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Friday, December 9

Get some rockin’ blues ‘n’ soul with Nick Waterhouse and Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah at the Masquerade! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Yacht Rock Revue delivers their Holiday Special at the Variety Playhouse! Start a family holiday tradition and catch the Atlanta Ballet’s NUTCRACKER at the Fox Theatre, live with the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra through Dec. 24!  Catch The Earl Smith Strand’s holiday song and dance revue, “A Christmas Tradition” running through Dec. 21! Swing on by Nemoe’s Tavern for 17-piece band Metro Jazz Club’s Speakeasy Swing Dance Party! Make your way to the Rialto Center for the Arts for the Moscow Ballet’s “Great Russian Nutcracker” running through Dec. 10! Get some soul with Kyshona Armstrong at Venkman’s and then funk it up with The JAZZ of Prince: A Night of Prince’s Jazz Funk Compositions! Make your way to Avondale Towne Cinema for the BadAsh All Star Team’s Christmas Jam! Rock out with the Atlanta Rhythm Section at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to Centennial Olympic Park for the Chinese Lantern Festival at 6pm! Geek it up at Atlanta’s 5th Annual BAR WARS PUB CRAWL, from 7-10pm, at Diesel Filling Station! Spook on down to Club Famous as RITUAL Presents: The Nightmare Before Christmas Party! Blues it up during Albert White’s Birthday Bash at the Northside Tavern! Rock out with The Chalfonts and Lexi Street at the Red Light Café! Mr. Sipp gets the blues at  Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Little G. Weevil at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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 10

Join the hordes of horned and cloven miscreants and creatures during the 2016 Wreck the Halls L5P Krampus Krawl at 8pm, with the ever mischievous Black Sheep Ensemble! Or surf on down to Kavarna as Southern Surf Stomp! presents Kool Kat Chad Shivers & The Silent Knights as they perform The Ventures’ and The Beach Boys’ Christmas albums at 8pm! Jingle all the way to Taverna Plaka Atlanta for Kool Kat Kitty Love’s Cheeky Belles Stockings With Care Cabaret and Charity Sock Drive! Get intergalactic and geek on down to the Masquerade for Markster Con’s Bash of the Empire IV: Atlanta Star Wars Party at 9pm! Get mischievous at Stomp & Stammer’s (Kool Kat Jeff Clark) 20th Birthday Party and get your garage rock fix with The Coathangers, Dasher and Bad Spell at The Star Bar! It’s a night of rockin’ blues with Kool Kat Brooks Mason and The Georgia Flood (album release) with All the Locals at Vinyl! Rock out with Earthless, Ruby the Hatchet and Future Hunter at The Earl! Get old-timey with Whiskey Gentry, Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers and City Mouse at the Variety Playhouse! Bluegrass it up with John McCutcheon at Eddie’s Attic! Get your ‘60s/’70s holiday rock fix with The Rainmen’s Holiday Spectacular at Avondale Towne Cinema with Kitten Fontaine! Battle & Brew goes to the Dark Side during their STAR WARS Cosplay Night at 8pm! Get artsy this holiday season and make your way to the Goat Farm Open Studio and Holiday Sale from 12pm-6pm! Get the blues with Brown Dog at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Have a Chicken Pickin’ Brunch with Dusty Roads at Venkman’s, later followed by Nirvana Unplugged featuring Nameless Nameless!  Blues it up with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! 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 11

Go old-school at Eddie’s Attic with their Gospel Brunch featuring Beverly “Guitar” Watkins and Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck! TCM Big Screen Classics presents Fred Zinnemann’s FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) at theatres across Atlanta (7pm) [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]; and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Get the blues with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for a night of tease ‘n’’ circus shenanigans with Luxotica Lounge Cabaret! Make your way to City Winery for The Hartswick/Coffin Project! 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!

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