ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Come see what’s shakin’ in Retro Atlanta this week! We’ve got it all, from burly-Q to nostalgic film to all the rockin’ shenanigans your little vintage hearts could desire!

Monday, November 10

Spend the night with Ol’ Blue Eyes and swing on by the Georgia Ensemble Theatre for a hoppin’ night with Joe Gransden and his 16-piece band as he presents “Songs of Sinatra”! Make your way to the Lefont Theatre for their second and last screening of Billy Wilder’s FEDORA (1978) at 7pm! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Bill Sheffield delivers the blues at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 11

Shimmy on down for a night of tease and spice with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South as they warm up your naughty little hearts at the Red Light Café during their Tease Tuesday: Hot Winter’s Night edition! Gather all your misfit pals and make your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts for their faithful adaptation of Larry Roemer’s classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964) running through Dec. 28! Or for something a bit more sinister and holiday-filled, spend the night with Bill Murray at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Richard Donner’s SCROOGED (1988), during their “Home for the Holidays” series at 7:30! It’s a rockin’ punk and bluegrass hillbilly smash-up at The Earl with O’Death, Lily & the Tigers and Joe Fletcher! Get jazzy with the Georgia Tech Jazz Ensemble during their performance of “The Great American Songbook”, delivering tunes by Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Jimmy Van Heusen at the Ferst Center! Get really retro with Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” presented by the Atlanta Opera at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center, through Nov. 16! Make your way to CineBistro at Town Brookhaven for their ‘Cineclassics 2014’ screening of Amy Heckerling’s classic teen comedy, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982) at 6:30pm! Spend the night with Brigitte Bardot at the Midtown Art Cinema during their screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s CONTEMPT (1963) at 7pm! Controlled Burn delivers a night of rockin’ classics at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern! And stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the Boohoo Ramblers!

Wednesday, November 12

Honky-tonk on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Cletis & His City Cousins with Kool Kat Cletis Reid and Peewee Moore & the Awful Dreaded Snakes in the Atlanta Room! Or get folksy in the Music Room with Mingo Fishtrap, The Tarlatans and Matthew Thomas! Get jazzy with a little psych rock and surf on the side at Terminal West with Marco Benevento and Steelism! Folk rock on down to The Music Room for a night with Cicada Rhythm, Charlie& the Foxtrots and Chase Lamondo (Radio Birds)! Get your old-school southern rock fix at the Fox Theatre with their One More for the Fans event, celebrating the songs and music of Lynard Skynard with performances by Alabama, Gregg Allman, Charlie Daniels, Peter Frampton, Blackberry Smoke, Cheap Trick and more! Kool Kat Scott Glazer & his Mojo Dojo deliver a night of blues, jazz and soul at Blind Willie’s! Emory Arts’ delivers their “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” series with their screening of Krzysztof Zanussi’s THE ILLUMINATION (1972) at White Hall! Or spend the night in Gotham City at AMC Phipps Plaza 14 during their AMC Classics screening of Tim Burton’s BATMAN (1989) at 2pm and 7pm! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Last chance to catch Richard Donner’s SCROOGED (1988) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their “Home for the Holidays” series at 7:30! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, November 13

It’s a night of vintage rock ‘n’ roll at the Red Light Café with Secondhand Swagger and Major & the Monbacks! Get the Cajun blues at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Hair of the Dog! Get your garage rock fix at The Star Bar with Think Never, Ricer, Twin Trances and Hip to Death! The Goat Farm Arts Center is bringin’ back the ‘90s with The Cricket Gallery’s Cartoon Art from the ‘90s exhibit, 6pm to 10pm, running through Nov. 16! Get funky at Smith’s Olde Bar with Play on Brother and Arc & Stones! It’s a night of saucy tease and seduction at the Masquerade as the Suicide Girls deliver their Blackheart Burlesque Fall Tour! Get some old-time blues and soul at the Crimson Moon Café with The Lauren Mitchell Band! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Sweet Betty & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 14

It’s a night of Steampunk and swingin’ shenanigans at the Red Light Café with the Artifice Club & Steampunk ATLMeet-Up from 8pm to 9pm, followed by the Speakeasy Electroswing Atlanta: Cabaret edition with DJ Doctor Q, a rockin’ performance by the gypsy cabaret duo, Frenchy & the Punk (see our feature on Frenchy & the Punk here) and burly-Q heat by Lucy Purr and Candi LeCoeur! Or get dressed to the monstrous nines and boogie on down to the Masquerade for their annual Atlanta Monster Prom with costume contests, Ghoul King and Queen crowning and an all out wicked party with a hellish performance by Kool Kats, The Casket Creatures! Rock on down to The Star Bar for Jabroni Fest 2 featuring Swank Sinatra, Ganges Phalanges, Kool Kats, The Joy Kills, Spray Tan, Wicked Pretty and more! And for a haunting experience, spook on down to the Decatur Cemetery for the And So We Wandered Still event at 5pm, running through Nov. 16, with performances by Erik Thurmond, Mary Grace Phillips, Chip Epsten and Nicolette Emanuelle!

