ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Forget the horrorific daily grind and take a peek at what we have in store, kiddies! Let Retro Atlanta fill you with a week’s worth of swingin’ good times; from vintage, fuzzed out rock ‘n’ roll to bloody fangtastic films to steamy burlesque to classic cinema galore! It’ll be a bloody good time, so get out and get retro!

Monday, November 9

Get mischievously rockin’ and doo-wop on down to The Earl for a night with The King Kahn BBQ Show with Milk Lines! Honkytonk it up with Joe Ely at Eddie’s Attic! Shimmy on down to the Shakespeare Tavern for the second performance of “Gotham: A Tale of Two Faces” presented by Hysteria Machines, featuring drama, defiance, debauchery and more! 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!’ Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! Swing on by the Georgia Ensemble Theatre for a night with  Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member orchestra! 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! 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 taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 10

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema dishes out classic cinema with a 35mm screening of John Huston’s THE TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE (1948) at 7pm! 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 Burlesque: Stripsgiving event featuring performances by Bunny Wigglebottom, Anna Coquette, Fianna Flowerchild and more! Make your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts as they present their annual puppet adaptation of Larry Roemer’s holiday classic RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964), sleighing through Dec. 27! Catch a 75th Anniversary screening of Joe Grant and Dick Heumer’s FANTASIA (1940) at Cinebistro and the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 7pm! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! Blues it up with Cody Matlock at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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 11

Funk it up with Turkuaz and The Get Right Band at Aisle 5! The Earl rocks out with Fuzz, WALTER and The Compartmentalizationalist (with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer)! Catch a 60th Anniversary screening of Fred Zinneman’s OKLAHOMA (1955) at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema at 7pm! Get some blues ‘n’ soul mojo at Blind Willie’s with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! 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]! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) screens Nora Ephron’s YOU’VE GOT MAIL (1998) at 7:30pm! Steve’s Live Music delivers a night of ragtime jazz with Penny Serenade! Get funky with The Mar-Tans 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 12

Get your rock ‘n’ roll legend fix with Patti Smith at the Variety Playhouse! Blues it up with The Kinsey Report at Blind Willie’s! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns dish out a night of rockin’ blues at Eddie’s Attic! Get your punk and metal fix at The Star Bar during Jabroni Fest 3, rocking through Nov. 14! Bluegrass it up with The Brummy Brothers and Wisewater at the Red Light Café! The Imposeurs play Elvis Costello and more at Steve’s Live Music! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party with and a couple of cocktails! 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 13

Emory Film & Media Studies presents Penelope Spheeris “Movies & Rock –n- Roll”, with a special screening of her documentary THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION (1979) at 7:30pm! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt’s solo acoustic show at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Honkytonk down to Hottie Hawgs BBQ for a night with Kool Kat Rich Desantis’ Whiskey Belt! Get folksy with Barnaby Bright at Grocery on Home! Spend the night with Zappa/Mother’s synth legend, Don Presten and his Akashic Ensemble 2015, featuring Andre Cholmondeley and Mike Dillon at the Red Light Café! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for an evening with Judy Collins! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! Get the rockin’ blues with Hurricane Ruth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or get the old-school blues with Eddie Tigner at Northside Tavern! Folk it up with Nathaniel Ratecliff and Caroline Rose at The Earl! Rock out with The Wood Brothers at the Buckhead Theatre! Netherworld Haunted House haunts one more weekend this spooky season, through Nov. 14! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack delivers a night with Sana Blues! Catch a screening of Woody Allen’s MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY (1993) at the Toco Hills-Avis G. Williams Library at 1:30pm! Get old-timey at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with The HoBoHemians and jazz it up 20s/30s style under the dinosaurs! 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 14

Let the weirdly wild and bone-chilling adventure begin with day one of the 10th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival, Atlanta’s premiere horror film festival getting grotesquely gory at Synchronicity Theatre, with a special presentation of Dario Argento’s DEEP RED (1976) ($10/screening; $50/all-access) (with Kool Kats Blake Myers and Luke Godfrey)! Surf on down to Kavarna for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp, featuring the Southern Ska Syndicate, the Rondo Hatton Band and Revenge Beach! Run away and join the Dirty Circus and rock out with The Sideburners, the Screamin’ Demons and some crazy acrobatics with The Off-Centered Project! You won’t want to miss the Grande Opening of the Worlds of Puppetry Museum at the Center for Puppetry Arts, and get your fill of Jim Henson’s world and more, at 11am! Rock out with The Pietasters, Patriot, Soul Radics, Antagonizers ATL and Bastard Brigade at Famous Pub! The Plaza Theater screens Jennie Livingston’s PARIS IS BURNING (1991) for one night only, at 9:30pm! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles at Stix Bar & Grill in Vila Rica! Galactic gets funky at the Variety Playhouse! Bluegrass it up with the Jon Strickley Trio at the Red Light Café! Blues it up with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Go down under and get your Australian blues ‘n’ roots fix with Harper & Midwest Kind at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Albert White goes old-school blues-style at the Northside Tavern! Joe McGuinness gets down at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Mr. Chapman’s Revue delivers the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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 15

It’s day two of Atlanta’s premiere horror film festival, the 10th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival featuring a grotesque line-up of bone-chilling feature-length and short horror films at Synchronicity Theatre! Skank on down to Terminal West for a night with The English Beat and the Southern Ska Syndicate! Get your Broadway and show tunes fix at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with organist Kool Kat Ron Carter during their Open House & Variety Show at 3pm! It’s an evening of Gypsy jazz with Ultrafaux and Kool Kat Amy Pike and The Bonaventure Quartet at the Red Light Café! Rock out at The Earl with Jungol; Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun; Stokeswood; The Locksmyth; and The Boy Jones! Get groovy as Swami Gone Bananas gets down at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Blues it up with Stephen the Blues Dude at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

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

Center for Puppetry Arts presents their annual puppet adaptation of Larry Roemer’s holiday classic RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964), sleighing through Dec. 27!

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.