ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Forget the horrorific daily grind and take a peek at what we have in store, kiddies! Let ATLRetro fill you with a week’s worth of swingin’ good times;  from vintage, fuzzed out rock ‘n’ roll to bloody fangtastic films to steamy burlesque to classic cinema galore! It’ll be a bloody good time, so get out and get retro!

Monday, October 31

IT IS FINALLY HERE! Get mischievous all you miscreants, spooks and ghouls! Pull out your ghastly costumes and get spooky and see what gory galas Retro Atlanta has in store for you! Get hellaciously rocked with Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, Beitthemeans and Bigfoot at Mule Camp Tavern! Spook it up at Studio Movie Grill (Duluth) with a screening of John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN (1978) at 8pm! 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)]! Get terrified from beyond the grave with Here Come the Mummies at City Winery! The Earl gets sinister and delivers a night of honkytonk rock ‘n ‘roll with their Halloween Party featuring The Goddamn Gallows, Gallows Bound, The Vaginas and Stump Tail Dolly! It’s your final chance to get terrified at Sinister Suites Hotel of Horror in Griffin, GA! A little blood splatter never hurt ya, so trek on down to Carrolton, GA for one helluva final night of haunted hillbillies ‘n’ dead rednecks at Camp Blood! Spend the week with Vincent Price with a screening of Andre DeToth’s HOUSE OF WAX (1953) at The Plaza Theater, running through Nov. 3! 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! Catch a screening of Michael Curtiz’ CAPTAIN BLOOD (1935) 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!

Tuesday, November 1

Spook it up at Joystick Gamebar for BAFF’s Sinema Challenge Kickoff Party at 7pm, and join other Georgia filmmakers by taking BAFF up on their 13-day fangtastic filmmaking challenge! Shimmy on down to the Fox Theatre for their presentation of “CABARET”, running through Nov. 6! Catch the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s Classics Series 40th Anniversary screening of Sidney Lumet’s NETWORK (1976) at 7pm! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! 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, November 2

Get your folk ‘n’ soul fix with Gaby Moreno and David Garza at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get jazzy with Sal Gentile at the Elliott Street Pub! Kool Kat Ruby Velle & Scott Clayton dish out a night of soul 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! Or catch a screening of Terry Zwigoff’s GHOST WORLD (2001) during Emory Cinematheque’s Comics & Graphic Novels Series at 7:30pm! Make your way to Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) for a screening of Baz Luhrmann’s ROMEO + JULIET (1996) at 7:30pm! 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, November 3

Make your way to The Earl for a rockin’ shindig with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & The Bicycle Eaters, Liz Brasher and Roadkill Debutante! Rock on down to The Star Bar for a night of Celtic folk ‘n’ punk rock mischief with The Muckers, Boss’ Daughter, Killing Kuddles and Brawful! Funk it up with The Mar-Tans at Venkman’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s from some island tunes and a couple of cocktails! 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, November 4

Rock out and rev it up at Avondale Towne Cinema with The Blacktop Rockets (Kool Kat Dave Weil) and The Ghost Riders Car Club (Kool Kat Spike Fullerton)! The Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock invades SCADShow with a screening of his classic, VERTIGO (1958) at 7pm! Get bewitched and geek it up Harry Potter-style at CONJuration 2016 casting spells through Nov. 6 at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center!  Pay tribute to Peter Gabriel with The Sledgehammers at the Red Light Café! Rock out with Richard Lloyd (Television) and Tiger! Tiger! at The Earl! Let Roxie Roz and her Burly-Q gals school you tonight at The Star Bar with Roxie Roz Presents: Burly-Q House with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids, featuring Kool Kat Mary Strawberry, soon-to-be Kool Kat Shellie Schmals and more! Blues on down to Stagga Lee’s Goodtime Emporium for a live Blue’s Fish Fry featuring Clarence “Bluesman” Davis and Jock Webb! Glam it up at The Plaza Theater for their screening of Stephen Kijak’s documentary, WE ARE X (2016)! Catch Emory Arts’ screening of Julie Taymor’s TITUS (1999), during their “Shakespeare on Film” series at 7:30pm! Funk it up with Galactic and Fruition at the Variety Playhouse! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade at Wild Wing Café in Dunwoody! Swing on by the Earl Smith Strand Theatre for a Rat Pack Tribute Show! Get down with the Atlanta Funk Society at Venkman’s! Get folksy under the dinosaurs with Lilac Wine at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Get down and dirty with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at the Northside Tavern! 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, November 5

Bluegrass it up and make your way to Andalusia, the land of Flannery O’Connor (Milledgeville), for the 12th Annual Andalusia Farm Bluegrass Festival, from 3-8pm, featuring The Packway Handle Band, the Skillet Lickers, Good Country People and more! Make your way to Criminal Records for a live acoustic performance by The Pretenders at 4pm! Boogie down with the boys as Sadie Hawkins presents: The Men’s Room Quarterly at the Red Light Café! Get funky with War at the Variety Playhouse! Get your Americana fix with Delta Moon at Eddie’s Attic! Abbey Road Live! presents “A Night to Imagine” paying tribute to John Lennon at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to Venkman’s for their Chickin’ Pickin’ Brunch featuring Dusty Roads! Rock out with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Death From Above and Deep Vally at the Masquerade! Honkytonk on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Western Sizzlers, JJ & The Hustlers and the Chris Massey Band! Rock on down to the Northside Tavern for a night with Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton! 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, November 6

Get bloody fangtastic with a 20th Anniversary screening of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996) at theatres across Atlanta at 6pm/9pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Shimmy on down to Smith’s Olde Bar as The Candybox Revue Presents: Fearless, A Burlesque Show featuring Nikki Nuke’m and more! Make your way to Philips Arena for a night with Stevie Nicks! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Netherworld Haunted House haunts through Nov. 1! (LAST CHANCE!)

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! (LAST CHANCE!)

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

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.