ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

This Week in Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s meow! So, come on down and see what shakin’ shenanigans we’ve dug up just for you!

Monday, August 1

Swing on by City Winery for a night with Louis Prima, Jr.! Make your way to the Red Light Café for Vinyl Night! Get your dancin’ shoes on and make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Vincente Minnelli’s BRIGADOON (1954) at 10:30am! 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, August 2

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gets killer with Martin Scorsese’s GOODFELLAS (1990) during its Cinema Classics Gangster Series at 7pm! Peter Frampton invades the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Buddy up at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their 30th Anniversary screening of Rob Reiner’s STAND BY ME (1986), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Catch a screening of Randal Kleiser’s GREASE (1978) at The Plaza Theater (through Aug. 3), and Amy Heckerling’s CLUELESS (1995), through Aug. 4! Blues it up with Marshall Ruffin at Eddie’s Attic! 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, August 3

The Northlake Festival Movie Tavern screens a second night of Rob Reiner’s STAND BY ME (1986), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Or sci-fi it up at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) during their screening of Luc Besson’s THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997) at 7:30pm! It’s a night of ragtime jazz with Penny Serenade at Venkman’s! Boogie on down to East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, held the first Wednesday of every month, promising an evening of swingin’ jazz and jive with the Savoy Kings! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café, with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! The Star Bar gets down with their Okie Dokie Karaoke, every Wednesday at 9pm! 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, August 4

Rock out with The Howling Tongues at The Star Bar! Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with Coldheart Canyon, Blood on the Harp and Jeremy Ray! Bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café with Smokey’s Farmland Band! Or make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with the DejaBlue Grass Band! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt  goes acoustic at Wild Wing Café in Marietta! Get dark and folksy with Cicada Rhythm and Minton Sparks at Grocery on Home! Michael Chesin of the Elegant Bachelors delivers his Paul McCartney vs. Paul Simon show at 6:30pm at Venkman’s, followed by a free screening of John Hughes’ FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) at 10pm! Or catch a screening of John Landis’ COMING TO AMERICA (1988) at Aurora Cineplex! 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, August 5

Sci-fi it up at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Michael Anderson’s classic, LOGAN’S RUN (1976), running through Aug. 11! Make your way to Avondale Towne Cinema for The Beatles’ REVOLVER 50th Anniversary Show with Kenny Howes & Friends and the Diamond Street Rhythm Machine! Get down with Chaka Khan at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Get funky with ENTROPY as they celebrate the music and life of Prince with The 200s at Aisle 5! Get the red hot blues with Funky Bluester at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Boogie on down to Club Famous for ‘80s Music Video Night! Get mischievous at The Star Bar with Antagonizers ATL, DDC, Rotten Stitches, Cadillac Junkies and The Breaks! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at Wild Wing Café in Gainesville! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Sportsline Bar in Lawrenceville! Get some soul with Kyshona Armstrong at Venkman’s, followed by Yacht Rock Schooner! Get your Clint Eastwood fix at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre with their screening of Sergio Leone’s THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (1967) at 8pm! Boogie on down to the Gwinnett Center for Decades Rewind, paying tribute to music of the past! Rock out with Steve Wynn at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to Mary’s for The Baddest Bitch: A Queer Icons Tribute Night, featuring Roisin Murphy! Boogie on down to the Gwinnett Center for night two of Decades Rewind, paying tribute to music of the past! Rock out under the dinosaurs with Dangfly! 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, August 6

Get your vinyl fix during the Avondale Record Fair, from 10am-3pm at Avondale Towne Cinema! Rock out with some badass chicks during The Star Bar’s Goddesses of Rock event, featuring Anna Kramer & the Lost Cause, The Midnight Larks, Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers, Skye Paige, 68-75 and more! Or twist and shout with DJ Dusty Booze and Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids with a Twistin’ Rock ‘N Roll Dance Party in the Little Vinyl Lounge! Get Drawn & Disorderly with our pal and Kool Kat Chris Hamer (UrbnPop) at the Red Brick Brewing Company! Funk it up with the Clibber Jones Ensemble, the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra and the Edgewood Sax Trio at Mammal Gallery! Make your way to the Basement for their Heyday: ‘80s Dance Party! Catch a screening of Robert Zemeckis’ WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988) at SCADShow at 7pm! It’s a night of hillbilly surf rock at the Red Light Café with Tony Levitas & Friends, Roadkill Debutante and Burning Truck! Funk it up at Lakewood Amphitheatre during the Flashback Festival, featuring George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, The Original Lakeside and A Taste of Honey! Or make your way to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre for a night with Boston! Do the Time Warp and catch a screening of Jim Sharmon’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at Aurora Cineplex! Brunch it up with Sailing to Denver at Venkman’s, followed by the Atlanta Funk Society at 10pm! 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, August 7

Gyspy jazz it up with Micah Cadwell & His Fender Benders and The Cook Trio at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to Terminal West for a night with the Jerry Douglas Band! 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!

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.