ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Have a hellacious good time in ATLRetro This Week! We’re diggin’ on so many deadly events this haunted season, so take a peek and come see what we think will rattle your bones!

Monday, October 22

The Plaza Theater gets creepy with screenings of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980), through Oct. 23! Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31! Spend an acoustic evening with John Hiatt at City Winery! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Adam Klein & The Wild Fires! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/ Duluth/Marietta) gets bewitched with David Yates’ HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS Pt. 1 (2010) at 7:30pm! 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 down with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck at Blind Willie’s! And get the blues with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Tuesday, October 23

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their new Classics Series with a screening of George Ray Hill’s BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) at 7pm! Get the blues with The D’Notes at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Spend the night with Nicholas Jamerson, Grayson Jenkins and Wes Smith at Eddie’s Attic! Get rocked with Monster Magnet, Electric Citizen, the Dark Sky Choir and Ashes Fall at the Masquerade! The Variety Playhouse rocks out with the Oh Sees, Escape-ism and The Holydrug Couple! 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! Get down with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with Rae & The Royal Peacocks! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, October 24

Emory Cinematheque kills it with their “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” series with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW (1954) at 7:30pm! Zombie it up at theatres across Atlanta and celebrate 50 monstrous years of George A. Romero’s classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) at 7pm/10pm [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); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Spend the night with Richard Marx at City Winery! Get rocked with The Stoplight Roses and Steve Nebraska at The Star Bar! Haunt on down to Woodruff Park for a free screening of Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) at 6pm! The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event, through Oct. 31! Get demonic with a screening of William Friedkin’s THE EXORCIST (1973) [Director’s Cut] at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 27! Spook it up at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Tim Burton’s BEETLEJUICE (1988) at 2:30pm/7:30pm, Or catch a screening at Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18 at 7pm, or CineBistro at 7pm! Get blood-thirsty with screenings of Tony Scott’s THE HUNGER (1983) and Francis Ford Coppola’s BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA (1992) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Art Holliday! Get the blues with The Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! 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, October 25

Have a helluva rockin’ time at the Clermont Lounge during the 3rd Annual Shock & Roll Halloween Extravaganza, featuring Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, Captain & Maybelle, ELZIG and Pearl Bottom Radio! The Fox Theatre kills it with their 6th Annual Ghost Tours, through Oct. 30, offering haunted historical accounts by William Fox! Spook on down to the Syncrhonicity Theatre for Atlanta Horror Film Festival 2018, haunting through Oct. 27! The Plaza Theater screens the 45th Anniversary Extended Director’s Cut of William Friedkin’s THE EXORCIST (1973)! Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland Ghost Tours, spooking it up through Oct. 28! Zombie it up at theatres across Atlanta and celebrate 50 monstrous years of George A. Romero’s classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) at 7pm/10pm [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); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Rock out at The Earl with the Swingin’ Utters, Gallows Bound, Spray Tan and The Carolyn! Spend the night with Mike Rizzi & The Strong Personalities at Eddie’s Attic! Get glam at Madlife State & Studios with BowieLive! The Star Bar dishes out a night of Twisty Cats, Rude Dude & The Creek Freaks, Pine & Tolliver and Dang Dang Dang! Make your way to Vinyl for a night with Chelsea Shag, Caleb Hawley and Stephen Day! Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 27! The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event, through Oct. 31!  Get the blues with the Hugh Taylor Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Rock out at The Highlander with DJ Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so funk it up with The Mar-Tans and hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Heather Luttrell! 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, October 26

Carnival of Doom kills it with their Creature Feature 2018 Kennesaw “Drive In” featuring a screening of Irvin Yeaworth’s THE BLOB (1958) at 7:30pm! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The PsychoDevilles, with ELZIG bring you one helluva Halloween Party at Dixie Tavern! Gear up for the Atlanta Steampunk Expo: Victorian Nightmares haunting through Oct. 28! Mary’s delivers a haunted hootenanny with Monster Mary’s Hallo-weenie Party! Have a witchin’ weekend during ATL Craft’s Samhain Soiree, through Oct. 28! The Earl dishes out their killer punk fest, Atlanta Mess Around, rockin’ through Oct. 28! Day/night one kills it with Predator, Ryan Dinosaur, Harmacy, Stoic Clown, Roky Erickson, Bush Tetras, Dan Melchior and the Country Westerns! Boogie down to Avondale Towne Cinema for their Halloween/Monster Jam! Create a creepy Halloween lantern and make your way to the Grant Park Halloween Lantern Parade, led by the Black Sheep Ensemble and in the rear the Wasted Potential Brass Band! Or make your way to Callanwolde’s Calloween Spooky Celebration! Horror Films in Hotlanta 2018 brings you all the frights at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema! ATL Collective relives THRILLER at Aisle 5! The Fox Theatre continues their 6th Annual Ghost Tours, through Oct. 30, offering haunted historical accounts by William Fox! Spook on down to Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18 for a screening of Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993)! Jackyl rocks out at the Buckhead Theatre! Have a screaming good time at the Fernbank’s Fright Night event featuring costume contests, dancing twilight tours and tasty morsels! Venkman’s presents David Byrne vs. The Talking Heads! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Greco’s Rockin’ Halloween Bash! Surf on down to 529 for a night with Daikaiju, Lazer/Wulf, Chew, and The Mystery Men?! Have a Shalloween with Sasha Velour at Heretic! Rock on down to The Star Bar for a night of tributes with Slack Sabbath, Smithsonian and Free Bird! Time Warp on down to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for a screening of Jim Sharmon’s THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at 11:59pm, or catch screenings at AMC North Dekalb Mall 16; AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)! Get bewitched with screenings of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC North Dekalb Mall 16; AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Northpoint Mall 12 (Alpharetta); and AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw)]! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Spend the night with Alicia Witt at Eddie’s Attic! Get your ‘60s/’70s rock ‘n’ roll fix with The Rainmen at the Red Light Café! Spend the night with The Tenors at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Outlaw it up with Cody Jinks at the Tabernacle! Battle & Brew spooks it up with screenings of Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993), Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) and Tim Burton’s BEETLEJUICE (1988) beginning at 5pm! Spook on down to the Sleepy Hollow Christmas Tree Farm in Powder Springs for Stranger Things Tours & a Nighttime Corn Maze, through Nov. 3! Get the blues with Geoff Atchison & The Souldiggers at The Vista Room! Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 27! The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event, through Oct. 31! The Northside Tavern gets down with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & The Atlanta Horns! Blind Willie’s gets down with Sandra Hall & 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, October 27

