ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s shakin’ in ATLRetro This Week!

Monday, May 1

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month! Get criminal and make your way to The Plaza Theater for their 25th Anniversary screening of Quentin Tarantino’s RESERVOIR DOGS (1992), screening through May 4! Get classically vintage and make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for a screening of George Cukor’s DINNER AT EIGHT (1933) at 10:30am! Rock on down to the Fox Theatre for Hampton 70, a celebration of Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton! And then make your way to Terminal West for the Official Hampton 70 After Party with The Zambi All Stars! The Avondale Towne Cinema presents a screening of local filmmaker Hal Jacobs’ documentary on Mary Crovatt Hambidge at 8pm, followed by a Q&A! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-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! Make your way to Blind Willie’s as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! And boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam!

Tuesday, May 2

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gets bizarre with their Classics Series’ screening of David Lynch’s TWIN PEAKS FIRE WALK WITH ME (1992) at 7pm! It’s a night of ‘70s nitty gritty with Mothership, The Dirty Magazines, TORO and The Stir at The Drunken Unicorn! Spend the night with Indy at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989) during their Retro Cinema series at 7:30pm! Get indie at the Variety Playhouse with The New Pornographers! Rock out with the BoDeans at City Winery! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 3

Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their encore screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989) during their Retro Cinema series at 7:30pm! Or dance on down to Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for a screening of Gene Kelly’s SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) at 7:15pm! Get your ‘90s alt-rock fix with Soundgarden at the Fox Theatre! 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! Make your way to The Earl for a night with Sweet Crude! Get some classic soul ‘n’ funk with Nick & The Grooves at Avondale Towne Cinema! Rock out hair metal style with Def Leppard, Poison and Tesla at Lakewood Amphitheatre! Stomp on down to The Vista Room for Bluegrass & Beyond! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Blues it up with Barrel House Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 4

Star Wars it up at My Parents’ Basement during their May the 4th Be With Brew & Star Wars Costume Contest event! Dad’s Garage lives long and prospers with their Wrath Of Con Staged Reading at 8pm! Surf down to Trader Vic’s for a Mai Tai and a night with Grinder Nova! Get folksy with Andy Shauf at The Earl! Get intergalactic and have a laugh at Venkman’s with a free screening of Mel Brooks’ SPACEBALLS (1987) at 9pm! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Vista Room with Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton & the Madrid Express! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! 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 the low country blues with Steve James at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 5

Get your pre-May Ham Fest fix at Avondale Towne Cinema for a rockin’ pre-party with Kool Kat Carloline & The Ramblers, Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids and DJ Dusty Booze! Roll in the hay with Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) at SCADShow at 7pm! Get smooth as Tennessee whiskey with Chris Stapleton at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! Make your way to the Red Light Café with Greg Presmanes and the FOG! Retro rock it up with Low Cut Connie, Scantron and Pony League at The Earl! Get sweet and low down with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 6

Hey all you miscreants! Get mischievous and rock out at May Ham Fest 2017, featuring vendors, a pig roast, live music and more at the Pine Street Market in Avondale! You won’t want to miss a hellacious musical lineup with ELZIG, the Zodiac Panthers, Wahya’s, Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters, Crank County Daredevils, Red Rocket Deluxe, The Scragglers, Tiger! Tiger!, The El Caminos, The Good OL’ Blues Brothers Boy Band! Stick around for a late night double feature with screenings of John Landis’ THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980) and Jack Arnold’s creature-feature, THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON 3D (1954) (see our Kool Kat Interview with “The Gill Man” Ricou Browning here)! Get your nitty gritty rock ‘n’ roll fix with Kool Kat Adam McIntyre and The Pinx with El Capitan & The Reluctant Sadists and HeY!ALLigator at 529! Rock out with Midnight Oil at Center Stage! Shimmy and shake on down to the Red Light Café for Mary and Friends: May Day May-Day featuring Kool Kat Mary Strawberry and more! Blind Willie’s dishes out the blues with John Nemeth! New-Wave indie punk it up with NE-HI, Background and Drew Beskin (Kool Kats The District Attorneys) at The Earl! Stomp on down to Venkman’s for a Chicken Pickin’ Brunch with The Family Portrait! Folk it up with an early show featuring Sean Rowe at Eddie’s Attic, followed by a little soul with The AJ Ghent Band and Kyshona Armstrong! Or get some soul with Booker T. Jones at City Winery, followed by Zach Deputy! Spend another night with Chris Stapleton at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, May 7

Boogie down and celebrate 40 years of John Badham’s SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Venkman’s gets jazzy and dishes out a  Bottomless Mimosa Brunch with The Tray Dahl Jazz Quintet! Or jazz it up with The Bad Plus at City Winery! Rev on down to Kavarna for a night with Rockabilly Kitty Rose! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-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.