ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Spook it up in ATLRetro this week! Come see what sinister shenanigans we’ve dug up just for you!

Monday, October 24

Gore it up with screenings of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO (1960) [one night only] and John McNaughton’s HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (1990), at The Plaza Theater, running through Oct. 27!  Or get possessed at the Studio Movie Grill’s (Duluth) screening of William Friedkin’s THE EXORCIST (1973) at 8pm! Skank on down to City Winery for a night with The English Beat! Shimmy on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Sadie Hawkins’ Electric Glitterland, a rock-n-roll cabaret! Make your way to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for a night of hilarity with Carol Burnett! Blues it up with Barrelhouse Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! 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! Catch a screening of George Cukor’s BORN YESTERDAY (1950) at the Alpharetta Branch Library at 10:30am! 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 night with Larry Griffith!

Tuesday, October 25

Make your way to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for an encore night with Carol Burnett! Get intergalactic with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. (1982) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern at 7:30pm! Catch the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s Classics Series screening of Haskell Wexler’s MEDIUM COOL (1969) at 7pm! Get old-timey at the Red Light Café with Reverend Hylton, Chilly Winds and Riley Pinkerton! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! Get funky with the Ron Holloway Band and Lagoons at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get rootsy with Mandolin Orange at Terminal West! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Get down with J.T. Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, October 26

Johnny has a cure for what ails ya, so come on out and catch TCM’s Big Screen Classics screening of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! The Variety Playhouse delivers a post-punk revival with Catfish & the Bottlemen! Or catch “The Ghastly Dreadfuls” spooking it up with creepy stories, frightful songs and devilish dances at the Center for Puppetry Arts, haunting through Oct. 29! Rock out with Pennywise at the Masquerade! Get intergalactic with an encore screening of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. (1982) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern at 7:30pm! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of rhythm and soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays! The Electromatics delivers a night of West Coast and Kansas City blues at Blind Willie’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! 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, October 27

Get twisted with Kool Kats, The Hess Family with a complimentary screening of Horror Hotel Season 2’s “LIFE AFTER MEN” at Studio Movie Grill in Alpharetta from 6pm to 12am! Creep on down to The B Complex for the Art Exhibition and Performance Reception for “Will You Be My Nightmare” at 6:30pm! Get your cinephile fix at Beautiful Briny Sea in Grant Park with Film Love Atlanta’s “Cinephile” event, hosted by Kool Kat Andy Ditzler, featuring James Krell’s films of the 1970s and Gary Goldberg’s films of the 1990s, at 7:30pm! If ghastly things are your preference, haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2015 Ghost Tours, spooking it up this weekend (Oct. 27-30)! Catch RiffTrax Live’s screening of Herk Harvey’s CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962) at theatres across Atlanta at 8pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! It’s a night of ectoplasmic proportions at Venkman’s with a free screening of Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) at 7pm, followed by a Totally ‘80s Costume Party featuring Members Only! Rock out ghoul-style at The Star Bar with Elzig (Elvis meets Danzig), The Crush and B.S.O.L.! Honkytonk on down to the Clermont Lounge every other Thursday for a night with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and Ghost Riders Car Club! It’s a night of murderous clowns and gut splitting laughter as 1Up Comedy presents the Roast of Pennywise the Clown/Stephen King’s IT at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge! Get horrorified at the Clermont Lounge  as Captain & Maybelle present a Halloween Shock ‘n’ Roll Sideshow featuring terrifying tunes by Fiend Without A Face, Kool Kats the Casket Creatures and special guest Reggie Bugmuncher! Smith’s Olde Bar dishes out a night of Americana with Rod Melancon! Get folksy with Schneider & Mayfield and Jefferson Ross at the Red Light Café! Chicago Blues Hall of Famer Liz Mandeville blues it up at Blind Willie’s! Get your rock, blues and jazz fix with Joe Robinson at Eddie’s Attic! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s and swank it up with Bogey & The Viceroy! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! 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, October 28

