ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

ATLRetro is the Kat’s meow this ho-ho holiday season! Come see what we’ve dug up for you!

Monday, December 12

Get fancy and swing on by the Hot Jam Holiday Soiree with Taryn Newborn & The Real Deal at the Garden Hills Community Center! Catch a screening of Stanley Kramer’s THE DEFIANT ONES (1958) at the Alpharetta Branch Library at 10:30am! Make your way to the Fox Theatre for an Irish Christmas – A Celebration of Carols! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves 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 night with The Pork Bellies!

Tuesday, December 13

Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Naughty or Nice event, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Get cozy at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Michael Curtiz’ WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) at 7:30pm! Catch the Devon Allman Band at City Winery! Rock out with Twin Peaks and Golden Daze at Aisle 5! Make your way to The Vista Room for a night with Rick Beato & Friends! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Get heavy Finnish-style with Children of Bodom and more at the Masquerade! Get geeky with Nerd-Core Tuesday Trivia Night’s special Star Wars Trivia at Diesel Filling Station! Tickle your funny bone ‘90s-style at the Fox Theatre with Adam Sandler, David Spade, Rob Schneider and more! Blind Willie’s gets down with the Boohoo Ramblers! 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, December 14

Charlie Brown it up as David Ellington performs “A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS” at Venkman’s! Rock out with The Jesus and Mary Chain at the Masquerade! Get your prog-rock fix with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra at the Gwinnett Center! Bluegrass it up with Chatham County Line at Terminal West! Get some soul with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get cozy at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for an encore screening of Michael Curtiz’ WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) at 7:30pm! 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)]! Rock out blues-style with Titanium Blue at Smith’s Olde Bar (downstairs), or catch Jazz is PHSH upstairs! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Joe McGuinness! 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 raise a ruckus downstairs in the Little Vinyl Lounge with Cold Heart Canyon, Blood on the Harp and How & Why! 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 15

Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for their Bluegrass Pickin’ Party – Holiday Edition! Glam it up at The Star Bar with The Tip (vinyl release show), Gunpowder Gray, Motor Earth, Rad Rex and Sash the Bash! Get your holiday horror fix at Galactic Quest in Lawrenceville during their Spooky Christmas Party featuring the Possum Kingdom Ramblers and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures and more! Take a ride on the Dark Side and may the force be with you at Atlantic Station during their Star Wars Skate Night! Get some soul with The Shadowboxers at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out with Hot Wives and Pretty Please at The Earl! Get jazzy with Ken Ford at Eddie’s Attic! Get down and dirty with The Cazanovas at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night with Space Plow 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 16

Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and T. Thomas Mahoney dish out their annual Charlie Brown Christmas shindig for two nights at The Earl with Kool Kat Chad Shivers & The Knights performing The Beach Boys’ Christmas album (night one)! Get down and dirty and psychobilly it up with Reverend Horton Heat, Nashville Pussy, Unknown Hinson and Lucky Tubb & The Modern Day Troubadours at Center Stage! Relive James Brown’s “FUNKY CHRISTMAS” with ATL Collective at Terminal West! Get down with Pasadena, The Howling Tongues and The Beggar Guild at Vinyl! Get your Saint Nick fix with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as they present A Very Merry Holiday Pops at the Woodruff Arts Center! It’s a night of rockin’ outlaws at Avondale Towne Cinema with Shooter Jennings and Jason Boland & The Stragglers! Rock out with The Head (Kool Kat Scott Walker) at 529! Make your way to The Vista Room for an Evening of Steely Dan with Yacht Rock Schooner! Jazz it up with Henry Conerway and Dwight Andrews at the High Museum! Smith’s Olde Bar rocks out with The Vegabonds, Boy Named Banjo, Lagoons and Station 7! Stomp on down for a Chicken Pickin’ Brunch with the Sweet Auburn String Band at Venkman’s and then eighties it up with Saved By the Band! Blues it up with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! Get folksy with the California Guitar Trio at the Red Light Café! Get the blues with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with The Vipers 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 17

Rev it up with Kool Kat Big Mike Geier’s Kingsized Holiday Jubilee & Toy Drive at the Variety Playhouse! Catch an encore of Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and T. Thomas Mahoney’s annual Charlie Brown Christmas shindig at The Earl with Kool Kat Chad Shivers & The Knights performing The Ventures’ Christmas album (night two)! Rock out with the Plastic Pinks, Skin Jobs and Bleach Garden at 529! Get naughty (or nice if you must) at The Star Bar’s annual Toys for Tots Show featuring Ghost Riders Car Club (Kool Kat Spike Fullerton); AM Gold; ELZIG; Bad Friend; Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters; JJ & The Hustlers; the Roxy Roz Dancers and more! Pick up some last minute gifts for the weirdos in your life at Pallookaville’s Pop-Up Art Show/Live Painting with JERT! You won’t want to miss the Rock ‘n’ Ska-liday Show at Avondale Towne Cinema with Braxton & The Renditions and Southern Ska Syndicate! Hey kiddies! You won’t want to miss SCADShow’s holiday film feast with free screenings of Dr. Seuss’ classic 1966 short, HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS, followed by Chris Columbus’ HOME ALONE (1990) at 6pm! Or catch a screening of HOME ALONE at Regal Atlantic Station 18; Regal Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); and Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 – (Chamblee) at 12pm! Get folksy with The Solstice Sisters at the Crimson Moon Café! Get to the root of it all with Cody Marlowe at Vinyl! Or folk it up holiday-style at the 25th Annual Celtic Christmas at the Rialto Center for the Arts, running through Dec. 18! Get the blues with Claudette King at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin at Blind Willie’s! The Northside Tavern dishes out a hootenanny and a half with Eddie Tigner and Lola’s Dueling Pianos! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, December 18

Spend the evening with guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel’s Classics & Christmas Tour at the Variety Playhouse, featuring Pat Bergeson, Annie Sellick, John Knowles and more! Rev it up with Rockabilly Kitty Rose at Kavarna! Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with Chickens & Pigs and The Aerials! Get ginger snappy at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s annual Gingerbread Trailer Park Contest! Get the blues with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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.