ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

This Week in Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s Meow! Come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve found for you! From honkytonk hootenannies to rockin’ garage, glam ‘n’ punk, we’ve got you covered!

Monday, March 9

Make your way to the Shakespeare Tavern for Kool Kat Nicolette Emanuelle’s The Dead Poets Lounge event featuring a combination of literature, circus arts, acting, and live music to bring the poems of dead poets to life at 7:30pm! Rock out at 529 with Ukiah Drag, Wymyns Prysyn, GG King and Polish Nails! 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! Catch Alan Pakula’s THE PELICAN BRIEF (1993) at the Charles D. Switzer Public Library’s “Brown Bag Lunch Film Series” at 12pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Swing on by the Georgia Ensemble Theatre for the “Sounds of the Big Band Era” event with Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member Big Band!  Folk it up with Hiss Golden Messenger and William Tyler at The Earl! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! 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!’ It’s a night of acoustic roots ‘n’ blues at Blind Willie’s with Bill Sheffield! 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 taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, March 10

It’s a night of burly-Q shenanigans with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South, at the Red Light Café with their Tease Tuesday: Spring Fling event featuring a whole ‘lotta pipin’ hot performances at 9pm! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema with their screening of Stanley Kubrick’s PATHS OF GLORY (1957) during their “Midtown Classics” series at 7pm, featuring a pre-show intro and a post-film Q&A session! It’s a night of fast draws and wild rides at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of George Ray Hill’s classic, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Rock out at 529 with Lowbanks, Buffalo Rodeo and The Illiterates! 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! Curtis Jones & Primal Roots bluegrasses it up at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Stomp on over to Blind Willie’s for the Boohoo Ramblers! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, March 11

Get your gypsy Americana rock fix at the Red Clay Theatre with Scythian! Funk it up with a night of rockin’ blues with The Georgia Flood at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or get your retro rock ‘n’ surf fix at WonderRoot with Man Up Yancey, Wild Front, It’s Not Your Fault and The Organ Machines! Blues it up with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at Blind Willie’s! It’s your last chance to catch George Ray Hill’s classic, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as Kool Kat Rich DeSantis and his band Honkytonk get smokin’ hot during their Slim Chickens’ Honkytonk Extravaganza event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! 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, March 12

Folk it up with some funky rockin’ Americana at The Star Bar with Birdcloud, wWAYLon, The Ain’t Sisters and Gashound! Or bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café with Coldheart Canyon, Keena Graham (Blood On the Harp) and Sofia Lute! The Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum presents their screening of Christine Herbes-Sommers’ documentary RACE: THE POWER OF AN ILLUSION (2003) at 7pm! It’s a night of absurd hilarity at 7 Stages with director Del Hamilton’s take on George Tabori’s “Mein Kampf”, running through Mar. 15! Get old-timey at the Elliott Street Pub with the Muleskinner MacQueen Trio! Garage rock it up at 529 with Shepherds, Paperhaus, COMA GIRLS and Mythical Motors! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins delivers a night of rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! Get rootsy at Eddie’s Attic with Penny & Sparrow! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down for a night of swanky soul and rock ‘n’ roll with Bogey & the Viceroy Quartet! It’s a night of “brass kickin’ roots rock” and funky grooves at Smith’s Olde Bar with Sol Driven Train, Voodoo Visionary and The McNifficent 7! 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! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of roots, rock ‘n’ reggae with Jump Babylon! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! 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, March 13

