ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Retro Atlanta is the bee’s knees this week with rockin’ shenanigans, flicks of yore to a whole ‘lotta of honky-tonk, blues and rock n roll! If you’re lookin’ for a thrill and the weather’s got you down, get off that couch, put on your dancin’ shoes and live la vida Retro!

Monday, February 16

The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival brings you Barry Levinson’s AVALON (1990), screened in 35mm, celebrating its 25th Anniversary at the Lefont Theatre at 7:50pm! Jazz it up NOLA-style with Harry Connick, Jr. at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Get geeky with Blast-Off Burlesque as they start your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday night at 8:30pm! Blues it up with Barrelhouse Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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, February 17

Spend the night with Orson Welles at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of his classic masterpiece, CITIZEN KANE (1941), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or make your way to the Decatur Library for their screening of Lou Breslow’s YOU NEVER CAN TELL (1951) at 2pm! Shimmy down southern-style to the Red Light Café for the Mason Dixie Burlesque Tour featuring Atlanta’s own, Sadie Hawkins and performances by Hazel Honeysuckle, Ula Uberbusen, Deanna Danger and more! Or pop on over to the Variety Playhouse for a night of vintage ‘60s jazzy film tunes with Kat Edmonson and Robert Ellis! Get the blues folk-style with The Sweeplings and Marshall Ruffin at Smith’s Olde Bar! Swear and Shake get to stompin’ at the Red Clay Theatre with special guest The Sea, The Sea! Petite Auberge delivers a night of opera with Capitol City Opera Company’s “Dinner & A Diva” series with their “Valentine’s Day Love Songs” edition! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns get down and dirty with their Mardi Gras Party at Blind Willie’s! 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! The Crosstown All Stars dish out a night of stompin’ rock ‘n’ blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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! Get your Cajun honky-tonk fix at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Hair of the Dog’s Mardi Gras Party! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, February 18

Emory Cinematheque screens Giulio Paradisi’s sci-fi classic, THE VISITOR (1979) during their “Movies Made in Georgia” series at 7:30pm! It’s your last chance to catch Orson Welles at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of his classic masterpiece, CITIZEN KANE (1941), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or take the family to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for their screening of Chris Noonan’s BABE (1995) at 7pm! Groove on down to the Variety Playhouse for the Dark Star Orchestra! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get jazzy with Sal Gentile at the Elliott Street Pub! Stomp on down to the Mammal Gallery for a night with Cute Boots, Susto, Ruby the Rabbitfoot and Tedo Stone! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Little G. Weevil! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during Slim Chickens’ Honkytonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, February 19

Callanwolde Fine Arts Center delivers a night of classic Hollywood glitz during their 2015 Atlanta Film Festival Preview Party & Fundraiser! So, get dolled up, get glamorous and start off the 39th Annual ATLFF with a bang! And don’t miss the official feature film selection preview being held at The Plaza Theater prior to Callanwolde’s glitzy gala! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down and get your ‘50s and ‘60s surf and rock ‘n’ roll fix with Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids! Rock over to The Earl for a night with the Starbenders and Chevy Galore featuring Michelle Malone and Linda Bolley! Get your fill of some traditional Scottish tunes at Eddie’s Attic with Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas! Union EAV delivers a night of grungy ‘90s punk and garage rock with Bleach Garden, Uncle Van & the Buzzards of Fuzz and Bottle Kids! It’s a night of rockin’ roots with Donna Hopkins at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café with Kelen Rylee and Sylvia Rose Novak! 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! Blues it up with Sweet Betty & the Shadows 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, February 20

Get your retro film fix at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center with Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and his Film Love Presents: Fall-Apart Films event at 7pm, featuring rare archival material, including Albert Maysles/David Maysles’ MEET MARLON BRANDO (1965)! DJ Doctor Q and Atlanta Speakeasy Electroswing get dark and risqué during their Blackhearts Ball at the Red Light Café, featuring dangerous dames, gritty gents and femme fatales; with performances by Sin Tillating, Lucy Purr, Sunshine Divine and more! Jazz it up with The Stanley Clarke Band at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out ‘90s-style at The Earl with The Grifters and The Preakness! Honkytonk it up at The Star Bar with Strung Like a Horse, Darling Norman and Hothouse Peaches! It’s a night of garage rock ‘n’ blues at Union EAV with Bloodplums, Hooka Hey and Poison Coats! Blues it up with Rumblefish at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! It’s a night of ‘80s guilty pleasures at Famous Pub with their Dark 80s: Guilty Pleasure dance party with Kool Kat VJ Anthony! Jazz it up with Hotlanta Dixieland Jazz at the High Museum during their Friday Night Music Remix event! Get eaten alive at OnStage Atlanta during their presentation of the infamous horror rock musical, “Little Shop of Horrors” at 8pm, horrifying through March 28! Skank on down to The Highlander for their “Reggae/Punk/Ska/Glam” dance night! It’s a night of funky jazz at the Elliott Street Pub with Jessie Davis! Hop across the pond to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Please PleaseRock Me! Get bound at The Jungle Club with their Fixation: Bound for Love event, featuring theatrical entertainment, fashion fantasy, synth pop and new-wave! Get mellow ‘70s-style at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Red Head Diamond! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles rev it up at the Foundry Grillworks in Newnan! Blues it up with Willie Jackson at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Francine Reed & the Shadows jazz it up at Blind Willie’s! 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! Get bluesy with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! Bluegrass it up with Jim Lauderdale at Eddie’s Attic! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Sean Chambers! 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, February 21

