ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey kiddies! Check out what we’ve found for you this week! We’ve got all the swell shenanigans your mischievous little hearts could desire, from rockin’ ‘billy to funky grooves to the blues to a whole lotta foot stompin’ pandemonium! So, get off that couch and live la vida Retro!

Monday, February 29

Catch a screening of Alfred E Green’s THE JACKIE ROBINSON STORY (1950) at the Alpharetta Library! The Plaza Theater screens Mark Robson’s EARTHQUAKE! (1974), running through March 2! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! 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!’ Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues 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, March 1

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema delivers their “Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road” series with a screening of WINGS OF DESIRE (1988) at 7pm, with an intro and Q&A after the screening! Get cozy with the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Metal, Doro at the Variety Playhouse with Madam Mayhem! Rock on down to Union EAV for a night with Joe Jack Talcum (The Dead Milkmen), Swank Sinatra, Doesin and more! Play hooky and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of the John Hughes’ FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! The hills are alive, Broadway-style at the Fox Theatre as Jack O’Brien presents, “The Sound of Music,” through March 6! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, March 2

Get cinematic with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s WEEKEND (1967) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! Get adventurous at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) with their screening of Robert Zemeckis’ ROMANCING THE STONE (1984) at 7:30pm! Play hooky one last time and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of the John Hughes’ FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! “Swing into Spring” at Steve’s Live Music with the Marlatov Cocktail Swingers! Bluegrass it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with Old Salt Union, I Want Whisky and the Front Porch Session Players! 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 Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with the Georgia Mountain String Band! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Or 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, March 3

Get the Cajun blues with Hair of the Dog at the Red Light Café! Hop across the pond to the Variety Playhouse for a night with The Mersey Beatles! Bluegrass it up at The Earl with Reverend Hylton, Blood on the Harp and Coldheart Canyon! Rock on down to the Masquerade for a night with The Vinyl Suns! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, March 4

Thelma & the Sleaze dish out a night of ‘70s-esque rock ‘n’ roll with Dinos Boys at The Star Bar! It’s a night of outlaw country and folksy noir at the Avondale Towne Cinema with Andrea Colburn, Rondo Rigs and The Wayward Souls! Get smooth and rock on down to Venkman’s for a night of acoustic Beatles with Nick of Yacht Rock Revue! Geek it up and make your way to the Masquerade for their INFESTATION 5: Halfway to DragonCon 2016 event! Antsy McClain & the Trailer Park Troubadours deliver a night of “folk-a-billy” at the Red Light Café! Rock out with Tribute at Steve’s Live Music! Experience an epic twist on a Dickens classic at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with their presentation of “Ghosts of Rock” at 7pm! Surf on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with *repeat repeat, Grand and the American Roommates! Get some soul under the dinosaurs with Scotty Cram at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Blues it up with Heather Luttrell at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or get the blues with Chicago Joe Jones at Northside Tavern! 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, March 5

It’s a night of mischief and mayhem at The Star Bar with the Kentucky Bridgeburners, Kool Kat Phil Stair’s Rocket 350, Bigfoot, Dusty Booze & the Babyhaters and The Trash Hats! Catch our upcoming Kool Kat, Darcy Malone & The Tangle at Smith’s Olde Bar! Geek it up at Challenges Games & Comics as they deliver their free 2-day Atlanta Sci-Fi & Fantasy Expo! Celebrate 20 years of the Dropkick Murphys at the Tabernacle! Honkytonk on over to Venkman’s for a night with the Georgia Soul Council! Or stomp on down to the Avondale Towne Cinema for a night with The Texas KGB! Get a second helping of Antsy McClain & the Trailer Park Troubadours as they deliver a night of “folk-a-billy” at the Red Light Café! The Sledgehammers pay tribute to Peter Gabriel at Steve’s Live Music! Get some soul with Gracie Curan at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Blues it up with the Cody Matlock Band at the Northside Tavern! Michelle Malone rocks out at Eddie’s Attic! It’s your last chance to experience an epic twist on a Dickens classic at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with their presentation of “Ghosts of Rock” at 7pm! Get your bubblegum art punk fix with Starbenders at the Drunken Unicorn! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at the Wild Wing Café in Suwannee! Rev it up acoustic-style with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt at The Pointe in Conyers! 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, March 6

Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Wim Wenders finale with his UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (1991) screening at 4pm! Get your country western fix with Back in the Saddle at Steve’s Live Music! Rock out blues-style with Denny Laine at Eddie’s Attic! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

MacGillivey Freeman’s 2013 documentary, NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE, commemorating the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary at the Fernbank Museum’s IMAX screens through June 16!

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

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

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.