Get your fill of monsters and mayhem at the Masquerade with our pals at Wrestling With Pop Culture’s (Kool Kat interview with Jonathan Williams here) “Culture Shock” event hosted by Needless Things’ Phantom Troublemaker and Ghouella Deville, promising an extravaganza of wrestling, music and more! You won’t want to miss their special Friday the 13th frightening feature match with Monstrosity Championship Wrestling stars and side-show shenanigans with Captain & Maybelle! Get gore-ified at the Sweetwater Bar & Grille during their Friday the 13th Horror Rock Show, featuring Kool Kats, The Casket Creatures, Fifty Two Ways and Crypt 24! Or rock on down to The Star Bar for a night of punk tribute bands with Horror Business (Misfits), Banned in ATL (Bad Brains), Salad Days (Minor Threat) and Everybody & the Whatevers! Or for something a little less sinister, get your fill of ‘50s pop culture at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with I Love Lucy Live, running through March 15! It’s a night of retro funk ‘n’ soul at Aisle 5 featuring Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics, Magnolia Sons, Lady Daisey and Batsauce! John Mellencamp and Carlene Carter deliver a night of rock ‘n’ Americana at the Fox Theatre! Get revved in slow motion at the American Tavern in Loganville with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt’s solo acoustic show! Folk it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Howlin’ Brothers and Tall Tall Trees! The Jamie Laval Trio delivers their St. Patrick’s Day Show at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Blues it up with House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! It’s a night of rockin’ Americana at The Earl with The Last Bison and Cereus Bright! Boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with Lola! Hottie Hawgs BBQ dishes out a night of Dixie blues with Seminole Jackson! Get geeky and make your way to the Famous Pub for Markers.Con’s Infestation 4: Halfway to DragonCon event! Have twice the fun boogyin’ under the dinosaurs at Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with The T.S. Woodward Trio delivering a little post-ragtime jazzy blues followed by a little foot stompin’ bluegrass with The Shoal Creek Ramblers! Get psychedelic with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with The Unusual Suspects at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, March 14

Hey kiddies of all ages! Joelanta & the Great Atlanta Toy Convention invades the Atlanta Marriott Century Center for 2 days only! If you love vintage toys, stop-motion animation, comics, cosplay, pop culture and more, you won’t want to miss this two-day toy extravaganza including dealers tables, celebrity guests including GI Joe comic writer, Larry Hama, live music by Radio Cult and the Possum Kingdom Ramblers, panels with Needless Things’ El Phantasmas and more!

The Star Bar delivers a night of rockin’ garage ‘n’ glam with The Subsonics, Black Linen and the PowWows! Honkytonk on down to Kavarna for a night with Kool Kat Julea & Her Dear Johns, Kelsey Waldon and Kira Annalise! Or rev on down to Thunder Tower West Harley Davidson for their St. Patty’s Day Party hosted by Kool Kat Reverend Andy Hawley of Garage71 Internet Radio, featuring the best beard contest, kilts and wenches! And stick around for some rockin’ tunes with King Daddy Polecats! Catch a wave down to the Drunken Unicorn for a night of surf rock with the Antarcticats, The Organ Machines and The Future Babes! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles will rev you up at the Irish Bred Pub! The Center for Puppetry Arts screens Henry Selick’s film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH (1996) at 7pm! Bluegrass it up at Eddie’s Attic with Roxie Watson, Boy Named Banjo and Forlorn Strangers! Rock on down to the Earl Smith Strand Theatre for White Winged Dove, paying tribute to Fleetwood Mac! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for The Good Gracious Show featuring Gareth Asher, Hannah Thomas and more! Escape Vehicle delivers a St. Patrick’s Day Party & Jam at the Red Light Café! Get your bluesy roots fix at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Hannah Zale and Julie Holmes! It’s a night of holler-folk and stomp at Grocery on Home with The Ghost of Paul Revere and Caleb Caudle! Boogie woogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for their Dueling Pianos event! The Northside Tavern gets down and dirty with The Cazanovas! Blues it up with Sweet & Salty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Honkytonk it up with Whitey Morgan & the 78s at the 120 Tavern & Music Hall! Get folksy with Seth Livengood at the Crimson Moon Cafe! 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, March 15

Rock out 1977-style at the Variety Playhouse with Gang of Four! It’s day 2 and your last chance to experience the Joelanta & the Great Atlanta Toy Convention at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center! It’s a night of ‘70s punk at The Earl with Dirty Fences, Boy Toy, Sheer Mag and Mexican Slang! Bluegrass it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with Controlled Burn in the Bar Room! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at the Crimson Moon Cafe! Or get your Americana fix at the Red Clay Theatre with Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion! It’s sultry Sunday at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs, so come on down for a night with Jessica Sanders! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And blues it up with Snakelegs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

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

The 35th Annual Atlanta Fair is being held at Turner Field through April 5!

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!

The High Museum presents “Gordon Parks: Segregation Story” (‘50s Life Magazine photos) and “Leonard Freed: Black in White America”, (1963-1966) exhibits through June 7!

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’ usually every second Saturday 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.