ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Become one with the creatures of the night this week and rock out with a helluva lot of spooktacular shenanigans!

Monday, October 10

Get terrified at The Plaza Theater with their screenings of George A. Romero’s MONKEY SHINES (1988) and David E. Durston’s I DRINK YOUR BLOOD (1970) through Oct. 12! Or catch a screening of Ridley Scott’s ALIEN (1979) at the Studio Movie Grill (Duluth) during their Countdown to Halloween Series at 8pm! Funk it up and get some soul with Lucy Woodward at Smith’s Olde Bar! Boogie on down to City Winery for a night with Marcia Ball! 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!” Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! 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 night with Larry Griffith!

Tuesday, October 11

Get cozy and chaotic with the King of Monsters as the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema hosts a special limited American release of Hideaki Anno/Shinji Higuchi’s SHIN GODZILLA (2016), leaving a trail of destruction through Oct. 18! And you won’t want to miss the Landmark’s kickoff of their new Classics Series, with a screening of John Frankenheimer’s THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) at 7pm! Rock out with Henry Rollins at the newly vamped Variety Playhouse! Shake ‘n’ shiver with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South as spook up your evening with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Boolesque Spooktacular edition, featuring performances by Ada Manzhart, Anna Coquette and more at the Red Light Café! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of John Carpenter’s THE THING (1982) at 7:30pm! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Get down with J.T. Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, October 12

Get up close and personal with producer/screenwriter Glen Morgan (X-FILES/INTRUDERS) at SCADShow at 6:30pm! Get old-school with The Mowgli’s at Vinyl! Catch the Homespun Film Series at The Plaza Theater, featuring documentary films from Atlanta filmmakers! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s encore screening of John Carpenter’s THE THING (1982) at 7:30pm! Or boogie on down to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) and catch a screening of Emile Ardolino’s DIRTY DANCING (1987) at 7:30pm! Get some soul with The Nightowls and The Velvet Stones in the Music Room at Smith’s Olde Bar! Or catch The Tall Pines in the Atlanta Room! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of rhythm and soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays! Or catch a screening of John Hughes’ WEIRD SCIENCE (1985) during Emory Cinematheque’s Comics & Graphic Novels Series at 7:30pm! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! The Star Bar gets down with their Okie Dokie Karaoke, every Wednesday at 9pm! Or rock on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, October 13

Get horrorfied with the 10th Annual Atlanta Film Festival, gorifying at The Plaza Theater (Oct. 13-15) and Mammal Gallary (Oct 16)! Get geeky with mc chris, the  “undisputed king of nerd rap” as he returns  with a brand new album inspired by Freddy Kruger at Drunken Unicorn!Rock out with Failure at the Masquerade as they celebrate 20 years of “Fantastic Planet”! Get sinister at 7 Stages as the L5P Rockstar Orchestra presents Black Metal Burlesque, A Heavy Metal Musical rocking out through Oct. 15! Honkytonk on down to the Clermont Lounge every other Thursday for a night with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and Ghost Riders Car Club! The Star Bar will be raisin’ a ruckus with Blood on the Harp, the Stove Pipe Ramblers and more! Catch a little Rhythm & Soul with the Diamond Street Rhythm Machine in the Little Vinyl Lounge! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s and retro it up with Space Plow! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, October 14

The bloodletting gets sinister at RITUAL’s 8th Annual Vampire’s Ball at Club Famous! The Plaza Theater screens John Carpenter’s 1982 classic, THE THING through Oct. 15! Or catch a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951) at SCADShow! Sadie Hawkins presents Last Pasties Standing: Loud & Proud at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to the Variety Playhouse for the Turnpike Troubadours! Make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with Swap Raw Deal! Get your classic rock fix under the dinosaurs with Dangfly at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! 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, October 15

Today is the day all you ghosts and goblins have been waiting for! Little 5 Points business district hosts its annual L5P Halloween Festival & Parade! So, come on out dressed to the bloody nines in your spookiest Halloween costume and get horrorifically haunted! Get fed! Get rocked! And get your flesh to the biggest Halloween parade in the south! The event wakes from the dead at noon and haunts until 11 pm, with an artists’ market, food venders, as well as two stages for live entertainment, Wrecking Bar Stage and the Main Stage. The spooktacular parade of horror runs from 4 to 6 pm on Euclid and Moreland and promises to spook even the bravest of the brave, so pick a spot and hold on tight!  Get your faces rocked off with Kool Kats galore and more at the Wrecking Bar Stage, with chilling retro-esque performances by The Pinx (Kool Kat Adam McIntyre), Young Antiques, AM Gold, Southern Ska Syndicate (Kool Kat Andy Hawley), Slim Chance & The Convicts, The Wheel Knockers, The Mystery Men?, Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers and The Dirty Doors! Or rock on down to the Main Stage for The Despised, BIGFOOT, Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters, Midnight Larks, Metal McDonald, Devomatix, and The Jugtime Ragband! It’s a night of horror ‘n’ hula at Trader Vic’s as our pal, Jonathan Chaffin (Horror in Clay – see our Shop Around feature here) presents a Tiki Horror Seminar at 5pm! Shuffle on down to the Variety Playhouse as Yacht Rock Revue performs Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”! Swing on by the Fox Theatre for a night with Postmodern Jukebox! Check out the Atlanta Radical Book Fair from noon to 6pm at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture & History! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! 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, October 16

Rock out old-school style with The Sideburners at Smith’s Olde Bar! Rev on down to Kingdom Tattoo’s 2nd Annual Kustom Kulture Event at 2pm! Celebrate 40 years of Martin Scorsese’s TAXI DRIVER (1976) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm, with a Q&A from the Tribecca Film Festival [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); and Regal Atlantic Station 18]! Stomp on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with The Mavericks! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And get the rockin’ blues with Fat Back Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

Heads are rolling at Synchronicity Theatre’s presentation of Howard Brenton’s ANNE BOLEYN, running through Oct. 16! (LAST CHANCE!)

Netherworld Haunted House haunts through Nov. 1!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm!

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

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

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