics! It’s a week of love and lust and romance, oh my! So, if you’re searching for that Funny Valentine or would prefer to forget the day, we have everything your wretched little heart could desire! So, come on out and take a peek at what Retro Atlanta has in store for you!

Monday, February 8

Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Daniel Petrie’s classic, A RAISIN IN THE SUN (1931) at 10:30am! 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, Country Music edition, at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! 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! Bill Sheffield dishes out his acoustic roots and blues at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues 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, February 9

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema delivers their “Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road” series with a screening of THE AMERICAN FRIEND (1977) at 7pm, with an intro and Q&A after the screening! Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday: Hearts & Heartbreakers edition getting’ naughty at the Red Light Café! Paul Leder’s documentary, GOIN’ TO CHICAGO (1991), chronicling the migration of African Americans from the rural south to northern cities after WWII, screens at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center at 4pm! Catch the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s 40th Anniversary screening of Martin Ritt’s THE FRONT (1976) at the Lefont Theatre at 7:20pm! Get funky Big Easy style on Avalon Avenue in Alpharetta during their Mardi Gras Pub Crawl! Or get your Cajun fix and Mardi Gras it up with Hair of the Dog at Steve’s Live Music! Get funky with The Mar-Tans at Blind Willie’s! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! 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, February 10

Get cinematic with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Francois Truffaut’s THE SOFT SKIN (1964) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! Catch a screening of Jerry Zucker’s GHOST (1990) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 7:3opm! The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival presents its second 40th Anniversary screening of Martin Ritt’s THE FRONT (1976) at the UA Tara Theatre at 11:30am! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Sans Abri! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the Boohoo Ramblers! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! 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! Get the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s! 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 11

It’s a night of murder ballads made popular by Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Nirvana and a whole lotta’ bloody maniacal mayhem at The Earl with their second annual Bloody Valentine’s event, featuring Kool Kat Aileen Loy with Till Someone Loses an Eye; circus shenanigans with The Thimberling Circus and more bloody romantic fun! Blackhearts and anti-V-day miscreants, rock on down to The Highlander for their Broken Hearts & Bloody Valentines Art Show, delivering a night of multi-media art! Or, for the black-hearted, make your way to Mary’s for their Goth Nite St. Valentine’s Massacre dance party featuring classic Goth anthems!

Mark Michelson & Friends pay tribute to The Eagles at Steve’s Live Music! Joe McGuinness and Bill Sheffield get down and dirty at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out with Wilco at the Tabernacle! It’s a night of gypsy jazz and bluegrass with the Jon Stickley Trio and Control Burn at the Red Light Café! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at The Pointe (Conyers)! Sweet Betty & The Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Fatback Deluxe dishes out a night of blues at Venkman’s! It’s a night of Texas country and old-time shenanigans at Smith’s Olde Bar with Kinky Friedman, Brian Molnar and The Jugtime Ragband! 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! 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, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, February 12

Valentine’s Day Eve-Eve is chock full of retro shenanigans! Swing on by The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for Douglas Cameron’s 17-piece Big Band! The Famous Pub gets kinky cabaret-style with RITUAL’s Moulin Rouge Valentine’s Day Party, featuring The Black Sheep Ensemble! Get smooth and make your way to Park Tavern for an evening of silly love songs with Yacht Rock Schooner! Or get sinfully seductive at 7 Stages for Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South’s 9th Annual Vixen’s Valentease Vaudeville & Variety Show! The Highwire Comedy Co. presents their Happy Valentine’s Day Mr. President comedy show at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge! The Red Light Café presents THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES benefit performance for V-Day’s One Billion Rising at 8pm!

Jade Lemons hosts “We Can Be Heroes” celebrating the life and music of David Bowie at Smith’s Olde Bar! Rock out at The Star Bar’s Leather Jacket Night featuring performances by M.O.T.O, The El Caminos and The Go Nowheres! Jazz it up with Anat Cohen and the Gary Motley Trio during the Emory Jazz Fest at the Schwartz Center! Cannibal Corpse invades the Masquerade! Rat Pack Now croons on down to the Red Clay Theatre! Catch the premiere of MacGillivey Freeman’s 2013 documentary, NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE, commemorating the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary at the Fernbank Museum’s IMAX! Kool Kats, The Head rocks out at the Drunken Unicorn! Make your way to Center Stage for a night with Todd Rundgren! ‘80s it up at Wild Wing Café in Dunwoody with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Get old-timey with Kool Kat Caleb Warren & the Gents at Nik’s Place! Funk it up with the Atlanta Funk Society at the Elliott Street Pub! Bluegrass it up with the Yonder Mountain String Band at Variety Playhouse! Get to the root of it all with The Donna Hopkins Band at Steve’s Live Music! Blues it up with George Hughley & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Ralph Ellis and The Breeze Kings deliver the blues at the Northside Tavern! Pay tribute to Tom Petty as Refugee rocks out at Venkman’s! Get folksy under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with Lilac Wine! Get some soul with Dark Water Rising at Darwin’s Burgers & 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, February 13

Shake a tail feather this Valentine’s Day Eve! Boogie down at The Star Bar’s Blackheart’s Ball, featuring The Midnight Larks, Shantih Shantih, Coma Girls, and Emily Marie Palmer & Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer! Find some goodies for your sweet/blackheart and make your way to My Parents’ Basement for The Valentine’s Day Bizarre Bazaar featuring 13 local artists and designers, including Kool Kat Chris Hamer of Urbnpop! Ghosts and love collide at the Historic Oakland Cemetery with their Love Stories of Oakland tours running through Feb. 14! Catch a screening of Michael Curtiz’ CASABLANCA (1942) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! ATL Collective presents Sade’s “Love Deluxe” at Venkman’s! Shimmy on down to the Shakespeare Tavern for Hearts Ablaze Production’s Pantheon of Divini-TEASE with Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Kool Kate Persephone Phoenix and more! The Center for Puppetry Arts presents their Valentine’s Date Night (adults-only) with puppet shenanigans and complimentary desserts! Get funky and boogie on down to Aisle 5 for their Funky Good Time Valentine’s Dance! The Red Light Café presents a second performance of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES benefit performance for V-Day’s One Billion Rising at 8pm!

