ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

ATLRetro is the Kat’s meow this ho-ho holiday season! If you’re lookin’ for a thrill and the weather’s got you down, get off that couch, put on your dancin’ shoes and live La Vida Retro!

Monday, December 3

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! Jazz it up with Julie Dexter at City Winery! The Plaza Theater gets gory this holiday season with screenings of John Grissmer’s BLOOD RAGE (1987) through Dec. 6 and John Carpenter’s THE THING (1982) through Dec. 4! Or make your way to Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Marietta) screening of Frank Capra’s holiday classic, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) at 7pm! Get super with a 40th Anniversary screening of Richard Donner’s SUPERMAN (1978) at theaters across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! Indie folk it up with Kurt Vile & The Violators with Jessica Pratt at the Variety Playhouse! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack as they dish out The Pork Bellys and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, December 4

The Robert Cray Band gets the blues at the Variety Playhouse! Spend the night with Deal Casino at the Masquerade! Spend the night with Warren G at City Winery! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Get countrified with Martina McBride at Atlanta Symphony Hall! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Get the blues with Andrew Black at Blind Willie’s! Johnny Cash Now pays tribute to the Man in Black at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, December 5

Get sinister as Claudio Simonetti’s GOBLIN performs Suspiria live at Aisle 5! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! Rock out with The Helio Sequence at the Drunken Unicorn! Holiday hilarity ensues at Cobb CineBistro with a screening of Jeremiah S. Chechik’s NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989) at 7pm! Or catch a screening of Jon Favreau’s ELF (2003) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! Or catch a 25th Anniversary screening of Nora Ephron’s SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993) at theaters across Atlanta at 4pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Spend the night with OKCello at City Winery! Get your Americana fix with The Talbott Brothers at Eddie’s Attic! Grunge it up with Smile Empty Soul at the Masquerade! Spend the night with Leslie Odom Jr. at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Kool Kat Quintron and Weather Warlock! Catch a holiday double feature with the “White Christmas” episode of BLACK MIRROR (2014) and Stanley Kubrick’s EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of George Seaton’s holiday classic MIRACLE ON 34th STREET (1947), or catch a screening at The Springs Cinema & Taphouse at 4:30pm/7pm! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! It’s a night of Honky-Tonk Karaoke with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at The Star Bar! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with The Wild Hares! Blind Willie’s jams out with The Cazanovas! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! 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 6

Atlanta’s favorite video store, Videodrome turns 20, so party it up at the Highland Inn Ballroom & Lounge at 7pm during their 20th Anniversary Party! Boogie on down to Out Front Theatre Company for The Ethel Merman Disco Christmas Spectacular, through Dec. 22! Holiday mischief ‘n’ magic ensues at The Plaza Theater as Cineprov riffs K. Gordon Murray’s SANTA CLAUS VS. THE DEVIL (1959) at 7:30pm! Make your way to 7 Stages for some Curious Holiday Encounters, through Dec. 9, featuring The Little Five Points Rockstar Orchestra (Xmas with the Devil) and so many more immersive artist/ensemble performances! Rock out at 529 with The Muckers and Twisty Cats! Or get down to Venkman’s for a night with Forever ’78! The Star Bar gets down with Fox Grin, Mammabear, Fantomen and Jonny & the Jumpmen! Catch a 25th Anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993) at theatres across Atlanta through Dec. 9 [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); AMC Northpoint Mall 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Phipps Plaza 14; and Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18]! Spend the night with Stephen Kellogg at City Winery! Make your way to The Earl for a night with Ben Trickey, Dang Dang Dang and Tag Team! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for Michelle Malone & The Hot Toddies Cool Yule Trio, Brian Fuller, Dylan Marlowe and Brendan Roberts! Bluegrass it up at Terminal West with Tyler Childers and T. Hardy Morris! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Kool Kat Quintron and Weather Warlock! Get jazzy with Four80East at Suite Food Lounge! Get down with The Suffers at the Tabernacle! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Blind Willie’s gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! 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 7

LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH! Help celebrate Videodrome’s 20th Anniversary with a special screening of David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME (1983) at The Plaza Theater at 9:45pm! JURASSIC QUEST invades Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center through Dec. 9! Jam out with moe. at the Buckhead Theatre! Get the blues with the Hughes Taylor Band at the Crimson Moon Café! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Sonia Leigh and Parker Millsap! Make your way to the High Museum for a night with OKCello! Madlife State & Studios delivers a night with ABBA Revisited! “Celtic Guitar God” Robin Bullock and Sue Richards get down at the Red Clay Theatre! Or get you Celtic folk fix with Celtic Thunder at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Swing by the Red Light Café for a night with Luxotica Lounge Cabaret! Bluegrass it up with Tyler Childers at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to Synchronicity Theatre for their production of A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, through Dec. 30! Rock out with Nameless Nameless (Nirvana tribute) and Stone Tribute Pilots at Venkman’s UNPLUGGED event! Northside Tavern gets the old-school blues with Albert White! Get the blues with Little G Weevil at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, December 8

Make your way to Venkman’s for their Bottomless Mimosa Brunch featuring live bluegrass tunes with Dusty Roads! Catch a screening of Brian Henson’s THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992) at the Center for Puppetry Arts at 7pm! Have a little retro holiday cheer at Avondale Towne Cinema during The Rainmen’s Holiday Show with special guests Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers and more! Get bizarre and make your way to Sidebar for Ritual’s Burton Nightmare Bash! The Fox Theatre kicks off the holiday season with THE NUTCRACKER, through Dec. 24! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for a screening of Tim Burton’s BATMAN RETURNS (1992)! Jam out with moe. for a second night at the Buckhead Theatre! Get jazzy with Kenny Latimore at City Winery! Get down with Betsy Franck at the Crimson Moon Café! Get down to The Earl for a night with Sarah & The Safe Word, Blood on the Harp and Maggie Valley! Blues rock it up with Jacks River Band and Charlie Mars at Eddie’s Attic! Get rocked with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra at the Infinite Energy Center! The Regrettes rock out at the Masquerade! Get naught ‘n’ nerdy at the Red Light Café during The Fandom Nerdlesque’s Christmas with the Joker! Funk it up with AJ Ghent at Serenbe Inn! Get garage rocked at The Star Bar with K. Michelle Dubois, Tigers and Monkeys and DJ Full Metal Mustache! Twang on down to the Variety Playhouse for The Whiskey Gentry! Don’t shoot your eye out during screenings of Bob Clark’s A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) at theatres across Atlanta at 12pm [Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Spend the night with Anna Moon at Deep End! Tribute celebrates The Allman Brothers at the Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get sweet and lowdown with Sweet ‘n’ Salty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, December 9

The Plaza Theater unveils a very special treat with a screening of Victor Sjostrom’s THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (1921) with live accompaniment by the Fox Theatre’s organist Ken Double and the Mighty Allen Organ at 5pm! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Michael Curtiz’ WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Support our local artists and stuff your stockings with vintage goodies during Indie Craft Experience’s Holiday Market Spectacular at Yaarab Shriners at 11am! Or make your way to Battle & Brew’s Krampusnacht Holiday Market from 5-1opm! Start some new frightening holiday family traditions with Junkman’s Daughter’s Photos with Krampus event at 1pm! Get jazzy at Venkman’s during their Smooth Jazz 101.1FM Holiday Soiree! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Jon Favreau’s holiday classic ELF (2003) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or make your way to Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Marietta) screening of Chris Columbus’ holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) at 12pm! Swamp rock it up with JJ Grey at City Winery! Spend the night with Wyatt Espalin at the Crimson Moon Café! Get down with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Head on over to Terminal West for a night with JD McPherson and Eddie Angel’s Guitar Party! Prog rock it up with Steven Wilson at the Variety Playhouse! Blind Willie’s gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

The Aurora Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL through Dec. 22!

Boogie on down to Out Front Theatre Company for The Ethel Merman Disco Christmas Spectacular, through Dec. 22!

The Aurora Theatre delivers their Christmas Canteen, through Dec. 23!

Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23!

The Fox Theatre kicks off the holiday season with THE NUTCRACKER, through Dec. 24!

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents a holiday favorite classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, through Dec. 30!

Horizon Theatre stages world premiere of WAFFLE PALACE CHRISTMAS, through Dec. 30!

Horizon Theatre presents MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS through Dec. 30!

Synchronicity Theatre presents A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, through Dec. 30!

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

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

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

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

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

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

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

Monday, November 26

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!” Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get down with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck at Blind Willie’s! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 27

Get adventurous as the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Classics Series with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989) at 7pm! Get down with the Middle Ages with a screening of Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones’ MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) at The Plaza Theater at 10pm! The Fox Theatre presents IRVING BERLIN’S WHITE CHRISTMAS THE MUSICAL, through Dec. 1! Get folksy with Harry Hudson at Vinyl! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Get super with a 40th Anniversary screening of Richard Donner’s SUPERMAN (1978) at theaters across Atlanta at 3pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Blind Willie’s gets the blues with Bob Page! Blues it up with the Crosstown Allstars at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, November 28

Emory Cinematheque kills it with their “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” series with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS (1963) at 7:30pm! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! Have a monsterific holiday with a screening of Joe Dante’s GREMLINS (1984) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! Catch a screening of Richard Curtis’ LOVE ACTUALLY (2003) at Cobb CineBistro at 7pm! Miles Jaye jazzes it up at City Winery! The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Catch a tasty double feature with Gabriel Axel’s BABETTE’S FEAST (1987) and Juzo Itami’s TAMPOPO (1985) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Shoot your eye out and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Bob Clark’s holiday classic, A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) at 7:30pm, or catch a screening at The Springs Cinema & Taphouse at 3:30pm/7:45pm! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! It’s a night of Honky-Tonk Karaoke with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at The Star Bar! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Blind Willie’s rocks out with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! 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 29

