ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what old-school shenanigans we’ve dug up for you This Week! We’ve got a little Brechtian madness, a bit of that geektastic Burly-Q mischief, a film score extravaganza, rock ‘n’ roll, blues and more! You won’t want to miss what’s shakin’ in Retro Atlanta This Week!

Monday, September 5

Get the blues and a plate full of BBQ at Park Tavern’s 31st Annual Labor Day Blues Barbeque, featuring Robert Lee Coleman & The Night Owls, Bennie Mobley, Frankie’s Blues Mission, The Sole Travelers and Delta Moon! Make your way to 529 for a night with Sad Fish, Adron, Palmlines and more! 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, September 6

Get your vintage tune fix with Bernadette Seacrest & Kris Dale and Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for a night with German electronic pioneers, Kraftwerk! Remember Gene Wilder and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s special screening of Mel Stuart’s WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) at 7:30pm! Get to the root of it all and stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Joe McGuinness!  The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Or get groovy with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah in the Little Vinyl Lounge! 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, September 7

Get a second chance to remember Gene Wilder at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s special screening of Mel Stuart’s WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) at 7:30pm! Or catch a screening of Jim Uhls’ FIGHT CLUB (1999) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 7:30pm! Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with Blood on the Harp, Old Heavy Hands and Casey Camp! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! 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! Or catch a screening of Henry Hathaway’s PRINCE VALIANT (1954) during Emory Cinematheque’s Comics & Graphic Novels Series at 7:30pm! Get your 80s adventure fix with Wolfgang Peterson’s THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984), screening at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Regal Atlantic Station 18; AMC Parkway Pointe 15; Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Phipps Plaza 14; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 (Cumming); and AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw)]! Get your Americana fix with the Boohoo Ramblers at Blind Willie’s! Get the rockin’ blues with The Highbeams at Venkman’s! 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! Rock on downstairs at The Star Bar 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, September 8

Funk it up with Here Come the Mummies at City Winery! It’s a night of back porch swamp blues with Adia Victoria, Shepherds and Nerdkween at The Earl! Bluegrass it up Irish-style with Sinsear at the Red Light Café! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down and rock out retro-style with The Sundogs at Trader Vic’s! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Boogie down with Sweet Betty & The Shadows at Blind Willie’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! 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, September 9

Go “Under the Covers” with Blast-Off Burlesque and help celebrate 10 years of shakin’ it up geek-style, at Synchronicity Theatre! 7 Stages gets mischievous with their opening night presentation of Bertolt Brecht’s classical musical, THE THREE PENNY OPERA at 8pm, running through Sept. 24! Brian Wilson celebrates 50 years of PET SOUNDS at the Fox Theatre! Rock ‘n’ Roll on down to The Star Bar for a night with Jack Oblivion & The Sheiks, Dinos Boys and Daggers! Get down and dirty and rock out at The Earl with Lazer/Wulf, HALMOS, The Buzzards of Fuzz, Crawl, The Dirty Magazines, Soda Jerks, The Johnny Rebs and more! Live long, prosper and catch a screening of Adam Nimoy’s FOR THE LOVE OF SPOCK (2016) at The Plaza Theater, running through Sept. 10! Get funky with The Mar-Tans at the Northside Tavern! ATL Collective presents Prince’s “PARADE” at Venkman’s! Go-go it up with the undead at RITUAL’s Zombie Pin-Ups event at Club Famous! Boogie down with Lethal Rhythms at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with Sandra Hall & The Shadows! 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, September 10

Get your day started with the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s Animated Classics series screening of Sylvain Chomet’s THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE (2003) at 11am! Dilligent Lobotomy Tattoo gets retro and kicks off their monthly Saturday Morning Tattoonz event, featuring cartoons, snacks, ping pong, tattoos and more! It’ll be a hootenanny and a half during Venkman’s Chicken Pickin’ Brunch featuring Rodeo Twister! Make your way to a galaxy far away at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre and experience Star Wars and More; The Music of John Williams! Get to pickin’ and grinnin’ with The Grass is Dead and the Charlie Fog Band at the Red Light Café! Funk it up with Biscuit Miller & The Mix at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get some soul with Grant Green, Jr. at Northside Tavern! Get two chances to rock out with the Atlanta Rhythm Section at Eddie’s Attic! Raise a ruckus with Bigfoot, Beitthemeans and The Crush at The Star Bar! Retro glam it up with the Wasabassco Burlesque Variety Show at City Winery! Spend an evening with Tim O’Brien at the Red Clay Theatre! Geek it up at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses event! Get down with Big Bill Morganfield & 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, September 11

Shake a tail feather and celebrate Syrens of the South’s 9th Anniversary, with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her gang of gals and guys at 7 Stages! It’s your last chance to catch the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s Animated Classics series screening of Sylvain Chomet’s THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE (2003) at 11am!  Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

7 Stages gets mischievous with their presentation of Bertolt Brecht’s classical musical, THE THREE PENNY OPERA, running through Sept. 24

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.