ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Forget the daily grind, get off the couch and take a peek at what we have in store for all you Kool Kats and Kittens! Let Retro Atlanta fill you with a week’s worth of swingin’ good times! From vintage, fuzzed out rock ‘n’ roll to steamy burlesque to classic cinema galore! It’ll be a bloody good time, so get out and get retro!

Monday, November 17

Get funky and boogie down with Jeff Sipe Trio, The Flying Oatsmen and The Mar-Tans at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to the Lefont Theatre for their 30th Anniversary restoration screening of Daniel Schmid’s TOSCA’S KISS (1985) at 7pm! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! It’s a night of red hot blues at Blind Willie’s with Funky Bluester! 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 18

Rock out with a night of new-wave and synth pop at the Masquerade with The Birthday Massacre and New Years Day in Heaven! Or get your dirty rock ‘n’ roll fix in Purgatory with Thelma & The Sleaze, The Lamentations, Weary Heads and Dendera Bloodbath! Get holiday ready, retro-style at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Michael Curtiz’ WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954), during their “Home for the Holidays” series at 7:30! Get filled with three decades of R.E.M. at Midtown Art Cinema with their screening of Alexander Young’s documentary, R.E.M. BY MTV (2014)! Get artsy folk-style at The Goat Farm Arts Center with their screening of Ava Leigh Stewart’s PARADISE GARDENS: HOWARD FINSTER’S LEGACY (2014) at 7pm! The Earl delivers a night of post-punk industrial with Death In June, rockin’ out since the early ‘80s! Get the blues with a hint of folk at Eddie’s Attic with Marshall Ruffin, Kappy Arnold and The Sweeplings! Get criminal at CineBistro at Town Brookhaven with their “Cineclassics 2014” screening of Frank Darabont’s, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994) at 6:30pm! Bluegrass it up at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Curtis Jones & Primal Roots! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets the blues with the Bob Page Trio! 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! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern! And blues it up at Blind Willie’s with JP Blues!

Wednesday, November 19

Surf down to the Drunken Unicorn and get down and dirty with the Allah-Las and Tashaki Miyaki! It’s a night of giddy Gotham hi-jinks at the Highland Inn Ballroom as SCENE MISSING presents their Batlanta Forever event at 9pm, featuring comedy, skits and writing based on Batman films! Get jazzy with Sal Gentile at the Elliott Street Pub! Bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café with the Sweetwater Creek Bluegrass Band! Or take a trip to the jungle at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for their screening of Joe Johnston’s JUMANJI (1995) at 7pm! Escape Vehicle rocks out at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get some soul and funk it up at The Earl with Abby Wren & What It Is, Norman Frank & the Ghost Dance and Lindsay Appel! Emory Arts’ delivers their “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” series with their screening of Wojciech Has’ THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM (1973) at White Hall! It’s a gothic winter wonderland at AMC Phipps Plaza 14 with their AMC Classics screening of Tim Burton’s EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990) at 2pm and 7pm! Get Grinchy at the Woodruff Arts Center as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents “A Very Merry Holiday Pops” featuring holiday classics, jingling through Nov. 22! 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! It’s your last chance to catch Michael Curtiz’ WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their “Home for the Holidays” series at 7:30! Get glammed out and catch Hamish Hamilton’s documentary, DAVID BOWIE IS (2014) at Midtown Art Cinema! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! The Cazanovas get the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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 20

The Star Bar gets down to the nitty gritty with two nights of Southern Culture on the Skids‘ voodoo beach party hillbilly hootenanny! Rock out at Terminal West with Blonde Redhead and People Get Ready! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at Red Light Café, so get to stompin’ with David & Valerie Mayfield! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs jams it up with the Donna Hopkins Band! It’s a night of rockin’ blues at the Red Clay Theatre with Michelle Malone, Kevn Kinney and Levi Lowrey! Get adventurous in the Colombian jungle at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Robert Zemeckis’ ROMANCING THE STONE (1984) at 7:30pm! Get funky with a night of old-school soul and jazz at Smith’s Olde Bar with Back on the Freakout, Sam Burchfieldand Lilac Wine in the Atlanta Room! Or get down and dirty in the Music Room with Avenue of the Giants, Ledfoot Messiah and the Johnny Rebs! Get gypsy-jazzy Americana-style at Eddie’s Attic with Jared & Amber! 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! It’s a night of rockin’ blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins 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! Take a trip down memory lane at the Aurora Theatre with their nostalgic holiday musical revue, “Christmas Canteen” jingling through Dec. 20! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 21

