ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s on the Retro menu This Week!

Monday, September 24

Make your way to The Earl for a night with Harlan T. Bobo! Rock out with Cloven Hoof at The Basement! Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their Drink ‘n’ Draw event! 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 as they dish out The Pork Bellys and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, September 25

Thrash it up at the Masquerade with Suicidal Tendencies and MADBALL! Battle & Brew kills it with the Villians Ball Art Show – Opening Night! Get the rockin’ blues with Joel DaSilva & the Midnight Howl at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get folksy with William Fitzsimmons at Eddie’s Attic! Or get to the root of it all with Cody Marlowe, Arson Daily and Wanderwild at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to My Parents’ Basement for Harry Potter Comic Book Trivia! Rumours pay tribute to Fleetwood Mac 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! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, September 26

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema rocks out with their one-time only screening of Kevin Kerslake’s Joan Jett documentary, BAD REPUTATION (2018) at 7pm! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Nicholas Ray’s REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955) 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); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/ Duluth/Marietta); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with Joshua Hedley and Cale Thompson! Emory Cinematheque kills it with their “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” series with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943) at 7:30pm! The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Get your Bowie fix and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986) 2:30pm/7:30pm! Catch a cyberific double feature of LaVar Burton’s THE SMART HOUSE (1999) and Donald Cammell’s DEMON SEED (1977) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Rock on down to The Highlander for their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get rocked with The Wild Hares at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, September 27

The Atlanta Opera brings you CHARLIE PARKER’S YARDBIRD, a jazz opera about the life of Charlie Parker at Paris on Ponce! Or get your Beckett fix as 7 Stages presents WAITING FOR GODOT, through Oct. 14! Rock out at The Highlander with The Vibrators, Rotten Stitches and Hanging Judge! Studio Movie Grill (Duluth/Marietta) kills it with their Retro Nightmares Cinema Series screening of Mark Rosman’s THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW (1983) at 7:45pm! Get your chance to hang with Optimus Prime with a screening of TRANSFORMERS (1986) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC North Dekalb 16; Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Phipps Plaza 14; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough);and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Make your way to Noni’s Bar & Deli for A Farewell to Pop-Ups: A Hemingway-Themed Event! Boogie on down to Firefly Studio Decatur for Down South Swing’s Level 1: 6 Count swing dance class! 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! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, September 28

The Plaza Theater gets horrorific with screenings of Stephen Chiodo’s KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE (1988) and Kevin Connor’s MOTEL HELL (1980)! Get down to Kavarna for Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & The Bicycle Eaters’ album release party with special guest Juliana Money and a puppet show by Raymond vs. Raymond! Burly Q it up with The Candybox Revue at the Elliott Street Pub! Make your way to Chastain Park for The Australian Pink Floyd Show! Raise a ruckus with Drive-By Truckers at the Variety Playhouse! heese is as old as the history of the world, so get your tail to The Cheese Fest Atlanta at the Historic Fourth Ward Conservancy! The Atlanta Opera brings you CHARLIE PARKER’S YARDBIRD, a jazz opera about the life of Charlie Parker at Paris on Ponce! 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, September 29

Celebrate THE Puppet Master during the Center for Puppetry Arts’ Jim Henson Birthday Celebration! Get the blues and make your way to the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre for the Georgia Blues & Roots Festival! The Atlanta Opera brings you CHARLIE PARKER’S YARDBIRD, a jazz opera about the life of Charlie Parker at Paris on Ponce! Raise a ruckus with Drive-By Truckers at the Variety Playhouse! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at The Wing Café & Tap House in Marietta! 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, September 30

The Plaza Theater hosts a Silent Film Festival with screenings of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (1928) at 4:30pm, Oscar Micheaux’ BODY AND SOUL (1924) at 7pm, and F. W. Murneau’s NOSFERATU (1922) at 9:30pm! Get really retro and Victorian today at the Historic Oakland Cemetery as they present their 40th Annual Sunday in the Park Victorian Street Festival, featuring tasty food, fun and entertainment! Check out the artists’ market, living history demonstrations, storytellers, spooky mausoleums, Victorian costume contests and carriage tours. And you won’t want to miss their vintage musical line-up, and so much more! Or zip on down to Terminal West for a zany night with the Squirrel Nut Zippers! The Atlanta Opera brings you CHARLIE PARKER’S YARDBIRD, a jazz opera about the life of Charlie Parker at Paris on Ponce! Shake a tail feather and help celebrate Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South’s 11^th Anniversary at 7 Stages with their For the Love of Henson event! Get your Gene Wilder fix at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for 10,000 Pontiacs! 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!

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

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 on the Retro menu This Week!

Monday, September 17

Celebrate the one and only Burt Reynolds with a screening of Hal Needham’s classic SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (1977) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC North Dekalb 16; Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)], through Sept. 19! Get jazzy with Alexandra Jackson at City Winery! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café as the Candybox Revue brings you their Burlesque Karaoke! Surf on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for The Organ Machines, Moon Bums and Wolfson Green! Spend the night with Sting & Shaggy at the Tabernacle! Catch a screening of Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/6pm [AMC North Dekalb 16; AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)], through Sept. 20! 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 Chris Columbus’ HARRY POTTER & THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS (2002) at 7:30pm! Get your Viking metal fix with Finland’s Wintersun, Australia’s Ne Obliviscaris and Sarah Longfield at The Loft! 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! 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, September 18

Cash in Black pays tribute to Johnny Cash at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Geek it up at Battle & Brew with a Villains Ball, celebrating art of the wicked variety! Universal Studios Presents a 25th Anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s dino-rific classic, JURASSIC PARK (1993) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville), Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Marietta); and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! Get some soul with Rudy Currence at City Winery! Folk it up with Lula Wiles at Eddie’s Attic! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Catch a screening of Satoshi Kon’s PERFECT BLUE (1997) at The Plaza Theater, through Sept. 20! 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! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s gets down with Andrew Black! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, September 19

Spend a very special evening with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and John Mary Go Round at The Star Bar! Live in the shadows as Emory Cinematheque kills it with their “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” series with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of REBECCA (1940) at 7:30pm! Spend the night with Brian Revel and Griffin Winton at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out with the Young Dubliners at the Masquerade! Cow punk it up with Ghost Moths, Blood Oaks and Fugitive Sound at Smith’s Olde Bar! Terminal West delivers a night with with Carl Broemel and Steelism! Get mobbed with a screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s classic, THE GODFATHER (1972) at Cobb CineBistro in Brookhaven at 7pm! Sci-fi it up at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) with a screening of Michael Anderson’s LOGAN’S RUN (1976) at 7:15pm! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Herbert Ross’ STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or go under the sea and catch a screening of Disney’s THE LITTLE MERMAID (1989) at SCADShow at 6pm! Universal Studios Presents a 25th Anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s dino-rific classic, JURASSIC PARK (1993) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Blind Willie’s gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Catch a cyberific double feature of Irwin Winkler’s THE NET (1995) and David Fincher’s THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2011) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Rock on down to The Highlander for their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get rocked with The Wild Hares at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, September 20

Videodrome and The Plaza Theater join bizarre forces with their Plazadrome Cult Film Series screening of Jonathan Demme’s SOMETHING WILD (1986) at 9:30pm! Bluegrass it up and get Trampled by Turtles at the Buckhead Theatre! Get jazzy with Bob Baldwin ft. Lori Williams at City Winery! Juana Molina dishes out a night of “folktronica” with Kai Riedl at The Earl! Get folksy with Wild Rivers and Kevin Gordon at Eddie’s Attic! The BadAsh Allstar Team presents a Jam Band Jam at the Red Light Café! Boogie on down to Firefly Studio Decatur for Down South Swing’s Level 1: 6 Count swing dance class! Get blues rocked with Lucero and Brent Cowles at Terminal West! Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get swanky and hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes with The Knotty Boys and some killer island cocktails! Spend the night with Gina Sicilia at Blind Willie’s! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, September 21

