ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

This Week in Retro Atlanta is a hellacious smorgasbord of rockin’ shenanigans, sci-fi conventions, honkytonkin’ hootenannies and more! Come on down and see what we’ve found for you!

Monday, May 23

Shake and shimmy on down to the Shakespeare Tavern for Sexpelliarmus: A Whimsical, Wizarding Burlesque Revue! Make your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts for their “No Screams Attached” Taking the Pain Out of Sound Design for Puppet Film event from 7-9pm! Hot Club of Cowtown dishes out a night of hot jazz, folk and Americana at Eddie’s Attic! Or make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Henry Koster’s HARVEY (1950) at 10:30am! Blues it up with Barrelhouse Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! 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!” Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! 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, May 24

Legendary surf rock guitarist Dick Dale (See ATLRetro’s Retro Review here) invades The Earl with Kool Kat Adam McIntyre and The Pinx rocking us back to 1973 with a hellacious night of blues-tinged, MC5-eques Rock ‘n’ Roll! Gab with local film industry professionals at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge during the Eat, Drink & B-Indie: GA Film Festival Round Table at 7:30pm! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” film series with a screening of Hal Ashby’s HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971) at 7pm! Get adventurous at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Brian De Palma’s MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (1996), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Make your way to the Fox Theatre for “Beautiful – The Carole King Musical,” running through May 29! Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm! Bluegrass it up at Steve’s Live Music with Faculty Grass! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! 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, May 25

Go old-school and rock out with The Dictators, The Swingin’ Dicks and Bad Spell at The Earl! Get old-timey with a night of vintage rockin’ roots at Eddie’s Attic with Miss Tess & The Talkbacks and Kool Kat Caleb & The Gents! Scene Missing presents their Backlanta to the Future event at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge, delivering music and comedy based on time travel flicks! Rock out at the Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee) and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming) with a screening of Devin DeHaven’s KISS ROCKS VEGAS at 7pm! Get adventurous at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Brian De Palma’s MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (1996), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Get the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of blues ‘n’ jazz with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Amy McCarley! 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, May 26

Cabaret it up folk/punk-style at the Red Light Café with Kool Kat Frenchy & The Punk, with The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing! Geek it up with a weekend of Anime, comics, videogames and more at MomoCon 2016, running through May 29 at the Georgia World Congress Center! Get the blues with the Barry Richman Band at Steve’s Live Music! Get jazzy with Jace Harnage at Stagga Lee’s Goodtime Emporium as she dishes out the Carmen Lundy Songbook! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Blues it up with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, May 27

The Star Bar dishes out a hootenanny and a half with their two-day Bubbapalooza 2016! Night one features Jesse Dayton, Dang Dang Dang, The Scragglers, the Jamie Starr Appreciation Society, Skype Page and more! Doors at 7pm. New-Wave it up with two shows with Modern English at The Earl! Rev on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Rockabilly Kitty Rose and Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt (acoustic)! Jazz it up in Piedmont Park during the Atlanta Jazz Festival, featuring 3 stages of jazz, from retro to modern, May 27-29! Shake a tail feather on down to 7 Stages for the Imperial OPA’s Grande Cabaret! Get your Time Lord fix during 2016’s TimeGate convention, celebrating 20 years of the 8th Doctor and more at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center, running through May 29! Hillbilly it up at Steve’s Live Music with The Nouveaux Honkies! The Vipers dish out the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! El Scorcho pays tribute to Weezer at Venkman’s! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra closes out their Pops! season with three days of the Music of Elton John (5/27-5/29). Debbie Bond & The Trudats get down at the Northside Tavern! Sandra Hall & The Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 28

It’s day 2 to fire it up with a helluva lot of killer Kool Kats at The Star Bar’s Bubbapalooza 2016, featuring Kool Kat Spike Fullerton (Ghost Rider’s Car Club), Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers, Kool Kat Sen Artie Mondello (The Mondellos), Rodeo Twister, The Mystery Men?, Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters, the Night Terrors, Raymond Smalley, Rockabilly Kitty Rose, The Wheel Knockers, Chickens and Pigs, Truckstop Confidential, Al Shelton and more! Get detained at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre during their screening of John Hughes’ ‘80s classic, THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985), at 8pm! Or old-time it up with Kool Kat Caleb & The Gents at Matilda’s! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring screenings of Hayao Miyazaki’s KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (1989) and HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (2005), screening through Sunday, 5/29! ATL Collective presents Sade’s STRONGER THAN PRIDE at Venkman’s! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with American Hologram, Collins Drive and Dustin Barclay! Funk it up with Zydefunk at Steve’s Live Music! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Brother Hawk, Stonerider and Tedo Stone! Boogie on down to The Basement for their Keep on Movin! Dance Party! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at the Wild Wing Café in Suwannee! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a  night of rockin’ blues with The Rockaholics! Get bluesy with Albert White and Eddie Tigner at the Northside Tavern! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with Sana Blues! Get funky NOLA-style with The Mar-Tans at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 29

Hey all you mischievous miscreants! Make your way to the Masquerade for a night with CJ Ramone, The El Caminos and The Unsatisfied! Or funk it up during brunch at Venkman’s with The 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra! Steve The Blues Dude gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 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! (On hiatus as of May 16 until further notice)

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.