ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Spring into ATLRetro This Week and come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve found for you!

Monday, March 19

Make your way to Emory Arts’ Q&A with Michael Ironside (SCANNERS/VISITING HOURS/TOTAL RECALL) at 5pm! Indie rock it up with The Wedding Present and Terry de Castro at The Earl! Travel the yellow brick road to the The Earl Smith Strand Theatre as they present the West Side Elementary Drama Club’s rendition of THE WIZARD OF OZ, through March 22! Get the rockin’ blues with Marty O’Reilly & The Old Soul Orchestra at Smith’s Olde Bar! Rock out with VOWWS at 529! 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!  The Center for Puppetry Arts brings you their Strings, Rods, Hands and Heels: Women in Puppetry event! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get the blues with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willies! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack as they dish out The Pork Bellys and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, March 20

Get groovy with Bumpin the Mango at City Winery! Get artsy and make your way to Battle & Brew for the opening of their ‘90s Art Show! Make your way to the Red Light Café for a night with The Laymen, Velvet Caviar and Marla Feeney! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willies gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! 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, March 21

The Strypes dish out a Mod revival at The Earl! Funk it up with Me’shell N’degeocello at Terminal West! Or spend the night with Pip the Pansy at Eddie’s Attic! Roots rock on down to The Star Bar for a night with Migrant Worker, The Singing Butcher, Kool Kat Caleb Warren and Brian Revels! Catch a screening of Billy Wilder’s classic, SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! TCM Big Screen Classics celebrates the 60th Anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO (1958) with screenings 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)]! Get some old school soul with Rudy Currence at City Winery! Spend the night with Chuck McDowell, Wyatt Easterling, David Robert King and Brian Perry at the Red Clay Theatre! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Or blues it up with Blues Hearts at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get the Chicago/West Coast blues with The Electromatics at Blind Willies! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up a night of acoustic 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, March 22

Get glitterfied and rocked cabaret-style with Sadie Hawkins and her Electric Glitterland at The Star Bar!  The Red Light Café gets funky with their Prince Jam hosted by the BadAsh Allstar Team! Boogie on down to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Electric Boogieland Studio 54 Dance Party! Arts at Emory brings you a screening of Kenneth Branagh’s MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN (1994) at 7pm! Glam it up with Kyle Craft and Drew Beskin at The Earl! Rock out at The Highlander with Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! Get psyche rocked with A Drug Called Tradition and Small Reactions at 529! The Vista Room dishes out a night of bayou Americana with the Honey Island Swamp Band! Jazz it up with Eric Darius at Suite Food Lounge! Spend the night with Neal Morse at Eddie’s Attic! Sleaze on down to the Clermont Lounge for a rockin’ night with Metal McDonald, The Buzzards of Fuzz, Twin Criminal and LUST! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so funk it up with The Mar-tans and some killer island cocktails! Sweet Betty & The Shadows get down at Blind Willies! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! 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, March 23

Rock out at The Star Bar with Boy Toy, Shantih Shantih and Black Cat Rising! Shimmy on down to City Winery for a night with Wasabassco Burlesque! Funk it up New Orleans-style with Kermit Ruffins & The Barbeque Swingers at Venkman’s! It’s a night of burlesque, boylesque and ballyhoo at the Red Light Café with Tainted Cabaret! The Capitol City Opera Company presents LA TRAVIATA at Conant Performing Arts Center at Oglethorpe University! Get countrified with Patrick Davis & His Midnight Choir at Eddie’s Attic! Get your old school black metal fix in Hell with Watain, Nexus, and Destroyer 666 at the Masquerade! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola! Get down with Damon Fowler at Blind Willies! Blues it up with Sana Blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, March 24

Get your tail to Avondale Towne Cinema for a night of retro rock with The Billygoats, Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers and The Mystery Men?! Rock on down to the Buckhead Theatre for a night with Mike & The Mechanics! Spend a killer evening with The Living Deads and The Sideburners at The Star Bar! Get some soul with Kool Kat Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics during their album release party with Greyhounds at Terminal West! Spend the night with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and the Russian Roulette Band with Skye Paige at Elliott Street Pub! Boogie woogie on down to the Northside Tavern’s Chicken Raid 2018 featuring Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, Bill Sheffield, Steve “The Blues Dude”, Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & the Atlanta Horns, Robert Lee Coleman, Wasted Potential Brass Band, Roy Lee Johnson, Essie Mae Brooks, Frankie’s Blues Mission, Skye Paige, Ross Pead, Little G. Weevil, The Rainmen, Lola, Cool John Ferguson, Albert White and more! Garage rock on down to 529 for a night with Plastic Pinks, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, SKIN JOBS and Nikki & The Phantom Callers! Spend the night with Lisa Lampanelli at Center Stage! ATL Collective relives Billy Joel’s THE STRANGER at City Winery! Get down with Michelle Malone at Eddie’s Attic! Spend the night with the Vega String Quartet at Emory’s Schwartz Center ! Funk it up New Orleans-style with Kermit Ruffins & The Barbeque Swingers at Venkman’s! The Georgia Player’s Guild pays tribute to Huey Lewis and Hall & Oates at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Make your way to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their Malts & Vaults event! Afro-Pop it up with Tal National at Smith’s Olde Bar! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho Devilles at the Dixie Tavern! Sandra Hall & The Shadows dish out a night of the blues at Blind Willies! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, March 25

Rock on down to The Earl for a night of mischief with Kool Kat Ray Dafrico, Dead Boys and Gunpowder Gray! Boogie on down to The Vista Room for Joe Gransden’s Big Band Sunday Dance Party! March on down to the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center and catch the Callanwolde Concert Band! Get your jazz fusion fix with Stanley Clarke (Return to Forever) at City Winery! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Robbie Fulks and Front Country! Day 2 of the Northside Tavern’s Chicken Raid 2018 gets down with Essie Mae Brooks, the Radio Ramblers, Swami Gone Bananas, Eddie Tigner, The Rockaholics, Uncle Sugar, Cody Matlock, Little Joey’s Jumpin’ Jive, Dr. Dixon & Francois Blues and more! Jazz it up with Eileen Howard at the Red Light Café! Catch a screening of Cecil B. DeMille’s KING OF KINGS (1927) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 3pm! Catch a screening of Jim Henson’s classic, THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Rock out with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Make your way to Out Front Theatre Company for their performance of BUYER AND CELLAR, running through March 22! (LAST CHANCE!)

Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema, every Wednesday until March 28!

Learn some history with the Gwinnett Parks Foundation’s Historic Walking Tours every Saturday through April 21!

ABBA on down to the Aurora Theatre for their presentation of MAMMA MIA! Running through April 22!

The Horizon Theatre Company presents FREAKY FRIDAY: A NEW MUSICAL, through April 22!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every firsts Wednesday of the month!

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.