Get hell-bent and Halloween Bash it up with The Fabulous Thrillbillys, ELZIG, AM Gold and more at The Star Bar! Get ghastly and catch The Plaza Theater’s 30th Anniversary screening of Tim Burton’s BEETLEJUICE (1988)! Bring the kiddies and get spooky with dinos at the Fernbank during their Dinosaur Trick or Treat event! Head on over to the Georgia Railroad Freight Depot for Atlanta’s 2018 Maker Faire, through Oct. 28! Day 2 of The Earl’s Atlanta Mess Around gets you rockin’ with Radioactivity, Bad Sports, GG King, Patois Counselors, Animal Show, Vincas, Protex, Gentleman Jesse & His Men, Death Valley Girls, DINOS BOYS, Static Static and BENNI! Get hell-bent and make your way to Sweetwater Bar & Grill in Duluth for a haunted night with Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, Freakshow Sinema and Never Fall! Spook on down to Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18 for a screening of Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993)! Get bewitched with screenings of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC North Dekalb Mall 16; AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Northpoint Mall 12 (Alpharetta)]! Have a haunted Halloween at Battle & Brew’s screenings of Bill Menendez’ IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN CHARLIE BROWN (1966), Andrew Fleming’s THE CRAFT (1996) and Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) starting at 5pm! Have some spooky fun at Lake Claire Landtrust with Scary Fireside Stories for Halloween! ATL Collective relives THRILLER at Aisle 5! The Plaza Theater celebrates the 30th anniversary of James Signorelli and Sam Irvin’s ELVIRA MISTRESS OF THE DARK (1988) with a screening and special pre-show improv performance by Genre-ly Speaking (with Kool Kat Madeline Brumby!) Groove on down to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for The Ultimate Al Green Tribute Concert! Eighties it up and party down Halloween-style with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at Buzzy’s Grille in Kennesaw! Spook on down to Kavarna for Hauntings & Howls: Twisted Tales that Will Give You the Creeps, featuring readings by John Carr, Jyll Thomas, Winston Ward, Stephanie Roman, Steven Williams and John Carroll! Get monstrous and boogie down with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during his Coffin Classics: Halloween Prom at Amsterdam Atlanta! Time Warp on down to theatres across Atlanta for a screening of Jim Sharmon’s THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) [AMC North Dekalb Mall 16; AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Funk it up with Michael Henderson at City Winery! Eddie’s Attic brings you The Electromatics and Jim Lauderdale! Nameless Nameless and Doll Parts rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get your southern rock fix with Gov’t Mule at the Tabernacle! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Amy Ray! It’s your last chance to hang with your favorite band of specters at the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances! The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event, through Oct. 31! Spook on down to the Sleepy Hollow Christmas Tree Farm in Powder Springs for Stranger Things Tours & a Nighttime Corn Maze, through Nov. 3! Get rocked at The Vista Room with their Halloween Throwdown featuring Runnin’ Down a Dream (Tom Petty tribute) and Rolling Thunder (Bob Dylan tribute)! The Northside Tavern gets down with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & The Atlanta Horns! Get rootsy with Delta Moon at Blind Willie’s! 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, October 28

Support your local artists and make your way to My Parents’ Basement for The Bizarre Bazaar from 12pm – 6pm! Haunt on down to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for a screening of Roland West’s silent classic THE MONSTER (1925) featuring Lon Cheney, with a live accompaniment by Kool Kat Ron Carter at 3pm! A degenerate doll invades The Plaza Theater as they host a 30th Anniversary screening of Tom Holland’s CHILD’S PLAY (1988)! Get bewitched with screenings of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC North Dekalb Mall 16; AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Northpoint Mall 12 (Alpharetta)]! GKids presents a Studio Ghibli Fest 2018 screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s SPIRITED AWAY (2001) at theatres across Atlanta at 12:55pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Bluegrass it up with Jim Lauderdale at the Crimson Moon Café! Get funky with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get bewitched at Atlanta Symphony Hall with their Halloween at Hogwarts event at 1:30pm/3pm! Day 3 of The Earl’s Atlanta Mess Around brings you Dunch with Greg Cartwright (The Oblivians)! The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event, through Oct. 31! Spook it up at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Fat Back Deluxe gets the old-school blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 27! (LAST CHANCE!)

Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland Ghost Tours, spooking it up through Oct. 28!

The Wren’s Nest haunts with The Edgar Allan Poe Experience, an immersive theatrical event, through Oct. 31!

Spook on down to the Sleepy Hollow Christmas Tree Farm in Powder Springs for Stranger Things Tours & a Nighttime Corn Maze, through Nov. 3!

Haunt on down to Netherworld Haunted House’s new deadly digs in Stone Mountain for their horrorific 22nd season, getting gory through Nov. 4!

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31!

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.