Make your way to The Plaza Theater for the Y’allywood Film Festival, running through Dec. 1! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents Rachmaninov Revisited at 8pm! Rock on down to the Clermont Lounge for Beer & Lounging with The Rock*a*teens and more! Folk rock it up with Dead King Cotton and Alex & Todd at the Red Light Café! Funk it up with Moses Mo at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out at The Star Bar with the Highriders, Bad Friend and JJ & The Hustlers! Get some soul with Dave Hollister at City Winery! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Lost Dog Street Band, South Hill Banks and Broken String Band! Make your way to Venkman’s for Ladies of ‘60s Soul! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get down with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns at Blind Willie’s!Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 30

Elton John brings his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour to the State Farm Arena (formerly Phillips Arena)! Runnin’ Down a Dream pays tribute to Tom Petty at Smith’s Olde Bar with Clashinista paying tribute to The Clash! Boogie down with DJ Saasha Foo at Avondale Towne Cinema! Or make your way to Mary’s for their 20th Anniversary Party! The Plaza Theater gores it up with screenings of John Grissmer’s BLOOD RAGE (1987) and John Carpenter’s THE THING (1982), through Dec. 6! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for the Queerly Beloved Revue! Rock out at The Earl with Mercyland Historical Abstract, The Gotobeds, Air-Sea Dolphin, Honey Radar and 86! Delta Moon gets rootsy at Eddie’s Attic! The Star Bar rocks out with Sash the Bash, The Tenders, Smoota and Chrome Castle! Folk rock it up with Don McLean at City Winery! Spend the night with Bobby McFerrin at Atlanta Symphony Hall! The Sundogs present The Tom Petty Show with Pony League at Terminal West! Boogie down to Park Tavern for a Throwback to the ‘90s party! Make your way to Aisle 5 for a night with LaGoons, Displace and Kenosha Kid! Get some retro soul with Wren and the Wravens during their Merry Funkin’ Christmas show at Venkman’s! Northside Tavern gets the rockin’ blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins! Blues it up with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, December 1

Rock out with Dragon Sound as the Y’allywood Film Festival presents a 30th Anniversary screening of Y.K. Kim/Park Woo Sang’s MIAMI CONNECTION (1987) at The Plaza Theater, with Kool Kat Brian Lonano’s BFF GIRLS (2018) at 7pm! Rock out with the Richard Thompson Electric Trio at the Variety Playhouse! The Atlanta Funk Society gets down at Venkman’s! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents Rachmaninov Revisited at 8pm! Catch a screening of Jonathan Demme’s PHILADELPHIA (1993) at Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18! Geek it up at the Infinite Realities Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting! Spend A Victorian Holiday at the Historic Oakland Cemetery from 10-4pm, with a Holiday Tour of Eternal Homes, carols, a reading of “The Night Before Christmas”, hot cocoa and more! You won’t want to miss Avondale Estate’s Jingle Mingle Mile Artists Market, from 11am – 7pm! The Horizon Theatre presents MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS through Dec. 30! For the rebellious ones in your lives, you’ll want to make it to Allied Ink Tattoo’s Punk Rock Flea Market, from 4-9pm! Elton John brings his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour to the State Farm Arena (formerly Phillips Arena)! The Red Light Café gets down and dirty with the Dirty Dolls Burlesque Revue! Get rocked at The Earl with Magnapop, Elf Power, Motherfucker, Black to Comm (MC5 tribute) and The Rock*a*teens! Get some soul with Diane Durrett & Soul Suga at Eddie’s Attic! Garage rock it up with White Animals at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get down with W8ING4UFOs at Kavarna! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for AN EVENING WITH LUTHER & WHITNEY! Rock out with Ghost Light and Orange Constant at Terminal West! Spend the night with Anna Moon at Deep End! Get down with Cody Matlock at the Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Get down with Albert Castiglia at Blind Willie’s! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, December 2

Catch a screening of Ken Hughes’ CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (1968) at The Plaza Theater! Or make your way to Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Marietta) screening of Frank Capra’s holiday classic, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) at 12pm! Or catch a 25th Anniversary screening of Nora Ephron’s SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993) at theaters across Atlanta at 1pm/4pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Make your way to the Red Light Café for The Throne Room: A Royal Tease Experience! Bluegrass it up with The Cleverlys at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to the Rialto Center for the Arts for The Celtic Company’s Gala Holiday Concert! Funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

The Aurora Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL through Dec. 22!

The Aurora Theatre delivers their Christmas Canteen, through Dec. 23!

Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23!

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents a holiday favorite classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, through Dec. 30!

Horizon Theatre stages world premiere of WAFFLE PALACE CHRISTMAS, through Dec. 30!

Horizon Theatre presents MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS through Dec. 30!

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

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

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

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

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

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey all you ATLRetro Kool Kiddies! Start some new holiday traditions this year and let us 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 rock out ATLRetro holiday-style!

Monday, November 19

Kevin Bales and Keri Johnsrud bring you Beyond the Neighborhood: The Music of Fred Rogers at Venkman’s! Folk it up with The Bad Hats and Ghost Moths at the Red Light Café! Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema screens Sasha Waters Freyer’s documentary GARRY WINOGRAND: ALL THINGS ARE PHOTOGRAPHABLE (2018), through Nov. 22! Synth-pop it up with VNV Nation at the Masquerade! Psyche rock it up with Jim James at the Tabernacle! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! GKIDS Presents a Studio Ghibli Fest screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (1989) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 20

Videodrome and The Plaza Theater head into the shadows with a NOIRVEMBER screening of Michael Curtiz’ MILDRED PIERCE (1945) at 7pm! Or get adventurous as the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Classics Series with a screening of Robert Zemeckis’ ROMANCING THE STONE (1984) at 7pm! Surf on down to City Winery for a night with The Expendables! Get folksy with Caroline Herring and Caroline Aiken at Eddie’s Attic! Billy Raffoul dishes out a night of Jeff Buckly-esque tunes at the Masquerade! Get your Americana fix with Lynn Drury at the Red Light Café! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! GKIDS Presents a Studio Ghibli Fest screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (1989) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Blues it up with the Crosstown Allstars at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, November 21

Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with I Want Whiskey, Grand Prize Winners From Last Year and The Villain Family! The Plaza Theater hosts SONIC YOUTH: 30 YEARS OF DAYDREAM NATION, a night of films and talks, with band member Steve Shelley and filmmaker Lance Bangs in attendance at 7:30pm! Groove on down to Venkman’s for Yacht Rock Revue’s Turkey Eve Show! Grunge it up at 529 with Wrong, Bleach Garden and Dayglo Mourning! Tribute celebrates The Allman Brothers at City Winery! ATL Collective presents Stevie Wonder’s TALKING BOOK at Eddie’s Attic! Rock on down to the Fox Theatre for a night with the Manchester Orchestra and The Front Bottoms! Jam it up with Perpetual Groove and Chill Mickelson at Terminal West! Rumours pay tribute to Fleetwood Mac at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Chris Columbus’ holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) at 2:30pm/7:30pm, or catch a screening at The Springs Cinema & Taphouse at 1pm/7:30pm! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! It’s a night of Honky-Tonk Karaoke with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at The Star Bar! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! 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 22

Burn off all that extra Turkey Day stuffing in ATLRetro! Eighties it up at The Star Bar as DJ Kahle helps you boogie away those extra pounds! Get horrorfied family-style at The Plaza Theater with a screening of Barry Sonnenfeld’s ADAMS FAMILY VALUES (1993) at 9pm! Rock out at The Highlander with DJ Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 23

The Star Bar dishes out a hootenanny and a half with The Outlaw Women Band featuring Sash the Bash, Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley, Skye Paige, Ana Balka, Amy Epperley, Andrew Knox & Jay Hedberg, Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and more! Funk it up with Mother’s Finest at the Buckhead Theatre! Garage rock it up with The Black Lips, Iceage and Sorfbort at The Earl! Garage rock it up with The Black Lips, Iceage and Sorfbort at The Earl! The Chi-Town Transit Authority pays tribute to Chicago at Avondale Towne Cinema! The Street Fighting Band with Kool Kat Rich Desantis rock out with a tribute to The Rolling Stones at The Vista Room! Get down with the Middle Ages with a screening of Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones’ MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) at The Plaza Theater! The Aurora Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL through Dec. 22! Groove on down to Venkman’s for Yacht Rock Revue! Make your way to City Winery for a night with Tinsley Ellis and Tommy Castro & The Painkillers! Spend the night with David Lowery (Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker) and Kristy Lee at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to the Fox Theatre for Straight No Chaser! Korpiklaani folk rocks it up all the way from Finland, with Arkona, at the Masquerade! Glenn Phillips rocks out at his Annual Day After Thanksgiving Show at the Red Light Café! Get instrumental with STS9 at the Roxy! The Last Waltz Ensemble and the Last Electric Rodeo rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar! Blues it up with Larry Griffith at Solis Two Porsche Drive! Make your way to the Tabernacle for a night with Blackberry Smoke! Jam it up with Perpetual Groove at Terminal West! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the rockin’ blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins! Cody Matlock and Ross Pead get the blues at the Northside Tavern! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, November 24

Get glam rocked at The Star Bar with The Unsatisfied and The Accidents! Get a second rockin’ helping of The Black Lips, Iceage and Sorfbort at The Earl! Get folksy with Ellis Paul at Eddie’s Attic! Folk rock it up at the Variety Playhouse for a night with Shawn Mullins with Michelle Malone & Drag the River! Who’s Bad dishes out the ultimate Michael Jackson experience at City Winery! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at the Tannery Row Ale House in Buford! Desire pay tribute to U2 at The Vista Room! Funk it up for a second night with Mother’s Finest at the Buckhead Theatre! Make your way to the Red Light Café for a night with PerkinsWood, Flap, and Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel! Get instrumental with STS9 at the Roxy! Zydeco on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with The Squirrelheads, The Mia Green Band and Webster! The REMakes pay tribute to R.E.M. at Venkman’s! Departure pays tribute to Journey at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Get the blues with Nick Moss at Blind Willie’s! Get your Americana fix with Great Peacock at Terminal West! Get the blues with Ron Cooley & The Hard Times at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get down with Cody Matlock and Bill Sheffield at the Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, November 25

Get your weird ‘n’ wacky holiday shopping off to a good start at My Parents’ Basement November Bizarre Bazaar at 12pm! Get some soul with Miki Howard at City Winery! Or Motown it up with Will Downing at the Cobb Energy Centre! Feast your eyes on Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South for a good cause during the 11th Annual Toys for Tots & Variety Show at 7 Stages! Shoot your eye out and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Bob Clark’s holiday classic, A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get super with a 40th Anniversary screening of Richard Donner’s SUPERMAN (1978) at theaters across Atlanta at 3pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! Get the blues with Garrett Collins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

The Michael C. Carlos Museum exhibits Chimera: Andy Warhol through the 1980s, through Nov. 25! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Aurora Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL through Dec. 22!