Rumble on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a shakin’ night with Dale Watson and Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers! Get funky and spend the night with Lenny Kravitz at Chastain Park! Make your way to The Deep End for a Club Soda: Bjork Experience! Spend the night with The Magpie Salute at the Buckhead Theatre! Jazz it up with Chantae Cann at City Winery! Bluegrass it up with Curtis Jones & Primal Roots at the Crimson Moon Café! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down with The Pussywillows! Make your way to The Drunken Unicorn for a night with Sam Evian and Katie Von Schleicher! Eddie’s Attic presents Noah Gunderson! Get jazzy with Christopher Allison at the High Museum! Make your way to the Woodruff Arts Center as the Alliance Theatre, the City of Atlanta – Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs and the Atlanta Jazz Festival, present an artist’s town hall, The History of Jazz in Atlanta. Rock out at Avondale Towne Cinema with Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters and Netherglades! Funk it up and rock out with Jimmie’s Chicken Shack at the Masquerade! Get folk-rocked with Tall as Pine, How and Why and Katie Martin at the Red Light Café! Jangle on down to The Star Bar for a night with the Craig Brown Band, the Midnight Larks and Anna Kramer & Friends! Leftover Salmon dish out a night of Cajun/Zydeco bluegrass with The Infamous Stringdusters at the Tabernacle! Get blues rocked for a second night with Lucero and Brent Cowles at Terminal West! Spend the night with Jump, Little Children and SonderBlue at the Variety Playhouse! Funk it up with Big Sam’s Funky Nation at Venkman’s! Have a drink and boogie down at the 12th Annual Kirkwood Wine Stroll featuring live tunes by Grant Green, Jr., Kool Kat Amy Pike and The Bonaventure Quartet, The Diamond Street Players, the Elegant Bachelors, Cosmic Debris and more! Blind Willie’s dishes out a night of rockin’ blues with George Hughley & The Shadows! Blues it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Make your way to the Northside Tavern for a night with the Tyler Neal Band! 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, September 22

Kaiju it up with Kool Kat Shane Morton, a.k.a. ghost host with the most, Prof. Morte and his Silver Scream Spook Show at The Plaza Theater with a screening of Ishiro Honda’s monster classic and original GODZILLA (1954) and Ghoul Gal shenanigans at 1pm and 10pm! And you won’t want to miss the Kaiju Cult Art Toy Extravaganza, partnering with the Silver Scream Spook Show at Facet Gallery from 7p-10pm! Bluegrass it up with Banjolicious at Venkman’s during their Bottomless Mimosa Brunch! Kenny Howes and Friends celebrate fifty years of The Beatles with a live performance of their work from 1968 at Avondale Towne Cinema! Jazz it up with Gregory Porter at the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre! Boogie down to Firefly Studio Decatur for their National Americana Month Dance! Leucine Zipper and the Zinc Fingers geeks it up and rocks out with their new album ATOMIC ANARCHY at Kavarna! The Earl Smith Strand Theatre delivers a theatrical tribute to Aretha Franklin with NATURAL WOMAN: AN ARETHA STORY, running through Sept. 23! Bluegrass it up with Darrell Scott at City Winery! ATL Collective relives Elliot Smith’s EITHER/OR at The Earl! Get folksy with Greg Laswell at Eddie’s Attic! It’s tribute night at Smith’s Olde Bar, so rock on down for a night with Stone Temple Pirates, Pandora’s Box and Running with the Devil! Or rock out with Fidlar at the Masquerade! Goth it up at the Red Light Café as The Tied and Tasseled Fetish Cabaret brings you Por el Amor de Goth! Strut on down to East Atlanta Village for The Big Mask March EAV Strut! Or catch the free Lantern Parade at the Eastside Beltline Trail! Get your Americana fix with Mockingbird’s Wing at Java Monkey! Spend the night with Banks & Shane and Rod MacDonald at the Red Clay Theatre! Make your way to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with Delvis! Make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for Mr. Chapman’s Quarterly Revue! Stoney Brooks and Bill Sheffield get down at the Northside Tavern! Get down with Victor Wainwright 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, September 23

TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Nicholas Ray’s REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955) 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); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/ Duluth/Marietta); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! The BadAsh Allstar Team gets the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get alt-rocked with Toad the Wet Sprocket at the Buckhead Theatre! Jon B. gets down at City Winery! Spend the night with Ben Danaher and Heart Hunters at Eddie’s Attic! The Tannahill Weavers dish out a night of traditional Scottish tunes at the Red Light Café! Get folksy with Darlingside and Carolina Story at Terminal West! Rock out with The Jesus Lizard and Dead Rider at the Variety Playhouse! Keisha & Kourtney Jackson dish out their Ladies of ‘60s Soul at Venkman’s! Bewitch it up in the land of Harry Potter at theatres across Atlanta with a screening of David Yates’ HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 1 (2010) at 2pm, followed by a screening of HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2 (2011) at 6pm [AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Phipps Plaza 14; and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for 10,000 Pontiacs! Get your Bowie fix and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986) 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Take a magic carpet ride to the Fox Theatre for Disney’s musical ALADDIN, through Sept. 23! (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!

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

So many shakin’ shindigs in ATLRetro This Week! We’ve got Kool Kats galore, Southern SurfStomp!, the annual Johnny Cast tribute and more! So come on out and get retro!

Monday, September 10

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema screens Susanna Nicchiarelli’s NICO 1988 (2017) through Sept. 13 [check out our Retro Review here]! And don’t forget to get scandalous and catch a screening of Matt Tyrnauer’s SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD (2017) through Sept. 13 [check out our Retro Review here]! Spend the night with Glenn Jones at City Winery! Get your Americana fix with Israel Nash and Slow Parade at The Earl! Rock out with Hot Snakes and Jacuzzi Boys at the Masquerade! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! every Monday! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/ Duluth/Marietta) screens Chris Columbus’ HARRY POTTER & THE SORCERER’S STONE (2001) at 7:30pm! Catch a screening of Satoshi Kon’s PERFECT BLUE (1997) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth); and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!” Get the blues with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack as they dish out The Pork Bellys and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, September 11

Get folksy and countrified with Darling West at Eddie’s Attic! Geek it up with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South as they get shimmy-stastic during their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Nerdtastic event, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Get folksy with Robert Earl Keen and Adam Wright at City Winery! Get your Latin jazz fix with Tito Gato at Java Monkey! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21! 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! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s gets down with Steve Cunningham! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, September 12

Emory Cinematheque kills it with their “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” series with a  screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s THE 39 STEPS (1935) at 7:30pm! Hey all you homicidal housewives! Catch a screening of John Waters’ SERIAL MOM (1994) presented by WUSSY MAG at The Plaza Theater at 7pm! Or celebrate the one and only Burt Reynolds with Georgia Brewed Cinema’s screening of Hal Needham’s classic SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (1977) at Georgia Beer Garden at 7pm! Or get down with the Replicants at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) with a screening of Ridley Scott’s BLADE RUNNER (THE FINAL CUT) (1982) at 7:15pm! KICK pays tribute to INXS at City Winery! Get indie with Sloan at The Earl! Grit it up with Bradford Loomis, Chuck McDowell, Jenna Longmire and Andy Liechty at the Red Clay Theatre! Take a magic carpet ride to the Fox Theatre for Disney’s musical ALADDIN, through Sept. 23! Rock out blues-style with Lucky Valley, God Bless Relative, Dustin Price and BRTLY at Smith’s Olde Bar! Spook it up and spend the night with Red Mouth and Deadly Lo-Fi at The Star Bar! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Rodger & Hammerstein’s THE KING AND I (1956) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get some soul with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at Blind Willie’s! Catch a cyberific double feature of Nora Ephron’s YOU’VE GOT MAIL (1998) and Ariel Schulman/Henry Joost’s CATFISH (2010) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! TCM Big Screen Classics brings Robert Wise’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) to 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); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Rock on down to The Highlander for their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get rocked with The Wild Hares at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, September 13

Raise a ruckus at The Earl with Cold Heart Canyon, Nikki & The Phantom Callers and Evan Stepp & the Piners! Honky tonk on down to the Clermont Lounge for a night with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with the Ghost Riders Car Club! Or spend the night with Chris Isaak at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Rock out with Landt, Wicked Spring, Pine & Tolliver and Katie Martin at The Star Bar! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Neko Case and Thao! Roots rock it up with the James McLean Band, Cody Matlock and Shawn Spencer at Vinyl! Boogie on down to Firefly Studio Decatur for Down South Swing’s Level 1: 6 Count swing dance class! Rock out at The Highlander with DJ Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! Catch a screening of Satoshi Kon’s PERFECT BLUE (1997) at The Plaza Theater! Make your way to Venkman’s for a night with Yesterday’s Wine! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get swanky and hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes with Bogey & The Viceroy and some killer island cocktails! Get down with the Juke Joint Dukes at Blind Willie’s! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, September 14

