ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s shakin’ in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, June 13

Get futuristic with Sean Connery at The Plaza Theater during their screening of John Boorman’s ZARDOZ (1974), running through June 15! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves 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 night with The Pork Bellies!

Tuesday, June 14

Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: June in Jumpin! Edition, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Spend the night with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah in the Little Vinyl Lounge! Andrew Black gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Or get psyched blues-style with Reverend Freakchild at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, June 15

Skank on down to the Masquerade and funk it up with Fishbone! Or catch a screening of Wolfgang Peterson’s classic, THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7pm! Rock out at The Earl with Anvil, Against the Grain and Gunpowder Gray! Kool Kat Brooks Mason with The Georgia Flood get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Joe McGuinness Trio dishes out a night of roots and Americana at Blind Willie’s! 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! 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, June 16

Rock on down to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of IGGY POP: LIVE IN BASEL (2015) at 7pm! Or catch a screening of Paul Verhoeven’s SHOWGIRLS (1995) at The Plaza Theater at 8pm! “Party with the Past” at the Fox Theatre at 6:30pm! Rock on down to 529 for Small Reactions’ tape release party with Mantra Love, the OTONANA Trio and Pseudo Color! Rock out with Weezer at the Lakewood Amphitheatre! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents their “Great American Music” concert at the Verizon Amphitheatre! Skip school and catch a screening of John Hughes’ FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) at the Aurora Cineplex in Roswell! Lightnin’ Ray dishes out a night of acoustic classics at Venkman’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Get Rhythm & Soul with the Diamond Street Rhythm Machine in the Little Vinyl Lounge at The Star Bar! Blues it up with Sweet Betty & 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, June 17

It’s a night of surf ‘n’ soul at The Star Bar with Ex Wives, The Gartrells and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s The Compartmentalizationalists! Rock out with Hyperspace at the Highlander! Jazz it up with Matthew Kaminski at the High Museum! Grant Green Jr. delivers “The Jazz of Prince” at Venkman’s! Surf on down to the Decatur Beach Party featuring a boardwalk, food, games and live music with the Jugtime Ragband and Electric Avenue from 5-11pm! Bluegrass it up with the Dappled Grays at the Red Light Café! The Northside Tavern gets the blues with Stoney Brooks! Swing on by Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with Doug Deming and Dennis Gruenling & The Jewel Tones! A1A pays tribute to Jimmy Buffett at Park Tavern! Damon Fowler gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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, June 18

Make your way to EyeDrum to catch Kool Kat Andy Ditzler’s Film Love Atlanta’s presentation of Bill Daniel’s SFVHS: California Artist’s Video event featuring screenings of his classic ‘90s political shorts (see our Kool Kat interview on Daniel soon!) Wake the dead at the Historic Oakland Cemetery with their Tunes from the Tombs 2016 event, featuring the Atlanta Funk Society, James Hall, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Adron, The Return, The Dirty Doors, The B-53s, Fauxgerty, The Clermonts and more! Tiki it up at Trader Vic’s for their World of Tiki Collectibles Seminar at 5pm! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for their Monty Python Holy Grail Pub Crawl with five stops and a screening of MONTY PYTHON’S HOLY GRAIL, beginning at 7pm! Twist on down to the Little Vinyl Lounge (Star Bar) for Dusty Booze’s 50s/60s Rock and Roll Party! Sadie Hawkins delivers her Cheap Thrills! Burly-Q on a Budget event at the Red Light Café! Catch Brit Floyd at the Fox Theatre! Surf on down to Kavarna for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp! with Kenny Howes & The Wow!, Seawhores and Holy Mountain Top Removers! Get revived at the Decatur Music Fest featuring the Milk Carton Kids, Elephant Revival, Penny & Sparrow and Eliot Bronson! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s PORCO ROSSO (1992) at 10am and SPIRITED AWAY (2001) at 1pm! Or catch a screening of BABE (1995) at the Center for Puppetry Arts at 7pm! Yacht Rock Schooner grooves it up at Venkman’s! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Dixie Tavern, with Hillbilly Casino! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Delta Moon! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of rock ‘n’ soul with The Hollidays! Get bluesy with Grant Green, Jr. at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with Houserocker Johnson & The Shadows 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, June 19

Rock out with Richie Ramone, DDC and Cadillac Junkies at the Masquerade! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s PORCO ROSSO (1992) at 10am and SPIRITED AWAY (2001) at 1pm! Or catch a screening of Wolfgang Peterson’s classic, THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 2pm! Venkman’s delivers a Father’s Day Beatles Brunch with the Elegant Bachelors! Polka it up with “Weird Al” Yankovic at the Fox Theatre! Eddie’s Attic gets down with their “Let’s Go Crazy” Prince Cover Night! Make your way to Chastain Park for a night with Kenny Rogers! 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! (LAST CHANCE)

The Fox Theatre’s Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival runs through August 27!

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.