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Friday, May June 10

It’ll be a tidal wave of terrific when surf guitar king Dick Dale plays with protegee Laramie Dean, at The Earl. Read ATLRetro’s exclusive interview here. Col. Bruce Hampton & the Quark Alliance rock Shorty’s in Tucker. Breeze Kings bring the blues to Northside Tavern.

This Friday night is a marvelous movie night. Get a last chance to see the Coen Brothers‘ remake of John Wayne classic TRUE GRITon the biggest screen in Atlanta at the Fox Theatre as the Coca-Cola Film Festivalcontinues. Not sure if one can call the over-the-top action flick HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN with Rutgar Hauer a classic, but you can also see it in an awesome art deco venue, the Plaza Theatre. Or watch Cineprov! make good fun of quintessential ’80s time travel flick BACK TO THE FUTURE at Relapse Comedy Theatre and even get some pic taken with a real Deloran. Or catch an IMAX movie and get down to the soft melodic rock of HERO at Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX.

Saturday June 11

Shop for Retro-inspired crafts from a variety of vendors during the Indie Craft Experience from 11 AM to 6 PM at Ambient Plus Studio in the West End. It’s a another big movie day as the Plaza Theatre presents Clint Eastwood in A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS at 3 PM and 7:30 PM, kicking off a screening of all three of the Sergio Leone MAN WITH NO NAME trilogy of Westerns through the summer. Read Philip Nutman’s Review/Preview here. Also, theCoca-Cola Film Festival continues at the Fox Theatrewith animated family film RANGO at 2 PM and Gregory Peck classic TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD at 7:30 PM. Remember to arrive early for the Mighty Mo’ organ singalong and cartoon.

Dave Alvin & The Guilty Ones and Nashville wrestling-mask-wearing surf rockers Los Straitjackets shake up The Earl. Relive both rad and gnarly danceable ’80s hits with Denim Arcade at @tmosphere in Loganville, featuring Becky Cormier Finch of Three Quarter Ale. Read ATLRetro’s Kool Kat of the Week interview with Becky and get a preview of the show here. DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno.

Sunday June 12

Rick Dang headlines blues “dunch” between 1 and 4 PM at The Earl. Celebrate GONE WITH THE WIND – 75 Years Later with Scarlett O’Hara or Rhett Butler cocktails and Southern-themed hors d’oeuvres at the Historic Oakland Cemetery Bell Tower and meet John Wiley, Jr., coauthor of MARGARET MITCHELL’S GONE WITH THE WIND, A BESTSELLER’S ODYSSEY FROM ATLANTA TO HOLLYWOOD, from 5 to 7 PM. Admission is $20 and reservations are required by Fri. June 10.

Ongoing

MODERN BY DESIGN, the High‘s newest special exhibition opening on Sat. June 4, celebrates three key moments in modern design and also the Museum of Modern Art, New York‘s (MOMA) collection history. The works on loan from MODA cover “Machine Art” (1934), “Good Design” (1950-55) and “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape” (1972), with the latter addressing modernism in the context of 1960s and ’70s counterculture.

The ever irreverent Dad’s Garage Theatre takes a stab at the ’80s horror genre of camp slasher films in SLAUGHTER CAMP about a homicidal maniac terrorizing a theatre camp. June 2-25 on the main stage.

See the original images which inspired Ray Harryhausen‘s amazing stop-motion cyclops, centaurs and other mythological beasts in the special exhibition, MONSTERS, DEMONS AND WINGED BEASTS: COMPOSITE CREATURES IN THE ANCIENT WORLDat the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University through June 19. The exhibition of monstrous art, drawn from the museum’s permanent collections, shows how the ancient Greeks were inspired by other Middle Eastern cultures in developing a vast repertoire of richly imagined creatures.

Get a rare chance to view original manuscript pages from the last four chapters of ATLANTA’S BOOK: THE LOST GONE WITH THE WIND MANUSCRIPT at the Atlanta History Center. The new exhibit, which opens today and runs through Sept. 5, is part of a series of activities celebrating the 75th anniversary of the publication of the international bestseller and also includes foreign and first edition copies, the desk Margaret Mitchell used while writing it and select images.

Tune back in on Monday for This Week in Retro Atlanta. If you know of a cool vintage happening next week, send suggestions to ATLRetro@gmail.com.