ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s on the Retro menu This Week!

Monday, September 17

Celebrate the one and only Burt Reynolds with a screening of Hal Needham’s classic SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (1977) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC North Dekalb 16; Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)], through Sept. 19! Get jazzy with Alexandra Jackson at City Winery! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café as the Candybox Revue brings you their Burlesque Karaoke! Surf on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for The Organ Machines, Moon Bums and Wolfson Green! Spend the night with Sting & Shaggy at the Tabernacle! Catch a screening of Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/6pm [AMC North Dekalb 16; AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)], through Sept. 20! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/ Duluth/Marietta) screens Chris Columbus’ HARRY POTTER & THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS (2002) at 7:30pm! Get your Viking metal fix with Finland’s Wintersun, Australia’s Ne Obliviscaris and Sarah Longfield at The Loft! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Get the blues with Barrelhouse Bob Page 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 as they dish out The Pork Bellys and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, September 18

Cash in Black pays tribute to Johnny Cash at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Geek it up at Battle & Brew with a Villains Ball, celebrating art of the wicked variety! Universal Studios Presents a 25th Anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s dino-rific classic, JURASSIC PARK (1993) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville), Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Marietta); and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! Get some soul with Rudy Currence at City Winery! Folk it up with Lula Wiles at Eddie’s Attic! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Catch a screening of Satoshi Kon’s PERFECT BLUE (1997) at The Plaza Theater, through Sept. 20! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s gets down with Andrew Black! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, September 19

Spend a very special evening with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and John Mary Go Round at The Star Bar! Live in the shadows as Emory Cinematheque kills it with their “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” series with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of REBECCA (1940) at 7:30pm! Spend the night with Brian Revel and Griffin Winton at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out with the Young Dubliners at the Masquerade! Cow punk it up with Ghost Moths, Blood Oaks and Fugitive Sound at Smith’s Olde Bar! Terminal West delivers a night with with Carl Broemel and Steelism! Get mobbed with a screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s classic, THE GODFATHER (1972) at Cobb CineBistro in Brookhaven at 7pm! Sci-fi it up at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) with a screening of Michael Anderson’s LOGAN’S RUN (1976) at 7:15pm! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Herbert Ross’ STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or go under the sea and catch a screening of Disney’s THE LITTLE MERMAID (1989) at SCADShow at 6pm! Universal Studios Presents a 25th Anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s dino-rific classic, JURASSIC PARK (1993) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Blind Willie’s gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Catch a cyberific double feature of Irwin Winkler’s THE NET (1995) and David Fincher’s THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2011) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Rock on down to The Highlander for their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get rocked with The Wild Hares at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up a night of acoustic 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, September 20

Videodrome and The Plaza Theater join bizarre forces with their Plazadrome Cult Film Series screening of Jonathan Demme’s SOMETHING WILD (1986) at 9:30pm! Bluegrass it up and get Trampled by Turtles at the Buckhead Theatre! Get jazzy with Bob Baldwin ft. Lori Williams at City Winery! Juana Molina dishes out a night of “folktronica” with Kai Riedl at The Earl! Get folksy with Wild Rivers and Kevin Gordon at Eddie’s Attic! The BadAsh Allstar Team presents a Jam Band Jam at the Red Light Café! Boogie on down to Firefly Studio Decatur for Down South Swing’s Level 1: 6 Count swing dance class! Get blues rocked with Lucero and Brent Cowles at Terminal West! Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get swanky and hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes with The Knotty Boys and some killer island cocktails! Spend the night with Gina Sicilia at Blind Willie’s! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! 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, September 21