The Aurora Theatre delivers their Christmas Canteen, through Dec. 23!

Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23!

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents a holiday favorite classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, through Dec. 30!

Horizon Theatre stages world premiere of WAFFLE PALACE CHRISTMAS, through Dec. 30!

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

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

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

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

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

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Kick off the holiday season with ATLRetro! Come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve found for you!

Monday, November 12

The Plaza Theater giallos it up with screenings of Dario Argento’s DEEP RED (1976) through Nov. 13, or catch a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) at 9:15p! Peter Bogdanovich’s documentary THE GREAT BUSTER: A CELEBRATION (2018) screens at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, through Nov. 15! Get the blues with Shemekia Copeland at City Winery! Rock out with The Mercury Program and Dove Legs at The Earl! Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm! Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski’s BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM (1993) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]; Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Get down with Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra at the Variety Playhouse! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!” Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 13

Get monstrous as ATLRetro’s very own “Chilleress in Charge”, Anya Martin kills it with her SLEEPING WITH THE MONSTER Book Launch Party at Eagle Eye Book Shop at 7pm! Videodrome and The Plaza Theater head into the shadows with a NOIRVEMBER screening of Otto Preminger’s LAURA (1944) at 7pm! Get your Americana fix at City Winery with Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Milton! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for American Troubadours in the Round featuring Wyatt Espalin, Barb Carbon, and Hannah Thomas! Get your old-school electronica fix with The Orb at Terminal West! The Center for Puppetry Arts brings back a holiday favorite classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, through Dec. 30! AJFF Connects brings you a screening of Barbara Streisand’s YENTL (1983) at The Phillip Rush Center at 6pm! Spend the night with Bogart and Hepburn at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema as they continue their new Classics Series with a screening of John Huston’s THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951) at 7pm! Feast your eyes on Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South during Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Stripsgiving at the Red Light Café! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Blues it up with the Crosstown Allstars at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, November 14

Kick off the wickedly weird and bone-chilling adventure that is the 13th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival (BAFF), Atlanta’s premiere independent horror film festival presented by Kool Kats Blake Myers and Luke Godfrey and more, with screenings at 8pm of the 2018 Sinema Challenge, a thirteen day filmmaking competition, judged by Kool Kat Millie De Chirico and Marcus Rosentrater, at 7 Stages! Emory Cinematheque kills it with their “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” series with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO (1960) at 7:30pm! Catch a screening of Penny Marshall’s A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (1992) presented by WUSSY MAG at The Plaza Theater at 7pm! LeVar Burton Reads Live at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Franklin J. Schaffner’s PATTON (1970) at 2:30pm/7:30pm, or catch a screening at The Springs Cinema & Taphouse at 2pm/8:10pm! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a 30th Anniversary screening of John McTiernan’s DIE HARD (1988) at theaters across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/ Duluth/Marietta); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Funk it up with the Magic City Hippies at Aisle 5! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Gabe Dixon! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! It’s a night of Honky-Tonk Karaoke with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at The Star Bar! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! 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 15

The 13th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival officially begins tonight, horrifying through Nov. 18, and begins at 7pm, and you won’t want to miss Kool Kat Dayna Noffke’s short TEASER during the For the Love of the Undertaker program block, and our Kool Kat of the Week William Tokarsky (interview coming soon) in the Opening Night Feature, Joe Baden’s THE GOD INSIDE MY EAR (2017) at 9pm! Make your way to the Fox Theatre for IN DREAMS: ROY ORBISON HOLOGRAM TOUR, backed by The Georgia Symphony Orchestra! PlazaDrome presents a screening of James William Guercio’s ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE (1973) at The Plaza Theater at 9:30pm! Spend the night with Kevin Griffin (Better than Ezra) at City Winery! Get folksy with Alex Guthrie at Madlife State & Studios! Get down with the BadAsh Allstar Team at the Red Light Café! Parker Gispert (The Whigs) and Billy Stonecipher rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar! Bluegrass it up with Billy Strings at Terminal West! Get your ‘80s pop-esque fix with The Stolen at the Masquerade! The Aurora Theatre kicks off their Christmas Canteen, through Dec. 23! Disco it up at Venkman’s with the O4W Disco Boogie Band during Thursday Night Fever! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 16

Get your terrified tail down to the 13th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival for a helluva lot of monstrous goodness beginning at 6pm, including a special screening of Carl Boese and Paul Wegener’s THE GOLEM (1920) at 10pm, with a live soundtrack by Samadha, and get exploited with a midnight grind-house screening of Kool Kat James Bickert’s AMAZON HOT BOX (2018)! Jangle on down to The Star Bar for a night with Tiger! Tiger!, Anna Kramer & The Lost Cause and The Wheel Knockers! Get the rockin’ blues with the Freddy Jones Band at Venkman’s! Get bewitched during CONJuration through Nov. 18, at the Hilton Atlanta Airport! Horizon Theatre stages world premiere of WAFFLE PALACE CHRISTMAS, through Dec. 30! Folk it up with Iron & Wine at the Buckhead Theatre! Spend the night with Rik Emmett and Dave Dunlop at City Winery! Garage rock it up with Ron Gallo, Ian Ferguson and Twen at The Earl! Head to Heaven at the Masquerade for a night with Blue October and Knox Hamilton! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at The Vista Room! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at The Wing in Marietta! Groove on down to Jimmy’s Tequila & Carnes in Doraville for a night with Yacht Rock Schooner! Spend the night with Mo Lowda & The Humble at Vinyl! Get countrified with Boxcar Radio and Jackson County Line at Avondale Towne Cinema! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Art Holliday! Stoney Brooks and Andrew Black get the blues at the Northside Tavern! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, November 17

The 13th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival kicks off at 2pm! Today’s goodies include a special presentation from The Eyeslicer, featuring shorts by Kool Kat Brian Lonano (CROW HAND (2014)/GWILLIAM’S TIPS FOR TURNING TRICKS INTO TREATS) and more! And experience a blood-sucking good time with Blast-Off Burlesque’s film series TABOOLALA, featuring a live pre-screening performance, paying homage to Joel Schumacher’s cult classic, THE LOST BOYS (1987), followed by a screening of the film at 10pm! It’s Prohibition pandemonium at Venkman’s with Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers! War funks it up at Center Stage! Eddie’s Attic delivers the “Acoustic Ninja” Trace Bundy! Jazz it up with Kamasi Washington at the Buckhead Theatre! Get to Venkman’s early for a screening of Disney’s THE LION KING (1994) at 10am, followed by an early show with The Coonhounds paying tribute to Tom Petty! Get your holiday shopping off to a good start at My Parents’ Basement during I Remember That! Vintage Toys, Comics and Video Game Market! Or make your way to the Georgia Railroad Freight Depot for the 14th Annual Indie Craft Experience Holiday Shopping Spectacular! Psyche rock it up with Desert Noises and Morning Teleportation at the Masquerade! Rock out at Avondale Towne Cinema during The Who Jam! O.D.D. rocks The Star Bar with Bigfoot and Blowdown! Get rocked Viking-style at The Highlander with VALKYRIE with Kool Kat Shane Morton, and Degradations! Catch a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) at The Plaza Theater at 9:45pm, through Nov. 18! Charlie Hunter gets down at the Red Light Café! Get the blues during Mr. Chapman’s Quarterly Revue at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get down with Sammy Blue and Bill Sheffield at the Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, November 18

It’s your last chance to gore it up at the 13th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival, so come on out for some fangtastic films beginning at 12pm, including an encore special screening of Carl Boese and Paul Wegener’s THE GOLEM (1920), with a live soundtrack by Samadha! The Plaza Theater hosts a crazy little thing called love with their Freddie Mercury Tribute Pub Crawl through Virginia Highland ending up at the theatre with a special screening of QUEEN: A NIGHT IN BOHEMIA, from 3pm – 9pm! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for Kool Kat Ron Carter and Organ Friends Pops Music Show! Hot Jazz it up at Venkman’s with the 9th Street Stompers and Kool Kat Caleb & the Gents! Get the fever at the Masquerade with Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band’s CD Release Show! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Chris Columbus’ holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! GKIDS Presents a Studio Ghibli Fest screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (1989) at theatres across Atlanta at 12:55pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Spend the night with Glenn Jones at City Winery! Get the blues with Garrett Collins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

The Michael C. Carlos Museum exhibits Chimera: Andy Warhol through the 1980s, through Nov. 25!

The Aurora Theatre delivers their Christmas Canteen, through Dec. 23!

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents a holiday favorite classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, through Dec. 30!

Horizon Theatre stages world premiere of WAFFLE PALACE CHRISTMAS, through Dec. 30!

