ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come on out and see what’s shakin’ in Retro Atlanta!

Monday, August 15

Kink it up with John Waters’ MULTIPLE MANIACS (1970) at The Plaza Theater, screening through Aug. 18! Shake off the Monday blues with Blast-Off Burlesque’s Monday Night Games at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club! Catch a screening of Martin Scorsese’s THE LAST WALTZ (1978) at City Winery, 8pm! Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Michael Crichton’s THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1979) 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! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Joe McGuinness! 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, August 16

Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Jim Uhls’ FIGHT CLUB (1999), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Cinema Classics Gangster Series with David Cronenberg’s EASTERN PROMISES (2007) at 7pm! Rock out with Kevn Kinney and the Sun Tangled Angel Rival at City Winery! Get the blues with Eddie Tigner 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, August 17

Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Get the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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! The Atlanta Film Festival brings you another 20th anniversary celebration with their “Revenge of the Summer” series screening of F. Gary Gray’s SET IT OFF (1996) at The Plaza Theater! Or catch a screening of Joe Johnston’s JUMANJI (1995) at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7pm! Get back to school with TCM’s Big Screen Classic screening of John Landis’ classic, NATIONAL LAMPOON’S ANIMAL HOUSE (1978) screening in theatres across the Atlanta at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), Perimeter Pointe 10; Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Folk it up with Joshua Powell & The Great Train Robbery at Smith’s Olde Bar! The Matt Wauchope Trio get down at Blind Willie’s! 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 18

Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Mark Sultan (King Kahn BBQ Show) [see our Kool Kat Interview soon], the MANATEEES and Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah! Get your dino fix with the Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival’s screening of Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK (1993) at the Fox Theatre at 7:30pm. Get old-timey with Reverend Hylton, Pierce Edens and South River at Smith’s Olde Bar! Or catch a screening of Joe Johnston’s JUMANJI (1995) at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7pm! Kaiju it up with RiffTrax Live’s screening of Ishiro Honda’s MOTHRA (1961) in theatres across the Atlanta at 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), Perimeter Pointe 10; Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Or get Rhythm & Soul with the Diamond Street Rhythm Machine downstairs in the Little Vinyl Lounge! Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald invade Chastain Park! Folk it up at the Red Light Café with Ethan Jodziewicz & Tatiana Hargreaves with The Ormewoods! Get down and dirty with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s!  Catch a free screening of Howard Deutch’s PRETTY IN PINK (1986) at Venkman’s at 9pm! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down and get swanky with Bogey & The Viceroy at Trader Vic’s! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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 19

Rock out at The Highlander with FAVL, Lower Orders and the Southern Ska Syndicate (Kool Kat Rev. Andy)! Boogie down and celebrate the Grand Dame of Pop at Mary’s during MADONNA-RAMA! For all you cinephiles, you won’t want to miss the 13th Annual Atlanta Underground Film Fest, offering screenings at Synchronicity Theatre and EyeDrum Gallery through Aug. 21! Swing on by the Red Light Café for DJ Doctor Q’s Speakeasy Electro Swing! Blues it up with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Stomp on down to City Winery for a night with the Packway Handle Band and Caleb Caudle! Jazz it up with Darren English at the High Museum! ATL Collective relives TLC’s “Crazy, Sexy, Cool” at Terminal West! Get your gypsy jazz fix with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet at Venkman’s! Rock out with Delta Moon at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get a kick out of Harold Ramis’ classic, CADDYSHACK (1980), screening at The Plaza Theater, through Aug. 20! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with George Hughley & The Shadows! Boogie down with Blind Cadillac at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Northside Tavern delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Stoney Brooks! 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, August 20

Funk it up with Morris Day & The TIME at the Wolf Creek Amphitheatre in College Park! You won’t want to miss Yacht Rock Revue’s Yacht Rock Revival at Park Tavern! Spend the night with Gene Wilder at the Fox Theatre during their Coca Cola Film Festival screening of Mel Stuart’s WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) at 7:30pm! Rock out surf-style with Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp at Kavarna, featuring Messer Chups, Genki Genki Panic and Biggie Rats! Flap on down to Venkman’s for their Prohibition PARTY with Trey Dahl & The Jugtime Ragband and the 9th Street Stompers! Get your classic goth and dark ‘80s industrial music video fix at Club Famous with their Coffin Classics: Straight Outta Coffin event! Get the blues with Billy George at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Tiki on down to Trader Vic’s for a special rum tasting event! Get your boogie shoes on and shimmy on down to The Star Bar for Pit Bulls & Poodle Skirts, featuring pin-up contests, live music by Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids and burly-Q with Roxie Roz! Make your way to Chastain Park for a night with Seal! Rock out at The Highlander with Burns Like Fire, Karbomb and Wolfspider! Boogie down with The Rat Pack Now at the Red Clay Theatre! Rock out at Earl Smith Strand Theatre with Stephen Skipper’s Rolling Stones Tribute! Rock on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for a night with the The Bitteroots, Soulhound, and Secondhand Swagger! Mark Michelson & Friends present the Woodstock Jam at the Red Light Café! Get bluesy with Nick Moss at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Lola at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Frankie’s Blues Mission delivers a night of blues at the Northside Tavern! 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 21

Get your retro vintage fix and shop away as Indie Craft Experience (I.C.E.) delivers three pop-up markets at the East Atlanta Farmer’s Market from noon to 7pm! Dixieland it up as Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers dish out a Prohibition pandemonium at Park Tavern! It’s a night of rockin’ stompin’ blues with Chickens & Pigs and a new CD release at The Earl! Catch a screening of Joe Johnston’s JUMANJI (1995) at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 2pm! Take a road trip and celebrate 25 years of  Ridley Scott’s THELMA & LOUISE (1991) screening in theatres across the Atlanta at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), Perimeter Pointe 10; Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Bluegrass it up with Kyle Tuttle at the Red Light Café! Get revived and rock out at Chastain Park with The Australian Pink Floyd Show and Led Zeppelin II! Get old-timey with the Steel City Jug Slammers at the Crimson Moon Café! Blues it up with Steve “The Blues Dude” at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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.