Shake yer booty with Kool Kat Sen. Artie Mondello with The Delusionaires, Kinky Waikiki and DJ Tikinaut at the official Southern Surf StompFest pre-party at Trader Vic’s! Matt Wauchope and Terrence Prather deliver a New Orleans piano tribute to Bob Dylan and Tom Waits at Venkman’s! Join Circus Combustus’ spectacle, The Bardos of Vaudeville through Sept. 16! Get bewitched with Ritual’s Hocus Pocus (Witches and Warlocks Party) at Heretic! Get some soul with Rachelle Ferrell at City Winery! Bluegrass it up with Circus No. 9 at the Crimson Moon Café! Get the blues with the Taylor Made Blues Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with The Black Lillies and Sandra McCracken! Chris Botti gets jazzy with the Atlanta Symphony at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Get old-school and rock out at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre with Judas Priest and Deep Purple! Members Only gets down with their Fanny Pack Friday 80s/90s Dance Party at Venkman’s! Blind Willie’s dishes out a night of rockin’ blues with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows! Little Joey’s Jumpin’ Jive gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get funky with Zydefunk 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, September 15

Rock out surf-style with the big kahuna, Kool Kat Chad Shivers and his kickin’ cohorts at the rockin’est annual shindig in Avondale Estates, the Southern Surf StompFest, catching a wave at Little Tree Art Studios, featuring The Surge!, The Mystery Men?, Los Tiki Phantoms, The KBK, The Flying Faders, Go!Tsunami, The AmpFibians, Forbidden Waves, DJ Tikinaut and so much more to feed your kitschy vintage culture lust (check out our Shop Here feature for 2th9’s Retro and Jezebel Blue here)! Or hang with the Man in Black during The Star Bar’s annual Johnny Cash Tribute & Diabetes Benefit, featuring Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with the Ghost Riders Car Club, Rodeo Twister, The Downer Brothers, the Sideburners, the Cabbagetown Cowboys, Anna Kramer, Jim Lavender and more! Make your way to the Roswell Arts Festival running through Sept. 16, featuring art, tasty treats and a rockin’ musical line-up, including the Andy Brown Troupe! Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their Malts & Vaults event! Make your way to Avondale Towne Cinema for their Elton John Jam! Rock out in Piedmont Park during Music Midtown 2018, running through Sept. 16! Rev on down to Big Tex for a night with Kitty Rose & The Ramblers! Get a second helping of Rachelle Ferrell at City Winery! Spend the night with Eric Dodd and Kenny White at Eddie’s Attic! Groove on down to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra plays Prince! The Georgia Players Guild presents the music of Led Zeppelin and The Who at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! The Cazanovas get the rockin’ blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Catch a screening of Disney’s LION KING (1994) at Venkman’s at 10am, later that night followed by The REMakes paying tribute to R.E.M.’s early work! Or funk it up with Peter Case at the Red Light Café! Get Sweet ‘n’ Salty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get funky with Zydefunk at the Northside Tavern! Get down with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne 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, September 16

Get hell-bent and rock on down to The Earl for the Supersuckers’ 30th Anniversary Big Show with Sodajerk! Universal Studios Presents a 25th Anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s dino-rific classic, JURASSIC PARK (1993) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville), Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Marietta); and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! Get your Irish folk fix with The High Kings at City Winery! Or get folksy with Peter Bradley Adams at Eddie’s Attic! Get some soul with Sam Ravenna at Smith’s Olde Bar! Bewitch it up in the land of Harry Potter at theatres across Atlanta with a screening of David Yates’ HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (2007) at 2pm, followed by a screening of HARRY POTTER & THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (2009) at 6pm [AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Phipps Plaza 14; and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! March it up with Georgia Brewed Cinema’s screening of Charles Stone III’s DRUMLINE (2002) at Georgia Beer Garden at 7pm! Make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for 10,000 Pontiacs! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Herbert Ross’ STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Take a magic carpet ride to the Fox Theatre for Disney’s musical ALADDIN, through Sept. 23!

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

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

Shake a tail feather in ATLRetro This Week!

Monday, September 3

Boogie down to Park Tavern for WRFG’s 33rd Annual Labor Day Blues BBQ featuring live tunes by John Nemeth, Jontavious Willis, Dr. Dixon, Mudbone Turner’s Blues Band and more! Rock out with X and Netherlands at the Masquerade! Bewitch it up in the land of Harry Potter at Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville) with screenings of Alfonso Cuaron’s HARRY POTTER & THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (2004) at 12:30pm, followed by a screening of Mike Newell’s HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE (2005) at 3:45pm! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! every Monday! Get scandalous and catch a screening of Matt Tyrnauer’s SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD (2017) at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, through Sept. 6 (check out our Retro Review here)! Grab your Precious and make your way to Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18 and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford) for Peter Jackson’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY [FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001); THE TWO TOWERS (2002); and THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003)], screening through Sept. 6! 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, September 4

Cash in Black pays tribute to Johnny Cash at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get rocked with The Yawpers, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and the Willow Walkers at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Spend the night with Sonia Leigh at Eddie’s Attic! 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! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, September 5

Emory Cinematheque kicks off their is new killer series, “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” with a  screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s THE LODGER (1927) at 7:30pm, with live musical accompaniment by film score composer Donald Sosin! Or get apocalyptic with a screening of George Miller’s MAD MAX 2: ROAD WARRIOR (1982) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21! Center Stage rocks out with PROG POWER USA XIX featuring Ross The Boss (The Dictators/Manowar), Gloryhammer, Nocturnal Rites and Voyager! Get the rockin’ blues with Joanne Shaw Taylor and JD Simo at City Winery! Spend the night with Chinua Hawk at Eddie’s Attic! Get psychedelic with Bazo Grey, Whiskey Tango and Tendril at The Star Bar! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of George Lucas’ AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Rock on down to The Highlander for their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get rocked with The Wild Hares at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, September 6

Cineprov dishes out a night of MST3K-style laughs at The Plaza Theater as they screen/riff John Badham’s WARGAMES (1983) at 7:30pm! The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival presents E.A. Dupont’s THE ANCIENT LAW (1923) with a live musical score at the Woodruff Arts Center, at 7:30pm! Get rocked in Hell with Gene Loves Jezebel With Jay Ashton at the Masquerade! Spend the night with Liz Phair and Speedy Ortiz at the Variety Playhouse! Boogie on down to Firefly Studio Decatur for Down South Swing’s Level 1: 6 Count swing dance class! Get rocked with Forever ’78 at Venkman’s! Catch a screening of Satoshi Kon’s PERFECT BLUE (1997) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth); and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! Rock out PROG POWER USA XIX-style with Angra, Doro, Oceans of Slumber and Cellar Darling at Center Stage! Spend the night with Holly Bowling at City Winery! Funk it up with the Atlanta Funk Society at the High Museum! Get folksy with the Hope Griffin Duo and Molly Ruth at the Red Light Café! Or get countrified with the Randy Rogers Band and Parker McCollum at Terminal West! Get some soul with Liniker e os Caramelows at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, September 7

Get rocked with fifty years of MC5, with Man or Astro-Man? at the Variety Playhouse! Stomp on down to The Star Bar and raise a ruckus with the Anders Thomsen Trio, the Moonlight Mechanics and JJ & The Hustlers! Justin Howl along with the Atlanta Funk Society dish out a night of Muddy Waters & Other Blues Favorites at Venkman’s! Get garage rocked at The Earl with the Subsonics, the All Night Drug Prowling Wolves, Vincas, Spodee Boy, Fletcher C. Johnson and Country Westerns! Get your ragtime Dixieland fix with Trey Dahl & The Jugtime Ragband at the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre! Or rock on down to the Drunken Unicorn for a night with the Illiterates, The Vaginas, Paralyzer and SEX FARM! Spook on down to The Highlander as Nocturnia celebrates 25 years of darkness! Get down with Ouiser Boudreaux with The Earl Smith Strand Theatre’s screening of Herbert Ross’ STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989) at 8pm! Center Stage continues to rock out during PROG POWER USA XIX with Sons of Apollo, Redemption, Labyrinth, Bloodhound, Persefone and Manimal! Americana it up with Betsy Franck at the Crimson Moon Café! Get down with Jive Revival at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Jason Eady dishes out some Texas country tunes at Eddie’s Attic! Get geeky during The Fandom Nerdlesque’s CON CRASH event at the Red Light Café! Cross the pond to Smith’s Olde Bar for Abbey Road Live! Runaway Gin pays tribute to Phish at Terminal West! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins shakes it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield 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, September 8