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

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

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

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

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

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

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

Monday, November 5

Rock on down to The Earl for a night with the Smoking Popes, The Pink Spiders and Amuse! Goth it up with The Birthday Massacre, Julien-K and Ghost Fader at the Variety Playhouse! The Plaza Theatre giallos it up with screenings of Dario Argento’s THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (1970) through Nov. 7!  Groove on down to City Winery for a night with Bumpin the Mango! Landmark Midtown Art Cinema screens James Crump’s documentary ANTONIO LOPEZ 1970: SEX, FASHION & DISCO (2018), through Nov. 8! Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm! Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 6

Videodrome and The Plaza Theater head into the shadows with a NOIRVEMBER screening of Stanley Kubrick’s THE KILLING (1956) at 7pm! And stick around for a bloody fantastic time with a screening of Dario Argento’s SUSPIRIA (1977), through Nov. 8! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their new Classics Series with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984) at 7pm! Make your way to 529 for a night with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer, Myke Johns and Ben Trickey! Get jazzy at Center Stage with Allen Sloan and Nick Waterhouse! Or get heavy and rock out at The Earl with King Buffalo, Dead Now and the Mathis Hunter Band! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Blues it up with the Crosstown Allstars at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Ramble on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the Redstone Ramblers! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, November 7

Emory Cinematheque kills it with their “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” series with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) at 7:30pm! Or get intergalactic at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) at 2:30pm/7:30pm, or catch a screening at The Springs Cinema & Taphouse at 6:40pm! Boogie down with Billy F. Gibbons and Benton Blount at the Variety Playhouse! Honky-tonk on down to The Earl for Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, Hunger Anthem and Reconciler! Folk it up with the Fruit Bats and Vetiver at Eddie’s Attic! Sludge on down to Heaven at the Masquerade for a rockin’ night with High on Fire, Municipal Waste, Toxic Holocaust and Haunt! Get freaky and make your way to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with the Hellzapoppin Circus Sideshow Revue! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Spend the night with Robyn Hitchcock (Soft Boys) and Max Putnam at City Winery! Catch a screening of Robert Zemeckis’ FORREST GUMP (1994) at Cobb CineBistro at 7pm! It’s a night of Honky-Tonk Karaoke with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at The Star Bar! Make your way to the Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) screening of Tim Burton’s BATMAN (1989) at 7:15pm! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with Frankie’s Blues Mission! The Cazanovas host a Blues Jam at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! 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 8

Honky-tonk on down to the Clermont Lounge for a night with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and Ghost Riders Car Club! Or spend the night with Brian Wilson at the Fox Theatre! Celebrate 20 years of The Dude with a screening of the Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) at The Plaza Theater at 7pm! Get your Americana fix with Will Hoge and Ryan Culwell at City Winery! Or spend the night with Darden Smith at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out at The Highlander with DJ Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons and Danny Hutchins! Folk it up with Davin McCoy at Solis Two Porsche Drive! Spend the night with Robert Earl Keen and Adam Wright at the Variety Playhouse! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes with Coast Guard and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 9

New wave it up with The Swimming Pool Q’s at The Vista Room! Get rocked at the Drunken Unicorn with Bad Spell, Twisty Cats, The Minks and Black Cat Rising! Hot Licks & Rhetoric pay tribute to Steely Dan at Jimmy’s Tequila & Carnes! Peter Bogdanovich’s documentary THE GREAT BUSTER: A CELEBRATION (2018) opens at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema! The Los Lonely Boys roots rock it up at City Winery! Spend the night with Adrian Legg at the Crimson Moon Café! Get down with Patrick Davis & His Midnight Choir at Eddie’s Attic! Or get country-westerned with The Vaudevillains at the Red Light Café! Jam it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with the Affected Phamily Band! The Gordon Vernick Quartet jazz it up at Solis Two Porsche Drive! Slightly Stoopid get psychedelic at the Tabernacle! Get rocked ‘60s/’70s-style with The Rainmen and Penny Western at Tin Roof Cantina! Get folksy with River Whyless and Takenobu at Vinyl! Jazz it up at Park Tavern with YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND, a musical cabaret featuring Lynn Loosier! The Theatre Project presents SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN at the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre, through Nov. 11! Get grindin’ with Courtney Daly at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Wild Wing Café in Dunwoody! Debbie Bond gets the blues at the Northside Tavern! Blind Willie’s gets down with Selwyn Birchwood! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, November 10

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema celebrates Buster Keaton with double-bill matinee screenings of his SHERLOCK JR (1924) and SEVEN CHANCES (1925) at 11am! Explore death in the avant garde tradition of the European salon and café philos at Death Café #50 at the Historic Oakland Cemetery at 3pm! Gypsy jazz it up with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet at Eddie’s Attic! Rock on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for a Pink Floyd Jam! Gary Brewer & The Kentucky Ramblers bluegrass it up at the Crimson Moon Café! Get some soul with Emily King at the Variety Playhouse! Spend the night with Neon Queen at The Vista Room! Back N Black pay tribute to AC/DC at Wild Wing Café in Dunwoody! Rock out at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre as the Georgia Players Guild pays tribute to the songs of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Creedence Clearwater Revival! Catch a screening of Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) at Venkman’s at 10am! Jazz it up at the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center with Spyro Gyra! Get countrified with Craig Morgan at City Winery! Get the blues with Kerry Hill at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get down with Lola and Bill Sheffield at the Northside Tavern! Sandra Hall & The Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, November 11

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Buster Keaton matinees with a screening of his THE GENERAL (1926) at 11am! Ragtime it up with Tray Dahl & the Jugtime Ragband at The Vista Room! Corey Henry & The Funk Apostles funk it up at Terminal West! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a 30th Anniversary screening of John McTiernan’s DIE HARD (1988) at theaters across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/ Duluth/Marietta); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Esme Patterson and Rose Hotel get folksy at The Earl! Support your local artists at the Historic Oakland Cemetery with the Bell Tower Boutique: A Pop-Up Shop from 11am – 5pm! Get some blues ‘n’ southern soul with Thunder Gypsy at Park Tavern! Catch a screening of James William Guercio’s ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE (1973) at The Plaza Theater! Get your ‘80s Latin pop fix with Amanda Miguel and Diego Verdaguer at the Buckhead Theatre! Get rootsy with Reckless Kelly at City Winery! Or get down to your Texas roots with Lee Roy Parnell at Crimson Moon Café! Spend the night with Mutlu and Suzy Jones at Eddie’s Attic! Get the blues with Garrett Collins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get funky with Wanyama at the Red Light Café! Or funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Franklin J. Schaffner’s PATTON (1970) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Haunt on down to Netherworld Haunted House’s new deadly digs in Stone Mountain for their horrorific 22nd season, getting gory through Nov. 10! (LAST CHANCE!)

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. 11! (LAST CHANCE!)

13 Stories Haunted House gores it up for another haunted season in Newnan, through Nov. 11! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Michael C. Carlos Museum exhibits Chimera: Andy Warhol through the 1980s, through Nov. 25!

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

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

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

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

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

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Forget the horrorific daily grind and take a peek at what we have in store for you killer kool kiddies! Let ATLRetro fill you with a week’s worth of swingin’ good times; from vintage, fuzzed out rock ‘n’ roll to bloody fangtastic films to steamy burlesque to classic cinema galore! It’ll be a bloody good time, so get out and get Retro!

Monday, October 29

Raise a rockin’ ruckus at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema with one-time screening of Tabbert Fiiller’s documentary on Johnny Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten) THE PUBLIC IMAGE IS ROTTEN (2018) at 7pm! Videodrome and Patina Pictures haunt it up at Joystick Gamebar with a screening of Tim Burton’s BEETLEJUICE (1988), followed by a Séance Dance Party! Dead men tell no tales, or so they say, but the Aurora Theatre begs to differ. Creep on down and see during their Lawrenceville GA Ghost Tours at 7:30pm. Stone Mountain Park gets ghastly one last night with A Tour of Southern Ghosts! Unleash ancient evil spirits with George Reinblatt’s EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL hosted by the Newnan Theatre Company! Haunt on down to Netherworld Haunted House’s new deadly digs in Stone Mountain for their horrorific 22nd season, getting gory through Nov. 4! Get hellacious and creep on down to Six Flags’ Fright Fest and experience Kool Kat Shane Morton’s spooktacular haunted house, Madeline Mendoza’s Casa De Meurte at 5pm!  Get terrified at Sinister Suites Haunted Hotel in Griffin, GA, spooking every day through Oct. 31! Make your way to Lithia Springs for Containment Haunted House, a multi-media immersive theatrical horror experience, terrifying through Nov. 3! 13 Stories Haunted House gores it up for another haunted season in Newnan, through Nov. 11! Folklore Haunted House in Acworth haunts through Nov. 3! The Plaza Theater hosts a special UNICEF event with a screening of Brian De Palma’s CARRIE (1976) at 7pm, and screens John Carpenter’s THE FOG (1980), through Nov. 1! Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm! Get bewitched with screenings of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC North Dekalb Mall 16; AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Northpoint Mall 12 (Alpharetta); and AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw)], through Oct. 31! Or Halloween it up with a screenings of Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) at theatres across Atlanta [Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Regal Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Regal Georgian Stadium 14; Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Regal Perimeter Pointe 10], through Oct. 31! GKids presents a Studio Ghibli Fest 2018 screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s SPIRITED AWAY (2001) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Make your way to the Red Light Café for a night with Tablao Flamenco! Blues it up with John Paul Barry at Blind Willie’s! Spend an acoustic evening with John Hiatt at City Winery! Hillbilly it up with The Hooten Hallers at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/ Duluth/Marietta) gets bewitched with David Yates’ HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS Pt. 2 (2011) at 7:30pm! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And get the blues with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Tuesday, October 30