It’s Halloween hysteria at Avondale Towne Cinema during Kool Kat Shane Morton, a.k.a. ghost host with the most, Prof. Morte’s Monsters of Mock Dance Party featuring Stephen Skipper’s Rolling Stones Tribute, Van Heineken and OC/DC at 8pm! Or make your way to ASO Symphony Hall for a screening of Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) with a live performance of the award-winning soundtrack by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at 8pm! Or spend the evening with Vincent Price with a screening of Andre DeToth’s HOUSE OF WAX (1953) at The Plaza Theater, running through Oct. 29! Spook on down to the Ponce City Market for their A Haunting on Ponce: Eat, Drink and Be Scary, horrifying through Oct. 31! Videodrome and JavaVino (JavaDrome) present another rare treat with a screening of David A. Prior’s SLEDGEHAMMER (1983) at 8:30pm! Cast a spell and make your way to the Mable House Arts Center’s Hogwarts Halloween at 6pm and 8pm! Or rattle your bones during Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX’s Fright Night Halloween Party, dripping with devilish drinks, costume contests and more! Gypsy jazz it up with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet at Eddie’s Attic! Celebrate 25 hellacious years of The Star Bar with their 25th Anniversary Bash rocking out with Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols tribute); Horror Business (Misfits tribute); and Nameless Nameless (Nirvana tribute)! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Motorhead’s! Or rock on down to Mammal Gallery for a night with Shellac with Shannon Wright! Blues it up with Blue Roads at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get some rockin’ soul with Tommy Castro & The Painkillers at City Winery. It’s a night of good ‘ol rock ‘n’ roll at Deep South Deli & Pub with Radio Cult! Get witchy during Atlantic Station’s Spooky Film Festival featuring a screening of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) at dusk! Get gritty with Strung Like A Horse at the Red Light Café! The Variety Playhouse dishes out a night of old-school southern rock with The Marshall Tucker Band and The Steppin’ Stones! Get down and dirty with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! 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, October 29

Celebrate Black Speculative Fiction Month with Kool Kat Balogun Ojetade and more during Alien Encounter 2016, featuring the best Black Speculative works and Afrofuturism in fiction, film and music beginning at 10am at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture & History! Rock out with the Blue Oyster Cult at the Variety Playhouse! Boogie on down to The Star Bar for their 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll ‘70s Disco Party & Halloween Bash featuring The Biters (as The Disco Bitches), Dinos Boys, Bad Spell and Gunpowder Gray!  Spook on down to the Buford Highway Halloween Parade and Pop-Up, from 5-8pm!  Maniacal laughter ensues during The Village Theatre’s Halloween Improv House Party featuring an improvised Salem Witch Trial and more!  Spook on down to The Beacon’s Halloween Haunted House Warming Party featuring a haunted house, costume contest, food trucks and rockin’ tunes with Smithsonian (Smiths tribute), Anna Kramer & The Lost Cause and the Rock*A*Teens! Rock out at The Earl with Kool Kats Gringo Star, Shantih Shantih, Art School Jocks and Count Vaseline! Time Warp it up and get naughty with an encore of some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975), featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight! Rock on down to the Lakewood Amphitheatre for a night with Gregg Allman, ZZ Top, Blackberry Smoke and Kevn Kinney! Or get rocked with Mac Sabbath and Black Juju at The Loft! Venkman’s dishes out a Cartoon Brunch featuring a screening of Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993), followed by a Chickin’ Pickin’ Brunch with Rodeo Twister, and then later get groovy with Swami Gone Bananas! Make your way to The Howard House in Kirkwood for the 11th Annual Scarendipity Halloween Bash featuring Voodoo Visionary, Mayhayley’s Grave and so much more! Rock on down to the Masquerade for their 6th Annual Boos & Brews Halloween Party! The BadAsh Allstar Team hosts a Halloween Monster Jam at 5 Seasons Brewing! Make your way to Club Famous for Coffin Classics Halloween: Goth, Darkwave, Industrial with Kool Kat VJ Anthony! Bluegrass it up with the Sweetwater Creek Bluegrass Band at the Red Light Café! Shimmy on down to City Winery for a Clubesque: A Contemporary Cabaret! Big Bill Morganfield & The Shadows 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! Pay tribute to Pink Floyd with The Southern Floyd at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get down and dirty with Willy Jackson at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, October 30

Grab your favorite boil or ghoul and rock on down to the Red Light Café’s Halloween Prom featuring Roadkill Debutante, Burning Truck and Till Someone Loses an Eye (Kool Kat Aileen Loy)! Make your way to the Atlanta History Center for the Day of the Dead Festival featuring traditional dance, crafts, authentic Mexican food and more! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra gets phantasmal with their Phantom of the Orchestra event at 3pm! Put on your horrorific hiking boots and make your way to the Dolls Head Danse Macabre Halloween Hike at Constitution Lakes, hosted by The Georgia Conservancy from 7-11pm! Catch Emory Arts’ screening of Akira Kurosawa’s “King Lear”-inspired RAN (1985) at 3:30pm in White Hall 208! Jazz it up at Venkman’s with The Hot Club of Atlanta and The Atlanta Latin Jazz Orchestra! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And get the rockin’ blues with Fat Back Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2015 Ghost Tours, spooking it up this weekend (Oct. 21-23) and next weekend (Oct. 27-30)! (LAST CHANCE!)

Netherworld Haunted House haunts through Nov. 1!

Take a glamorous road trip with Out Front Theatre Company’s presentation of PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE MUSICAL, making a splash through Nov. 6!

Kick it up with the Atlanta Lyric Theatre’s presentation of “A CHORUS LINE” running through Nov. 6!

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

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm!

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.