It’s a night of avant-garde and experimental film with Film Love Atlanta’s (Kool Kat Andry Diztler) Jane Wodening in Person event at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center at 7pm [Keep your eyes peeled for our Kool Kat interview with Jane Wodening (Brakhage’s first wife)]! Surf on down to Kavarna for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp! featuring performances by the Beech Benders, Blacktop Rockets and Gemini 13! It’s Big Band Night with the Gary Motley Trio at the Schwartz Center! Catch a screening of John Singleton’s ROSEWOOD (1997) at the Scott Candler Library at 1pm! Rat Pack Now croons it up at the Red Clay Theatre! The Park Tavern presents Oysterfest, featuring live performances by the Shawn Spencer Band, Secondhand Swagger, Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers and Moontower! Get jazzy New Orleans-style with Ruby Red’s Band at Venkman’s, during their Bottomless Mimosa Brunch! Bluegrass it up with the Yonder Mountain String Band at Variety Playhouse for a second time! Get the juke joint blues with The Scissormen at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Dirty Bourbon River Show delivers New Orleans gypsy brass circus rock with Rodeo Twister at The Earl! Get folksy with Tom Rush at Eddie’s Attic! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets down at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Ike Stubblefield at the Northside Tavern! 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, February 14

It’s V-day folks and you know what that means! We’ve dug up a variety of rockin’ vintage shindigs taking place tonight, that we know will get your blood pumping and all set for that shot to the heart, so, keep your eyes peeled for our top picks and comprehensive guide for all things Retro and Valentine-y!

Celebrate 30 years of Howard Deutch’s ‘80s classic, PRETTY IN PINK (1986), screening at several local theatres, including AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; Georgian Stadium in Newnan and Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee) at 2pm/7pm! Get really retro and catch the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s 85th Anniversary screening of Sidney M. Goldin’s HIS WIFE’S LOVER (1931) at Lefont Theatre! Get funky and rock out with Meshell Ndegeocello at Terminal West! Get the blues with Steve “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 Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center transforms into a Parisian bohemian cabaret as the Atlanta Ballet presents “Moulin Rouge: The Ballet”, shaking a tail feather through Feb. 13! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Actors Express murders with their presentation of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” at 8pm, killing through Feb. 28!

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

Hey all you Retro Atlanta kiddies! Start some new holiday traditions this year and let Retro Atlanta guide the way! Whether you’re lookin’ to escape or just needing to get out and breathe, we’ve got a cornucopia of holiday rockin’ fun lined up that will fill you to the brim with giddy! So, come on out and get Retro rockin’ holiday-style!

Monday, November 23

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 really retro and make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of George Cukor’s PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940) at 10:30am! Get fanatic at The Plaza Theater as they screen Rob Reiner’s MISERY (1990), running through Nov. 26! The Hollidays dish out a night of rhythm ‘n’ soul and rock ‘n’ roll at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of “Moto Psychos, Speed Freaks and Auto Obsessions” 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 taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 24

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema dishes out classic cinema with a screening of Martin Scorsese’s RAGING BULL (1980) at 7pm! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with John Oates! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! You won’t want to miss the Susan Chambers Dance Co.’s presentation of “A Christmas Carol – The Musical” at the Gwinnett Center at 11am and 7pm! Blues it up with the Cody Matlock Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, November 25

It’s a night of old-time pandemonium at the Clermont Lounge with Kool Kat Caleb & the Gents, Blood on the Harp and more! Get funky with Zach Deputy at Eddie’s Attic! Or experience Gimme Hendrix at Aisle 5! Rock on down to the Masquerade for a raucous night with Gwar, Battlecross, Harvester and Apothecary! Get your holiday Broadway fix with Cirque Dreams Holidaze at the Fox Theatre! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of Chicago and West Coast blues with the Electromatics! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! 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, November 26

Burn off all the extra Turkey Day stuffing in Retro Atlanta! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! 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 Plaza Theater screens Brian De Palma’s SCARFACE (1983) and Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984), running through Dec. 3! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 27

