ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Start some new ho-ho-holiday traditions with ATLRetro this year! Come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve found just for you!

Monday, December 11

Spend the night with Gary Numan at the Masquerade! Catch screenings of James Cameron’s TITANIC (1997) at AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 and AMC Dine-In North Point Mall 12, through Dec. 13! Spend Christmas with The Celts at City Winery! Reggae it up with Godwana and Rhythm Earth at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get old-timey at Avondale Towne Cinema with their Folk Roots event! 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!” Get to the root of it all with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam!

Tuesday, December 12

Shake a ho-ho-holiday tail feather with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South during their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Naughty or Nice event, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Northlake Festival Movie Tavern continues their Retro Cinema series with a screening of Michael Curtiz’ holiday classic, WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) at 7:30pm! Or make your way to Cinebistro – Brookhaven for a screening of Frank Capra’s IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946), through Dec. 13! Get some soul with Syleena Johnson at City Winery! Get rootsy and spend the evening with Patterson Hood, the Flatland Calvary and John Brauman at Eddie’s Attic! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down with the Poverty Level Band! Blind Willie’s goes old-school with Andrew Black! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! 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, December 13

Die laughing with a screening of Robert Zemeckis’ DEATH BECOMES HER (1992) at The Plaza Theater at 7pm! The Breeze Kings and Dyn-O-Mite bring you one groovy night at The Vista Room! Stomp on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for a night with Shooter Jennings! Northlake Festival Movie Tavern continues their Retro Cinema series with an encore screening of Michael Curtiz’ holiday classic, WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) at 7:30pm! Get swampy and rock out with the Vincas, GT, Lady Legs and Nikki & The Phantom Callers at The Earl! Patterson Hood gives an encore performance at Eddie’s Attic! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get psychedelic at The Drunken Unicorn with Morning Teleportation and Fox Grin! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a 50th Anniversary screening of Stanley Kramer’s classic, GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER (1967) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Catch a screening of Bob Clark’s A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:15pm! Get down with Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! 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, December 14

Rock out with a night of tributes at Avondale Towne Cinema with Rapture (Blondie) and Running Down A Dream (Tom Petty)! Prog rock it up with Spurge, Hotplate, Celestial Inferno and Blood Oaks at The Earl! Get folksy with Dar Williams at Eddie’s Attic! It’s a night of Appalachian honkytonk with Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters, Town Mountain and Mermaid Motor Lounge at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get your ‘90s alt rock fix with Gin Blossoms at the Variety Playhouse! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for their Holiday Bluegrass Pickin’ Party! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night with the Tiki Tonk Quartet and some killer 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 15

Come one, come all as Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and his trio deliver their 10th Anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas at The Earl! Kink it up holiday-style with A John Waters Christmas at the Variety Playhouse! Jingle on down to Atlanta Symphony Hall for A Very Merry Holiday Pops featuring Joe Gransden’s Big Band and more! Or get your glam on with Jerome Newton & the Band Who Fell To Earth’s The Songs of Bowie from Brixton to Blackstar event at Avondale Towne Cinema! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns get Christmas Crunk at The Vista Room! Boogie woogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with Victor Wainwright! Jazz it up with the Brian Hogans Quartet at the High Museum! Sleaze it up and rock out at The Star Bar with Order of the Owl, Dirty magazines, Insomniac and Buzzards of Fuzz! Get some soul with The Revivalists at the Tabernacle! Jam it up with The Marcus King Band at Terminal West! Catch a free screening of Chuck Jones’ holiday classic, HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (1966) at Venkman’s, followed by a funky night with the Atlanta Funk Society! Boogie down to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for A Christmas Tradition, their holiday song and dance revue, jingling all the way through Dec. 23! Holiday shop with your favorite local artists during Project Pop-Up 2017 at Ria’s Bluebird! Sadie Hawkins hears it for the boys during her The Men’s Room: Gentlemen, Quarterly event at the Red Light Café! Folk it up with the Ben Trickey Band, Charles Walker and the Waller Duo at Smith’s Olde Bar! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Blues it up with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get the blues with Stoney Brooks 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 16