Get your rockin’ roots fix with Kool Kats Gringo Star during their album release party, with Tedo Stone and Chick Wallace at The Earl! Boogie down with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during his ‘80s New Wave Music Video Dance Party at Amsterdam Atlanta! Get some soul with Average White Band at City Winery! The Rainmen dish out some ‘60s and ‘70s rock ‘n’ roll at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get your classic rock fix with Five Eight and Adam Hood at Eddie’s Attic! Labyrinth rocks out at The Loft! Step into the Big Easy upstairs with the Rebirth Brass Band at Smith’s Olde Bar, or rock out with Space Giants downstairs! Get some rockin’ soul with Kitten Fontaine at Avondale Towne Cinema! Catch a screening of Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) at Venkman’s at 10am, later followed by The Coonhounds’ tribute to Tom Petty, and then Saved by the Band! Make your way to the Waffle House Museum for their 10th Anniversary Party featuring country legend and guest of honor, “Whisperin’ Bill” Anderson! Get rocked with more prog goodness during PROG POWER USA XIX at Center Stage with Tarja Tarunen, Alestorm, VUUR, Soen, Eclipse and Triosphere! Get the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get down with Ross Pead 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, September 9

Get your classic silent film fix at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre’s Silent Comedy Shorts event, featuring live organ accompaniment at 3pm! Jazz it up with Trio Deluxe during Venkman’s Bottomless Mimosa Brunch! Bewitch it up in the land of Harry Potter at theatres across Atlanta with a screening of Alfonso Cuaron’s HARRY POTTER & THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (2004) at 2pm, followed by a screening of Mike Newell’s HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE (2005) at 6pm [AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Phipps Plaza 14]! It’s a night of Texas country western at City Winery with Robert Earl Keen! Make your way to the Cobb Energy Center for a night with Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and Farhan Akhtar! Jason Eady dishes out some Texas country tunes at the Crimson Moon Café! Mandi Strachota gets the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Bluegrass it up with Blood on the Harp at Eddie’s Attic! TCM Big Screen Classics brings Robert Wise’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) to 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); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for 10,000 Pontiacs! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Rodger & Hammerstein’s THE KING AND I (1956) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

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

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 goes back to school with some killer old-school shenanigans! Come shake it up and see what we’ve found for you!

Monday, August 20

Drink & Draw goes batty with Kool Kat Madeline Brumby as Batgirl, hosted by Jon Waterhouse, at My Parents’ Basement! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday! Or get adventurous at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at 7:30pm! Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the ELVIS ’68 COMEBACK SPECIAL at theatres across Atlanta at 7:30pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Black Cat Adventure Squad, Craigzlist Punks and Play Center! Make your way to The Vista Room for a night with the Emerald Empire Band! Get the blues with Bob Page at Blind Willies! 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, August 21

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Film in Films Classics Series with a Muppet-y screening of James Frawley’s THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979) at 7pm, featuring a pre-show intro and post-show Q&A session! Get hep to the jive with Ganstagrass at City Winery! Folk it up with The Retrovales at Java Monkey! Get some soul and rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Sagas, Phantom Phunk and Indigo Innuendo! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get down with Ira Malkin & The Vipers at Blind Willies! 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, August 22

Jeff Beck and Paul Rodgers rock out at Chastain Park! Get intergalactic at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Steven Spielberg’s CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Folk it up with The Great Peacock and Kalen Nash at The Earl! Raise a ruckus with Johnny Roquemore, Mike Aiken, Candy Fernaux and Brian Perry at the Red Clay Theatre! Funk rock it up with Cure My Enemy, The Dround Hounds and Nobody’s Darlings at The Star Bar! Rock on down to The Highlander for their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Geek it up at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Dungeons & Dragons 101: Learn to Play event! Get to the root of it all with Joe McGuinness at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Catch a screening of Peter Jackson’s LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING (2003) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! 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, August 23

Rock out with Jesse Colin Young (The Youngbloods) at City Winery! Get to Beer & Lounging at the Clermont Lounge with the Jacks River Band, Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley and Sasha Valley of the Outlaw Women Band! Rock out at The Highlander with DJ Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! Boogie on down to the Fox Theatre’s Coca Cola Film Festival screening/sing-a-long of Randal Kleiser’s GREASE (1978) celebrating 40 years at 7:30pm! Shenanigans ensue at theatres across Atlanta as RiffTrax takes on Peter Yates’ intergalactic space tale, KRULL (1983) at 8pm [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); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Get folksy with Besides Daniel, Jonathan Peyton, The Brook & The Bluff and Michael Coast at Eddie’s Attic! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with The Early Favorites, Brewery Road and Peter Searcy & the Goodnight Noises! Get rocked with The Sleepers, Small Reactions and Twin Studies at The Star Bar! Adron dishes out a night of ‘60s neotropical soul with Pip the Pansy at Terminal West! Spend the night with Questionable at Best at Venkman’s! Funk it up with The Dip at Vinyl! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ tunes with The Knotty Boys and killer island cocktails! The Juke Joint Dukes get old-school at Blind Willie’s! 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, August 24

The Highlander gets hell-bent with ELZIG, Kool Kats The Casket Creatures and Rotten Stitches during the Road to Marred Up Fest! Get heavy Swedish-style with Yngwie Malmsteen in Heaven, or rock out in Hellwith Black Stone Cherry at the Masquerade! It’s a night of rockin’ tributes at The Star Bar with The Cherry Bomb (Joan Jett & The Runaways) and Evil Women Rock (all female tribute to Black Sabbath)! As if! Amy Heckerling’s ‘90s classic, CLUELESS (1995) screens at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Get the hill country blues with Cedric Burnside and Ben Nichols at City Winery! Or Americana it up with Sarah Peacock at the Crimson Moon Café! Get down with Kool Keith at the Drunken Unicorn! Bluegrass it up with The Travelin’ McCourys at Eddie’s Attic! Get the rockin’ blues with The Groove Rockets at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! ATL Collective relives Alanis Morrisette’s JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Terminal West! Honky tonk it up with Whitey Morgan at the Variety Playhouse! Get rocked with Marty Manous at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Plaza Theater screens Lee Aronsohn’s 40 YEARS IN THE MAKING: THE MAGIC MUSIC MOVIE (2017), documenting the ‘70s Colorado jam band, Magic Music, through Aug. 30! It’s a blues showdown at the Northside Tavern with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and Beverly “Guitar” Watkins! Get the blues 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, August 25

Get retro rocked at The Star Bar as Little Steven’s Underground Garage presents a night with The Woggles, Barrence Whitfield & the Savages and Bad Spell! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema delivers a special matinee screening of James Frawley’s THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979) for the kiddies at 10:30am! Get retro rocked at Chastain Park with Denny Laine (The Moody Blues), Jeff Carlisi, Peter Beckett, Elliott Lurie, Albert Bouchard and Yacht Rock Revue! The Aviation Wing of Marietta present their Wings and Whitewalls day event featuring a retro car show, food trucks, a pin-up contest and live tunes by Kitty Rose & The Rattlers, Atomic Boogie and The Sideburners! The Highlander rocks out with the Marred Up Fest featuring Buck Swifty, Die 985, DDC, The Sideburners (Twice in one day!), Degradation and Dale Jepsen and the Nighthawks! Permanent Waves pays tribute to Rush at Avondale Towne Cinema! Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and more dish out their PJ in PJs: The Music of Polly Jean Harvey Pajama Party at The Earl! Haunt on down to Amsterdam Atlanta for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s COFFIN CLASSICS: Goth Industrial Darkwave Music Video Night featuring Goth, dark 80s and more! Sax it up with Dwan Bosman and special guest Morgan Bosman at the Red Light Café!  Opera on Tap Atlanta presents Mozart & Mimosas at Noni’s Bar & Deli! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for the Marietta International Film Festival screening films through Aug. 26! Shenanigans ensue at theatres across Atlanta as RiffTrax takes on Peter Yates’ intergalactic space tale, KRULL (1983) at 12:55pm [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); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Haunt it up with your heart at the Historic Oakland Cemetery’s Love Stories: Summer Date Night event! Stomp on down to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with The Texas KGB! Funk it up with AJ Ghent and Delta Moon at Eddie’s Attic! Get your ‘80s MTV-era synthpop fix with Electric Avenue at MadLife Stage & Studios! Forever Abbey Road pays tribute to the Beatles at the Red Clay Theatre! Rock out at the Variety Playhouse for a night with Dead Affect and Interstellar Echoes! Get the blues with Bob Margolin at Blind Willie’s! It’s a blues showdown at the Northside Tavern with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and Bill Sheffield! Get down and dirty with The Wild Hares 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, August 26

TCM Big Screen Classics presents a 60th Anniversary screening of Joshua Logan’s SOUTH PACIFIC (1958) 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); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Retro it up at Chastain Park with Rick Springfield, Loverboy, Greg Kihn and Tommy Tutone! Get some soul with Candi Staton at City Winery! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of David M. Evans’ THE SANDLOT (1993) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Presents Shalom Bollywood, celebrating the Jewish stars that that dominated early Indian cinema! Or get adventurous at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) with a screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at 12pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get down with Little G. Weevil at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Marietta Theatre Company presents NUNSENSE through Sept. 1!