Get your punk and surf fix at 529 with Twin Tigers, Sex BBQ and Hello Cobra! It’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Night at Diesel Filling Station with Kool Kat Rev. Andy getting’ you fired up with a whole lotta rockabilly, psychobilly, old-school punk and rock ‘n’ roll! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles get revved up at the Foundry Grillworks in Newnan! It’s a night of Australian roots rock and funk at the Tabernacle with The John Butler Trio and Monica Heldal! Get your psychedelic grunge fix at The Earl with T. Hardy & the Hardknocks, Jessica Lea Mayfield and Dylan LeBlanc! Get funky at Hottie Hawgs BBQ with the Swamp Funk Quartet! Hop on by the Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art for their Martinis & Music event featuring a night of big band and swing with Douglas Cameron! Get groovy with Summer Hymns and the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event while sippin’ a few cocktails! Kool Kat Colonel Bruce Hampton rocks out to the absurd at the Northside Tavern! It’s a night of old-time blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with The Lauren Mitchell Band! EG Kight delivers a night of blues and Americana at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Sandra Hall & the Shadows! Rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar with the Grateful Dead tribute band, Terrapin Flyer and The Hard Pans! Toucan Dubh delivers a night of Celtic folk at Java Monkey! The Geeks rock you retro-style at the L5P Front Page News! Rock out with Kool Kat VJ Anthony as he presents his New Wave 80s: Music Video Night dance party at Famous Pub! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW(1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, November 15

Ex-Cult delivers a night of retro rockin’ punk and psych noise at 529 with the Golden Pelicans and Wymyns Prysyn! Get your boogie shoes on and swing on down to the Kennesaw State University Museum of History for their 7th Annual 1940s Swing Dance, at 7pm with live big band tunes performed by the 18-piece Peachtree Jazz Edition! Alien plants and monstrous mayhem take over the Center for Puppetry Arts with their screening of Frank Oz’ cult classic, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986) at 7pm! Make your way to the Lefont Theatre for their 30th Anniversary restoration screening of Daniel Schmid’s TOSCA’S KISS (1985) at 10:30am! Get funky with War as they invade the Variety Playhouse! Get the blues with Barry Richman at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Get folksy at The Earl with Tyler Ramsey (Band of Horses) and Ruby the Rabbitfoot! Roxie Watson delivers a night of old-time country string band shenanigans at Eddie’s Attic! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night of tributes with The Pinups rockin’ out to Bowie tunes and the Joan Jett tribute band, The Cherry Bomb! Get your gothic country and dirty bluegrass fix at the Masquerade with The Green Gallows, Meghann Wright, Lion & Company and Ye Flask! The New Agrarians deliver their traditional southern folk with Granville Automatic at the Red Clay Theatre! Blues it up with Mike Lowry at The Family Dog! Get absurd and rock out with Yann Tiersen at Terminal West! Or get jazzy with Steve Tyrell at Center Stage! Rock on down to The Mammal Gallery for a night with Uncle Vann & the Buzzards of Fuzz, Beauregard & the Downright and wWAYLon! Blues it up at Blind Willie’s with Jarekus Singleton! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of blues and Americana with EG Kight! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ for the second night this week with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, November 16

It’s a wild rumpus at the William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum with their exhibit, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” through July 5! Take in a matinee at AMC Phipps Plaza 14 as they screen Tim Burton’s EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990) during their AMC Classics series at 2pm! Folk on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Patty Larkin! Bebel Gilberto delivers a night of bossa nova and samba at the Variety Playhouse! Rock on down to The Plaza Theater for the premier screening of Phillipe Vieira’s GHOSTALKIN (2014), a documentary telling the story of local artist, musician and “neo-renaissance” man, Swami, featuring cameos by Bill Sheffield and Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck, at 7pm! And blues it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Tony Bryant!

Ongoing

Georgia Ensemble Theatre presents “The Elephant Man” through Nov. 16! (LAST CHANCE!)

Center for Puppetry Arts adapts Larry Roemer’s classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964) through Dec. 28!

Museum of Design Atlanta(MODA) exhibits 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair through Jan. 4!

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every first Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

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

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month.

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

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

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

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