It’s a Kool Kat holiday hootenanny with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and his trio’s 10th Anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas with Kool Kat Chad Shivers & the Silent Knights at The Earl! Rock out for a cause at The Star Bar’s 16th Annual Toys For Tots Celebration featuring Kool Kat Spike Fullerton’s Ghost Riders Car Club, Kool Kat Aileen Loy and Til Someone Loses an Eye, Bigfoot, Dry Gulch, BSOL, AM Gold, The Scragglers, Front Porch Session Players, JJ & The Hustlers and more! The Highlander doesn’t care if you’ve been naughty or nice, so rock on down to their Holiday Art Market, featuring cool holiday gifts from local vendors and artists including Kool Kat Chris Hamer (Urbnpop) at 4pm! Make your way to 529 for a night with A Drug Called Tradition, Nikki & The Phantom Callers and more! Blues on down to The Vista Room for a Royal Blues Holiday Celebration featuring blues legend Bobby Rush, Big Bill Morganfield and more! Get your holiday rock on at the Avondale Towne Cinema’s Xmas Jam! Get traditional and make your way to the Rialto Center for the Arts for a Celtic Christmas! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho Devilles rev it up at the Dixie Tavern! Or get a double dose of holiday fun with SCADShow’s screenings of MICKEY’S CHRISTMAS CAROL (1983) and John Pasquin’s THE SANTA CLAUSE (1994) at 2pm! Jingle on down to Atlanta Symphony Hall for A Very Merry Holiday Pops encore featuring Joe Gransden’s Big Band and more! Jam it up with a second night of The Marcus King Band at Terminal West! Spend the night with Eva Rose & The Bottom Line at Tin Roof Cantina! Catch a screening of Jon Favreau’s holiday classic, ELF (2003) at Regal Theatres across Atlanta as part of their Holiday Classics Series at 12pm [Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Regal Mall of Georgia 20 Plus Imax (Buford); and Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough)]! Randall Bramblett and Nick Johnson get down at Serenbe Inn! Blind Willie’s gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings and Sandra Hall! Catch a free screening of Jon Favreau’s ELF (2003) at Venkman’s! Suzy Bogguss pays tribute to Merle Haggard at the Red Clay Theatre! Stomp on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with Tommy Talton! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at the Northside Tavern! Boogie down ‘80s-style with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during his 80s New Wave Music Video Dance Party: INXS Edition at Amsterdam Atlanta! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, December 17

Geek it up with your favorite comics, toys and more during the December 2017 Atlanta Comic Con, at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center, from 11am – 5pm! Or pick up some last-minute vintage goodies, art and crafts with My Parents’ Basement’s December Bizarre Bazaar, from 12p – 5pm! Get ginger snappy at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s annual Gingerbread Trailer Park Contest! The Earl dishes out a rockin’ hootenanny with Chickens and Pigs, The Skylarks and CJ Jones & Spirit Bones! Raise a ruckus with The Hot Toddies featuring Michelle Malone at The Vista Room! Get some soul with Avery*Sunshine and Chantae Cann at City Winery! Swamp folk it up with The Krickets and Rebel Union at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out in Hell with Whores, ’68, Pretty Please and Bataille at the Masquerade! Janet Jackson gets down and invades Philips Arena! Jingle on down to Venkman’s as David Ellington jazzes it up with his Charlie Brown Christmas! Rock out with Band X at Johnny’s Hideaway! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

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

Boogie down to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for A Christmas Tradition, their holiday song and dance revue, jingling all the way through Dec. 23!

OnStage Atlanta performs A CHRISTMAS STORY, through Dec. 23!

The Alliance Theatre dishes out a holiday classic and presents A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center, through Dec. 24!

The Atlanta Ballet presents the NUTCRACKER at the Fox Theatre, through Dec. 28!

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.