ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s on the Retro menu This Week!

Monday, September 24

Make your way to The Earl for a night with Harlan T. Bobo! Rock out with Cloven Hoof at The Basement! Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their Drink ‘n’ Draw event! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! 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! 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, September 25

Thrash it up at the Masquerade with Suicidal Tendencies and MADBALL! Battle & Brew kills it with the Villians Ball Art Show – Opening Night! Get the rockin’ blues with Joel DaSilva & the Midnight Howl at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get folksy with William Fitzsimmons at Eddie’s Attic! Or get to the root of it all with Cody Marlowe, Arson Daily and Wanderwild at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to My Parents’ Basement for Harry Potter Comic Book Trivia! Rumours pay tribute to Fleetwood Mac at City Winery! 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! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, September 26

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema rocks out with their one-time only screening of Kevin Kerslake’s Joan Jett documentary, BAD REPUTATION (2018) at 7pm! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Nicholas Ray’s REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/ Duluth/Marietta); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with Joshua Hedley and Cale Thompson! Emory Cinematheque kills it with their “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” series with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943) at 7:30pm! The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Get your Bowie fix and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986) 2:30pm/7:30pm! Catch a cyberific double feature of LaVar Burton’s THE SMART HOUSE (1999) and Donald Cammell’s DEMON SEED (1977) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Rock on down to The Highlander for their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get rocked with The Wild Hares at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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 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, September 27

The Atlanta Opera brings you CHARLIE PARKER’S YARDBIRD, a jazz opera about the life of Charlie Parker at Paris on Ponce! Or get your Beckett fix as 7 Stages presents WAITING FOR GODOT, through Oct. 14! Rock out at The Highlander with The Vibrators, Rotten Stitches and Hanging Judge! Studio Movie Grill (Duluth/Marietta) kills it with their Retro Nightmares Cinema Series screening of Mark Rosman’s THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW (1983) at 7:45pm! Get your chance to hang with Optimus Prime with a screening of TRANSFORMERS (1986) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC North Dekalb 16; Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Phipps Plaza 14; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough);and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Make your way to Noni’s Bar & Deli for A Farewell to Pop-Ups: A Hemingway-Themed Event! Boogie on down to Firefly Studio Decatur for Down South Swing’s Level 1: 6 Count swing dance class! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get swanky and hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, September 28

The Plaza Theater gets horrorific with screenings of Stephen Chiodo’s KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE (1988) and Kevin Connor’s MOTEL HELL (1980)! Get down to Kavarna for Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & The Bicycle Eaters’ album release party with special guest Juliana Money and a puppet show by Raymond vs. Raymond! Burly Q it up with The Candybox Revue at the Elliott Street Pub! Make your way to Chastain Park for The Australian Pink Floyd Show! Raise a ruckus with Drive-By Truckers at the Variety Playhouse! heese is as old as the history of the world, so get your tail to The Cheese Fest Atlanta at the Historic Fourth Ward Conservancy! The Atlanta Opera brings you CHARLIE PARKER’S YARDBIRD, a jazz opera about the life of Charlie Parker at Paris on Ponce! 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, September 29

Celebrate THE Puppet Master during the Center for Puppetry Arts’ Jim Henson Birthday Celebration! Get the blues and make your way to the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre for the Georgia Blues & Roots Festival! The Atlanta Opera brings you CHARLIE PARKER’S YARDBIRD, a jazz opera about the life of Charlie Parker at Paris on Ponce! Raise a ruckus with Drive-By Truckers at the Variety Playhouse! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at The Wing Café & Tap House in Marietta! 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, September 30

The Plaza Theater hosts a Silent Film Festival with screenings of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (1928) at 4:30pm, Oscar Micheaux’ BODY AND SOUL (1924) at 7pm, and F. W. Murneau’s NOSFERATU (1922) at 9:30pm! Get really retro and Victorian today at the Historic Oakland Cemetery as they present their 40th Annual Sunday in the Park Victorian Street Festival, featuring tasty food, fun and entertainment! Check out the artists’ market, living history demonstrations, storytellers, spooky mausoleums, Victorian costume contests and carriage tours. And you won’t want to miss their vintage musical line-up, and so much more! Or zip on down to Terminal West for a zany night with the Squirrel Nut Zippers! The Atlanta Opera brings you CHARLIE PARKER’S YARDBIRD, a jazz opera about the life of Charlie Parker at Paris on Ponce! Shake a tail feather and help celebrate Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South’s 11^th Anniversary at 7 Stages with their For the Love of Henson event! Get your Gene Wilder fix at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for 10,000 Pontiacs! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Get your Beckett fix as 7 Stages presents WAITING FOR GODOT, through Oct. 14!

Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first 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!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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.