The Aurora Theatre in Lawrence presents Disney’s NEWSIES, through Sept. 2!

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

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Monday, August 13

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday! Time travel to Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) for a screening of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) at 7:30pm! Or catch a screening of Isao Takahata’s GRAVEYARD OF THE FIREFLIES (1993) at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Funk it up with Tower of Power at City Winery! Get experimental with Kraus and No Life at the Drunken Unicorn! Get the blues with Clark Ashton at Blind Willies! 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, August 14

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Film in Films Classics Series with a screening of Robert Altman’s THE PLAYER (1992) at 7pm, featuring a pre-show intro and post-show Q&A session! Get Texas countrified and swing on by Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Lyle Lovett & His Large Band with special guest Francine Reed! Get sizzlin’ with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South as they hit the books during their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Back to School event, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Get a second funky helping of Tower of Power at City Winery! Folk it up with Skout at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a Q&A with Dave Lory, Jeff Buckley’s Manager and author of FROM HALLELUJAH TO THE LAST GOODBYE! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get down with Andrew Black at Blind Willies! 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, August 15

Get campy and catch a screening of Beeban Kidron’s TO WONG FOO (1995) presented by WUSSY MAG at The Plaza Theater at 8pm (doors at 7pm)! Rock on down to The Highlander for their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Wax on and wax off at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of John G. Avildsen’s THE KARATE KID (1984) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or catch a screening of Isao Takahata’s GRAVEYARD OF THE FIREFLIES (1993) at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Glam it up with Steel Panther at the Buckhead Theatre! Or get your Americana fix with Lori McKenna and Dustin Christensen at City Winery! Rock out at The Earl with DeGreaser, Glove, Twisty Cats and Muted! Get some grit, soul and rock ‘n’ roll with Magnolia Moon, Hush Money and Whiskey Tango at Smith’s Olde Bar! The Electromatics dish out a night of Chicago/West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Catch a screening of Peter Jackson’s LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (2002) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! 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, August 16

Videodrome and The Plaza Theater sells their souls for rock ‘n’ roll with their Plazadrome Cult Film Series screening of Brian De Palma’s PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974) at 9:30pm! Rock out ‘70s-style with Rare Birds and Blackfox at The Star Bar! Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the ELVIS ’68 COMEBACK SPECIAL at theatres across Atlanta at 7:30pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Get folksy with Nate Currin at Eddie’s Attic! The BadAsh Allstar Team dish out their ELO Jam at the Red Light Café! Smith’s Olde Bar gets down with a night of dirty ol’ rock ‘n’ roll with World is Watching, Kyle Troop & The Heretics, Judah Kim & The Assasination and Edelwood! Get some rockin’ soul with Fire & Knife Duo at Solis Two Porsche Drive! Make your way to Venkman’s for The Atlanta Jazz Orchestra! Get groovy with Kendall Street Company and C2 & the Brothers Reed at Vinyl! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & The Atlanta Horns get down at Blind Willie’s! 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, August 17

Get hellacious and rock on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Hanging Judge, Redneck Nosferatu and The Jasons! Get your southern retro electro rock fix with Stop Light Observations at Terminal West! Catch a live taping of The Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast at the Variety Playhouse! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck records live at Avondale Towne Cinema! The Marietta Theatre Company presents NUNSENSE through Sept. 1! Strike a pose and vogue it up at Mary’s for Madonna-Rama, celebrating the Grand Dame of Pop’s 60th birthday! Spend the night with Trombone Shorty, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Galactic at Chastain Park! Rhett Miller rocks out at City Winery! Folk it up with Michael McDermott and Halcyon at Eddie’s Attic! Get jazzy with Marquis Hare at the High Museum! The Purple Madness pays tribute to Prince at MadLife Stage & Studios! Experience Black Moth Super Rainbow at the Masquerade! Folk it up with Boo Reefa at Tin Roof Cantina! The Good Times Brass Band gets down at Venkman’s! The Earl Smith Strand Theatre dishes out some golden oldies with their Jukebox Giants: Motown & More music and dance revue, boogying down through August 19! Big Shoes pay tribute to Little Feat at The Vista Room! Get rocked with Godsmack and Shinedown at Lakewood Amphitheatre! Blues it up with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern!  Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out their R&B Revue! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets the blues 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, August 18

Rock on down to The Star Bar for the Upbeat! Benefit (founded in memory of Atlanta’s Tony Dinnewith), benefitting local independent musicians, with a hellacious line-up featuring The Scragglers, Bad Spell, Codeine Haze, Screamin’ Demons, Blowdown, Captain & Maybelle, Dusty Booze & The Babyhaters and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures! Toto invades Atlanta Symphony Hall! Kool Kat Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics dish out a night of Georgia soul at the Red Hare Brewing Company in Marietta! Allied Ink Tattoo with Kool Kat Chris Hamer of UrbnPop host their first ever Punk Rock Flea Market, from 4pm – 9pm! Make your way to Avondale Towne Cinema for their Led Zeppelin Jam III! Get your magic fix at ATL Craft’s Bewitching Bazaar at 7pm! Or get witchy at Markster Con’s TriWizard Ball at Fado Irish Pub! Spend the night with Kool Kat Fred LeBlanc with Cowboy Mouth at the Buckhead Theatre! Get countrified with Mac McAnally at City Winery! Criminal Records dishes out some gritty psychedelic garage rock with Kool Kats Gringo Star during their album release party! Bluegrass it up with Adam Wakefield & Nick Hagelin at Eddie’s Attic! Departure pays tribute to Journey at the Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheatre! Indie rock it up with Jonah Matranga at the Masquerade! The Chi-Town Transit Authority pays tribute to Chicago at the Red Clay Theatre! Get down with Escape Vehicle, Sugarfoot and Free Hat at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get your ‘60s and ‘70s rock fix with The Rainmen and Penny Western at Tin Roof Cantina! Catch a 10am screening of Disney’s THE LION KING (1994) at Venkman’s followed by ATL Collective reliving the hit from The Doobie Brothers! Blues it up with Albert White and Shelton Powe at the Northside Tavern! Get down and dirty with the Juke Joint Dukes at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne 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, August 19

Get the blues with Southern Avenue and The Vegabonds at Park Tavern! Get intergalactic at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Steven Spielberg’s CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or get adventurous at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at 12pm! Get countrified with Mac McAnally at City Winery! Todd Nance & Friends and Back to Memphis get down at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to Venkman’s for a night with Harvest Moon! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get down with Garrett Collins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre dishes out some golden oldies with their Jukebox Giants: Motown & More music and dance revue, boogying down through August 19! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Marietta Theatre Company presents NUNSENSE through Sept. 1!

The Aurora Theatre in Lawrence presents Disney’s NEWSIES, through Sept. 2!

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 firsts Wednesday of the month!

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

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

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

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

Hells bells! ATLRetro is where it’s at This Week! Come see what we’ve found for you!

Monday, August 6

Get ghastly and catch a screening of Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 7:30pm! Get the blues with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willies! 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, August 7

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Film in Films Classics Series with a screening of Preston Sturges’ SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS (1941) at 7pm, which includes a pre-show intro and post-show Q&A session! Get your ‘90s rock fix at Chastain Park with Stone Temple Pilots, Bush and The Cult! Get some soul with Syleena Johnson at City Winery! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get down with the Down-To-Earth Blues Band at Blind Willies! 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, August 8

Get down with Snake Plissken at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of John Carpenter’s BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or hang with “The Dude” as TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of the Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) 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); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Spend the night with Tortured Soul at City Winery! Get to the root of it all with Bradford Loomis and Garrett Moore at Red Clay Theatre! Make your way to The Star Bar for Champagne Superchillin’, Kook Kat Jeffrey Butzer and The Comparts, Pine & Tolliver and Tuk Smith! Get the blues with Kenny Wayne Shepherd at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Or get down with Unknown Lyric at Venkman’s! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo gets down at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Geek it up at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Dungeons & Dragons 101: Learn to Play event! Grab your Precious and catch a screening of Peter Jackson’s LORD OF THE RINGS: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! 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, August 9

Raise a ruckus with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with Ghost Riders Car Club during their Back to School Special at the Clermont Lounge! Or get down to Chastain Park for a night with Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams and Steve Earle! Bluegrass it up with Sam Bush and Danny Burns at City Winery! Rock out at The Highlander with DJ Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! Nightrain pays tribute to Guns ‘N’ Roses at MadLife Stage & Studios! Spend the night with Paul McDonald and Kool Kat Brooks Mason with Georgia Flood at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get your British Blues rock fix with Marty Manous at Solis Two Porsche Drive! Get rocked with The Stoplight Roses, The Skylarks and Hyperspace at The Star Bar! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for their Bluegrass Jam! Get some rhythm with the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra at 529! Jazz it up with Selina Albright at Suite Food Lounge! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Blues it up with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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, August 10