Spend the evening with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to the tune of John Williams, with their Star Wars and More! musical extravaganza at 8pm! The hills are alive at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre with their sing along and screening of Robert Wise’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) at 8pm! The Blind Boys of Alabama dish out a night of roots, soul and blues at Eddie’s Attic! Skank on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Toasters, Razorcombs and the Southern Ska Syndicate! The Last Waltz Ensemble rock out to the tune of Bob Dylan and The Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with Montana Skies! Get your classic holiday fix with the Northeast Atlanta Ballet as they present “The Nutcracker” at the Gwinnett Center! Stomp on down to the Tabernacle for a night with Blackberry Smoke! Or get the rockin’ blues with the Randall Bramblett Band and Delta Moon at Terminal West! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Get hunted at the Oakland Cemetery with their Harvest Scavenger Hunt, running through Nov. 29! It’s a night of dark ‘80s and industrial with Kool Kat VJ Anthony and his BLACKOUT: Goth Industrial Dance Night at Famous Pub! Make your way to the Red Light Café for Glenn Phillips’ annual Day After Thanksgiving Show! Get your classic rock ‘n’ blues fix with the Barry Richman Band at Steve’s Live Music! Folk on down to The Earl for a night with Thayer Sarrano, 100 Watt Horse and Man Up, Yancey! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues dishes out a night of rhythm soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays! 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, November 28

Get historical at the Oakland Cemetery with their Malts & Vaults: Prohibition Edition at 3pm! Or shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for DJ Doctor Q’s Speakeasy Electro Swing’s Athens Invasion! Retro it up rock and pop-style at the Drunken Unicorn with The Head (record release), Sydney Eloise & the Palms and Chelsea Shag! Rock out folk-style with Shawn Mullins at the Variety Playhouse! Steve’s Live Music offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet! It’s a night of ‘70s psychedelia at The Earl with Kool Kats Spirits & the Melchizedek Children with All Them Witches! Get a second helping of The Blind Boys of Alabama at Eddie’s Attic, followed by Ellis Paul dishing out a night of rockin’ folk! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Tribute’s homage to The Allman Brothers! Get some southern-fried blues with EG Kight at the Crimson Moon Café! Spend a second evening with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to the tune of John Williams, with their Star Wars and More! musical extravaganza at 8pm! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire it up at the Sportsline Bar in Lawrenceville! Blues it up with George Hughley & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! 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, November 29

TCM Presents William Wyler’s classic, ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) in theatres across the Atlanta area at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; GTC Merchant’s Walk Stadium 12 in Marietta; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Or get your classic holiday fix at the Fox Theatre’s annual free event, “Mighty Mo & More! Organ Concert & Sing-A-Long” featuring George Seaton’s MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947) at 4pm! Get your post-punk new wave revival fix with The Wombats and Royal Teeth at The Loft! Make your way to My Parents’ Basement in Avondale Estates for their November Bizarre Bazaar from 2-6pm! Gypsy jazz it up with The Roamin’ Jasmines and the Bonaventure Quartet, featuring Kool Kat Amy Pike at the Red Light Café! Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox dishes out a night of ragtime and swing at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Steve the Blues Dude gets down and dirty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Alliance Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol”, running through Dec. 24!

Center for Puppetry Arts presents their annual puppet adaptation of Larry Roemer’s holiday classic RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964), sleighing through Dec. 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!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, every Tuesday!

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

Hey kiddies! Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s meow! Shake a tail feather and come see what we’ve dug up for you this week! Live la vida Retro!

Monday, November 2

Rock into this week at the Masquerade with Soul Asylum, the Meat Puppets and Hope Country! Get some rockin’ soul and blues it up with Tommy Castro & the Painkillers with the JP Blues Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get satirical and make your way to The Plaza Theater for their screening of Mel Brooks’ classic, SPACEBALLS (1987), running through Nov. 3! 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! 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! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! And Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta!

Tuesday, November 3

Hey all you miscreants, rock on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Coathangers, The Birth Defects and Paralyzer! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema dishes out classic cinema with Vittorio De Sica’s UMBERTO D (1952) at 7pm! Get your ‘90s rock fix at The Loft with Everclear’s Sparkle & Fade 20th Anniversary Tour! May all your dreams come true at the Fox Theatre with their presentation of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA, running through Nov. 8! Get your Dixieland fix at Steve’s Live Music with La Terza Classe! Or get adventurous at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Catch a 60th Anniversary screening of Fred Zinneman’s OKLAHOMA (1955) AT Cinebistro at 7pm and the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 7pm! 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, November 4

Get funky with BJ Wilbanks at Steve’s Live Music! Boogie on down to East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, held the first Wednesday of every month, promising an evening of swingin’ jazz and jive with the Savoy Kings! It’s your last chance to spend the night with Harrison Ford at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Make your way to Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) for their screening of Cameron Crowe’s JERRY MAGUIRE (1996) at 7:30pm! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! 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 with Dry Gulch! 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, November 5

The Star Bar dishes out a night of debauchery with Blue Tower, Forsaken Profits, X-Ray Vision, American Discord, Cadillac Junkies and The Red Phantoms! Sex, Drugs & Bluegrass presents a heinous hootenanny with Kool Kat Caleb & The Gents, the Glen DeMerritt Trio and B.R. Lively at the Red Light Café! Get your psych rock fix with The Chris Robinson Brotherhood at the Variety Playhouse! Blues it up with the Karp Foley Band at Steve’s Live Music! Rock down to The Earl for a night with Goodnight Buffalo, Faithless Town and New Terminus! Catch the Georgia Ensemble Theatre’s presentation of Shakespeare’s classic, “Romeo & Juliet”, directed by David Crowe, running through Nov. 22! 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! 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, November 6

