ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Retro Atlanta massacres this spooky season with all the haunting and bone-chilling madness your little black hearts desire! We’ve got horror and slasher flicks! We’ve got sinister seduction and the unruly undead! We’ve got ghosts and goblins and monsters, oh my! Become one with the creatures of the night this week and rock out with a helluva lot of spooktacular shenanigans!

Monday, October 19

Glam it up with The Struts and Karma Killers at The Earl! Get blood-splattered during The Plaza Theater’s screening of Brian De Palma’s CARRIE (1976), running through Oct. 22! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Elvis Costello! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, October 20

Shake a tail feather during The Star Bar’s Halloween Burlesque Show with Roxie Roz, featuring performances by Candi Lecoeur, Kitty Capone, Luna Lynx, Annette Coquette, and rockin’ tunes by Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema screens Stanley Kubrick’s BARRY LYNDON (1975) in 35mm, during their “Midtown Cinema Classics” weekly event, at 7pm! Boogie on down to Terminal West for a night with Vintage Trouble and Greg Holden! Spook it up with William Castle’s HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959) at the Chamblee Library at 1pm! Spend the night with Audrey Hepburn at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) and Cinebistro (Brookhaven) during a 50th Anniversary screening of George Cukor’s MY FAIR LADY (1964) at 7pm! Catch Peter Bogdanovich’s WHAT’S UP DOC? (1972) at the Decatur Library at 9:30am! Or take a trip down the yellow brick road to the Charles D. Switzer Library for their screening of Walter Murch’s RETURN TO OZ (1985) at 12pm! Folk it up with War & Treaty at the Red Light Café! Bluegrass it up with Alex & Todd at Blind Willie’s! Or get the blues with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a night of trivia and corndogs at Pallookaville, with their “Trivial Matters” event! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, October 21

The day you’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived! BACK TO THE FUTURE mayhem ensues as Atlanta gets its ‘80s time travel fix with screenings of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE trilogy all over town! Catch BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985); II (1989) and III (1990), starting at 4:30pm at AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; AMC North Dekalb Mall in Decatur; AMC Fork & Screen in Buckhead; AMC Parkway Pointe and AMC Phipps Plaza! To catch the trilogy at 5pm, make your way to Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Regal Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Regal Atlantic Station! BACK TO THE FUTURE II (1989) screens at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern at 7:30pm; Landmark Midtown Art Cinema at 7pm; several show times at the Aurora Cineplex; the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7pm; and the Charles D. Switzer Library (free) at 6:30pm! Or make your way to Movies ATL 14 for their screening of BACK TO THE FUTURE I and II at 7pm! Then make your way to the Masquerade for their Back to the Future Party!

Make your way to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for a night with John Cleese & Eric Idle! Get funky with Bosley at Smith’s Olde Bar! Emory Cinematheque presents Hayao Miyazaki’s PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) at 7:30pm! Get down and dirty with Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds with Autumn Attics at Aisle 5! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Get your rhythm ‘n’ soul and rock ‘n’ roll fix with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! 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 22

Get your fill of Kool Kats galore at The Star Bar during the Butzer Birthday Bonanza with performances by The Compartmentalizationalists, Bruce Joyner & Atomic Clock, Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters, DJ Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, a puppet show and more! Film Love Atlanta is back with Kool Kat Andy Ditzler, so come on out to Beautiful Briny Sea in Grant Park for their Film & Site event, featuring avant-garde screenings of ‘70s films by Robert Smithson and J.J. Murphy at 7pm! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with The Membranes, Bataille and Eureka California! The Atlanta Bluegrass Cartel pays tribute to Tony Rice’s “Manzanita” at the Red Light Café! Get your old-timey and delta blues fix with the California Honeydrops and Caryn Womack at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jazz it up with Joey Sommerville at Suite Food Lounge! The Atlanta Independent Film Fest presents a screening of Kool Kat Ricky Hess’ web series HORROR HOTEL at the Pinch ‘n’ Ouch Theatre at 7:30pm! Make your way to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for a second helping of John Cleese & Eric Idle! Lazer Lloyd gets the rockin’ blues at Steve’s Live Music! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva island party! 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, October 23