The Empress of Soul Gladys Knight and The O’Jays invade Chastain Park! The Fernbank Museum of Natural History dishes out a night of prohibition pandemonium with their Fernbank After Dark: Brewing & Bootlegging event, featuring live music by Chelsea Shag! Or New Wave it up with The Alarm at City Winery! Christina Christian & Brian Revels get down at the Crimson Moon Café! Get some soul with Chinua Hawk at Eddie’s Attic! Hell’s Bells! Lakewood Amphitheatre gets rocked with Slayer, Lamb of God, Anthrax, Testament and Napalm Death! Get some soul with Gareth Asher at POUR! Sail On pays tribute to The Beach Boys at the Red Clay Theatre! Get jazzy at Solis Two Porsche Drive with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or fiddle it up with Amanda Shires and Cory Branan at the Variety Playhouse! Get sax-y with Boney James at the Wolf Creek Amphitheatre! Get art rocked and doom funked with Cave of Swimmers, ZRUDA, Hot Ram and Ssurround Ssound at The Star Bar! The Earl Smith Strand Theatre dishes out some golden oldies with their Jukebox Giants: Motown & More music and dance revue, boogying down through August 19! Stomp on down to 529 for a night with Ben Trickey, Blood on the Harp, Charles Walker and Georgia Slim! Catch a screening of Steve Barron’s TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (1990) at SCADShow at 7pm! Rock on down to The Vista Room as 84 pays tribute to Van Halen! Get your hellacious hula on during Ritual’s Gothic Luau and Dark Tiki Party at Heretic! Spend the night with the Gin Blossoms at Chamblee City Park! Funk it up New Orleans-style with Zydefunk at the Northside Tavern! Get the rockin’ blues with Big C. at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows get down 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, August 11

Rev it up during Rockabilly Rumble Vat Southern Devil Harley Davidson featuring one hellacious day filled with hotrod and bike shows, contests, a retrotastic vendor’s market and live tunes with The Tremors and Slim & The Gems! Get down to the Elliott Street Pub for a night with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with the Russian Roulette Band and Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley! Boogie down with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during his ‘80s New Wave Music Video Dance Party at Amsterdam Atlanta! Catch a screening of Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) at Venkman’s at 10am! Cruise on by The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for the Creepers Car Club Car Show, from 2pm – 8pm, and stick around for their Jukebox Giants: Motown & More music and dance revue, boogying down through August 19! Rock out with JesusHoney, Secret Shame and Picture One at The Earl! Folk it up with Griffin House at Eddie’s Attic! Get hell-bent at The Highlander with Hembree & The Satan Sisters, The Sawedoffs, the Go-Nowheres and Freakshow Sinema! Blues it up with Dr. Dixon, Stoney Brooks and Nathan Nelson at the Northside Tavern! Boogie down to the Red Light Café for the Queerly Beloved Revue’s End of Summer Bash! Spend the night with the Gin Blossoms at Suwannee Town Center Park! Get groovy at Terminal West with Voodoo Visionary, Hedonistas and Tallboys! Bluegrass it up with Dierks Bentley, Brothers Osborne and Lanco at the Verizon Amphitheatre! Jazz it up with Crushed Velvet at The Vista Room! Spend the night at the Center For Puppetry Arts during their Puppet Party Series event Puppets and Pints! Rough Draft funks it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with Big Bill Morganfield 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, August 12

Time travel to Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) for a screening of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) at 12pm! Funk it up at Aisle 5 for their Sunday Funk event! Or catch a screening of Isao Takahata’s GRAVEYARD OF THE FIREFLIES (1993) at 12:55pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Doria Roberts dishes out a night of the blues at City Winery! Classically jazz it up with Arpenik at the Red Clay Theatre! Get folksy with Lateral Blue, Control Burn and Logan Magness at the Red Light Café! The Earl Smith Strand Theatre dishes out some golden oldies with their Jukebox Giants: Motown & More music and dance revue, boogying down through August 19! Come on out to My Parents’ Basement and celebrate their 3rd Anniversary with food specials, a comic book sale and more! Wax on and wax off at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of John G. Avildsen’s THE KARATE KID (1984) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get down with Little G. Weevil at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre dishes out some golden oldies with their Jukebox Giants: Motown & More music and dance revue, boogying down through August 19!

The Aurora Theatre in Lawrence presents Disney’s NEWSIES, through Sept. 2!

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 firsts Wednesday of the month!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

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

Monday, July 16

Never say die and catch a screening of Richard Donner’s THE GOONIES (1985) at City Winery at 6:30pm! Raise a psychedelic ruckus with Spendrift, Jesika von Rabbit, Sash the Bash and Where.Are.We at The Earl! Geek it up with Pirate Bob during My Parents’ Basement’s Drink & Draw event! 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 Clark Ashton at Blind Willies! The Plaza Theater screens Samuel D. Pollard’s documentary, MAYNARD (2017) about the life and times of the first black mayor of Atlanta at 7:30pm, through July 18! 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, July 17

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Film in Films Classics Series with a screening of Federico Fellini’s 8 ½ (1963) at 7pm, which includes a pre-show intro and post-show Q&A session! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Go Fever and Black Cat Rising! Americana it up with Anna & Elizabeth at City Winery! Spend the night with Pony Bradshaw, Michelle Malone & The Hot Toddies and The John Driskell Hopkins Band at Eddie’s Attic! Dogs of Verona rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get experimental with Animal Collective and Lonnie Holley at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Get the rockin’ blues with the Chris Duarte Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Nick Johnson fires it up Blind Willies! 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! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, July 18

Get post-punk and new-wavy with the Violent Femmes and Echo & The Bunnymen at Chastain Park! The Memphis Murder Men, a.k.a. the bastard child of ‘50s rock ‘n’ roll, rock out with We Want Blood and The Casket Kids at The Star Bar! It’s a night of Japanese animation with screenings of Hayao Miyazaki’s PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) and Kazuki Akane’s ESCAFLOWNE: THE MOVIE (2000) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! TCM Classics presents a 3oth Anniversaryscreening of Penny Marshall’s BIG (1988) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Get some soul with Miki Howard at City Winery! Spend the night with Dylan Carlson at The Earl! 529 rocks out with the Irrelevant Music Fest, a rockin’ three-day event with one helluva lineup tonight, including Microwave, Fever Blush, Chick Wallace, Jay Americana, King of Summer and more! Got the need for speed? Well then, make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) presents a screening of Mel Brooks’ hilarious classic BLAZING SADDLES (1974) at 7:15pm! Blind Willie’s gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Art Hollidays gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up a night of acoustic blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, July 19

Videodrome and The Plaza Theater get bizarre and undead with their Plazadrome Cult Film Series screening of Thom Eberhardt’s NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984) at 9:30pm! Bossa nova on down to Center Stage for a night with La Santa Cecilia! Get folksy with Michael Zaib at City Winery! Or folk rock on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Angie Aparo and Katie Ruvane! Or rock on down to the Masquerade for a night with The Get Up Kids, Racquet Club and Ageist! The BadAsh AllStar Team pays tribute to R.E.M. at the Red Light Café! Kool Kat Rich Desantis and The Street Fighting Band pay tribute to The Rolling Stones at Venkman’s! You won’t want to miss Dang Dang Dang’s CD Release Show featuring Roadkill Debutante and Ricer at The Earl! Stomp on down to The Star Bar for a night with Wonky Tonk! Rock on down to 529 for night two of the Irrelevant Music Fest featuring Material Girls, Arbor Lane Union and more! Get horrorifically intergalactic as the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre presents THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS through July 20! Jazz it up with Rahsaan Patterson at Suite Food Lounge! Make your way to the Aurora Theatre in Lawrence for their presentation of Disney’s NEWSIES, through Sept. 2! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with George Hughley & The Shadows! 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, July 20

