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By Julia Carlson Contributing Writer Monday, May 20 Swing down to Café 290, and hear Joe Gransden… [more]

By Rachel Marshall Contributing Writer “Come find me. I have a drink for you. I call it the Adios,… [more]

HARLEY LOCO: A MEMOIR OF HARD LIVING, HAIR AND POST-PUNK, FROM THE MIDDLE EAST TO THE LOWER EAST SIDE By… [more]

SPACE 1999, the '70s Gerry and Sylvia Anderson sci-fi series, returns in SPACE 1999: AFTERSHOCK AND AWE,… [more]

All good things must come to an end, the old saying goes, so it was with a heavy heart that we learned… [more]

By Robert Emmett Murphy, Jr. Special to ATLRetro.com ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER By Seth Grahame-Smith;… [more]

Features

Urge Overkill on the Rise Again, With a Boost from Phoenix

By William Ashton Contributing Writer Few realized it at the time, but the 1990s were halcyon days for rock n roll. Even a band as hard to categorize as Chicago’s Urge Overkill could grab a major-label deal, than score a left-field hit with a Neil Diamond cover (“Girl You’ll Be a Woman Soon,” as heard [...]
Who Wants to Go Back to Earth Anyway?!: Andrew Gaska Ignites AFTERSHOCK AND AWE into Hit ’70s Sci-Fi TV Series SPACE:1999
Third Time’s The Charm: Revival Stars, Legends and Rising Ingenues Add Spice to Southern Fried Burlesque Festival

This Week in Retro Atlanta, May 20-26 2013

By Julia Carlson Contributing Writer Monday, May 20 Swing down to Café 290, and hear Joe Gransden and his awesome 16-piece big band perform swinging jazz at 8:30 p.m. Northside Tavern hosts its weekly Blues Jam featuring blues and southern soul singer Lola Gulley. Enjoy some BBQ with Pead Boy & the Pork Bellies at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. Tuesday, [...]
This Week in Retro Atlanta, May 13-19, 2013
This Week in Retro Atlanta, May 6-12, 2012

Let’s All Go to the Horror Con! Our 10 Best Retro Reasons To Attend DAYS OF THE DEAD ATLANTA

What are we doing this weekend?! We’re heading down to the Sheraton Hotel Atlanta, one of the most Retro of downtown hotels, to hang out with thousands of horror fans at the second annual Days of the Dead. Last year, we drove all the way to the golf-cart-riding Stepford Wife wonderland of Peachtree City, but [...]
Shop Around: Sewing It Up with the Creep and Cute Textile Taxidermy in Dingogirl’s Den
Shop Around: Grease Monkeys Is Your One-Stop Rockabilly Shop for Kool Kats, Kittens & Your Bike!

Really Retro: Your Ultimate Guide to AnachroCon 2013, Atlanta’s Steampunk/Alt-History Con

Science fiction used to be all about the future, but in steampunk, it’s gone back to the past to create a steam-powered alternate Victorian era full of airships, goggles and rayguns where Tesla trumps Edison. If you think that steampunk is just about creative costumes, there will be plenty walking the halls of AnachroCon, this weekend (Feb. 22-24) at [...]
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER by Seth Grahame-Smith: The Novel Is Better Than You’d Think, and Maybe That’s the Problem
Really Retro: Art Meets History and Hollywood!: A Walking Tour of Downtown Atlanta’s Hotel Row Historic District

Kool Kat of the Week: Mad, Mad Music Radio: Col. Bruce Hampton Takes His Eclectic Talents to the Airwaves with Radio Free Radio on AM 1690

Radio Free Radio; Hosted by Col. Bruce Hampton and Michael Holbrook; 7 p.m.; first and third Thursdays of each month By William Ashton Contributing Writer For a self-proclaimed “shy accountant,” Col. Bruce Hampton has made a spectacle of himself for more than four decades. He’s acted in an Oscar-winning movie (SLING BLADE [1996]), made 15 [...]
Kool Kat of the Week: La Schaffer Ain’t Got That Thing, If She Ain’t Got That ElectroSwing!
Kool Kat of the Week: Watson, The Game Is Afoot! Investigating 221B Con with Founder Heather Holloway

Retro Review: If the Dead Come, Can We Learn to Live with Them?! Splatter Cinema Presents DAY OF THE DEAD at The Plaza

DAY OF THE DEAD (1985); Dir. George Romero; Starring Lori Cardille and Joe Pilato; Tuesday, May 14, 9:30 p.m.; Plaza Theatre; Trailer here. Presented by Splatter Cinema. By Andrew Kemp Contributing Writer George A. Romero’s 1968 classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD warned audiences that when there was no more room in Hell, the dead would walk the earth. It [...]
Retro Review: Fritz Lang’s M: The Birth of the Psychological Horror Film in a Gorgeous Digital Restoration at the Plaza Theatre!
Retro Review: HARLEY LOCO Takes Readers Back to a Darker Side of New York’s Lower East Side inthe Experimental ’80s