ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey kiddies! This week in Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s MEOW! Check out all the swell shenanigans we’ve found for you!

Monday, March 7

Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Fred Zinnemann’s FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) at 10:30am! Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with Andrea Colburn, the Urban Pioneers and Nathan Nelson (The Entertainment Crackers)! Take a trip to 1793 Paris and catch Lauren Gunderson’s new play, “The Revolutionists” at 7 Stages, reigning terror through March 20! 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! The first Monday of every month is Vinyl Night at the Red Light Café, so come on out for a night of “Albums that just sound better on vinyl!” Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! 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! 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!

Tuesday, March 8

Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday: Spring Fling edition shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! AC/DC invades Philips Arena with their “Rock or Bust” tour! Fathom Events takes us back to 1975 with their screening of QUEEN: A NIGHT IN BOHEMIA at Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta), Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), and AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw)! Blues it up Kansas City style with Atlanta Boogie at Blind Willie’s! Or rock out Brit-blues style with Marty Manous at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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 9

John Mayall gets down and dirty at the Variety Playhouse! Get your folksy punk fix with Flogging Molly at the Tabernacle! Eighties it up and catch a screening of John Hughes’ classic, SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta)! It’s a rock ‘n’ roll revival at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Howling Tongues, Sunghosts and the John Pagano Band! Sleaze it up at the Drunken Unicorn with The Dirty Magazines, Jerkagram, Cinema Novo and Twin Trances! “Swing into Spring” at Steve’s Live Music with the Marlatov Cocktail Swingers! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo delivers a night of southern soul ‘n’ blues at Blind Willie’s! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with The Ain’t Sisters! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! 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 10

It’s a night of “twist stomp slop” ‘n’ sleazy surf rock at The Star Bar with Guantanamo Baywatch, The Gooch Palms and Kool Kat Sen. Artie Mondello’s The Mondellos! The Earl folks it up and rocks out with Pony League, Blue Blood, New Junk City and Jeremy Ray! It’s a night of folk ‘n’ Americana at Venkman’s with Cicada Rhythm and Caleb Caudle! Get brassy NOLO retro-style with the No BS! Brass Band at Aisle 5! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with The Ain’t Sisters, She Returns from War, Brian Robert and Jason Waller! Catch a screening of Jeff Kanew’s TROOP BEVERLY HILLS (1989) at The Plaza Theater at 8pm! Jazz it up Middle Eastern/Cuban style with the Hadar Noiberg Trio at Steve’s Live Music! Sweet Betty and The Shadows get sweet and low down at Blind Willie’s! Rock on down to the Masquerade for a night with Further Seems Forever! 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 11

It’s a weekend of mischief and mayhem at The Star Bar with their Hammerhead Fest V! Night one brings you The Goddamn Gallows, Bigfoot, The Vaginas, Shehehe, Duell and Frick! Or make your way to the Little Vinyl Lounge downstairs for a night with Alexa Dexa, Emily Marie Palmer & Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer, Ben Trickey and Amy O’Dell! Come one, come all, creatures of the night to RITUAL’s Phantasmagoria at Famous Pub! Get your traditional NOLA jazz fix at the Red Light Café with Nolatet! Bill Sheffield and The Entertainment Crackers blues it up at Avondale Towne Cinema! Rock on down to Venkman’s Yacht Rock Revue’s “Led Zeppelin vs. The Who” event! Rev it up acoustic-style with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt at The Alamo (Newnan)! Get down with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with the Barry Richman Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Cool John Ferguson dishes out a night of the blues at the Northside Tavern! Bluegrass it up with The Chuck Nation Band at the Crimson Moon Café! Get the blues with Randall Bramblett at Steve’s Live Music! Boogie under the dinosaurs with Lethal Rhythms at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Time-warp it up during the Rocky Horror Pub Crawl, beginning at 7pm, with the final stop being 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 12

Hey kiddies of all ages! Joelanta & the Great Atlanta Toy Convention invades the Atlanta Marriott Century Center for 2 days only, through March 13! If you love vintage toys, stop-motion animation, comics, cosplay, pop culture and more, you won’t want to miss this two-day toy extravaganza including dealers tables, celebrity guests! Shimmy on down to the Shakespeare Tavern for Bettie Bullet Presents: Sex Ed Burlesque featuring Kool Kat Lola LeSoleil, Kool Kat Ursula Undress, Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Candi LeCoeur, Kool Kat Roula Roulette and more! It’s day 2 of Hammerhead Fest V at The Star Bar featuring Ramming Speed, Sadistic Ritual, Dusty Booze & the Babyhaters, Death of Kings, Invasion and Old Thrones! Skank on down to the Masquerade for a night with The Slackers, The Duppies and Eddie Rascal! Catch Kent Jones’ documentary, HITCHOCK/TRUFFAUT (2015) at the Lefont Theatre at 10:30am! Kool Kat Chad Shivers brings us another rip roarin’ pary at Kavarna with his Southern Surf Stomp!, featuring Ouroboros Boys, McPherson Struts and Moonbase! Shop all things retro at Vintage Soiree’s pop-up sale, 11am-7pm! Rock out with The Moody Blues at the Fox Theatre! Or surf rock your face off at The Highlander with Fiend Without a Face, Timmy James & The Blue Flames and Catfight! For one day only, the Center For Puppetry Arts presents “The Sound of Music” performed by Austria’s Salzburg Marionette Theatre with two shows at 2pm/7pm! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get old-timey with Freakwater at Eddie’s Attic! Jazz it up with the Georgia Symphony Orchestra (GSO) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Dixieland it up at Venkman’s for a night with the Jugtime Ragband! Glam it up at the Red Light Café for “A Celebration of Bowie’s Life and Legacy” featuring Jerome Newton & the Band Who Fell to Earth, Lingua Franca and Musee du Coeur! Get lucky at Park Tavern during their Lucky Fest featuring Zale, the Lefty Williams Band, Radio Birds and Ian Schumacher! Laura Rain & The Caesars get some soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at the Wild Wing Café in Gainesville during their ‘80s Party and Costume Contest! The Imposeurs pay tribute to R.E.M. at Steve’s Live Music! 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 13

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre gets really retro with their screening of Fred Niblo/Charles Brabin’s BEN HUR: A TALE OF CHRIST (1925), with a pre-show on the Almighty Allen Theatre Organ played by Kool Kat Ron Carter! It’s a night of old-time western swing at the Red Light Café with The Waymores, The Vaudevillians and Ellis Dyson & The Shambles! It’s day 2 and your last chance to experience the Joelanta & the Great Atlanta Toy Convention at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center! Altan delivers a night of traditional Irish tunes at Eddie’s Attic! Nancy Gaddy gets saucy with her “Sexy at Sixty” cabaret show at Steve’s Live Music! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Take a trip to 1793 Paris and catch Lauren Gunderson’s new play, “The Revolutionists” at 7 Stages, reigning terror through March 20!

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.