Get some rockin’ cheap thrills with The Fabulous Thrillbillies, Sash the Bash and The Crush at The Star Bar! The Plaza Theater kicks off their screenings of Stephen Nomura Schible’s documentary portrait of the artist and the man, RYUCHI SAKAMOTO: CODA (2017)! Reggae it up with Fred McGregor at Center Stage! Get jazzy with Marcus Johnson and Kathy Kosins at City Winery! Get your transvestite Viking rock fix with Kool Kat Shane Morton with Valkyrie and Metal McDonald at The Earl! Or folk rock on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Angie Aparo, Molly Elizabeth, Nathan Angelo and Bryce Merritt! Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra plays jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra at the High Museum! Dead Affect pays tribute to the Grateful Dead at Smith’s Olde Bar! Spend the night with Shannon & The Clams and Paint Fumes at Terminal West! Get the devil blues with Rusty Cage at Vinyl! Rock on down to 529 for night three of the Irrelevant Music Fest featuring the Pylon Reenactment Society, YUKONS and more! Blues it up at Avondale Towne Cinema with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck’s Piedmont Report Live, featuring one hoppin’ lineup with Bill Sheffield, Joey Hoegger, Stoney Brooks, David Bartlett, Ross Pead, Georgia Slim, Skye Paige, The Blues Dude, Shelton Powe, Nate Nelson and Mudcat’s Piedmont Playboys! Funk it up with the Wasted Potential Brass Band at the Northside Tavern! Or get the blues with the Johnny Burgin Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or get some old-school soul with Herman Hitson at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Sandra Hall & The Shadows get down 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, July 21

Go-Go Godzilla on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Blue Oyster Cult! The Historic Oakland Cemetery gets macabre with Death Café Atlanta where the topic of the day is death while with a side of tea, coffee and tasty cakes, followed by their Malts & Vaults event! Madam Company pays tribute to Bad Company at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get rocked with The Rock*A*Teens and FLAP at The Earl! Indie it up with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during his ‘90s Alternative Music Video Dance Party at Amsterdam Atlanta! Get folksy and polka it up with Eliot Bronson at the Art Farm/Serenbe! Tribute pays tribute to the Allman Brothers Band at City Winery! Get countrified with Jonathan Byrd & the Pickup Cowboys at the Crimson Moon Café! Punk out with The Aggravated, Sceptic?, Rotten Stitches and Eliminate Earth at The Highlander! Rock out with The Fantastic Negrito with Hank & Cupcakes at the Masquerade! Sadie Hawkins presents her Last Pasties Standing burlesque game show at the Red Light Café! Rock out with the Young Antiques, Virginia Plane and Parsons Rocket Project at The Star Bar! Yesterday Calling rocks out to the tune of ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s and more at Kavarna! Get to the root of it all at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with the Josh Garrett Band! Rudy Currence dishes out a night of old-school soul at Eddie’s Attic! Ellis Paul folks it up at the Red Clay Theatre! Or get the blues with the Johnny Burgin Band  at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Albert White and Robert Eskew get the old-school blues at the Northside Tavern! Selwyn Birchwood dishes out the blues 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, July 22

Get nostalgic and pop on down to Chastain Park for a night with Culture Club, The B-52s and The Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey! Get your masked crusader fix at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Tim Burton’s BATMAN (1989) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get doomed at The Earl with Witch Mountain, Order of the Owl and JohnDenver DeathPlane! Sixties it up and celebrate 25 years of David M. Evans’ THE SANDLOT (1993) at theatres across Atlanta at 1pm/4pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! GKIDS presents Studio Ghibli Fest 2018 screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) at theatres across Atlanta at 12:55pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Get down with Angie Stone at City Winery! Spend the night with the Ruen Brothers and Ray Scott at Eddie’s Attic! New wave it up with The New Division, Nite, Dream Culture and HFF at Smith’s Olde Bar! Time travel on down to the Red Light Café for The Fandom Nerdlesque’s Sexcellent Adventure! Swing on by The Vista Room for Joe Gransden’s Big Band Sunday Dance Party! Get funky with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get the rockin’ blues with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Aurora Theatre in Lawrence presents Disney’s NEWSIES, through Sept. 2!

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 firsts Wednesday of the month!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

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

Monday, July 9

Make a splash and head on over to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for a one night only celebration of 50 years of The Beatles’/George Dunning’s YELLOW SUBMARINE (1968) at 7pm! New Wave it up with Dent May and Shannon Lay at The Earl! Lorna Tucker’s documentary covering the life of Dame Vivienne Westwood, WESTWOOD: PUNK, ICON, ACTIVIST (2018) screens at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, through July 12! Get jazzy with Kimberlye McKinney at City Winery! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!” Spend the night with Rev. Billy C. Wirtz at Blind Willies! 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, July 10

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema kicks off their Film in Films Classics Series with a screening of David Lynch’s MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001) at 7pm, including a pre-show intro and post-show introduction! Get sizzlin’ with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South as they salute you with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Patriot Acts event, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! The Plaza Theater screens Samuel D. Pollard’s documentary, MAYNARD (2017) about the life and times of the first black mayor of Atlanta at 3pm! Rock out with Young Rising Sons at Aisle 5! Get some soul with Vivian Green at City Winery! Get countrified with Elise Davis and Jacob Thomas, Jr. at Eddie’s Attic! Garage rock it up with The Tenders, Nikki & The Phantom Callers and Roadkill Debutante at Smith’s Olde Bar! Head over to Chastain Park for a night with Coheed & Cambria! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Redstone Ramblers fire it Blind Willies! 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! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, July 11

Get your post-apocalyptic sci-fi fix and catch a double feature of Katsuhiro Otomo’s AKIRA (1988) and Hideyuki Kikuchi’s WICKED CITY (1987) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Or get campy and catch a screening of Robert Luketic’s LEGALLY BLONDE (2001) presented by WUSSY MAG at The Plaza Theater at 8pm (doors at 7pm)! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Warren Beatty’s HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1978) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! William Green dishes out a night of rockin’ jazz at City Winery! Or make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Ludovico Einaudi! Chastain Park dishes out a night of retro fun with the Retro Futura Tour featuring Belinda Carlisle, ABC, Modern English and more! Get folk rocked with The Buffalo Ruckus and Back to Memphis at Smith’s Olde Bar upstairs; or indie rock it up downstairs with Wet Jeans, The Mondegreens and The Underhill Family Orchestra! Or lo-fi it up at The Star Bar with Lois Righteous, Post Hunk, DUMB and Fun Isn’t Fair! Blind Willie’s gets rockin’ with The Cazanovas’ Blues Jam! Art Hollidays gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up a night of acoustic blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, July 12

Rev on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Octanes, Cadillac Junkies and The Sideburners! Spend the night with the Wild Moccasins at 529! Get down to The Earl and spend the night with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer, Cousin Dan and The Trouble Obscene! Spend the night with Mermaid Motor Lounge and Town Mountain at Smith’s Olde Bar! The Vista Room presents Runnin’ Down a Dream paying tribute to Tom Petty and Mermer paying tribute to R.E.M! Get twangy with Neon Moon at Eddie’s Attic! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with The Shadows! 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, July 13

Kool Kat Chad Shivers and Southern Surf Stomp presents a hellacious rockin’ Friday the 13th with The Crimson Ghosts bringing some Misfits Surf intros, ELZIG and El Capitan & The Reluctant Sadists at The Star Bar! The Ghouls of Bump in the Night Ghoulesque cordially invite you to join them for their slasher-inspired burlesque revue, in celebration of their Macabre Mistress Risky Sour at the Red Light Café! Hula on down to the Highland Inn & Ballroom Lounge for Trashy Diva’s One Year Anniversary Tiki Party, featuring mai tais and Burly Q shenanigans with Kool Kat Ursula Undress, Kool Kat Lola LeSoleil and more! Or get bewitched with a screening of George Miller’s THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK (1987) at ATL CRAFT at 7pm! Raise a ruckus at The Earl with Pony League, Have Gun Will Travel, Jeremy Ray and Drew Beskin! Get old-timey with Back in the Saddle and the Swingin’ Saddle Cats at Kavarna! Rock out at The Vista Room with Demolition Man (Sting/Police tribute) and Semi-Charmed (tribute to ‘90s alt rock)! Get some soul with Q Parker & Friends at City Winery! Or get the blues with the Bridget Kelly Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Rock out with Dan Baird & Homemade Sin with Jackson County Line at Eddie’s Attic! Or jam it up with the Tyler Neal Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rumours pays tribute to Fleetwood Mac at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get your rockin’ roots fix with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Groove on over to Venkman’s for a night with Yacht Rock Revue! Folk rock it up with Lake Street Drive at the Variety Playhouse! Catch Nikki Bluhm at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens! Geek it up at the Georgia World Congress Center for Atlanta ComiCon featuring a weekend chock full of comics, toys, art, celebrities and more, running through July 15! Sandra Hall & The Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! Get down with Little Joey’s Jump ‘n’ Jive 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, July 14