Rumble on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a shakin’ night with Dale Watson and Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers! Get funky and spend the night with Lenny Kravitz at Chastain Park! Make your way to The Deep End for a Club Soda: Bjork Experience! Spend the night with The Magpie Salute at the Buckhead Theatre! Jazz it up with Chantae Cann at City Winery! Bluegrass it up with Curtis Jones & Primal Roots at the Crimson Moon Café! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down with The Pussywillows! Make your way to The Drunken Unicorn for a night with Sam Evian and Katie Von Schleicher! Eddie’s Attic presents Noah Gunderson! Get jazzy with Christopher Allison at the High Museum! Make your way to the Woodruff Arts Center as the Alliance Theatre, the City of Atlanta – Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs and the Atlanta Jazz Festival, present an artist’s town hall, The History of Jazz in Atlanta. Rock out at Avondale Towne Cinema with Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters and Netherglades! Funk it up and rock out with Jimmie’s Chicken Shack at the Masquerade! Get folk-rocked with Tall as Pine, How and Why and Katie Martin at the Red Light Café! Jangle on down to The Star Bar for a night with the Craig Brown Band, the Midnight Larks and Anna Kramer & Friends! Leftover Salmon dish out a night of Cajun/Zydeco bluegrass with The Infamous Stringdusters at the Tabernacle! Get blues rocked for a second night with Lucero and Brent Cowles at Terminal West! Spend the night with Jump, Little Children and SonderBlue at the Variety Playhouse! Funk it up with Big Sam’s Funky Nation at Venkman’s! Have a drink and boogie down at the 12th Annual Kirkwood Wine Stroll featuring live tunes by Grant Green, Jr., Kool Kat Amy Pike and The Bonaventure Quartet, The Diamond Street Players, the Elegant Bachelors, Cosmic Debris and more! Blind Willie’s dishes out a night of rockin’ blues with George Hughley & The Shadows! Blues it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Make your way to the Northside Tavern for a night with the Tyler Neal Band! Time-Warp it up 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, September 22

Kaiju it up with Kool Kat Shane Morton, a.k.a. ghost host with the most, Prof. Morte and his Silver Scream Spook Show at The Plaza Theater with a screening of Ishiro Honda’s monster classic and original GODZILLA (1954) and Ghoul Gal shenanigans at 1pm and 10pm! And you won’t want to miss the Kaiju Cult Art Toy Extravaganza, partnering with the Silver Scream Spook Show at Facet Gallery from 7p-10pm! Bluegrass it up with Banjolicious at Venkman’s during their Bottomless Mimosa Brunch! Kenny Howes and Friends celebrate fifty years of The Beatles with a live performance of their work from 1968 at Avondale Towne Cinema! Jazz it up with Gregory Porter at the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre! Boogie down to Firefly Studio Decatur for their National Americana Month Dance! Leucine Zipper and the Zinc Fingers geeks it up and rocks out with their new album ATOMIC ANARCHY at Kavarna! The Earl Smith Strand Theatre delivers a theatrical tribute to Aretha Franklin with NATURAL WOMAN: AN ARETHA STORY, running through Sept. 23! Bluegrass it up with Darrell Scott at City Winery! ATL Collective relives Elliot Smith’s EITHER/OR at The Earl! Get folksy with Greg Laswell at Eddie’s Attic! It’s tribute night at Smith’s Olde Bar, so rock on down for a night with Stone Temple Pirates, Pandora’s Box and Running with the Devil! Or rock out with Fidlar at the Masquerade! Goth it up at the Red Light Café as The Tied and Tasseled Fetish Cabaret brings you Por el Amor de Goth! Strut on down to East Atlanta Village for The Big Mask March EAV Strut! Or catch the free Lantern Parade at the Eastside Beltline Trail! Get your Americana fix with Mockingbird’s Wing at Java Monkey! Spend the night with Banks & Shane and Rod MacDonald at the Red Clay Theatre! Make your way to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with Delvis! Make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for Mr. Chapman’s Quarterly Revue! Stoney Brooks and Bill Sheffield get down at the Northside Tavern! Get down with Victor Wainwright at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, September 23

TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Nicholas Ray’s REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/ Duluth/Marietta); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! The BadAsh Allstar Team gets the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get alt-rocked with Toad the Wet Sprocket at the Buckhead Theatre! Jon B. gets down at City Winery! Spend the night with Ben Danaher and Heart Hunters at Eddie’s Attic! The Tannahill Weavers dish out a night of traditional Scottish tunes at the Red Light Café! Get folksy with Darlingside and Carolina Story at Terminal West! Rock out with The Jesus Lizard and Dead Rider at the Variety Playhouse! Keisha & Kourtney Jackson dish out their Ladies of ‘60s Soul at Venkman’s! Bewitch it up in the land of Harry Potter at theatres across Atlanta with a screening of David Yates’ HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 1 (2010) at 2pm, followed by a screening of HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2 (2011) at 6pm [AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Phipps Plaza 14; and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for 10,000 Pontiacs! Get your Bowie fix and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986) 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Take a magic carpet ride to the Fox Theatre for Disney’s musical ALADDIN, through Sept. 23! (LAST CHANCE!)

Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

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!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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.