ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Retro Atlanta dishes out all the funk, jazz, shenanigans of the circus variety, classic films, rockin’ shindigs and smokin’ hot blues you can handle! So get off that couch and live la Vida Retro!

Monday, March 30

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 Sidney Lumet’s classic, 12 ANGRY MEN (1957) 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! 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!’ Blind Willie’s delivers a night of funk ‘n’ soul with Greg Hester! 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 31

The Plaza Theater kinks it up with John Waters’ PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) at 7:45pm, kicking off their John Waters Festival, running through April 4! Get some sci-fi thrills at the Diesel Filling Station during Nerd Film Mafia’s screening of John Carpenter’s, THE THING (1982) at 10 pm following NerdCore Trivia every last Tuesday of the month! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of George Lucas’ AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973) during their “Midtown Classics” series at 7pm! Get epic with Charlton Heston at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Cecil B. DeMille’s THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! It’s your second chance to “Brat Pack” it up with a screening of John Hughes’ ‘80s classic, THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985) at 7:30pm at movie theaters across Atlanta (Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Carmike 12 in Snellville; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow and Regal McDonough Stadium 16)! 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! Funk it up with T Bird & the Breaks and The Breeze Kings at Smith’s Olde Bar! Stomp on down to 529 for a night with Joshua Fletcher, Adam Klein & the Wild Fires and Goldwing! Folk it up with Damien Rice at the Tabernacle! Blind Willie’s fires it up with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck! 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! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, April 1

Haunt down to the Alliance Theatre for the world premiere of Atlanta playwright and author, Phillip DePoy’s gothic murder mystery, EDWARD FOOTE, running through April 19! Get bizarre at The Plaza Theater with their screening of John Waters’ FEMALE TROUBLE (1972) at 7:45pm, followed by PECKER (1998) at 9pm! Or get murderous with Michael Mann’s MANHUNTER (1986) at Emory’s White Hall at 7:30pm! Boogie on down to East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, held the first Wednesday of every month, promising an evening of swingin’ jazz and jive with the Savoy Kings! Get smooth at the Village Theatre with SONG MISSING PRESENTS: Hallanta & Oates, delivering a night of writing, comedy and other performances based on Hall & Oates tunes at 9pm! Get your retro rock, funk ‘n’ blues fix at The Earl with Think Never, Hobbiest, The Dirty Souls and Liz Brasher & Her Band! Funk it up with a night of rockin’ blues with The Georgia Flood at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Part the Red Sea at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Cecil B. DeMille’s THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956), 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, April 2

Get hellacious at 7 Stages during Liquid Sky’s hell-raising event, “Dante’s Inferno”, featuring high-flying circus shenanigans with The Imperial OPA, Cirque Freaks and Inspire Aerial Arts, firin’ it up through April 5! The John Waters Festival continues with The Plaza Theater’s screening of DESPERATE LIVING (1977) at 7:45pm! Get artsy, punk rock-style at The Star Bar with Starbenders, Darling Norman and BlackFox! Mischief and mayhem ensues at the Masquerade with The Ataris, The Biters and wWAYLon! Rock out at The Earl with Chuck Prophet and The Tim Lee 3! For a rockin’ night of French chamber pop make your way to Mammal Gallery for Gage Gilmore, Peter Webb, Floral Print and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer! Folk it up at the Red Light Café with Jeremiah Daly, Logan Vath and Anthony Aparo! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down for a night of fiery island tunes! Blues it up with John Ginty at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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! 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, April 3

The Star Bar rocks out and revs it up with Slim Chance & the Convicts, Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, The Rainmen, The Blacktop Rockets, The Lizardmen and Kenny Howes & the Wow! Kool Kat Rev. Andy with Garage71 Internet Radio slings a night of rockabilly, old-school punk, ‘80s metal and more, with a BonesArt exhibit at the Diesel Filling Station! It’s prohibition-era pandemonium at The Earl with Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers’ Two Night Stand with The Darnell Boys! The John Waters Festival continues at The Plaza Theater with a screening of POLYESTER (1981) at 7:45pm! Groove down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with the Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular! It’s a night of ‘60s psychedelic pop and ‘70s-esque rock at the Red Light Café with Wussy and The Fairshake! 529 delivers a rockin’ shindig with Concord America, Shampoo, Monsoon and Daddy Issues! Bluegrass it up with Barry Waldrep at the Crimson Moon Café! The Drunken Unicorn delivers a night of garage rock ‘n’ indie pop with Coma Girls, Spines and Gold-Bears! Bluegrass it up at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with the Jason Kenney Trio! Trullie Brae gets the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get funky with Zydefunk and Laura Reed at the Northside Tavern! Rock out at Mammal Gallery with Man Up, Yancey, Wieuca, the Great American Noise Jihad and Femignome! Hottie Hawgs BBQ gets bluesy with Tito & the Chicken Raiders! Boogie down at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event while sippin’ a few cocktails with Platinum Band Atlanta! 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, April 4

Surf on down for a night of shakin’ shenanigans at the Drunken Unicorn with Sex BBQ (check out our Kool Kat interview soon!), Young Rapids and Mammabear! The Plaza Theater closes out the John Waters Festival with their screening of HAIRSPRAY (1988) at 4pm! Rock out at The Star Bar with The All Night Drug Prowlin’ Wolves, The Forty-Fives, Zoners, Skin Jobs, Blake Rainey & His Demons, Bully and Hot Ram! Stomp down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with The Ordinary Bitters and the Todd Prusin Experience! Get absurd and rock out with the madness that is, Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton at Good ‘Ol Days Pub! It’s night 2 of Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers’ Two Night Stand, delivering a night of Dixieland jazz with Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen at The Earl! Barry Waldrep & Friends bluegrass it up at Eddie’s Attic! The Red Light Café delivers a night of jazz and spoken word with Kodac Harrison and The Upbeatniks, followed by the Yonrico Scott Band with Joseph Patrick Moore and Nick Rosen! Get funky with the Jeff Sipe Trio and Curtis Jones & Primal Roots at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Aisle 5 delivers a night of psychedelic funk fusion and vintage ‘70s rock with The Orange Constant and the Atlas Road Crew! Get hardcore and old-school at the Masquerade with Biohazard, Sworn Enemy and Cross Me! EG Kight delivers her southern-fried blues at the Crimson Moon Café! Boogie down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with Banks & Shane! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins fires it up at the Northside Tavern! 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, April 5

Surf on down to 97 Estoria for a night of monstrous mayhem with Daikaiju! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers their Bluegrass Brunch with the Decatur Bluegrass Association (D.B.A.)! And get the blues with Snakelegs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

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

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 Alliance Theatre presents Phillip DePoy’s gothic murder mystery, EDWARD FOOTE, haunting through April 19!

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’ every second Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling 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.