It’s a night of secret agents and espionage at The Highlander as they celebrate the release of the new Bond film, SPECTRE, with a helluva party featuring Band. James Band (See our Kool Kat interview soon!), Map of the Moon and The Shut-Ups! Get funky with Lettuce at the Buckhead Theatre! Catch Film Love Atlanta’s screening of Andy Warhol’s THE LIFE OF JUANITA CASTRO (1965) at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center at 7pm! Get jazzy at The Plaza Theater as they screen Jeff Lieberman’s documentary, THE AMAZING NINA SIMONE (2015), running through Nov. 12! Rock out ‘80s-style at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with Van Heineken (Van Halen tribute), Radio Cult and performances by Blast-Off Burlesque! Folk it up with the Milk Carton Kids at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Rock out blues-style with Loudon Wainright III at Eddie’s Attic! Get gangsta ‘20s-style at the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre with their presentation of “Bugsy Malone”, running through Nov. 8! Stomp on down to the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Skye Paige, The Western Sizzlers and the Todd Prusin Experience. Or funk it up with Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Myles Brown and Alexandria Lushington in the Music Room! Catch a screening of Victor Nunez’ ULEE’S GOLD (1997) at the Toco Hills-Avis G. Williams Library at 1:30pm! Get the Chicago/West Coast blues with the Electromatics at Steve’s Live Music! Get funky with The 200s at the Elliott Street Pub! Stomp on down to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event and boogie under the dinosaurs with The Villain Family! 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, November 7

Get your fill of some tasty chili and a whole lotta foot stompin’ tunes at the 2015 Chomp & Stomp Chili Cook-Off and Bluegrass Festival, featuring the Packway Handle Band; Smokey’s Farmland Band; Little Country Giants; Pretend Sweethearts; the Jugtime Ragband; the Georgia Crackers; Slim Chance & the Convicts; Ghost Dance; The Bow Weevils; Alex & Todd; the HotHouse Peaches; the Front Porch Session Players, In the Wheelhouse and more, beginning at 11am! Shimmy on down to the Shakespeare Tavern for “Gotham: A Tale of Two Faces” presented by Hysteria Machines, featuring drama, defiance, debauchery and more! Or rev on down to The Star Bar for a night with the Belmont Playboys, The Blacktop Rockets and Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with Ghost Riders Car Club! Rock out to some ‘60s/’70s tunes with the Rainmen and Radar at Smith’s Olde Bar! Yacht Rock Schooner gets down at the Little Black Dress Party at the Buckhead Theatre! Get funky with War at the Variety Playhouse! Gareth Asher & Nicki Thrailkill dish out Love Songs with a Side of Whiskey at Steve’s Live Music! Get the soul of Flamenco with Paco Pena at the Rialto Center for the Arts! Stomp on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with the Grassland String Band! Or get some soul, Americana-style with the Smokin’ Novas at Eddie’s Attic! Blues it up with the Jeff Jensen Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, November 8

Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) presents a 75th Anniversary screening of Joe Grant/Dick Huemer’s Disney classic, FANTASIA (1940) at 2pm and 7pm! Celebrate 25 years of Chris Columbus’ holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) in theatres across the Atlanta area at 4:30pm/7:30pm [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; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Rock out with the Toadies and In the Whale at the Masquerade! Kevn Kinney gets down at the Crimson Moon Café! Get groovy as Swami Gone Bananas gets down at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Netherworld Haunted House haunts every weekend through Nov. 8! (LAST CHANCE!)

Be the Headless Horseman’s next victim at Serenbe Playhouse’s chilling presentation of THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, haunting through Nov. 8! (LAST CHANCE!)

Travel back to 1910 Atlanta at the Alliance Theatre with their presentation of Pearl Cleage’s TELL ME MY DREAM, running every weekend through Nov. 8! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Georgia Ensemble Theatre and David Crowe (dir.) present Shakespeare’s classic, “Romeo & Juliet”, running through Nov. 22!

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 Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, every Tuesday!

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

Calling all ghouls and gals! Come see why we think you should raise hell in Retro Atlanta this Halloween season!

1. Head Rolling Tunes! Get sinister All Hallows Eve (weekend) with a helluva lot of rancid rock ‘n roll! The Star Bar gets hellacious this weekend with Hell Night featuring BigFoot, Timmy James & the Blue Flames and Night Terrors on Friday (10/30)! Or get your horror punk fix with their 24th Anniversary Party & Halloween Bash featuring Horror Business, Pretty Vacant, Salad Days, Road to Ruin and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures on Saturday (10/31)! Get monstrous and go, go Godzilla on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with the Blue Oyster Cult (10/30)! Rock out retro-style with The B-52s during their “Halloween Scream” show at the Fox Theatre (10/30)! The Earl gets monstrously metal with their Halloween party featuring Wolf Eyes, Timmy’s Organism, Video and Uniform (10/30)! And Smith’s Olde Bar terrifies with their Howl ‘o’ Ween rockin’ tribute night featuring The Cherry Bomb (Joan Jett); Learning to Count (Ramones); and TNT (AC/DC) (10/30)

2. Fangtastic Films! Halloween just isn’t the same without blood-filled horror flicks! If you’re craving the crazed, catch John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN (1978) at 7:30pm across town [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan] on Thursday (10/29)! The Plaza Theater delivers killer screenings with Gerald Kargl’s ANGST (1983) (10/29); Victor and Edward Halperin’s monstrous classic, WHITE ZOMBIE (1932) (10/30); and don’t forget to Time-Warp it up with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975), featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight, with special Halloween treats (10/30)! Get bewitched with a screening of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) at dusk at Atlantic Station during their “Spooky Film Fest” (10/30)! Ghosts invade Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their 30th Anniversary screening of Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) at 7pm/9:30pm (10/30)! 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 (10/30-10/31)! The 9th Annual Atlanta Horror Film Festival haunts at DooGallery featuring 70 independent horror films from across the world (10/28-10/30)! And get homicidal at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with their screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s horror masterpiece, PSYCHO (1960) at 8pm (10/31)!

