ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Kick off the holidays ATLRetro-style and see what’s shakin’ this week!

Monday, November 28

Folk it up with Caroline Aiken, Faye Webster and Cortez Garza at City Winery! Catch a screening of George Cukor’s CAMILLE (1936) at the Alpharetta Branch Library at 10:30am! 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! 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, November 29

Get witchy at the Diesel Filling Station with their special Harry Potter Trivia at 8pm! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for a screening of Chris Columbus’ HOME ALONE (1990) at 7:30pm! Rock out with Steve Vai’s Passion & Warfare 25th Anniversary Tour show at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to the Fox Theatre, but don’t shoot your eye out as they present “A Christmas Story – The Musical,” sleighing through Dec. 4! Blind Willie’s gets down with Slow Parade! 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 30

Ragtime jazz it up with Penny Serenade at Venkman’s! Scrooge it up at the Alliance Theatre’s 27th season of “A CHRISTMAS CAROL” running through Dec. 24! Cross Moon River in style with a TCM Big Screen Classics screening of Blake Edwards’ BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961) at theatres across Atlanta, screening at 2pm/7pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for an encore screening of Chris Columbus’ HOME ALONE (1990) at 7:30pm! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Rick Derringer! Get your traditional country fix with The Secret Sisters at City Winery! Rock out with Glen Iris at The Earl! Get the blues with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at Blind Willie’s! Frankie’s Blues Mission gets down and dirty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, December 1

Get intergalactic this holiday season with Riff Trax’ Holiday Special Double featuring Nicholas Webster’s SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS (1964) and a Christmas Shorts-Stravaganza at theatres across Atlanta (7pm) [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Perimeter Pointe 10; GTC Merchants Walk 12 Cinema (Marietta); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for an encore screening of Chris Columbus’ HOME ALONE (1990) at 7:30pm! Get your ‘60s neotropical soul fix with Adron and Cicada Rhythm at Eddie’s Attic! Old-time it up with The Jugtime Ragband and The Clams at the Red Light Café! New Wave it up with Howard Jones and Indianapolis Jones at the Variety Playhouse! Blues it up with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Have a Merry Funkin’ Christmas with Secondhand Swagger at Venkman’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of island tunes and tasty 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, December 2

Rock on down to The Star Bar for James Hall & The Steady Wicked’s Album Release Party (“Electric Hex”) with Darling Machine and The Crush! Get mischievous at Sweetwater Bar & Grill in Duluth with Radio Cult, Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, Savage Remains and Learning to Count (Ramones tribute)! Get funky and blues it up with the AJ Ghent Band at Eddie’s Attic! Yacht Rock Revue plays The Beatles at Venkman’s! Catch a 25th Anniversary screening of Julie Dash’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (1991) at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema! Rock out during Day 1 of the International Pop Overthrow Atlanta at the Red Light Café with Pelicans & Their Allies, Steve Baskin, Matt Brown, The Shut-Ups, Paul Melancon  The New Insecurities, The Soogs and The Stoplight Roses! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Delta Moon! 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, December 3

Get your ‘70s psych rock fix with Kool Kat Adam McIntyre with The Pinx, Plaster (Reunion Show), Spore Lord and The Buzzards of Fuzz at 529! Kick off the killer Krampus season with Little Vinyl Lounge’s (The Star Bar) Deck the Walls: The L5P’s Krampus Art Show featuring original art for sale by Kool Kat Shane Morton, Kool Kat Aileen Loy, Dirk Hays and more through Dec. 10! Catch Day 2 of the International Pop Overthrow Atlanta as it invades the Red Light Café with Tony Low, Chris McKay, Brent Daniel, The Raves, the Netherglades, Kenny Howe & The Wow! and Kool Kat Ray Dafrico & His Band! And rock out at The Star Bar proper with El Scorcho (Weezer tribute), Siamese Dream (Smashing Pumpkins tribute) and Hyperspace! Or get Drawn & Disorderly holiday-style with Kool Kat Chris Hamer (Urbnpop) with a Holiday Art Market at Red Brick Brewing Company! Kool Kat Spike Fullerton’s Russian Roulette Band and The Punknecks get down at the Elliot Street Pub! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Mike Gordon! Or rock out with Strutter: The Ultimate Tribute to KISS at the Masquerade! Spend A Victorian Holiday at the Oakland Cemetery from 11-4pm, with carols, a reading of “The Night Before Christmas”, hot cocoa and more! Get artsy with Jenny Bell and more with “Adornment – Holiday Art Show and Open Studio” featuring live tunes by W8ting 4 UFOs with Bill Taft at Sycamore Place Gallery from 6-9pm! Get spooked for a good cause during Containment Haunted House’s (Lithonia Springs) terror-ific Toy Drive! Walk the plank and catch a screening of Brian Henson’s MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND (1996) at 7pm at the Center for Puppetry Arts! Jump on down to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for a night with The Brian Setzer Orchestra! Support your local artists at the EAYC’s Lovecrafts: Local Artist’s Market from 1-6pm! Have a Chicken Pickin’ Brunch with Sailing to Denver at Venkman’s! Clashinista dish out a tribute to The Clash with Straw Polly at The Earl! Get down and dirty with Jarekus Singleton 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, December 4

Celebrate 15 years of Hayao Miyazaki’s SPIRITED AWAY (2001) at theatres across Atlanta at 12pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Studio Movie Grill (Duluth) and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)! It’s your last chance to catch Atlanta’s best pop and rock ‘n’ roll with Day 3 of the International Pop Overthrow Atlanta at the Red Light Café with Lord High Admirals, Fairshake, After California, Orange Hat, Golden Eels, What the…? and The Joe & Joe Show! It’s a night of rockin’ soul with Diane Durrett and Soul Suga at Eddie’s Attic! Jazz it up with the Tray Dahl Jazz Quintet during Venkman’s Bottomless Mimosa Brunch! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Scrooge it up at the Alliance Theatre’s 27th season of “A CHRISTMAS CAROL” running through Dec. 24!

Make a trek to the Island of Misfit Toys a.k.a. the Center for Puppetry Arts as they present Jon Ludwig’s adaptation of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, directed by Tim Sweeney, running through Dec. 31!

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.