Return of the Fifty Foot Film Festival invades The Plaza Theater, with our Kool Kat of the Week Debbie Hess! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their new Classics Series with a screening of Arthur Hiller’s THE IN-LAWS (1979) at 7pm! The Collective at Concourse presents their Movies on the Green screening of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) at 6:30pm! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema spooks it up with The Hallowscreening, A Festival of Six Shorts! The Fox Theatre kills it with their 6th Annual Ghost Tours offering haunted historical accounts by William Fox! Creep on down to the Aurora Theatre and experience their Lawrenceville GA Ghost Tours at 7:30pm. Get hellacious and creep on down to Six Flags’ Fright Fest and experience Kool Kat Shane Morton’s spooktacular haunted house, Madeline Mendoza’s Casa De Meurte at 5pm! A little blood splatter never hurt ya, so trek on down to Carrolton, GA for a night of haunted hillbillies ‘n’ dead rednecks at Camp Blood! Niki Nuke’m and her boo-ly-Q pals shake a sinister tail feather with The BOO-doir: A Halloween Show at the Red Light Café! Boogie down to City Winery for a night with Humble Pie! GKids presents a Studio Ghibli Fest 2018 screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s SPIRITED AWAY (2001) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Get down with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with Steve Cunningham! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, 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, and don’t forget to check out our Haunted & Hellacious Halloween Guide 2018! Spook it up at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980) at 2:30pm/7:30pm, or catch a screening at The Springs Cinema & Taphouse at 2:50pm/7:45pm! Get ghastly with a screening of Tobe Hooper’s POLTERGEIST (1982) at Cobb CineBistro at 7pm! Get sinister for All Hallows Eve with one helluva rockin’ season across ATLRetro! Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin performs the live score to SUSPIRIA at The Earl (Oct. 31)! Do Halloween in style at City Winery as Elton Dan & The Rocket Band pay tribute to the piano master (Oct. 31)! Emory Cinematheque kills it with their “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” series with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO (1958) at 7:30pm! WUSSY MAG is witchin’ at The Plaza Theater with a screening of Andrew Fleming’s THE CRAFT (1996), and you won’t want to miss a special 40th Anniversary screening of John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN (1978) at 10:30pm! Time Warp with a screening of Jim Sharmon’s THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC North Dekalb Mall 16; AMC Phipps Plaza 14; and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! BOOgie down at the Krog Street Market’s Monster Prom Halloween Party! Creep on down to the Aurora Theatre and experience their Lawrenceville GA Ghost Tours at 7:30pm. The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event! Get hellacious and creep on down to Six Flags’ Fright Fest and experience Kool Kat Shane Morton’s spooktacular haunted house, Madeline Mendoza’s Casa De Meurte at 5pm! A little blood splatter never hurt ya, so trek on down to Carrolton, GA for a night of haunted hillbillies ‘n’ dead rednecks at Camp Blood! You won’t want to miss what’s brewing at Arches Brewing’s 1st Annual Halloween Art Show! Or make your way to the Healium Center’s HELLium: Interactive Halloween Art Show! 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. 11! It’s a night of Honky-Tonk Karaoke with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at The Star Bar! Spend the night with Freddie at the Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) screening of Wes Craven’s A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) at 7:15pm! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get blood-thirsty with screenings of Tommy Lee Wallace’s HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH (1982) and more at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Art Holliday! Get some soul with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up a night of acoustic blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, November 1

Celebrate the dearly departed at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s L5P All Souls Altar Celebration at 7:30pm! The spooky season isn’t over just yet boils and ghouls! Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their Grave Diggers Event: BOOze After Dark, featuring tricks, treats, tours and more! Have a helluva bloody time at The Plaza Theater as Cineprov riffs Joe Chappelle’s HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS (1995) at 7:30pm! Madlife State & Studios does the Time Warp with a screening of Jim Sharmon’s THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at 8pm! Criminal Records dishes out a night of neoclassical dark wave with their Dead Can Dance Listening Party at 8pm! Get funkadelic with The Groove Orient and Jacks River Band at Aisle 5! Folk it up with Tyler Ramsey at The Earl! Or get folksy with Lucy Wainwright Roche at Eddie’s Attic! Groove on down to Venkman’s for a night with Yacht Rock Revue! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with The Shadows! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 2

Rockabilly it up with the Dex Romweber Duo and Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get funky with Pigeons Playing Ping Pong at the Variety Playhouse! Blues it up with Paul Nelson at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get your ‘70s europunk fix with GG King at The Earl! Garage rock it up with Slothrust at the Masquerade! Get the blues with Randall Bramblett & the Megablaster Horns at The Vista Room! Stomp on down to the Northside Tavern for a night with Coy Bowles! Blind Willie’s gets down with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, November 3

Avante-garde it up with Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and Film Love Atlanta as he curates and hosts The Velvet Underground: A Cinematic Tribute at the Michael C. Carlos Museum (film screenings at 8pm, with exhibition viewing of Chimera: Andy Warhol through the 1980s from 7-8pm)! Creep on down to the Atlanta Oddities & Curiosities Expo at the Atlanta Expo Center NORTH, from 11am – 6pm! Shock rock it up with Gwar at the Masquerade! Spook on down to the Sleepy Hollow Christmas Tree Farm in Powder Springs for Stranger Things Tours & a Nighttime Corn Maze! Rock out at 529 with Pylon Reenactment Society and Peter Holsapple! Get smokin’ and bluegrass it up with some spicy vittles at Chomp & Stomp 2018, raisin’ a ruckus with the Porch Bottom Boys, the Georgia Mountain String Band, the West King String Band, Smokey’s Farmland Band, the Jeff Mosier Band, The Plate Scrapers, Evan Stepp & The Piners, Slim Chance & The Convicts, W8ING4UFOs, Aubryn, Rodeo Twister and more! Lobsters of Rock kill it and pay tribute to the B-52s at The Corner Pub’s 14th Annual Buttapalooza! Make your way to The Earl for a night with Drew Beskin, Cicada Rhythm, Nikki & The Phantom Callers, and Wirelight! The Rialto Center for the Arts presents Mashup of the Maestros with Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Mayer! Get your ‘70s-era pop disco fix with the Susi French Connection at The Vista Room! Skank on down to The Highlander for a night with Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley and the Southern Ska Syndicate, The Taj Motel Trio and The Breaknecks! Groove on down to Venkman’s for a night with The Dirty Doors! Get countrified with Vince Gill at the Fox Theatre! Funk it up for night two with Pigeons Playing Ping Pong at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with The Last Tycoon and Mermaid Motor Lounge! The Andy Browne Troupe along with Anthony DeCurtis bring you the music of Lou Reed at the Red Clay Theatre! Spend the night with The Presmanes Brothers at the Red Light Café! Get the old-school blues with Albert White at the Northside Tavern! The Blues Stotts Festival invades Blind Willie’s featuring rockin’ tunes by Rae & The Royal Peacocks, The Breeze Kings, Barrelhouse Bob Page and Frankie’s Blues Mission! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, November 4

Bump in the Night Ghoulesque presents Inferno A’ Go-Go at the Red Light Café! Harvest Moon presents the music of Neil Young at Venkman’s! Get intergalactic at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Get terrified at Sinister Suites Haunted Hotel in Griffin, GA, spooking through Oct. 31! (LAST CHANCE!)

Make your way to Lithia Springs for Containment Haunted House, a multi-media immersive theatrical horror experience, terrifying through Nov. 3! (LAST CHANCE!)

Folklore Haunted House in Acworth haunts through Nov. 3! (LAST CHANCE!)

Haunt on down to Netherworld Haunted House’s new deadly digs in Stone Mountain for their horrorific 22nd season, getting gory through Nov. 4! (LAST CHANCE!)

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. 11!

13 Stories Haunted House gores it up for another haunted season in Newnan, through Nov. 11!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum exhibits Chimera: Andy Warhol through the 1980s, through Nov. 25!

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

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

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

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

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

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Have a hellacious good time in ATLRetro This Week! We’re diggin’ on so many deadly events this haunted season, so take a peek and come see what we think will rattle your bones!

Monday, October 22

The Plaza Theater gets creepy with screenings of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980), through Oct. 23! Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31! Spend an acoustic evening with John Hiatt at City Winery! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Adam Klein & The Wild Fires! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/ Duluth/Marietta) gets bewitched with David Yates’ HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS Pt. 1 (2010) at 7:30pm! 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!” Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get down with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck at Blind Willie’s! And get the blues with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Tuesday, October 23

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their new Classics Series with a screening of George Ray Hill’s BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) at 7pm! Get the blues with The D’Notes at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Spend the night with Nicholas Jamerson, Grayson Jenkins and Wes Smith at Eddie’s Attic! Get rocked with Monster Magnet, Electric Citizen, the Dark Sky Choir and Ashes Fall at the Masquerade! The Variety Playhouse rocks out with the Oh Sees, Escape-ism and The Holydrug Couple! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Get down with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with Rae & The Royal Peacocks! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, October 24

Emory Cinematheque kills it with their “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” series with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW (1954) at 7:30pm! Zombie it up at theatres across Atlanta and celebrate 50 monstrous years of George A. Romero’s classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) at 7pm/10pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Spend the night with Richard Marx at City Winery! Get rocked with The Stoplight Roses and Steve Nebraska at The Star Bar! Haunt on down to Woodruff Park for a free screening of Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) at 6pm! The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event, through Oct. 31! Get demonic with a screening of William Friedkin’s THE EXORCIST (1973) [Director’s Cut] at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 27! Spook it up at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Tim Burton’s BEETLEJUICE (1988) at 2:30pm/7:30pm, Or catch a screening at Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18 at 7pm, or CineBistro at 7pm! Get blood-thirsty with screenings of Tony Scott’s THE HUNGER (1983) and Francis Ford Coppola’s BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA (1992) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Art Holliday! Get the blues with The Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up a night of acoustic blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, October 25