3. Dance with the Dead. Do the Monster Mash with DJ Evil Jet at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s annual Halloween Bash (10/31)! Pallookaville celebrates All Hallows Eve and their second year of corndogula slingin’ with their Ice Scream Ball & Halloweiner, featuring drink specials, music, tricks & treats, costume contests and more (10/31)! Or get ghastly and groove on down to Mary’s for their Hallo-Weenie Dance Party (10/30), followed by their Scary-oke! shindig and costume contest on Halloween night (10/31)! 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 (10/30)! Spook on down to Callanwolde Fine Arts Center for their “Halloween Night on Callanwolde Mountain” family-friendly party featuring trick-or-treating, live music with the Callanwolde Concert Band featuring Matthew Kaminski, costume contests and more (10/30)! And party it up in Virginia Highlands with their Halloween Night in the Highlands event featuring costume contests and more (10/31)!

4. Gothic & Ghastly. It’s a night of gothic chills at Atlanta Symphony Hall as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents a night of Danny Elfman’s music from the films of Tim Burton at 8pm (10/31)! Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual hour-long Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2015 Ghost Tours, featuring music, a fortune teller and more! Come on out and tiptoe through the graves, make a few new spirited friends and hear the hallowed tales of some of their eternal residents, running from 5:30pm to 10:30pm (10/29-10/31)!

5. Horrifying Haunts. It’s a gore-fest at Chambers of Horror Haunted House at the Masquerade as they terrify with their adults-only blood-infested splatter-fest [10/29-11/1, 8pm-12am/1am (weekend)]! Or creep on down to Netherworld Haunted House in Norcross and spook it up through Nov. 1 (7:30pm-10:30pm week days; 7pm-midnight weekends)!

6. Thrilling and Chilling Theatrics. Be the Headless Horseman’s next victim and get your bones chilled at Serenbe Playhouse’s thrilling presentation of their immersive spooky attraction and show, THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, haunting through Nov. 8 (Wed-Sun at 8pm; Fri-Sat at 10:30pm)! The Arts Exchange spooks it up with their Halloween 2015 party featuring performance art, a spooky amphitheatre and experimental music at 8pm (10/31)! Get immortal with the Center for Puppetry Arts’ presentation of Jon Ludwig and Jason Hines’ THE GHASTLY DREADFULS: RAISING SPIRITS adults-only spook show filled with creepy stories, devilish dances and more (10/28-10/31; 8pm)!

7. Psychotically Psychedelic. Rattle your bones and get psychedelic at the Red Light Café with their Night of the Dead Halloween Party featuring gr8FLdude & frenz and Dead Affect (10/31)! Or jam it up with Honeywood during their Halloween show at the Crimson Moon Café (10/31)! And it’s “Hawgtoberfest” at Hottie Hawgs BBQ with Swami Gone Bananas (10/31)!

8. Tricks or Tikis! Trader Vic’s takes a big hairy bite out of you with their Werewolves of London Halloween dinner event, featuring a prix fixe menu ($35/person) including monstrous starters, entrées and desserts. Werewolves & Pina Coladas, OH MY! Trader Vic’s calls all werewolves to come in & enjoy Pina Coladas à la Warren Zevon‘s “Werewolves of London” this Halloween! Costumes are encouraged & are worn best if your hair is perfect! Doors Open at 5:00 p.m. (10/30)!

9. Decaying Eighties. ATL Collective delivers two nights of rotting flesh as they raise the dead with their performance of Michael Jackson’s Halloween classic, “Thriller” at Vinyl (10/30-10/31)! Or do the Monster Mash at Steve’s Live Music as they dish out a spooky night with The Lizardmen and Devomatix (Devo tribute) (10/31)! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade deliver a rockin’ ‘80s Halloween show at the Dallas Public House (10/31)!

10. Groove Like a Ghoul! It’s a night of boos and blues as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns get down at their annual Halloween Bamboo Au Go Go Party with The Reverend & the Lady and Yoshito Kiyono at the Northside Tavern (10/31)! Put on those dancin’ shoes groove like a ghoul at The Basement as they get down with forty thousand years of funk during their Keep on Movin’ Halloween Dance Party (10/31)! And get ghastly and groove on down to the The Music Room for the Dangerfeel Newbies’ Soul of Jazz Halloween Jam (10/31)!

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey all you Retro kiddies and blood-lusting miscreants! Get out and get spooked this week as Retro Atlanta gets gory, gussied up and ghostly in celebration of the most haunted and eerie time of the year! Retro Atlanta has everything your wicked little black heart could ever desire, from rockin’ tunes to nightmare-inducing flicks to horrifically exciting Halloween parties you won’t want to miss! So, come on out and haunt with the rest of us!