Get immersed with Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse’s Dead-End event, presented by Red Robin Realtors, haunts through Oct. 24! If ghastly things are your preference, haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2015 Ghost Tours, through Oct. 31! Tiptoe through the graves, make a few new spirited friends and hear the hallowed tales of some of their eternal residents! Get your Kool Kat fix at The Star Bar with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Deadly Lo-Fi and Kool Kat Sen. Artie Mondello! Get sultry spook-style during DJ Doctor Q’s Spookeasy Electro Swing event at the Red Light Café, featuring performances by Kool Kat Persephone Phoenix and more! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Low Cut Connie, The Howling Tongues, Tesla Rossa and The Dirty Souls! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Leo Kottke! Atlantic Station screens Barry Sonnenfeld’s THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1991) during their “Spooky Film Fest” at dusk! Stomp on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with Paul Thorn! Kool Kat VJ Anthony delivers his 80s Music Video Dance Party at the Famous Pub! Celebrate 40 years with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Jim Sharman’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at AMC Phipps Plaza at 10pm! Blues it up with Albert White at the Northside Tavern! Get the blues with Funky Bluester at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get your folksy jazz fix under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with Mr. Blue Sky! 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 24

The Star Bar dishes out a rocking musical lineup with their Corndogorama #19 with Shocked Minds; The People; Love Letter; Rrest; Uncle Van; Twin Trances; Memes; Hip to Death; The Meeks Family; Muleskinner; Kool Kat Aileen Loy with Till Someone Loses and Eye; The Boy Jones; Chickens and Pigs; The Skylarks; and The Stixx! Haunt on down to DooGallery for their 12th Annual Haunted Art Show, featuring over 20 artists (including Kool Kat Shane Morton), live music, costume contests, raffles and more! Or catch The Halloween Puckin’ Fuppet Show at the Village Theatre! Make your way to LeFont Theatre as they screen Orson Welles’ classic, CITIZEN KANE (1941) at 10:30am! Andra Day gets some soul at Eddie’s Attic! Stomp on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a second helping of Paul Thorn! Gypsy jazz it up with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet along with 9-String Theory at the Red Light Café! Vinyl rocks out with The Black Cadillacs and Future Thieves! Paul Melancon does Ziggy Stardust at Kavarna! Shimmy on down to Jerry Farber’s Side Door for a night of Cheeky Belles Burlesque with performances by Kool Kat Kitty Love, JudyAnne Fox, Valkyre Jones and more! Get your old-time fix at the Variety Playhouse with The Devil Makes Three and The Deslondes! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets down and dirty at Northside Tavern! Get another chance to celebrate 40 years with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Jim Sharman’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at AMC Phipps Plaza at 10pm! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with The Hollidays! 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 25

Stumble on down to Chambers of Horror Haunted House as Kool Kat Luke Godfrey leads the 10th Annual Zombie Walk Atlanta, haunting from 4-11:45pm! The Earl Smith Strand Theatre creeps it up with organist and Kool Kat Ron Carter during their screening of Paul Leni’s silent classic, THE MAN WHO LAUGHS (1928) at 3pm! TCM Presents a diabolical double feature with the English and Spanish versions of Tod Browning’s DRACULA (1931) at theatres across town at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; GTC Merchant’s Walk Stadium 12 in Marietta; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) delivers a second screening of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE II (1989) at 7pm! Hillbilly it up at The Earl with The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band and The Muckers! Or spook on down to the Fox Theatre as they get haunted during their annual Fox Theatre Ghost Tours, chilling your bones through Oct. 29! Get the blues with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Fox Theatre spooks with their annual Fox Theatre Ghost Tours, running through Oct. 29!

“The Ghastly Dreadfuls: Raising Spirits” spooks at the Center for Puppetry Arts, through Oct. 31!

Historic Oakland Cemetery’s Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2015 Ghost Tours, haunt through Oct. 31!

Chambers of Horror Haunted House terrifies with their adults-only gore-fest and blood-splattering through Nov. 1!

Netherworld Haunted House haunts every weekend through Nov. 1!

Be the Headless Horseman’s next victim at Serenbe Playhouse’s chilling presentation of THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, haunting through Nov. 1!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

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!

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.