ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Beat the heat and shake a tail feather in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, June 27

Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library and catch a screening of Frank Capra’s classic, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) at 10:30am! 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!” Fire it up with Barrelhouse Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! 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 28

Let Kool Kat Rich Desantis honkytonk you up with his Honkytonk Extravaganza revvin’ it up every Tuesday at Bone Lick BBQ! Geek it up the MST3K Reunion Show live at theatres across Atlanta at 8pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! The Hollidays get down at Blind Willie’s! 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 29

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! Kool Kat Brooks Mason with The Georgia Flood get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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! Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with I Want Whisky! If you’ve got a sweet tooth you’ll want to catch TCM’s Big Screen Classic screening of Mel Stuart’s WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) screening at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Swing on by Blind Willie’s for a night with the Electromatics! 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 30

For a night of classic cinema, make your way to the Fox Theatre for their screening of Blake Edwards’ BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961), during the Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival at 7:30pm! Shake a tail feather with Blast-Off Burlesque and more at The Earl for a QUEER MOXIE film screening and Rock ‘n’ Roll Variety Show! Honkytonk on down to the Clermont Lounge every other Thursday for a night with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and Ghost Riders Car Club! Rev it up acoustic-style with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Hard Rock Café! Fly on by Atlantic Station for a screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986) during their Movies in Central Park series at 8pm. It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party with Lloyd’s Rocksteady Revue! Get Rhythm & Soul in the Little Vinyl Lounge at The Star Bar! Get down with Heather Luttrell 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, July 1

Get to skankin’ with The Toasters, Kool Kat Rev. Andy and the Southern Ska Syndicate and Razorcombs at The Star Bar! Get some neo-tropical soul with Adron and the Fantasy Guys at The Earl! Get adventurous and catch a screening of Robert Zemeckis’ ROMANCING THE STONE (1984) at SCADShow! Geek it up for two nights at 7 Stages with a burly-Q tribute to Marvel Space Rascals during the Hooked on a Peelin’ event! Rock out with Bad Company and Joe Walsh at Chastain Park! George Hughley & The Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Boogie down under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! 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, July 2

Rock on down to The Star Bar for their Punk Rock Dependence Fest, featuring a rockin’ showdown with Shadow People Sideshow, Rotten Stitches, Nervous Aggression, Pleasures of the Ultraviolent, The Riggs, the Symptoms, Five ‘O Clock Devil, Taped Fist, Skatanic, Skum of the Slum and more!  Funk it up with the The Brand New Heavies at the Buckhead Theatre! Or get down with Sandra Hall & 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, July 3

Make your way to the Red Light Café for Vinyl Night! Make your way to Chastain Park for a night with The String Cheese Incident! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And blues it up with Snake Legs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

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!

Kool Kat Rich Desantis honkytonks you up with his Honkytonk Extravaganza revvin’ it up every Tuesday at Bone Lick BBQ!

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.