ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Get sprung in ATLRetro This Week and come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve found for you!

Monday, March 26

Surf on down to City Winery for a night with Al Jardine! 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! Spend the night with The Buttertones at the Masquerade! 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! Get the blues with Ron Roper 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 27

Make your way to SCADShow for the 19th Annual Animation Show of Shows featuring the best in animated shorts from the world’s most renowned animation festivals at 6:30pm! Get your ‘70s vintage rock fix with Thelma & The Sleaze, the Craig Brown Band and Nikki & The Phantom Callers at The Earl! Bluegrass it up with Jim Lauderdale at Eddie’s Attic! Rock on down to The Roxy for a night with Brian Fallon & The Howling Weather and Rushton Kelly! Get your ‘70s prog rock fix with Happy Lemmy and The Warsaw Clinic at Smith’s Olde Bar! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Stomp on down to Blind Willies for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! 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 28

Spook on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their GraveDigger’s Event: HBICs (Historic Broads in Charge) of Oakland at 6pm! 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! Get your R&B soul fix with Silk at the Cobb Energy Center! Spend a riotous night with Caroline Rose and WASI at The Earl! Jazz it up with Jennifer Hartswick and Nick Cassarino at Eddie’s Attic! Spend the night with The Boy Jones at The Star Bar! The Drunken Unicorn dishes out a night of honkytonk punk with Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires!  Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) presents a screening of Elia Kazan’s classic A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951) at 7:15pm! 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! Cody Matlock gets down 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 29

Get really retro and make your way to the 9th Annual 18th Century Market Faire at Fort Yago State Park in Winder, through April 1! Rock out with Agent Orange, The Atom Age, and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s The Compartmentalizationalists at The Earl! Get down and dirty at the Clermont Lounge for Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley’s EASY, SLEAZY AND GREAZY CD Release Party! Get down with Walter Salas-Humara (The Silos), Bark and The Skylarks at 529! Glam it up with Butch Walker at Center Stage! Get countrified with Charlie Worsham and Lee Ann Womack at City Winery! Get down and dirty with the North Mississippi Allstars at Eddie’s Attic! Folk rock it up with Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out with Cinema Novo, Yams Club, BKGD and Fun Isn’t Fair at The Star Bar! Folk it up with Timber Timbre at The Drunken Unicorn! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get down with The Sundogs and some killer island cocktails! Blues it up with Nick Moss 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 30

Get your Special Agent fix during the first ever SPY-CON 2018 spying it up at the Atlanta Marriott Alpharetta through April 1 featuring exciting operatives (Lana Wood, Trina Parks, Kool Kat Mark Maddox, Victoria Price and more!), thrilling panels and “Spy School,” all celebrating espionage and Spy Fiction. Come on out for Day One featuring Dinner with the Bond Girls, panels and screenings of Mario Caiano’s SPIES STRIKE SILENTLY (1966), Paolo Bianchini’s SUPERAGO AND THE FACELESS GIANTS (1968), and episodes of THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO, THE QUESTOR TAPES, MANIMAL and more! Shimmy on down to the Elliott Street Pub for Kool Kat Talloolah Love’s Candy Box Revue Burlesque! Catch a screening of William Wyler’s epic BEN-HUR (1959) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Boogie down dinosaur-style to the Fernbank Museum’s Adult Prom: A Prehistoric Night to Remember! Rock on down to The Basement for night one of Hammerhead Fest 7 featuring Beitthemeans, The Vaginas, Hellrad, Duell, Spray Tan and CANOPY! New Wave it up with The Swimming Pool Q’s and Mitch Easter at The Vista Room! Or make your way to the Variety Playhouse as Yacht Rock Revue performs the Talking Heads’ STOP MAKING SENSE! Departure pays tribute to Journey at the Dixie Tavern! Time travel it up at SCADShow for a screening of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) at 7pm! Get country rocked with The Mavericks at the Buckhead Theatre! Or get countrified with Lee Ann Womack at City Winery! Sludge on down to The Earl for a night with EYEHATEGOD, Cro-Mags, and Buzzov-en! Get down and dirty with the North Mississippi Allstars at Eddie’s Attic! Pretty Vacant pays tribute to the Sex Pistols at MadLife Stage & Studios! DJ Kahle brings down the house with an ‘80s Dance Party at The Star Bar! Surf on down to The Drunken Unicorn for a night with The Antarcticats! Groove on down to Aisle 5 for a night with Cosmic Charlie! Interstellar Echoes pay tribute to Pink Floyd at Venkman’s! Stomp on down to the Northside Tavern for a night with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns! Blind Willies celebrates 32 years with a rockin’ party featuring Sparky & Rhonda Fuller, Steve James and The Shadows! 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 31

Day Two of SPY-CON 2018 brings you adventurous panels, spytastic guests, screenings of John Huston’s CASINO ROYALE (1967), Jean Delannoy’s ONLY THE COOL (1970), Fritz Lang’s THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE (1960), and don’t forget to live it up at Casino Night in the Ballroom! Rock on down to The Basement for night two of Hammerhead Fest 7 featuring Black Tusk, Ectovoid, Kool Kats SHEHEHE, Steel Bearing Hand, Old Thrones and Useless Against! Make your way to The Earl for the Midnight Larks’ LP Release Party with reverends and Twisty Cats! Skank on down to The Highlander for SOULd OUT, a soul and reggae dance party! SCADShow presents a time-travelling double feature with screenings of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE II (1989) and BACK TO THE FUTURE III (1990) beginning at 12pm! ATL Collective relives Prince’s SIGN O’ THE TIMES at the Buckhead Theatre! It’s a night of Persian pop with Sattar at Center Stage! Folk it up with Peter Mulvey at the Red Light Café! Kavarna dishes out a night of old-school country western with Back in the Saddle, the Swingin’ Saddle Cats and Marla Feeney! Americolor Opera Alliance presents The Gershwins’’ PORGY AND BESS at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Get smooth with Yacht Rock Schooner at The Vista Room! Departure pays tribute to Journey at City Winery! Get folksy at Eddie’s Attic with Margaret Glaspy and Cody Marlowe! Get to the root of it all with Garrett Collins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Heart Breaker pays tribute to Heart at MadLife Stage & Studios! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & the Atlanta Horns get down at the Northside Tavern! Blind Willies celebrates 32 years with a rockin’ party featuring Sparky & Rhonda Fuller, Steve James and The Shadows! 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, April 1

Brunch it up with the Coley High Trio at Venkman’s! And it’s your last chance to spy it up during Day Three of SPY-CON 2018 featuring panels, a performance by the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company and more! Spend the night with Mike Martin & The Beautiful Mess at Smith’s Olde Bar! Catch a screening of Charles Walters’ classic, EASTER PARADE (1948) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

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

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.