Have a helluva rockin’ time at the Clermont Lounge during the 3rd Annual Shock & Roll Halloween Extravaganza, featuring Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, Captain & Maybelle, ELZIG and Pearl Bottom Radio! The Fox Theatre kills it with their 6th Annual Ghost Tours, through Oct. 30, offering haunted historical accounts by William Fox! Spook on down to the Syncrhonicity Theatre for Atlanta Horror Film Festival 2018, haunting through Oct. 27! The Plaza Theater screens the 45th Anniversary Extended Director’s Cut of William Friedkin’s THE EXORCIST (1973)! Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland Ghost Tours, spooking it up through Oct. 28! Zombie it up at theatres across Atlanta and celebrate 50 monstrous years of George A. Romero’s classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) at 7pm/10pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Rock out at The Earl with the Swingin’ Utters, Gallows Bound, Spray Tan and The Carolyn! Spend the night with Mike Rizzi & The Strong Personalities at Eddie’s Attic! Get glam at Madlife State & Studios with BowieLive! The Star Bar dishes out a night of Twisty Cats, Rude Dude & The Creek Freaks, Pine & Tolliver and Dang Dang Dang! Make your way to Vinyl for a night with Chelsea Shag, Caleb Hawley and Stephen Day! Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 27! The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event, through Oct. 31!  Get the blues with the Hugh Taylor Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Rock out at The Highlander with DJ Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so funk it up with The Mar-Tans and hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Heather Luttrell! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, October 26

Carnival of Doom kills it with their Creature Feature 2018 Kennesaw “Drive In” featuring a screening of Irvin Yeaworth’s THE BLOB (1958) at 7:30pm! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The PsychoDevilles, with ELZIG bring you one helluva Halloween Party at Dixie Tavern! Gear up for the Atlanta Steampunk Expo: Victorian Nightmares haunting through Oct. 28! Mary’s delivers a haunted hootenanny with Monster Mary’s Hallo-weenie Party! Have a witchin’ weekend during ATL Craft’s Samhain Soiree, through Oct. 28! The Earl dishes out their killer punk fest, Atlanta Mess Around, rockin’ through Oct. 28! Day/night one kills it with Predator, Ryan Dinosaur, Harmacy, Stoic Clown, Roky Erickson, Bush Tetras, Dan Melchior and the Country Westerns! Boogie down to Avondale Towne Cinema for their Halloween/Monster Jam! Create a creepy Halloween lantern and make your way to the Grant Park Halloween Lantern Parade, led by the Black Sheep Ensemble and in the rear the Wasted Potential Brass Band! Or make your way to Callanwolde’s Calloween Spooky Celebration! Horror Films in Hotlanta 2018 brings you all the frights at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema! ATL Collective relives THRILLER at Aisle 5! The Fox Theatre continues their 6th Annual Ghost Tours, through Oct. 30, offering haunted historical accounts by William Fox! Spook on down to Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18 for a screening of Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993)! Jackyl rocks out at the Buckhead Theatre! Have a screaming good time at the Fernbank’s Fright Night event featuring costume contests, dancing twilight tours and tasty morsels! Venkman’s presents David Byrne vs. The Talking Heads! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Greco’s Rockin’ Halloween Bash! Surf on down to 529 for a night with Daikaiju, Lazer/Wulf, Chew, and The Mystery Men?! Have a Shalloween with Sasha Velour at Heretic! Rock on down to The Star Bar for a night of tributes with Slack Sabbath, Smithsonian and Free Bird! Time Warp on down to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for a screening of Jim Sharmon’s THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at 11:59pm, or catch screenings at AMC North Dekalb Mall 16; AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)! Get bewitched with screenings of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC North Dekalb Mall 16; AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Northpoint Mall 12 (Alpharetta); and AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw)]! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Spend the night with Alicia Witt at Eddie’s Attic! Get your ‘60s/’70s rock ‘n’ roll fix with The Rainmen at the Red Light Café! Spend the night with The Tenors at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Outlaw it up with Cody Jinks at the Tabernacle! Battle & Brew spooks it up with screenings of Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993), Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) and Tim Burton’s BEETLEJUICE (1988) beginning at 5pm! Spook on down to the Sleepy Hollow Christmas Tree Farm in Powder Springs for Stranger Things Tours & a Nighttime Corn Maze, through Nov. 3! Get the blues with Geoff Atchison & The Souldiggers at The Vista Room! Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 27! The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event, through Oct. 31! The Northside Tavern gets down with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & The Atlanta Horns! Blind Willie’s gets down with Sandra Hall & The Shadows! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, October 27

Get hell-bent and Halloween Bash it up with The Fabulous Thrillbillys, ELZIG, AM Gold and more at The Star Bar! Get ghastly and catch The Plaza Theater’s 30th Anniversary screening of Tim Burton’s BEETLEJUICE (1988)! Bring the kiddies and get spooky with dinos at the Fernbank during their Dinosaur Trick or Treat event! Head on over to the Georgia Railroad Freight Depot for Atlanta’s 2018 Maker Faire, through Oct. 28! Day 2 of The Earl’s Atlanta Mess Around gets you rockin’ with Radioactivity, Bad Sports, GG King, Patois Counselors, Animal Show, Vincas, Protex, Gentleman Jesse & His Men, Death Valley Girls, DINOS BOYS, Static Static and BENNI! Get hell-bent and make your way to Sweetwater Bar & Grill in Duluth for a haunted night with Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, Freakshow Sinema and Never Fall! Spook on down to Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18 for a screening of Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993)! Get bewitched with screenings of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC North Dekalb Mall 16; AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Northpoint Mall 12 (Alpharetta)]! Have a haunted Halloween at Battle & Brew’s screenings of Bill Menendez’ IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN CHARLIE BROWN (1966), Andrew Fleming’s THE CRAFT (1996) and Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) starting at 5pm! Have some spooky fun at Lake Claire Landtrust with Scary Fireside Stories for Halloween! ATL Collective relives THRILLER at Aisle 5! The Plaza Theater celebrates the 30th anniversary of James Signorelli and Sam Irvin’s ELVIRA MISTRESS OF THE DARK (1988) with a screening and special pre-show improv performance by Genre-ly Speaking (with Kool Kat Madeline Brumby!) Groove on down to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for The Ultimate Al Green Tribute Concert! Eighties it up and party down Halloween-style with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at Buzzy’s Grille in Kennesaw! Spook on down to Kavarna for Hauntings & Howls: Twisted Tales that Will Give You the Creeps, featuring readings by John Carr, Jyll Thomas, Winston Ward, Stephanie Roman, Steven Williams and John Carroll! Get monstrous and boogie down with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during his Coffin Classics: Halloween Prom at Amsterdam Atlanta! Time Warp on down to theatres across Atlanta for a screening of Jim Sharmon’s THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) [AMC North Dekalb Mall 16; AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Funk it up with Michael Henderson at City Winery! Eddie’s Attic brings you The Electromatics and Jim Lauderdale! Nameless Nameless and Doll Parts rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get your southern rock fix with Gov’t Mule at the Tabernacle! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Amy Ray! It’s your last chance to hang with your favorite band of specters at the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances! The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event, through Oct. 31! Spook on down to the Sleepy Hollow Christmas Tree Farm in Powder Springs for Stranger Things Tours & a Nighttime Corn Maze, through Nov. 3! Get rocked at The Vista Room with their Halloween Throwdown featuring Runnin’ Down a Dream (Tom Petty tribute) and Rolling Thunder (Bob Dylan tribute)! The Northside Tavern gets down with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & The Atlanta Horns! Get rootsy with Delta Moon at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, October 28

Support your local artists and make your way to My Parents’ Basement for The Bizarre Bazaar from 12pm – 6pm! Haunt on down to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for a screening of Roland West’s silent classic THE MONSTER (1925) featuring Lon Cheney, with a live accompaniment by Kool Kat Ron Carter at 3pm! A degenerate doll invades The Plaza Theater as they host a 30th Anniversary screening of Tom Holland’s CHILD’S PLAY (1988)! Get bewitched with screenings of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC North Dekalb Mall 16; AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Northpoint Mall 12 (Alpharetta)]! GKids presents a Studio Ghibli Fest 2018 screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s SPIRITED AWAY (2001) at theatres across Atlanta at 12:55pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Bluegrass it up with Jim Lauderdale at the Crimson Moon Café! Get funky with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get bewitched at Atlanta Symphony Hall with their Halloween at Hogwarts event at 1:30pm/3pm! Day 3 of The Earl’s Atlanta Mess Around brings you Dunch with Greg Cartwright (The Oblivians)! The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event, through Oct. 31! Spook it up at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Fat Back Deluxe gets the old-school blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 27! (LAST CHANCE!)

Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland Ghost Tours, spooking it up through Oct. 28!

The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event, through Oct. 31!

Spook on down to the Sleepy Hollow Christmas Tree Farm in Powder Springs for Stranger Things Tours & a Nighttime Corn Maze, through Nov. 3!

Haunt on down to Netherworld Haunted House’s new deadly digs in Stone Mountain for their horrorific 22nd season, getting gory through Nov. 4!

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

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

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

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

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

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

ATLRetro kills it this spooky season with all the ghosts, goblins and monsters you could ever want! Check out all the spooktacular shenanigans we’ve dug up just for you!

