ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

This week in Retro Atlanta is chock full of smokin’ blues, Burly-Q shenanigans, and all sorts of madness and mayhem, so come on out and see what we’ve found for you! And don’t forget all the classic cinema and rowdy nitty gritty rock ‘n’ roll invading Retro Atlanta!

Monday, November 16

Rock out with the Dandy Warhols and The Shivas at Terminal West! Or get your Danish heavy metal fix with King Diamond at the Tabernacle! Resurgens Theatre Co. presents their adaptation of Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s “The Changeling” at the Shakespeare Tavern, running through Nov. 20! Folk it up with The Amigos at the Red Light Café! 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! Blues it up with Atlanta Boogie at Blind Willie’s! 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 “Glam Bam Thank You Ma’am” 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 17

Shake ‘n’ shimmy on down to The Star Bar for Roxie Roz’ Thanksgiving Burlesque Show, featuring Sadie Hawkins, Kitty Capone, Luna Lynx and music by Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema dishes out classic cinema with a screening of Robert Rossen’s THE HUSTLER (1961) at 7pm! Get historic and experience A Colonial Thanksgiving meal at Pallookaville! The hills are alive at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Robert Wise’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! The Decatur Library screens Michael Curtiz’ WE’RE NO ANGELS (1955) at 9:30am! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Cicada Rhythm! Jam it up with Dead and Company at Philips Arena! Blind Willie’s dishes out a night of down and dirty blues with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck! Blues it up with Little G. Weevil at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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 18

Get some soul at Ferst Center with Mavis Staples and Joan Osborne! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema presents a magical 75th Anniversary screening of Joe Grant/Dick Huemer’s Disney classic, FANTASIA (1940) at 7pm! Emory Cinematheque presents Isao Takahata’s MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (1999) at 7:30pm in White Hall, during their Japanese Anime series! Rock out Argentinean-style with Vilma Palma e Vampiros at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Music Room! Or get funky in the Atlanta Room with Remembering January, Laney Jones & the Spirits and Why Hotel! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Joe McGuinness! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Get adventurous at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s HOOK (1991) at 7pm! The hills are alive at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with a second screening of Robert Wise’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! 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 19

Get down and dirty at The Star Bar with Stolen Rhodes, The Scragglers, Red Dirt Mountain and JP Blues! Or jazz it up bluegrass-style with Kenosha Kid and The Hibbard/Wright Project at the Red Light Café! Folk it up with The Way Down Wanderers at the Red Clay Theatre! Get really retro and start the holiday season with the Alliance Theatre as they present their adaptation of Charles Dickens’ holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol”, running through Dec. 24! Get your rockin’ blues fix with Debbie Davies at Blind Willie’s!! 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 20

Get some ‘50s and ‘60s Georgia soul with Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics at the High Museum! Or swing on by Cajun-style to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Zydeco Ya Ya! Get artsy retro-style with Kool Kat Chris Hamer of UrbnPop at his Drawn & Disorderly art show at the Red Brick Brewing Company! Denny Laine (The Moody Blues/Wings) gets down at the Red Clay Theatre! Get fanatic at The Plaza Theater as they screen Rob Reiner’s MISERY (1990), running through Nov. 26! Rock on down to The Star Bar for a night with Motor Earth, The Halls of Jupiter and Hot Wives! Funk it up with the Rebirth Brass Band and Naughty Professor at Terminal West! Leigh Nash delivers a night of vintage pop at Eddie’s Attic! Hop a broom to the Diesel Filling Station for stop one of the Potter Pub Crawl! Eighties it up at Wild Wing Café (Gainesville) with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Joe Bonamassa rocks out blues-style at the Fox Theatre! Get your fill of classic rock, ‘80s and funk with the Uncle Mike Band at Steve’s Live Music! Blues it up with George Hughley & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Make your way to Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their opening screening of Jeffrey Schwarz’ documentary, TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL (2015)! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues dishes out a night of rockin’ blues with Plate Full of Blues! Or get the blues with Stoney Brooks at Northside Tavern! Make your way to Hottie Hawgs BBQ for a night with Men in Blues! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so cha-cha under the dinosaurs with the Salsambo Dance Studio while sippin’ a few cocktails! 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 21

The Highlander delivers a night of down and dirty debauchery with the Spectremen, Kool Kats The Casket Creatures and Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters! Cast a spell and make your way to the Masquerade for a night of sinister seduction at the Atlanta’s Wizard Ball 2! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for Sadie Hawkins’ Cheap Thrills! event! The Scragglers rock out at Kavarna! The ultimate Michael Jackson tribute, Who’s Bad, gets down at the Variety Playhouse! Stomp over to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Michelle Malone! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire it up at Dixie Tavern! Blues it up with Tab Benoit at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get your ‘90s jazz fix with Kenny G at the Buckhead Theatre! Or put on those dancin’ shoes and get ready for a night of retro rock, Motown, funk, Big Band and more at The Basement for Electric Western’s Keep on Movin’ Rock and Soul Dance Party! Get funky with The Mike Dillon Band at the Drunken Unicorn! Make your way to Vinyl for a night with Zangaro, The Extraordinary Contraptions and The Listening Wall! Blues it up with Big Bill Morganfield at Blind Willie’s! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for The Art of Tiki seminar at 5pm! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins delivers some rockin’ blues at the Northside Tavern! 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 22

Shimmy on down to 7 Stages for a good cause and a tantalizing tease! Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South present their annual Tits For Tots For Toys Burlesque Variety Show, featuring performances by Annette Coquette, Greta Vontrol Lop, Bourgeois Betty, Fianna Flowerchild, Bunny Wigglebottom, Flame Cynders and more! Get adventurous at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their second screening of Steven Spielberg’s HOOK (1991) at 2pm! Stomp on down to the Variety Playhousefor a night with Shakey Graves! The Wizards of Winter rock out at Center Stage! 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

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

The Alliance Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol”, running through Dec. 24!

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.