ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Baby, it’s cold outside! But no worries ‘cause ATLRetro promises to get you warm and toasty with a week of rockin’ good times, filled to the brim with nostalgic holiday goodness! So get hep to the jive and come on out to see what ATLRetro has in store for you!   

Monday, November 27

Stay alive at The Plaza Theater and catch a 40th Anniversary screening of John Badham’s boogietastic SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977), through Nov. 30! Get countrified and folksy with Kristian Bush at Eddie’s Attic! 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!” Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blues it up with Bob Page and more at Blind Willie’s! 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 28

Vengeance is yours so make your way to Landmark Midtown Art Cinema as they continue their “A Dish Best Served Cold” Classics Series with a screening of Toshiya Fujita’s LADY SNOWBIRD (1973) at 7pm! Or haunt on down to the Fox Theatre for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s LOVE NEVER DIES, THE PHANTOM RETURNS, through Dec. 3! Take a trip to the North Pole with the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Jon Favreau’s ELF (2003), as part of their Retro Cinema series at 7:30pm! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Blind Willie’s dishes out a night of rockin’ blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points 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 29

Rock on down to The Earl and catch a screening of Tim Irwin and Keith Schieron’s documentary, DON’T BREAK DOWN: A FILM ABOUT JAWBREAKER (2017) at 7:30pm! Or take a trip to the North Pole with the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s encore screening of Jon Favreau’s ELF (2003), as part of their Retro Cinema series at 7:30pm! Or catch a screening of Victor Fleming’s award-winning classic GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:15pm! Jazz it up with Kurt Elling at City Winery! Catch the Dead Affect at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Rock out with Cosmic Charlie at Vinyl! Make your way to the Elliott Street Pub for the Jordan Shalhoup Mini Big Band! Hang with The Dude as Videodrome presents a screening of The Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) at 529 at 9pm! Get down with Jetback & The Whachos at Blind Willie’s! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! 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 30

Witch it up and catch HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE in Concert with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Atlanta Symphony Hall at 8pm, through Dec. 2! NOLA legends Joe Krown and Mitch Woods pay tribute to Fats Domino at The Vista Room! Folk rock it up with Roadkill Ghost Choir at Terminal West! Make your way to Venkman’s for ‘80s Soundtrack Night! Folk rock it up with Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties, Steady Hands, Chase Huglin, and Norwegian Arms at the Masquerade! Rock out with The Stacktone Slims and Black Cat Rising at The Star Bar! Get funky with the Yonrico Scott Band, Funk Xtreme and the Glen Pridgen Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to City Winery for a night with Mike Cooley (Drive By Truckers)! Flamenco on down to the Red Light Café with Jose Manuel, Francisco Orozco, Antonio Granjero and Julie Moon! Catch a screening of Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM at The Plaza Theater (2003) at 7:30pm, through Dec. 3! Blues it up with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for some rockin’ island tunes and a couple of cocktails! 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 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 1

The Masquerade dishes out one hellacious hootenanny with the Reverend Horton Heat, Junior Brown, The Blasters and Big Sandy! It’s maniacal mayhem at The Star Bar with the Subsonics, Sit N Spin, Bad Spell and Nikki & The Phantom Callers! Film Love and Kool Kat Andy Ditzler presents The American Music Show #5: National Holidays at Whitespace Gallery! Rock out and honkytonk on down to The Earl for a night with Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires with BITTER and Hunger Anthem! Get naughty with St. Nick during The Plaza Theater’s screening of Terry Zwigoff’s BAD SANTA (2003), through Dec. 2! New Wave it up with Cut Copy at the Variety Playhouse! Alt rock out with Marc Roberge (O.A.R.) at City Winery! Have a Merry Funkin’ Christmas with Secondhand Swagger at Venkman’s! Boogie on down to Mammal Gallery for The Sock Hop Music & Arts Festival, bee bopping through Dec. 2! Get the ‘70s southern blues with Alex Guthrie at Eddie’s Attic! Folk it up with The Good Graces at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get down and dirty with Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials at Blind Willie’s! Cody Matlock gets the blues at Northside Tavern! Time-Warp it up 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 2

Spend A Victorian Holiday at the Historic Oakland Cemetery from 11-4pm, with a Holiday Tour of Eternal Homes, carols, a reading of “The Night Before Christmas”, hot cocoa and more! It’s night two of maniacal mayhem at The Star Bar with Tiger! Tiger!, Sit N Spin and DJ Viki Vaden (Fringe Factory)! War gets funky at the Buckhead Theatre! Keep on keepin’ on with the Fare Thee Well Foundation 10th Annual Holiday Ball featuring the Donna Hopkins Band, Hoodoo Moon, The Missile Toes and Bolder Monkey at The Vista Room! Rock on down to The Earl for Roxonian (Smithsonian performing Roxy Music) with Parsons Rocket Project! Spend the night with Zen Time, The Western Sizzlers and Skye Paige at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get the blues with Revelator Hill at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Stomp on down to the Variety Playhouse for the 9th Annual Y’alltide Celebration with The Whiskey Gentry, Corey Branan and Pony League! Get to the root of it all at the Red Light Café with Hard Luck & Trouble, Cedar Hill and the Red Clay Poets! Get the old-school blues with Albert White at Northside Tavern! Boogie down to The Basement for their Heyday ‘80s Dance Party! Rock out with The Skylarks at Kavarna! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Randall Bramblett and Nick Johnson, followed by a little rockin’ soul with Diane Durrett! Get a second helping of Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, December 3

Get revived, swing-style with two helpings of the Squirrel Nut Zippers at City Winery! Support your local artists at the EAYC’s Lovecrafts: Local Artist’s Market from 1-6pm! Funk it up with Moses Mo (Mother’s Finest) at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get mischievous with the blood of gods with Gwar at the Masquerade! Make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall for ASO’s live accompaniment to Dianne Jackson’s animated film, THE SNOWMAN (1982)! Gypsy jazz it up with The Hot Club of Atlanta at Venkman’s! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Haunt on down to the Fox Theatre for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s LOVE NEVER DIES, THE PHANTOM RETURNS, through Dec. 3! (LAST CHANCE!)

Aurora Theatre – Lawrenceville presents A CHRISTMAS CAROL, bah humbugging through Dec. 23!

Center for Puppetry Arts presents your favorite traditional seasonal reindeer tale, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, jinglin’ through Dec. 31!

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 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.