Monday, October 26

Start your week with a classic with LeFont Theatre’s screening of Orson Welles’ CITIZEN KANE (1941) at 7pm! Or make your way to The Plaza Theater for their killer screening of Gerald Kargl’s ANGST (1983), running through Oct. 29! Rock on down to Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Chris Cornell (Soundgarden)! Blind Willie’s delivers the blues with Fatback Deluxe! 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! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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!’ 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 27

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gets really retro and screens Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s THE RED SHOES (1948), during their “Midtown Cinema Classics” weekly event, at 7pm! Or get beastly and make your way to the Chamblee Library for a screening of Don Taylor’s film adaptation of H. G. Wells’ THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (1977) at 1pm. Rock out with heavy cello at The Earl with Rasputina! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! Celebrate the Atlanta Chamber Players’ 40th Anniversary Season at the Shakespeare Tavern! Cody Matlock delivers the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Bluegrass it up with the Elie Cohen Quartet at Steve’s Live Music! Or take a soulful trip down the yellow brick road to the Charles D. Switzer Library for their screening of Sidney Lumet’s THE WIZ (1978) at 12pm! Get your Steam Punk/neo-classical fix with Fable Cry, The Extraordinary Contraptions and Sarah and the Safe Word at Red Light Café! Get the blues with Cadillac Assembly 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 28

Get old-timey and rock out at The Earl with Rrest, Book Club, Kool Kat Caleb & the Gents, Ben Trickey, Sydney Eloise & the Palms, Ian Fisher and The Quaildogs! 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]! The 9th Annual Atlanta Horror Film Festival kicks off at DooGallery featuring 70 independent horror films from across the world, and runs through Oct. 30! Catch a 50th Anniversary screening of George Cukor’s MY FAIR LADY (1964) at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema at 7pm! Babes in Toyland rock out at the Masquerade! Get satirical and make your way to The Plaza Theater for their screening of Mel Brooks’ classic, SPACEBALLS (1987), running through Nov. 6! Get the blues with the Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! Rory Block delivers a night of country blues at 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 29

Rock out ‘70s post-punk style with Jowe Head (Swell Maps), Cole Alexander (Black Lips), Omni and Flight Mode USA at Eyedrum! Make your way to The Earl for a night with The Lonely Biscuits, Flower and Kaleigh Baker! Get haunted in Atlanta this week with screenings across town of John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN (1978) at 7:30pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Rock out with Black Linen at The Star Bar! Get old-timey with The Law Band, The Darnell Boys and Marshall Seese at Smith’s Olde Bar! Vinyl delivers a night of roots and Americana with Bronze Radio Return and The Roosevelts! Funk it up with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get jazzy with Ronnie Laws and Tom Browne at Suite Food Lounge! Bluegrass it up with Earth by Train and 22 Kings at the Red Light Café! Maria Muldaur dishes out a night of folk ‘n’ blues at Blind Willie’s! Blues Rendezvous 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 with The Mystery Men? and Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers! 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 get gothic at Mary’s during their Goth Nite Dance Party!

Friday, October 30

Spooky shenanigans ensue as Retro Atlanta kicks off Halloween weekend! ATL Collective raises the dead with their performance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” at Vinyl! Go, go Godzilla on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with the Blue Oyster Cult! Rock out retro-style with The B-52s during their “Halloween Scream” show at the Fox Theatre! Ghosts invade Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their 30th Anniversary screening of Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) at 7pm/9:30pm! Get hairy and hula on down to Trader Vic’s for their Werewolves of London & Pina Colada event! 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! It’s Hell Night at The Star Bar, so come on down and rock out with BigFoot, Timmy James & the Blue Flames and Night Terrors! The Earl gets monstrously metal with their Halloween party featuring Wolf Eyes, Timmy’s Organism, Video and Uniform! Get ghastly and groove on down to Mary’s for their Hallo-Weenie Dance Party! UnionEAV hosts DooGallery’s Day of the Dead Art Show, featuring 20+ artists and life music with the Clibber Jones Ensemble, Misery Loves Chachi and more! Smith’s Olde Bar terrifies with their Howl ‘o’ Ween rockin’ tribute night featuring The Cherry Bomb (Joan Jett); Learning to Count (Ramones); and TNT (AC/DC)! Spook on down to Callanwolde Fine Arts Center for their “Halloween Night on Callanwolde Mountain” family-friendly party featuring trick-or-treating, live music with the Callanwolde Concert Band featuring Matthew Kaminski, costume contests and more! Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2015 Ghost Tours, spooking through Oct. 31! Tiptoe through the graves, make a few new spirited friends and hear the hallowed tales of some of their eternal residents! Atlantic Station screens Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) during their “Spooky Film Fest” at dusk! Catch Victor and Edward Halperin’s monstrous classic, WHITE ZOMBIE (1932) at The Plaza Theater! Stick around and Time-Warp it up with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975), featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight, with special Halloween treats! Or 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!

Stomp on down to Grocery on Home for a night with Julia Haltigan! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Jazz it up with Elgin Wells at the Crimson Moon Café! Or blues it up with Tinsley Ellis at the Red Clay Theatre! Honkytonk on down to Terminal West for Whitey Morgan & the 78s! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles rev it up at Motorheads in McDonough! Folk it up with Shawn Phillips at Red Light Café! Steve’s Live Music gets the blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins! Or blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Travel back to 1910 Atlanta at the Alliance Theatre for their presentation of Pearl Cleage’s TELL ME MY DREAM, running every weekend through Nov. 8! And hear your favorite ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s favorites with the Way Back Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Saturday, October 31

