ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

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

Monday, August 22

Hilarity ensues with a screening of Harold Ramis’ classic, CADDYSHACK (1980), at The Plaza Theater, through Aug. 25! Shake off the Monday blues with Blast-Off Burlesque’s Monday Night Games at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club! Or shimmy ‘n’ shake on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night of burly-Q shenanigans with Electric Glitterland, a rock ‘n’ roll cabaret! Stomp on down to City Winery for a night with Heather Luttrell! Get your Elvis fix and make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of George Sidney’s VIVA LAS VEGAS (1964) 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!”  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 side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, August 23

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema has an offer you can’t refuse with their Cinema Classics Gangster Series screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s THE GODFATHER (1972) at 7pm! Or kaiju it up with RiffTrax Live’s screening of Ishiro Honda’s MOTHRA (1961) in theatres across the Atlanta at 7:30pm [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)]! Rock out with Kevn Kinney and Friends at City Winery! It’s a night of foot stompin’ Americana at Blind Willie’s with the Boo Hoo Ramblers! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! 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 24

The Original Wailers dish out a night of roots reggae and invade the Masquerade! 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! Labretta Suede & The Motel 6, along with Tiger! Tiger! rock out at The Earl! Rock out with The Bacon Brothers at City Winery! The Atlanta Film Festival delivers a little geeky comedy with a 20th anniversary “Revenge of the Summer” series screening of Tim Burton’s MARS ATTACKS! (1996) at The Plaza Theater! Or geek it up as Dad’s Garage Theatre Company presents The Wrath of Con” Special Edition, staged reading at 8pm! 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)]! Get down with The Electromatics 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 25

Spend the evening with Orson Welles and celebrate 75 years of his classic, CITIZEN KANE (1941) at the Fox Theatre’s Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival screening at 7:30pm! Rock out with Guitar Wolf at The Earl! Funk it up with Dr. Strangelove, The Future Babes, Paul Warner and Kara Claudy at Smith’s Olde Bar! Rock out at The Star Bar with The Scragglers and Birdcloud! Or get Rhythm & Soul with the Diamond Street Rhythm Machine downstairs in the Little Vinyl Lounge! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Boogie down with Heather Luttrell at Blind Willie’s!  Catch a free screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986) at Venkman’s at 8pm! 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 26

Get old-timey and stomp it out with Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers at the Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival in Kennesaw! Make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Air Supply! Catch a screening of Robert Zemeckis’ FORREST GUMP (1994) at SCADShow, 7pm! Rock out with Pony League, The Midnight Larks, Newark Wilder and Pop Weirdos at The Drunken Unicorn! Bluegrass it up with the Grassland String Band at the Red Clay Theatre! Rock on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Mark Michelson! Jam on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Escape Vehicle and Dead Affect! Rock out with The Whigs and Quaildogs at Terminal West! Jump on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with Atlanta Boogie! Catch a screening of Mike Hodges’ FLASH GORDON (1980) at The Plaza Theater! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Jazz it up with Lilac Wine 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 27

The Fox Theatre closes out their Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival with a screening of Billy Wilder’s SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) at 7:30pm! Rock on down to the 2016 Grant Park Summer Shade Festival for day one, featuring, Kool Kat Dave Weil and The Blacktop Rockets, Adron, Michelle Malone, The Skylarks, The Electromatics, The Brookses and more!  Old-time it up with Kool Kat Caleb Warren & The Gents at The Wing Café in Marietta! The Center for Puppetry Arts goblins it up with their Shortcut to Goblin City event, featuring a tour of the Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: Journey to Goblin City exhibit, an 8pm screening of LABYRINTH (1986) and more goblin goodies! Rock on down to 529 for Ed Schrader’s Music Beat! Make your way to The Drunken Unicorn for a rockin’ night with Shantih Shantih, the Starbenders, Black Linen and Man up, Yancey! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ! The Steel City Jug Slammers get old-timey at the Red Light Café! Rock out with Delta Moon 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, August 28

It’s Day 2 and your last chance to experience the 2016 Grant Park Summer Shade Festival, so come on out for a rockin’ musical lineup with Indianapolis Jones, The Higher Choir, Stonerider, The Paulines, Jackson County Line, the Savoy Kings, Rust, Marshall Ruffin and more!  Rock out with the Legendary Shack Shakers at Park Tavern! Make your way to Chastain Park for a night with Rick Springfield, Night Ranger and The Romantics! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a 60th Anniversary screening of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s THE KING AND I (1956) at theatres across the Atlanta area at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), 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)]! 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! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

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.