Hobnob with the hellacious horrorific filmmakers of the 9th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival at their opening night party at Joystick Gamebar at 8pm, which will be followed by two thrilling days (Saturday/Sunday) of short and feature-length blood splattering cinema! Shimmy down to the Academy Theatre in Hapeville for two nights of magical mischief and bawdy burly-Q as The Hysteria Machines presents their Sexpelliarmus: A Whimsical Burlesque Wizarding Revue! Or pay homage to silent films and spend a glamorous evening at The Strand Theatre’s Lumiere Piano Bar & Lounge, featuring classic silent films quietly flickering in the background, accompanied by a live pianist and tasty cocktails, running through Dec. 20! Honky-tonk it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with Gangstagrass, Megan Jean & the KFB and Grim Rooster, featuring Kool Kat Phil Stair! Get jazzy at the High Museum during their Friday Night Music Remix with the Laura Coyle Quintet! Boogie on down for Mary’s Sweet 16 party filled with music videos from the last two decades! Get folksy ‘60s-style at Eddie’s Attic with the Farewell Drifters and 10 String Symphony! Boogie on down for a free afternoon show with Southern Culture on the Skids and Atomic Boogie at The Burnt Hickory Brewery in Kennesaw followed by your second helping of Southern Culture on the Skids at The Star Bar! It’s a rock ‘n’ roll revival at Vinyl with The Howling Tongues, Modoc and Young Edison! Get your funk and disco fix at Elliott Street Pub with The 200s! Hottie Hawgs BBQ delivers a night of hill country blues with John Sosebee! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with The Great Peacock, Cute Boots and Johnny Delaware! It’s a night of rockin’ Americana at the Variety Playhouse with Justin Townes Earle and Cory Branan! Get folksy a la ‘90s at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with The Good Graces and their new vinyl release show! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so cha-cha under the dinosaurs with the Salsambo Dance Studio while sippin’ a few cocktails! Blues it up at Northside Tavern with Stoney Brooks! Tommy Somerville & Friends get jazzy and blues it up at the Red Light Café! Blind Willie’s gets bluesy with House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows! 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 22

Let the weirdly wild and bone-chilling adventure begin with day one of the 9th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival, Atlanta’s premiere horror film festival getting grotesquely gory at Fabrefaction Theatre Company! ($10/screening; $50/all-access) Or get your early ‘90s horror punk fix at the Highlander with the Spectremen’s 2014 comeback special with the Moreland Wrecks! The Earl rocks out with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s 18th Birthday Blowout, featuring a killer musical lineup with The Muffs, Beach Day and Dasher! Hey dudes! Rock out at Kavarna with their Southern Surf Stomp featuring a whole lotta surf rock with The AmpFibians, Ivan Pongracie (The Space Cossacks) and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters! Rock out with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles at Dixie Tavern in Marietta! Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics deliver a whole lotta ‘50s/’60s Georgia soul at The Music Room! Get classically retro at the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center at Morehouse College with The Ritz Chamber Players at 8pm! Mannheim Steamroller invades the Fox Theatre with a night of rockin’ Christmas tunes! Get the ultimate Michael Jackson tribute experience at the Variety Playhouse with Who’s Bad! Steve’s Live Music dishes out an Americana dinner showcase with Emily Kate Boyd (Billie in the Woods)! Get psychedelic and funk out with Flow Tribe and the Glen Pridgen Band in the Music Room at Smith’s Olde Bar! Or for a night of blues rock and funk, make your way to the Atlanta Room for a night with David T. & Friends! Get jazzy at The Strand Theatre with the Georgia Symphony Orchestra’s Big Band, led by Sam Skelton! Get rowdy at the Red Light Café with Heyday Revival, Fuzz Face, Brandon Gunter and Indie Killed the Pop Star! Put on those dancin’ shoes and get ready for a night of retro rock, Motown, funk, Big Band and more at The Basement for Electric Western’s Keep on Movin’ Rock and Soul Dance Party! Get old-school and rock out with the soul-sensation that is Stevie Wonder at Phillips Arena! Stomp down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with the Smokin’ Novas, Bill Mallonee and Muriah Rose! It’s a night of rockin’ thrashin’ ‘80s metal at the Tabernacle with Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies and Exodus! ATL Collective delivers a night of “Layla” and other assorted love songs by Derek & the Dominoes at Elliott Street Pub! Get down and dirty at The Family Dog with a Doors tribute, The Dirty Doors! Blues it up at Blind Willie’s with The Nighthawks! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack rocks out with Fat Back Deluxe! The Northside Tavern gets funky with Zydefunk! 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 23

It’s day two of Atlanta’s premiere horror film festival, the 9th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival featuring a grotesque line-up of bone-chilling feature-length and short horror films at Fabrefaction Theatre Company! Or get bawdy for a cause at 7 Stages with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South’s 8th Annual Tits for Toys for Tots Burlesque Show at 7:45pm! Take a trip to the jungle at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for their matinee screening of Joe Johnston’s JUMANJI (1995) at 2pm! Get brassy at Steve’s Live Music with Three Beards! Smith’s Olde Bar dishes out a Bluegrass Brunch with David & Valerie Mayfield! Karla Bonoff’s been rockin’ out since the ‘70s and will be getting folksy at the Red Clay Theatre! Get the blues with Bill Sheffield at The Family Dog! Stomp on down to The Earl for the ruckus that is the Georgia Mountain String Band! And blues it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Tony Bryant!

Ongoing

The Strand Theatre’s Lumiere Piano Bar & Lounge, featuring classic silent films quietly flickering in the background, accompanied by a live pianist and tasty cocktails, runs through Dec. 20!

Aurora Theatre‘s nostalgic holiday musical revue, “Christmas Canteen” jingles through Dec. 20!

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 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.