IT IS FINALLY HERE! Get mischievous all you miscreants, spooks and ghouls! Pull out your ghastly costumes and get spooky and see what gory galas Retro Atlanta has in store for you! Get creepy and murderous at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with their screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s horror masterpiece, PSYCHO (1960) at 8pm! It’s a night of gothic chills at Atlanta Symphony Hall as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra delivers a night of Danny Elfman’s music from the films of Tim Burton at 8pm! Do the Monster Mash with DJ Evil Jet at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s Annual Halloween Bash! Denim Arcade (Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch) delivers a rockin’ ‘80s Halloween show at the Dallas Public House! The Arts Exchange spooks it up with their Halloween 2015 party! ATL Collective raises the dead with their second performance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” at Vinyl! Get psychotic and psychedelic at the Red Light Café with their Night of the Dead Halloween Party featuring gr8FLdude and Dead Affect! Make your way to My Parent’s Basement in Avondale Estates for their Halloween Comic Fest at 11am! Hop across the pond to Steve’s Live Music for a spooky night with The Lizardmen and Devomatix (Devo tribute)! Or party it up in Virginia Highlands with their Halloween Night in the Highlands event featuring costume constests and more! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns deliver their annual Halloween Bamboo Au Go Go Party with The Reverend & the Lady and Yoshito Kiyono at the Northside Tavern! Get your horror punk fix at The Star Bar with their 24th Anniversary Party & Halloween Bash featuring Horror Business, Pretty Vacant, Salad Days, Road to Ruin and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures! Pallookaville celebrates Halloween and two years of slingin’ corn dogs with their Ice Scream Ball & Halloweiener! The Basement dishes out forty thousand years of funk with their Keep on Movin’ Halloween Dance Party! It’s a night of Scary-oke! and costume contests at Mary’s Halloween night shindig! Jam it up with Honeywood during their Halloween show at the Crimson Moon Café! Smith’s Olde Bar rocks out for Halloween with Kool Kats Blackfoot Gypsies and a rockin’ Bowie tribute, PINUPS! Groove on down to the The Music Room for the Dangerfeel Newbies’ Soul of Jazz Halloween Jam! It’s “Hawgtoberfest” at Hottie Hawgs BBQ with Swami! Sci-fi it up during the Atlanta Sci-Fi Film Festival presented by The Multi-Cultural Sci-Fi Organization at the Fulton County Aviation Community Cultural Center from 1pm to 9pm! 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! 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, November 1

Get your Rodgers & Hammerstein fix at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) with their 60th Anniversary screening of Fred Zinnemann’s classic, OKLAHOMA (1955) at 2pm/7pm! Jazz it up with Emile Worthy at Steve’s Live Music! Or get sinfully sultry at the Masquerade with the Suicide Girls’ Blackheart Burlesque! Get the Dixie blues with Seminole Jackson at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

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

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

Netherworld Haunted House haunts every weekend through Nov. 1! (LAST CHANCE!)

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

Travel back to 1910 Atlanta at the Alliance Theatre with their presentation of Pearl Cleage’s TELL ME MY DREAM, running every weekend through Nov. 8!

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 Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, every Tuesday!

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 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

Get spooked in Retro Atlanta this week! The days are creeping closer and closer to that most haunted pinnacle of fright and terror and we’ve dug up all the spooktacular events in Retro Atlanta this week! Atlanta gets Retro this week with monsters and spooks and gore, oh my! And don’t forget, Retro Atlanta always offers a retro-rockin’ good time! Don’t be a scaredy cat! Come on out and play! We can’t promise you’ll make it home alive, but we can promise you a horrifying good time!

Monday, October 12

Get terror-filled and catch Roger Corman’s MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964) at The Plaza Theater, running through Oct. 15! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Jeff the Brotherhood and Stonerider! Or rock out and funk it up with Flow Tribe and Saturn Valley at Smith’s Olde Bar! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! The Little Vinyl Lounge is rockin’ with a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by the “Queen of Slide Guitar” Skye Paige! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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!’ Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, “Superstitions & Pagan Traditions” edition, 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 13

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: Boolesque Spooktacular! event featuring performances by Ada Manzhart, Bunny Wigglebottom, Anna Coquette, Fianna Flowerchild and more! Or come to pieces at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Catch John Brahm’s THE LODGER (1944) at the Chamblee Library at 1pm! Or follow the yellow brick road to the Charles D. Switzer Library for their screening of Victor Fleming’s THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) at 12pm! Bluegrass it up with Curtis Jones & the Primal Roots at Steve’s Live Music! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up 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! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! 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 14

The Earl rocks out with Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, Telekom and Twisty Cats! Get your ‘70s punk rock fix with the Barreracudas, Shocked Minds, Deaf Wish and GHB at 529! Get spooked and be the Headless Horseman’s next victim at Serenbe Playhouse’s chilling presentation of THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, through Nov. 1! Or catch “The Ghastly Dreadfuls: Raising Spirits” opening at the Center for Puppetry Arts, featuring a costume contest, games, creepy tales, devilish dances and more, creeping through Oct. 31! Evil ensues at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Tobe Hooper’s ‘80s horror classic, POLTERGEIST (1982) at 7:30pm! Or come come on down for your last chance to come to pieces at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Get some soul with Liz Vice at Eddie’s Attic! Folk it up with Ben Sollee and Mother Falcon at Terminal West! Here’s looking at you kid! Make your way to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) for their screening of Michael Curtiz’ classic CASABLANCA (1942) at 7:30pm! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! 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! 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 15