It’s a late night scumbag revival as Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters release their first album at The Star Bar with Bigfoot and Bad Friend!  City Winery rag-times it up with a little Prohibition pandemonium with Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers! Bluegrass it up with The Clydes at the Crimson Moon Café! Stomp on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for Heather Luttrell & the Possum’s Den! Get rocked at The Earl with a Midsummer’s Nightmare, featuring Slaygerism, Maiden Killers, and Slack Sabbath! Have a revved up brunch at Venkman’s with Rodeo Twister followed by a night of Bowie vs. Gabriel with Jerome Newton & The Band Who Fell to Earth and The Sledgehammers! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Rob Baird, The Cactus Blossoms and Mike Killeen! Get rocked at The Highlander with Rose Asphyxia, Sleazy Cheetah and Kyle Troop & The Heretics! Get folksy with Boo Reefa at Java Monkey! Post punk it up in Hell with the Starbenders, The Rose Garden Funeral Party, The Twotakes, Famous by February and Stone Monkee at the Masquerade! Rumours pays tribute to Fleetwood Mac and Runnin’ Down a Dream pays tribute to Tom Petty at Smith’s Olde Bar! Geek it up at the Red Light Café as Tied and Tasseled Fetish Cabaret brings you their Cosplay Nerdlesque event! Tedeschi Trucks Band rocks out at the Fox Theatre! Folk rock it up for night two of Lake Street Drive at the Variety Playhouse! Head on down to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre for a night with Chicago and REO Speedwagon! Make your way to Solis Two Porsche Drive for their drive-in movie event as they screen Michael Bay’s BAD BOYS (1995) at 7:30pm! Or geek it up at Battle & Brew’s Retro Cosplay Night! Make your way to the High Museum for their Road Trip to Paradise Garden exhibit! Thomas “Git Lo” Lee gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Sammy Blue and the Blues Dude get down at the Northside Tavern! Funk it up with Dynagroove at Tin Roof Cantina! Get to the root of it all with The Nighthawks 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, July 15

TCM Classics presents a 3oth Anniversary screening of Penny Marshall’s BIG (1988) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! New Age it up with Carol Albert at City Winery! The Red Clay Strays dish out a night of southern rock ‘n’ soul at the Crimson Moon Café! House of Hamill folks it up at Eddie’s Attic! Got the need for speed? Well then, make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get funky with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get the rockin’ blues with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Alliance Theater presents WINNIE-THE-POOH, a musical based on the stories of A.A. Milne, running through July 15! (LAST CHANCE!)

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 firsts Wednesday of the month!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

ATLRetro is sizzlin’ this summer! Come see what’s on the Retro menu This Week!

Monday, June 25

Spend the night with Cracker at Eddie’s Attic! The Plaza Theater screens Samuel D. Pollard’s documentary, MAYNARD (2017) about the life and times of the first black mayor of Atlanta, Sergio Leone’s classic A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964), and Kool Kat James Bickert’s AMAZON HOT BOX (2018) (through June 28)! Prog rock it up with Geoff Tate (Queensryche) and Till Death Do Us Part at the Variety Playhouse! 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!” Barrelhouse Bob Page fires it up at Blind Willies! 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, June 26

Tongues Out Puppetry presents THE BIRTH OF THE MOON at The Bakery! Garage pop it up with Stray Fossa at the Red Light Café! Spend the night with David Ryan Harris at Eddie’s Attic! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Blind Willie’s! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 27

Get intergalacticly retro-tastic at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with a screening of Brian Bird’s, THE IRON GIANT (1999) at 7:15pm! Get rootsy and reggae it up with Mighty Mystic at Smith’s Olde Bar (upstairs), or head downstairs for a funky night with Wren & The Wravens, Hustle Souls and The Woofs! Shimmy and shake on down to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Emile Ardolino’s DIRTY DANCING (1987) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Robert Wise’s WEST SIDE STORY (1961) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with The Station Breaks and Morgan Evans! Catch a double feature of Jim Henson’s ‘80s classic LABYRINTH (1986) and Guillermo del Toro’s PAN’S LABYRINTH (2006) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Get rocked with The Wild Hares at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s His Mojo Dojo dishes out a night of Southern soul at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up a night of acoustic blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, June 28

Get doomed ‘n’ dirty with The Vaginas, Doesin, Metal McDonald, LUST and Dead Red Flowers at the Clermont Lounge! The Plaza Theater screens Samuel D. Pollard’s documentary, MAYNARD (2017) about the life and times of the first black mayor of Atlanta and Sergio Leone’s classic A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964)! Or come on down to The Plaza for the 19th Annual Animation Show of Shows featuring 16 animated shorts, including a special screening of Paul Julian and Les Goldman’s “Hangman” (1964)! Roots rock it up with Masters of Telecaster, Jim Weider & G.E. Smith at City Winery! Get your rockin’ bluegrass fix with The Goddamn Gallows, Days N Daze and Gallows Band at The Earl! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for night two of The Station Breaks! Rock out at The Highlander with DJ Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! Folk it up with Salt and Pine and Ashley Heath at the Red Light Café! Raise a ruckus with the Sunny South Blues Band, Vinyl Suns and Camera Box at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get the blues with Larry Griffith at Solis Two Porsche Drive! Make your way to The Star Bar for a night with Mighty, BIRDS, holders and Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah! Americana on down to Terminal West for a night with Parker Millsap and Travis Linville! The Ladies of ‘60s Soul Keisha and Kourtney Jackson get down at Venkman’s! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their Jazz Jam Live in the Lumiere Lounge at 7pm! Funk it up with Travers Brothership at Aisle 5! Bumpin the Mango boogies down at their Summer Groove Party at The Vista Room! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Get the blues with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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, June 29

Skank on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Toasters and Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley with Southern Ska Syndicate! Rock out at Sweetwater Bar & Grill during their PUNK NIGHT featuring Learning to Count (Ramones tribute), Demon Bolt (Misfits tribute), Odd Holiday and The Scows! Get some psychedelic soul with Black Pumas at 529! Departure pays tribute to Journey at The Vista Room! ATL Collective relives Tom Petty’s WILDFLOWERS at the Buckhead Theatre! Get jazzy with Diane Durrett at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center during their Jazz on the Lawn event! The Nouveaux Honkies get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Rock out with Hank & Cupcakes, The Stir and Ayo River at The Earl! Clay Cook delivers two shows at Eddie’s Attic! Get your Gypsy swingin’ Dixie Jazz fix with Ellis Dyson & The Shambles at the Red Clay Theatre! Groove on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Jess Wells & Cosmic Fire! Or get your smooth ‘80s rock fix with Members Only and Yacht Rock Schooner at Venkman’s! Make your way to Park Grounds for a dog-friendly screening of Christopher Guest’s BEST IN SHOW (2000) at 8pm! Get the blues with Marshall Ruffin at Avondale Towne Cinema! Groove on down to Park Tavern for a night with Yacht Rock Revue! Sly Dog gets the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up a night of acoustic blues! 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, June 30

Rock out with The Blasters and Clownvis Presley at The Earl! Or get old-timey and Gypsy Jazz it up with Tray Dahl & the Jugtime Ragband with Kool Kat Amy Pike and The Bonaventure Quartet at The Vista Room! Remember Jones revives Amy Winehouse’s BACK TO BLACK at the Masquerade! Sadie Hawkins brings you Britcom Burlesque at the Red Light Café, featuring Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Kool Kat Roula Roulette and more! Get freaky ‘n’ mischievous at the Dixie Tavern with Captain & Maybelle, Dale Jepson and The NightHawks, with special guest ELZIG! Boogie on down to The Basement for Commotion: A Tribute to Women in Music! Natural Wonder pays tribute to Stevie Wonder at City Winery! Make your way to Suntrust Park for the Zac Brown Band! Get down with Wet Jeans at Tin Roof Cantina! Bluegrass it up with Battlefield Collective during Venkman’s Bottomless Mimosa Brunch, followed by the Chi-Town Transit Authority paying tribute to Chicago! Stomp on down to Kavarna for a night with Mary Battiata, the Good Graces and Black Fox! Get your reggae and Afro-Cuban beats fix at Aisle 5 during their Atlanta SuperJam Beach Party! Get countrified with Lauren Morrow of The Whiskey Gentry at the Roxy! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Mark Miller, Control Burn and Ryan Harris Brown! Rev on down to Big Tex for a night with Kitty Rose & The Ramblers! Catch The Vipers at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with the Atlanta Horns and Nate Nelson! Spend the night with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne 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, July 1

Get horrorfied this summer and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Steven Spielberg’s JAWS (1975) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get funky with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Rock out with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Noni’s Bar & Deli hosts their Cinema Paradiso film event, screening two films beginning at 10pm, through June 28! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Alliance Theater presents WINNIE-THE-POOH, a musical based on the stories of A.A. Milne, running through July 15!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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