Monday, October 15

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31! Spook on down to My Parents’ Basement for a night with Vampira during their Drink & Draw event! Hawaiian blues rockers Kings of Spade get down at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get down with the Emerald Empire Band at The Vista Room! Folk it up with Slaid Cleaves at Eddie’s Attic! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/ Duluth/Marietta) gets bewitched with David Yates’ HARRY POTTER & THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (2009) at 7:30pm! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get down with Matt Pendrick at Blind Willie’s! And get the blues with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Tuesday, October 16

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their new Classics Series with a screening of Michael Mann’s THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1992) at 7pm! Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21! Catch a screening of Wes Craven’s THE HILLS HAVE EYES (1977) at The Plaza Theater, through Oct. 18! Get alt-rocked with The Breeders at the Buckhead Theatre! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Get down with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, October 17

WUSSY MAG delivers a second gorefest at The Plaza Theater with a screening of Brian De Palma’s CARRIE (1976), chock full of bloody fantastic lobby shenanigans, prizes and more, at 7pm! Who you gonna call at Woodruff Park’s free screening of Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) at 6pm? The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event, through Oct. 31! Rock out at The Earl with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer, the Subsonics and JesusHoney! Get cozy with Johnny with a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! Rock out at The Star Bar with The Mr. Move, Dinos Boys, FRKO, and Fixed Faces! Funk it up with ROXY ROCA at Smith’s Olde Bar! For a night of poppy punk make your way to the Tabernacle for Good Charlotte! The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Catch a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW (1954) at The Springs Cinema & Taphouse in Sandy Springs! Emory Cinematheque kills it with their “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” series with three screenings of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (1955-1962), the first two episodes directed by Hitchcock, and the third directed by Ida Lupino at 7:30pm! Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 27! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Frank Capra’s MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Get your suspense fix at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic REAR WINDOW (1954) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get jazzy with Stanley Clarke at City Winery! Get a creepy double feature DEAD-ucation with screenings of Stuart Gordon’s RE-ANIMATOR (1985) and Dan O’Bannon’s THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Catch a screening of Ridley Scott’s GLADIATOR (2000) at Brookhaven’s CineBistro at 7pm! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Art Holliday! Get the blues with Barrelhouse Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up a night of acoustic blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, October 18

Ultra Popcorn Theatre Company presents Steve Martin’s WASP and ZIGZAG WOMAN at 7 Stages (Black Box Theatre) (check out our Kool Kat Interview with Director Gayle Rej here)! Videodrome and The Plaza Theater get creepy and bizarre with their Plazadrome Cult Film Series screening of Herk Harvey’s CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962) at 9:30pm! Or if ghastly things are your preference, haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland Ghost Tours, spooking it up through Oct. 28! Get hellacious with Out of the Box Theatre’s production of EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL, killing it through Oct. 20! The Plaza Theater screens Steve Miner’s HALLOWEEN H20 (1998) at 5:30pm! The BadAsh Allstar Team brings you an Allman Brothers Jam at the Red Light Café! Get the rockin’ country blues with Birds of Chicago and Travis Meadows at Eddie’s Attic! The Trongone Band and The Mammoths dish out a night of psychedelic rock at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get some soul with Althea Rene at Suite Food Lounge! Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21! Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 27! The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event, through Oct. 31!  Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Rock out at The Highlander with DJ Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get swanky and hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get down with the Juke Joint Dukes at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, October 19

Haunt on down to Netherworld Haunted House’s new deadly digs in Stone Mountain for their horrorific 22nd season, getting gory through Nov. 4! Get horrortastic and rock out at Avondale Towne Cinema during their Rock ‘n’ Roll Slasher Show featuring Kool Kats The Casket Creatures and more! Carnival of Doom kills it with their Creature Feature 2018 Kennesaw “Drive In” featuring a screening of William Castle’s HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959) at 7:30pm! Make your way to Tromaville and catch the Marietta Theatre Company’s presentation of THE TOXIC AVENGER, through Nov. 3! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at Wild Wing Café in Alpharetta! Get rocked with The Cheats at The Star Bar! Ragtime it up with Pokey LaFarge and The Watson Twins at City Winery! Rock out with Ween at the Tabernacle! Get down to the Buckhead Theatre for the Yacht Rock Halloween Spooktacular! Get some soul with Kool Kat Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics at Terminal West! The Andy Browne Troupe gets down at the Sweetwater Bar & Grill! Battle & Brew spooks it up with screenings of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993), John R. Cherry III’s ERNEST SCARED STUPID (1991), Barry Sonnefeld’s THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1991) and ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES (1993) beginning at 5pm! Spook on down to the Sleepy Hollow Christmas Tree Farm in Powder Springs for Stranger Things Tours & a Nighttime Corn Maze, through Nov. 3! Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 27! The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event, through Oct. 31! Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21! Ultra Popcorn Theatre Company presents Steve Martin’s WASP and ZIGZAG WOMAN at 7 Stages (Black Box Theatre)! Get hellacious with Out of the Box Theatre’s production of EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL, killing it through Oct. 20!  Spend the night with Travis Meadows at Eddie’s Attic! Joseph Burton delivers his BB King Tribute at the Northside Tavern! Blind Willie’s gets down with House-Rocker Johnson & The Shadows! Harvey Brindle brings you the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, October 20

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, featuring tunes by Rumours, Nameless Nameless, Running down a Dream, Kool Kat Shane Morton with VALKYRIE, Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley and the Southern Ska Syndicate, Sash the Bash, The Dirty Doors, AM Gold, DJ Romeo Cologne and more! 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 and have a bloody fangtastic time!

Celebrate Black Science Fiction Month and make your way to the Black Science Fiction Book Fair hosted by Milton Davis and Kool Kat Balogun Ojetade at Greenbriar Mall from 1pm – 6pm! Rock out with Bob Log III, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, and The GTV’s at The Earl! Get ghastly and catch The Plaza Theater’s 30th Anniversary screening of Tim Burton’s BEETLEJUICE (1988) at at 5:15pm, or get your Stanley Kubrick fix with screenings of THE SHINING (1980), through Oct. 23! Or catch a screening of BEETLEJUICE at Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18 at 2pm! The Earl Smith Strand Theatre takes you on a “Bluesical” journey with two presentations of At Last: An Etta James Story, at 3pm and 8pm! Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21! Make your way to Eyedrum’s 20th Anniversary Party featuring Bent Frequency, Flight of Swallows, Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel and the Gold Sparkle Band! Have a bloody fangtastic time at Ritual’s 10th Annual Vampire Ball at Heretic! Get spooked with A Night of Victorian Spiritualism at 7pm! Get lucky and make your way to The Vista Room’s Casino Night & Auction! Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 27! The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event, through Oct. 31! Get the blues with The Vipers at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s your last chance to get hellacious with Out of the Box Theatre’s production of EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café as Sadie Hawkins presents her Last Pasties Standing event! Spend the night with the Chris Robinson Brotherhood at the Variety Playhouse! Americana on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Dustbowl Revival! Rock out with the BoDeans at City Winery! Banjo it up with Albert Cummings at Smith’s Olde Bar! Rock out with Ween at the Tabernacle! Get your acid jazz fix with Incognito at the Cobb Energy Centre! Rock out with We Were Promised Jet Packs at Terminal West! Have a bloody fantastic time at Battle & Brew’s screenings of the entire HALLOWEEN series, starting with John Carpenter’s original HALLOWEEN (1978) at 5pm! Spook on down to the Sleepy Hollow Christmas Tree Farm in Powder Springs for Stranger Things Tours & a Nighttime Corn Maze, through Nov. 3! Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21! Catch a free screening of Disney’s THE LION KING (1994) at Venkman’s and stick around for the groove-fest that is Yacht Rock Schooner! Bill Sheffield and Stoney Brooks get down at the Northside Tavern! Spend the night with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get the outlaw blues with Blue Roads at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!  St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, October 21

Support your local artists and make your way to 97 Estoria’s Vintage and Handmade Pop-Up from 12pm – 6pm! Geek it up during MST3K Live! Featuring The Brain at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Get bewitched and catch The Plaza Theater’s 20th Anniversary screening of Griffin Dunne’s PRACTICAL MAGIC (1998) at 7pm! Spend an acoustic evening with John Hiatt at City Winery! Folk it up with at Eddie’s! It’s your last chance to spend a fantastical night with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden! The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event, through Oct. 31! Get your gypsy jazz fix with the Rhythm Future Quartet, and folk it up with Lucy Kaplansky at Eddie’s Attic! Spook it up at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Tim Burton’s BEETLEJUICE (1988) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Fat Back Deluxe gets the old-school blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Get hellacious with Out of the Box Theatre’s production of EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL, killing it through Oct. 20! (LAST CHANCE!)

Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21! (LAST CHANCE!)

Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 27!

Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland Ghost Tours, spooking it up through Oct. 28!

The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event, through Oct. 31!

Spook on down to the Sleepy Hollow Christmas Tree Farm in Powder Springs for Stranger Things Tours & a Nighttime Corn Maze, through Nov. 3!

Haunt on down to Netherworld Haunted House’s new deadly digs in Stone Mountain for their horrorific 22nd season, getting gory through Nov. 4!

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

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

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

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

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

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

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

Monday, October 8

Get rocked with King Kahn & The Shrines with Gabriella Cohen at the Drunken Unicorn! The Plaza Theater kills it with a screening of Stuart Gordon’s RE-ANIMATOR (1985) at 5:30pm! Amy Scott’s documentary covering the life of Hal Ashby, HAL (2018) screens the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, through Oct. 11 (see our Retro Review here)! Blues it up with Ana Popovic at City Winery! Rock out at the Masquerade with Authority Zero, Runaway Kids, In the Whale and Resident One. Get folksy with David Gans at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get rocked with Scotland’s Simple Minds at the Tabernacle! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/ Duluth/Marietta) gets bewitched with David Yates’ HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (2007) at 7:30pm! 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!” Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam!

