ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey kiddies! Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s meow! Shake a tail feather and come see what we’ve dug up for you this week! Live la vida Retro!

Monday, November 2

Rock into this week at the Masquerade with Soul Asylum, the Meat Puppets and Hope Country! Get some rockin’ soul and blues it up with Tommy Castro & the Painkillers with the JP Blues Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get satirical and make your way to The Plaza Theater for their screening of Mel Brooks’ classic, SPACEBALLS (1987), running through Nov. 3! 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! 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! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! And Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta!

Tuesday, November 3

Hey all you miscreants, rock on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Coathangers, The Birth Defects and Paralyzer! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema dishes out classic cinema with Vittorio De Sica’s UMBERTO D (1952) at 7pm! Get your ‘90s rock fix at The Loft with Everclear’s Sparkle & Fade 20th Anniversary Tour! May all your dreams come true at the Fox Theatre with their presentation of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA, running through Nov. 8! Get your Dixieland fix at Steve’s Live Music with La Terza Classe! Or get adventurous at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Catch a 60th Anniversary screening of Fred Zinneman’s OKLAHOMA (1955) AT Cinebistro at 7pm and the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 7pm! 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, November 4

Get funky with BJ Wilbanks at Steve’s Live Music! 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! It’s your last chance to spend the night with Harrison Ford at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Make your way to Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) for their screening of Cameron Crowe’s JERRY MAGUIRE (1996) at 7:30pm! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! 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 with Dry Gulch! 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, November 5

The Star Bar dishes out a night of debauchery with Blue Tower, Forsaken Profits, X-Ray Vision, American Discord, Cadillac Junkies and The Red Phantoms! Sex, Drugs & Bluegrass presents a heinous hootenanny with Kool Kat Caleb & The Gents, the Glen DeMerritt Trio and B.R. Lively at the Red Light Café! Get your psych rock fix with The Chris Robinson Brotherhood at the Variety Playhouse! Blues it up with the Karp Foley Band at Steve’s Live Music! Rock down to The Earl for a night with Goodnight Buffalo, Faithless Town and New Terminus! Catch the Georgia Ensemble Theatre’s presentation of Shakespeare’s classic, “Romeo & Juliet”, directed by David Crowe, running through Nov. 22! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! 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, November 6

It’s a night of secret agents and espionage at The Highlander as they celebrate the release of the new Bond film, SPECTRE, with a helluva party featuring Band. James Band (See our Kool Kat interview soon!), Map of the Moon and The Shut-Ups! Get funky with Lettuce at the Buckhead Theatre! Catch Film Love Atlanta’s screening of Andy Warhol’s THE LIFE OF JUANITA CASTRO (1965) at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center at 7pm! Get jazzy at The Plaza Theater as they screen Jeff Lieberman’s documentary, THE AMAZING NINA SIMONE (2015), running through Nov. 12! Rock out ‘80s-style at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with Van Heineken (Van Halen tribute), Radio Cult and performances by Blast-Off Burlesque! Folk it up with the Milk Carton Kids at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Rock out blues-style with Loudon Wainright III at Eddie’s Attic! Get gangsta ‘20s-style at the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre with their presentation of “Bugsy Malone”, running through Nov. 8! Stomp on down to the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Skye Paige, The Western Sizzlers and the Todd Prusin Experience. Or funk it up with Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Myles Brown and Alexandria Lushington in the Music Room! Catch a screening of Victor Nunez’ ULEE’S GOLD (1997) at the Toco Hills-Avis G. Williams Library at 1:30pm! Get the Chicago/West Coast blues with the Electromatics at Steve’s Live Music! Get funky with The 200s at the Elliott Street Pub! Stomp on down to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event and boogie under the dinosaurs with The Villain Family! 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, November 7

Get your fill of some tasty chili and a whole lotta foot stompin’ tunes at the 2015 Chomp & Stomp Chili Cook-Off and Bluegrass Festival, featuring the Packway Handle Band; Smokey’s Farmland Band; Little Country Giants; Pretend Sweethearts; the Jugtime Ragband; the Georgia Crackers; Slim Chance & the Convicts; Ghost Dance; The Bow Weevils; Alex & Todd; the HotHouse Peaches; the Front Porch Session Players, In the Wheelhouse and more, beginning at 11am! Shimmy on down to the Shakespeare Tavern for “Gotham: A Tale of Two Faces” presented by Hysteria Machines, featuring drama, defiance, debauchery and more! Or rev on down to The Star Bar for a night with the Belmont Playboys, The Blacktop Rockets and Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with Ghost Riders Car Club! Rock out to some ‘60s/’70s tunes with the Rainmen and Radar at Smith’s Olde Bar! Yacht Rock Schooner gets down at the Little Black Dress Party at the Buckhead Theatre! Get funky with War at the Variety Playhouse! Gareth Asher & Nicki Thrailkill dish out Love Songs with a Side of Whiskey at Steve’s Live Music! Get the soul of Flamenco with Paco Pena at the Rialto Center for the Arts! Stomp on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with the Grassland String Band! Or get some soul, Americana-style with the Smokin’ Novas at Eddie’s Attic! Blues it up with the Jeff Jensen Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! 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, November 8

Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) presents a 75th Anniversary screening of Joe Grant/Dick Huemer’s Disney classic, FANTASIA (1940) at 2pm and 7pm! Celebrate 25 years of Chris Columbus’ holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) in theatres across the Atlanta area at 4:30pm/7:30pm [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; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Rock out with the Toadies and In the Whale at the Masquerade! Kevn Kinney gets down at the Crimson Moon Café! Get groovy as Swami Gone Bananas gets down at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Netherworld Haunted House haunts every weekend through Nov. 8! (LAST CHANCE!)

Be the Headless Horseman’s next victim at Serenbe Playhouse’s chilling presentation of THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, haunting through Nov. 8! (LAST CHANCE!)

Travel back to 1910 Atlanta at the Alliance Theatre with their presentation of Pearl Cleage’s TELL ME MY DREAM, running every weekend through Nov. 8! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Georgia Ensemble Theatre and David Crowe (dir.) present Shakespeare’s classic, “Romeo & Juliet”, running through Nov. 22!

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 Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, every Tuesday!

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.