Splatter Cinema and Enjoy the Film (Kool Kat Ben Ruder) deliver a night of murderous mayhem at Cinevision Screening Room with their 35mm screening of Jonathan Demme’s ‘90s deliciously deviant thriller SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) at 8:30pm! And don’t forget to come early for some chilling lobby shenanigans! Get geeky with Kool Kat Sketch MacQuiner and more at the Atlanta Science Fiction & Fantasy Expo being held at the North Dekalb Mall in Decatur! Surf on down to Kavarna for Southern Surf Stomp! dishing out a rockin’ lineup with Crazy Aces, El Capitan & the Band With No Name and Flat Cat! Rock out at 120 Tavern & Music Hall with drivin’ n’ cryin’, Warner E. Hodges (Jason & the Scorchers) and Blackfoot Gypsies (keep your eyes peeled for our Kool Kat interview)! It’s day 1 of the 28th Annual Oyster Fest at The Steamhouse Lounge with a rockin’ line-up featuring Steady Common, Jerry on the Moon, Secondhand Swagger, Radiolucent and The Black Cadillacs! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Katharine Cole and Roxie Watson! Blues it up with Tinsley Ellis at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Dixie Tavern in Marietta! Oi! Oi! Oi! on down to the Drunken Unicorn for Patriot, Hub City Stompers, Antagonizers ATL and DDC! Rock out folk-style at the Red Clay Theatre with Zangaro’s album release show, with Avenue of Giants, The Bitteroots and The Lost Boys! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Ron Cooley! Or blues it up with Barry Richman at Steve’s Live Music! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Folk it up with Tom Rush at Eddie’s Attic! Smith’s Olde Bar dishes out a whole lotta blues in the Music Room with Chris Duarte and the JP Blues Band followed by the Phish cover band, Strange Design! Or for some old-school rock ‘n’ roll, make your way to the Atlanta Room for a night with Back on the Freakout and Slambango! Funk it up with the Rebirth Brass Band and Flow Tribe at Terminal West! Get bluesy with Big Joe & the Dynaflows at Blind Willie’s! The Stella Vees deliver a night of rockin’ blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, February 22

Get really retro at The Strand Theatre during their screening of King Vidor’s silent classic, THE BIG PARADE (1925) at 3pm, accompanied by organist Kool Kat Ron Carter! Rock out at The Earl with Georges Bataille Battle Cry and A Place to Bury Strangers! It’s day 2 of 28th Annual Oyster Fest at The Steamhouse Lounge with City Mouse, Marshall Ruffin, The Western Sizzlers and The Sundogs performing “The Tom Petty & the Hearbreakers” show! The Possum Kingdom Ramblers dish out a night of rockin’ bluegrass covers with Which Dave at the Red Light Café! It’s Sultry Sunday, so jazz it up with Evan Christopher during his Mr. Clarinet Dinner Show at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Blues it up with John Hammond at Eddie’s Attic! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers their Bluegrass Brunch with the Stovetop Ramblers in the Bar Room. Stick around and get funky with Naughty Professor, The Heard and Those Cats! Geek it up on day 2 of the Atlanta Science Fiction & Fantasy Expo at the North Dekalb Mall in Decatur! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! Stephen “The Blues Dude” gets bluesy at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And take the family to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for their screening of Chris Noonan’s BABE (1995) at 2pm!

Ongoing

The Alliance Theatre presents the musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s “Tuck Everlasting”, running through Feb. 22! (LAST CHANCE)

OnStage Atlanta dishes out the infamous horror rock musical, “Little Shop of Horrors”, horrifying through March 28!

The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center presents the “Gilda Radner Research and Translation Center”, an unofficial academic-ish platform for the analysis of Radner’s life and comedy, running through April 11!

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!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every second 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!

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.