Tuesday, October 9

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema kicks off their new Classics Series with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at 7pm! It’s a Boolesque Spooktacular with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South promising to rattle your bones at the Red Light Café! Celebrate 50 years of Peter Yates’ BULLITT (1968) starring Steve McQueen at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! Get the blues with The D’Notes at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or get to the root of it all with the Sleepwalkers and Illiterate Light at Eddie’s Attic! The Goo Goo Dolls rock out at the Tabernacle! Catch Murder by Death and Tim Barry at Terminal West! The Plaza Theater screens David Hartman’s PHANTASM (1979) at 5pm, and Don Coscavelli’s BUBBA HO TEP (2002) at 6:45! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, October 10

Shock rock it up with Alice Cooper at the Cobb Energy Centre! Or rock out with Public Image Ltd at the Variety Playhouse! WUSSY MAG delivers a gore-tastic event at The Plaza Theater with a screening of Brian De Palma’s CARRIE (1976), chock full of bloody fantastic lobby shenanigans, prizes and more, at 7pm! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema dishes out 40 years of terror with a screening of John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN (1978), for one night only, at 7pm! Or make your way to Woodruff Park for a free screening of Jim Henson’s THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) at 6pm! Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 27! Raise a ruckus at the 10th Annual Hell on Wheels in Commerce, revving it up through Oct. 14th, featuring a classic car/motorcycle show, vendors, artists, a pin-up contest, film screenings and more! Tonight Hell on Wheels gets down with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley! The Plaza Theater kills it with a screening of Stuart Gordon’s RE-ANIMATOR (1985) at 5:30pm! Have a bloody fantastic time at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of John Carptenter’s classic HALLOWEEN (1978) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get cozy with Audrey II during a screening of Frank Oz’ LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! Freak-folk it up with Phil Cook and Andy Jenkins at Eddie’s Attic! Or get folk-rocked with Send Medicine at The Star Bar! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Catch a hairy Werewolf Wednesday double feature of Neil Marshall’s DOG SOLDIERS (2002) and Dan Attias’ SILVER BULLET (1985) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Emory Cinematheque kills it with their “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” series with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951) at 7:30pm! Catch a screening of Cameron Crowe’s SAY ANYTHING (1989) at Brookhaven’s CineBistro at 7pm! Catch a screening of Disney’s THE LION KING (1994) at SCADShow at 6pm! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up a night of acoustic blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, October 11

Ultra Popcorn Theatre Company presents Steve Martin’s WASP and ZIGZAG WOMAN at 7 Stages (Black Box Theatre), through Oct. 13! Get hellacious with Out of the Box Theatre’s production of EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL, killing it through Oct. 20! And 7 Stages continues their production of WAITING FOR GODOT, through Oct. 14! The Fall Kavalkade O’Kountry starring Kook Kat Spike Fullerton and the Ghost Riders Car Club gets down at the Clermont Lounge! Day 2 of Hell on Wheels brings you live music with Poison Whiskey and a 1am screening of Gerald Potterton’s HEAVY METAL (1981)! Bloody Disgusting presents their Retro Nightmares series at Studio Movie Grill (Duluth/Marietta) with screenings of Jim Sotos’ SWEET SIXTEEN (1983) and Mike Mendez’ THE CONVENT (2000) at 7:45pm! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Spend the night with The Rogue Tones, Robbie Fulks and Redd Volkaert at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out at The Highlander with DJ Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! The Masquerade rocks out with Minus the Bear and Caspian in Heaven! Make your way to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with Leigh Nash and The Mosleys! Get folksy with Laurie Ray and Brian Revels at the Red Light Café! Haunt on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Nightmare Cirque! Get countrified with Wheeler Walker, Jr. and Adam Chaffins at Terminal West! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get swanky and hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, October 12

Carnival of Doom kills it with their Creature Feature 2018 Kennesaw “Drive In” featuring a screening of Noriaki Yuasa’s DESTROY ALL PLANETS (GAMERA VS. VIRAS) (1968) at 7:30pm! Rock out with Richie Ramone, the Guillotines, Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters, Paint Fumes and Bad Spell at The Star Bar! Get your ‘70s europunk fix with GG  King, Trampoline Team, Sick Thoughts, Get High Boys and Paralyzer at The Earl!  Slippery When Wet pays tribute to Bon Jovi at The Vista Room! Boogie down to The Deep End for Femme! Dance, Music and Performance Art celebrating women in the arts! Rev on down to Hell on Wheels for more shenanigans with McPherson Struts, Little Lesley & the Bloodshots, the Captain & Maybelle Side Show, the Matt Brantley Band, Angela Reign and a 1am screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s THE OUTSIDERS (1983)! The Plaza Theater kicks off their screenings of Steve Miner’s HALLOWEEN H20 (1998) and Wes Craven’s THE HILLS HAVE EYES (1977), through Oct. 14!  Get some soul with Maxwell at Chastain Park! Kathy Mattea gets countrified at City Winery! Battle & Brew spooks it up with Keenan Ivory Wayans’ SCARY MOVIE (2000) franchise beginning at 5pm! 7 Stages continues their production of WAITING FOR GODOT, through Oct. 14! The Fernbank Museum presents their After Dark: Forensics event at 7pm! Get down with the Burnt Hickory Blues Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s a night of rockin’ soul at the Red Light Café with Diane Durrett & Soul Suga! Jam it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with Casual Cadenza, Three Star Revival and TasteBud! Sean Solo delivers a Simon & Garfunkel tribute at Venkman’s, followed by Freebird! Haunt on down to Netherworld Haunted House’s new deadly digs in Stone Mountain for their horrorific 22nd season, getting gory through Nov. 4! Get the old-school blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at the Northside Tavern! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, October 13

Rev on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for A Rockabilly Rumble featuring Bucky Lastard, The Sideburners and Kitty Rose & The Rattlers! Bewitch it up, run amuck and catch a screening of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) hosted by Interactive Flicks during their Movies in the Woods series at Foxhall Resort in Douglasville at 5pm! Geek it up at Battle & Brew for a screening of Jim Sharmon’s THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at 5pm! Surf on down Kavarna for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp! featuring Phatlynx, the Flamethrowers and Netherglades! It’s your last chance to rock on down to Hell on Wheels  for a day of revved up shenanigans with Slim & the Gems, Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley and the Southern Ska Syndicate, the Captain & Maybelle Side Show, Lonely Highway, Mustang Sally, Joe Santana and more! Boogie down with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during his ‘80s New Wave Dance Party: Halloween Pride: Dead or Divine at Amsterdam Atlanta! Rock out with Cat Power at Center Stage! Make your way to City Winery for a night with Gaelic Storm! The Dround Hounds get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get retro-rocked with The Artisanals and The Pollies at The Earl! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Roxie Watson! It’s a sin-tillating night of shenanigans at the Red Light Café with The Fandom Nerdlesque’s Howl-A-Ween Villains event! Bluegrass it up with the Steep Canyon Rangers at the Variety Playhouse! Catch a free screening of Disney’s BEAUTY & THE BEAST (1991) at Venkman’s! Stomp on down to the Tucker Brewery and spend the night with the Andy Browne Troupe! Rock on down to Allied Ink Tattoo for their Punk Rock Flea Market, from 4pm – 9pm! Spend the night with Lauryn Hill at Chastain Park! Slippery When Wet pays tribute to Bon Jovi at Madlife State & Studios! Spook on down to the Sleepy Hollow Christmas Tree Farm in Powder Springs for Stranger Things Tours & a Nighttime Corn Maze, through Nov. 3! Tony Bryant and Shelton Powe get down at the Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, October 14

Get jazzy with Francine Reed and Joe Gransden at Venkman’s! Get your BOO fix at Battle & Brew’s Pumpkin Carving Extravaganza at 5pm! Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Frank Capra’s MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and, AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Get folksy with Passenger at the Buckhead Theatre! Bluegrass it up with Noam Pikelny and Stuart Duncan at City Winery! Be an outlaw and spend the night with Michael Martin Murphey and Sugarcane Jane at Eddie’s Attic! Banjo it up with Quattlebaum at the Red Light Café! Get funky with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get your suspense fix at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic REAR WINDOW (1954) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Get your Beckett fix as 7 Stages presents WAITING FOR GODOT, through Oct. 14! (LAST CHANCE!)

Get hellacious with Out of the Box Theatre’s production of EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL, killing it through Oct. 20!

Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21!

Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 27!

Spook on down to the Sleepy Hollow Christmas Tree Farm in Powder Springs for Stranger Things Tours & a Nighttime Corn Maze, through Nov. 3!

Haunt on down to Netherworld Haunted House’s new deadly digs in Stone Mountain for their horrorific 22nd season, getting gory through Nov. 4!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

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

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

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

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

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Get spooked in ATLRetro this week! We’ve got MonsteramaCon and the Women in Horror Film Festival (WIHFF) to knock your socks off and so much more! As the days creep closer and closer to that most haunted pinnacle of fright and terror, we’ve dug up some spooktacular events just for you! The ghosts and goblins have been let loose, so don’t be a fraidy cat; get out and get Retro!

Monday, October 1

The Plaza Theater gets horrorific with screenings of Stephen Chiodo’s KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE (1988) and Kevin Connor’s MOTEL HELL (1980), through Oct. 4! Or catch The Plaza’s screening of Quentin Tarantino’s KILL BILL VOL. 1 (2003) at 9:30pm! Celebrate 30 years of Hayao Miyazaki’s MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Get jazzy with Simona Minns at the Red Light Café! The Milk Carton Kids dish out a night of Americana at the Variety Playhouse! Spend the night with The English Beat at City Winery! Get your Beckett fix as 7 Stages presents WAITING FOR GODOT, through Oct. 14! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/ Duluth/Marietta) screens Mike Newell’s HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE (2005) at 7:30pm! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Get the blues with Barrelhouse Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam!

Tuesday, October 2

The Atlanta Opera brings you CHARLIE PARKER’S YARDBIRD, a jazz opera about the life of Charlie Parker at Paris on Ponce at 7:30pm! Get intimate with David Byrne at the Fox Theatre! Kung fu it up with a screening of Chang Cheh’s FIVE DEADLY VENOMS (1978) at The Plaza Theater at 9:30pm! Rock out with A Hawk and a Hacksaw and Casey Hood at The Earl! Funk it up with The Senators at City Winery! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Blind Willie’s gets down with the Tyler Neal Band! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!