Get your old-school post-punk goth rock fix in Hell with The March Violets at the Masquerade! Joe Jackson dishes out a night of old-school punk and new wave at Center Stage! Catch the opening reception for “The Atlanta Matriarchs of the Civil Rights Movement”, from 5-8pm at Mammal Gallery! Get old-timey with the Bumper Jacksons and Patrick Kinsley & a Fistful of Dollars at the Red Light Café! Folk it up with Patty Griffin at the Variety Playhouse! Get some soul with Aaron Neville at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Rock out with the Old 97’s and Banditos at Terminal West! Cooper Tisdale gets funky at Steve’s Live Music! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva island party! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Heather Luttrell! 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 16

Get your down and dirty rockin’ scumbag revival fix with Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters, The Hooten Hallers, The Atom Age and Phantom Killers at The Star Bar! It’s prohibition pandemonium at Matilda’s Under the Pines with Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for Sadie Hawkins’ Last Pasties Standing: One Hit Wonders event! Atlantic Station screens Richard Donner’s THE GOONIES (1985) during their “Spooky Film Fest” at dusk! Take a bite out of RITUAL’s 7th Annual Vampire Ball at Famous Pub! Make your way to the Arbor Place Mall Books-A-Million (Douglasville) for two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author, Joe McKinney’s signing of the latest in his Dead Land series, THE DEAD WON’T DIE, from 6-7pm! Prom it up at The Plaza Theater for their screening of Brian De Palma’s horror classic, CARRIE (1976) at 7pm! Get your jazzy folk fix with Rasheeda Ali & Mr. Blue Sky at the High Museum! Bluegrass it up with the Packway Handle Band at Eddie’s Attic! It’s Beatle Mania at Atlanta Symphony Hall with the Classical Mystery Tour! 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 Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! The Rainmen dish out a night of ‘60s and ‘70s rock ‘n’ roll at Steve’s Live Music! Get the outlaw blues with Blue Roads at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Blues Hall of Famer, Lazy Lester & the Shadows! 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, October 17

Today is the day all you ghosts and goblins have been waiting for! Little 5 Points business district hosts its annual L5P Halloween Festival & Parade! So, come on out dressed to the bloody nines in your spookiest Halloween costume and get horrorifically haunted! Get fed! Get rocked! And get your flesh to the biggest Halloween parade in the south! The event wakes from the dead at noon and haunts until 11 pm, with an artists’ market, food venders, as well as two stages for live entertainment, The Finley Plaza Stage and the Main Stage. The spooktacular parade of horror runs from 4 to 6 pm on Euclid and Moreland and promises to spook even the bravest of the brave, so pick a spot and hold on tight! Get your faces rocked off with Kool Kats galore and more at the Finley Plaza Stage, with chilling retro-esque performances by the Starbenders, The Mystery Men?, Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, Rumours, Dry Gulch, Metal McDonald and The Dirty Doors! Or rock on down to the Main Stage for Kool Kats The Blackfoot Gypsies, Midnight Larks, The Coathangers and The Biters! Get ghastly, grotesque and rock out at the wildest Halloween party in town! Or cruise on over to the B3 Bar & Grill for their Mama Casino’s Midnight Mass Drive-In Creature Feature at 9pm! Or maybe get monstrous at Hellbender’s Harley Davidson in Marietta during their Monster Mash Anniversary Bash featuring live music, freakshows, a performance by Ghouella Deville, monster pin-ups and more!

Honkytonk on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Bottle Rockets and Mark Olson (The Jayhawks) in the Music Room! Or rock on over to the Atlanta Room for a night with the Stacktone Slims, Mike Borgia & the Problems and Aneurysm! Catch another book signing by Joe McKinney at the Canton Marketplace Books-A-Million from 4:30-6pm! Get a helping of the Classical Mystery Tour at Atlanta Symphony Hall! The Buried Alive Film Festival and Contraband Cinema presents a screening of Shinya Tsukamoto’s TETSUO: THE IRONMAN (1992) at Eyedrum! Boogie on down and get zombified at the Variety Playhouse as Yacht Rock Revue presents a tribute to Michael Jackson’s THRILLER! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for their Rum Tasting Seminar event! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Dixie Tavern! Zoo Atlanta begins their “Boo at the Zoo” event! Folk it up with Collins Drive at Kavarna! Get the blues with Steve “The Blues Dude” at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Evil ensues once again at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Tobe Hooper’s ‘80s horror classic, POLTERGEIST (1982) at 7:30pm! Catch Don Henley at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Grant Green, Jr. gets the blues 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! Get your ‘80s fix with The 80ators at Steve’s Live Music! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack delivers a night of jump, West Coast and Chicago blues with Toots & the Traffics! 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 18

The Red Light Café gets wildly frisky and risqué as they host the madness that is Freaksheaux to Geaux, the live musical and Vaudevillian extravaganza of debauchery that hails from the Big Easy and will be dispersing their twisted brand of flair! Their show will feature the Tinderbox Circus Sideshow, Atlanta’s very own Sadie Hawkins, and a rockin’ cornucopia of music and circus sideshows with a southern gothic twist! It’ll be a shocking night of shenanigans you won’t want to miss! Spend the night with Audrey Hepburn at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) during their 50th Anniversary screening of George Cukor’s MY FAIR LADY (1964) at 2pm/7pm! Polka on down to Steve’s Live Music for a night with The Georgia Polka Connection! 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 Ghastly Dreadfuls: Raising Spirits” spooks at the Center for Puppetry Arts, 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 Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, every Tuesday!

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.