ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Beat the heat and come see what’s shakin’ in Retro Atlanta This week!

Monday, July 18

Get extraterrestrial and catch a screening of James Cameron’s ALIENS (1986) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern! Spend the morning with Fred and Rita at the Alpharetta Branch Library with a screening of William A. Seiter’s YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER (1942) at 10:30am! Blues it up with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with Bill Sheffield! 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! 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!

Tuesday, July 19

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema brings out the gimp during its Cinema Classics Gangster Series with Quentin Tarantino’s PULP FICTION (1994) at 7pm! It’s Terror Night at 529, so rock out to some horrifying tunes with For the Wolf, Crypt 24 and Graveyard Gospel! Get extraterrestrial and catch a second screening of James Cameron’s ALIENS (1986) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern! Or gore it up with a screening of Lucio Fulci’s CAT IN THE BRAIN (1990) at The Plaza Theater, screening through July 21! Make your way to the Red Light Café as The Imposuers play the Violent Femmes and more! Blues it up with J.T. Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Frankie’s Blues Mission gets down at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Let Kool Kat Rich Desantis honkytonk you up with his Honkytonk Extravaganza revvin’ it up every Tuesday at Bone Lick BBQ! 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, July 20

Boogie on down and celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Doug Liman’s SWINGERS (1996) at The Plaza Theater at 7:30pm! It’s your last chance to get extraterrestrial and catch a screening of James Cameron’s ALIENS (1986) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café, with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Catch a screening of Chris Cameron’s MRS. DOUBTFIRE (1993) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7pm! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! Get some soul with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rock out horror-style at the Clermont Lounge with Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, Forsaken Profits and Rotten Stitches! 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, July 21

Get down and dirty at The Star Bar with the Dirty Magazines, Bleach Garden, The Heavy Children, Kool Kats The Joy Kills, Mr. Clit & The Pink Cigarettes and more! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café, for a night with Henry River Honey! Get down with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Get Rhythm & Soul in the Little Vinyl Lounge (The Star Bar)! 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! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, July 22

Come on out and celebrate film and 100 years of the Rialto Center for the Arts/40 years of the Atlanta Film Festival with their “Be Downtown Film Festival 2016” with two days of film screenings! Tonight’s cinematic menu includes a rare 35mm print of John Singleton’s SHAFT (1971), and Bruce Lee’s ENTER THE DRAGON (1973) in Cinemascope! It’s a Rock ‘n’ Roll Throw Down at The Star Bar with Hellfire Revival, The Sideburners, Cadillac Junkies and Atomic Boogie! Catch a screening of Michael Curtiz’ CASABLANCA (1942) at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Deep South Pub in McDonough! Time travel all the way to SCADShow for their screening of Robert Zemeckis’ 80s classic, BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) at 7pm! Robert Lee Coleman gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Spend the night with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Andrew Black at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get the blues with Roy Lee Johnson at the Northside Tavern! Get hep to the jive under the dinosaurs with The Electromatics 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 23

It’s day 2 of the “Be Downtown Film Festival 2016” at the Rialto Center for the Arts, so come on out to catch screenings of Disney’s ALADDIN (1992), Joe Pytka’s SPACEJAM (1996) in 35mm, Sergio Leone’s THE GOOD,THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (1967) [introduced by Kool Kat Mike Malloy], and a rare 35mm treat with George A. Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)! The Star Bar presents An Evening of the Music of Bob Dylan! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night of tributes with Rumours (Fleetwood Mac) and Nevermind (Nirvana)! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Blood on the Harp, Cold Heart Canyon, Kool Kat Caleb & The Gents, and Reverend Hylton! Get gussied up and boogie on down to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their 80s Prom Party with Nameless Nameless! Rockabilly it up at The Earl with Bloodshot Bill, The Gartrells, the Wayha’s and Bad Spell! Smooth it out with Yacht Rock Revue at Venkman’s! Boogie down at Opera Night Club with Kool Kat VJ Anthony and the Clash of the Decades Music Video Dance Party! Funk it up with Rough Draft at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Delta Moon! Get the blues with Roy Lee Johnson at the Northside Tavern! Get your ‘70s pop fix with the Susi French Connection at Eddie’s Attic! 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 24

Sci-Fi it up with TCM’s Big Screen Classic screening of Franklin J. Schaffner’s PLANET OF THE APES (1968) 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)]! Catch a second screening of Chris Cameron’s MRS. DOUBTFIRE (1993) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 2pm! Folk it up with Tiny Rhymes and Bow ‘N Banjo at the Red Light Café! Boogie on down with Fat Back Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rock out with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah at Park Tavern! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

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!

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)

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.