Features
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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 [...]
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Who Wants to Go Back to Earth Anyway?!: Andrew Gaska Ignites AFTERSHOCK AND AWE into Hit ’70s Sci-Fi TV Series SPACE:1999
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Third Time’s The Charm: Revival Stars, Legends and Rising Ingenues Add Spice to Southern Fried Burlesque Festival
This Week in ATLRetro
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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, [...]
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This Week in Retro Atlanta, May 13-19, 2013
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This Week in Retro Atlanta, May 6-12, 2012
Shop Around
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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 [...]
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Shop Around: Sewing It Up with the Creep and Cute Textile Taxidermy in Dingogirl’s Den
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Shop Around: Grease Monkeys Is Your One-Stop Rockabilly Shop for Kool Kats, Kittens & Your Bike!
Really Retro
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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 [...]
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER by Seth Grahame-Smith: The Novel Is Better Than You’d Think, and Maybe That’s the Problem
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Really Retro: Art Meets History and Hollywood!: A Walking Tour of Downtown Atlanta’s Hotel Row Historic District

