ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey all you ATLRetro Kool Kiddies! Start some new holiday traditions this year and let us guide the way! Whether you’re lookin’ to escape or just needing to get out and breathe, we’ve got a cornucopia of holiday rockin’ fun lined up that will fill you to the brim with giddy! So, come on out and rock out ATLRetro holiday-style!

Monday, November 19

Kevin Bales and Keri Johnsrud bring you Beyond the Neighborhood: The Music of Fred Rogers at Venkman’s! Folk it up with The Bad Hats and Ghost Moths at the Red Light Café! Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema screens Sasha Waters Freyer’s documentary GARRY WINOGRAND: ALL THINGS ARE PHOTOGRAPHABLE (2018), through Nov. 22! Synth-pop it up with VNV Nation at the Masquerade! Psyche rock it up with Jim James at the Tabernacle! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! GKIDS Presents a Studio Ghibli Fest screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (1989) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [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)]! 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! 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 for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 20

Videodrome and The Plaza Theater head into the shadows with a NOIRVEMBER screening of Michael Curtiz’ MILDRED PIERCE (1945) at 7pm! Or get adventurous as the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Classics Series with a screening of Robert Zemeckis’ ROMANCING THE STONE (1984) at 7pm! Surf on down to City Winery for a night with The Expendables! Get folksy with Caroline Herring and Caroline Aiken at Eddie’s Attic! Billy Raffoul dishes out a night of Jeff Buckly-esque tunes at the Masquerade! Get your Americana fix with Lynn Drury at the Red Light Café! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! GKIDS Presents a Studio Ghibli Fest screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (1989) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [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)]! 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! Blues it up with the Crosstown Allstars at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, November 21

Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with I Want Whiskey, Grand Prize Winners From Last Year and The Villain Family! The Plaza Theater hosts SONIC YOUTH: 30 YEARS OF DAYDREAM NATION, a night of films and talks, with band member Steve Shelley and filmmaker Lance Bangs in attendance at 7:30pm! Groove on down to Venkman’s for Yacht Rock Revue’s Turkey Eve Show! Grunge it up at 529 with Wrong, Bleach Garden and Dayglo Mourning! Tribute celebrates The Allman Brothers at City Winery! ATL Collective presents Stevie Wonder’s TALKING BOOK at Eddie’s Attic! Rock on down to the Fox Theatre for a night with the Manchester Orchestra and The Front Bottoms! Jam it up with Perpetual Groove and Chill Mickelson at Terminal West! Rumours pay tribute to Fleetwood Mac at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Chris Columbus’ holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) at 2:30pm/7:30pm, or catch a screening at The Springs Cinema & Taphouse at 1pm/7:30pm! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! It’s a night of Honky-Tonk Karaoke with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at The Star Bar! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! 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, November 22

Burn off all that extra Turkey Day stuffing in ATLRetro! Eighties it up at The Star Bar as DJ Kahle helps you boogie away those extra pounds! Get horrorfied family-style at The Plaza Theater with a screening of Barry Sonnenfeld’s ADAMS FAMILY VALUES (1993) at 9pm! 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 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! 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, November 23

The Star Bar dishes out a hootenanny and a half with The Outlaw Women Band featuring Sash the Bash, Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley, Skye Paige, Ana Balka, Amy Epperley, Andrew Knox & Jay Hedberg, Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and more! Funk it up with Mother’s Finest at the Buckhead Theatre! Garage rock it up with The Black Lips, Iceage and Sorfbort at The Earl! Garage rock it up with The Black Lips, Iceage and Sorfbort at The Earl! The Chi-Town Transit Authority pays tribute to Chicago at Avondale Towne Cinema! The Street Fighting Band with Kool Kat Rich Desantis rock out with a tribute to The Rolling Stones at The Vista Room! Get down with the Middle Ages with a screening of Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones’ MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) at The Plaza Theater! The Aurora Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL through Dec. 22! Groove on down to Venkman’s for Yacht Rock Revue! Make your way to City Winery for a night with Tinsley Ellis and Tommy Castro & The Painkillers! Spend the night with David Lowery (Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker) and Kristy Lee at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to the Fox Theatre for Straight No Chaser! Korpiklaani folk rocks it up all the way from Finland, with Arkona, at the Masquerade! Glenn Phillips rocks out at his Annual Day After Thanksgiving Show at the Red Light Café! Get instrumental with STS9 at the Roxy! The Last Waltz Ensemble and the Last Electric Rodeo rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar! Blues it up with Larry Griffith at Solis Two Porsche Drive! Make your way to the Tabernacle for a night with Blackberry Smoke! Jam it up with Perpetual Groove at Terminal West! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the rockin’ blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins! Cody Matlock and Ross Pead get the blues at the 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, November 24

Get glam rocked at The Star Bar with The Unsatisfied and The Accidents! Get a second rockin’ helping of The Black Lips, Iceage and Sorfbort at The Earl! Get folksy with Ellis Paul at Eddie’s Attic! Folk rock it up at the Variety Playhouse for a night with Shawn Mullins with Michelle Malone & Drag the River! Who’s Bad dishes out the ultimate Michael Jackson experience at City Winery! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at the Tannery Row Ale House in Buford! Desire pay tribute to U2 at The Vista Room! Funk it up for a second night with Mother’s Finest at the Buckhead Theatre! Make your way to the Red Light Café for a night with PerkinsWood, Flap, and Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel! Get instrumental with STS9 at the Roxy! Zydeco on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with The Squirrelheads, The Mia Green Band and Webster! The REMakes pay tribute to R.E.M. at Venkman’s! Departure pays tribute to Journey at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Get the blues with Nick Moss at Blind Willie’s! Get your Americana fix with Great Peacock at Terminal West! Get the blues with Ron Cooley & The Hard Times at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get down with Cody Matlock and Bill Sheffield at the Northside Tavern! 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, November 25

Get your weird ‘n’ wacky holiday shopping off to a good start at My Parents’ Basement November Bizarre Bazaar at 12pm! Get some soul with Miki Howard at City Winery! Or Motown it up with Will Downing at the Cobb Energy Centre! Feast your eyes on Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South for a good cause during the 11th Annual Toys for Tots & Variety Show at 7 Stages! Shoot your eye out and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Bob Clark’s holiday classic, A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get super with a 40th Anniversary screening of Richard Donner’s SUPERMAN (1978) at theaters across Atlanta at 3pm [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); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! Get the blues with Garrett Collins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

The Michael C. Carlos Museum exhibits Chimera: Andy Warhol through the 1980s, through Nov. 25! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Aurora Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL through Dec. 22!

The Aurora Theatre delivers their Christmas Canteen, through Dec. 23!

Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23!

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents a holiday favorite classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, through Dec. 30!

Horizon Theatre stages world premiere of WAFFLE PALACE CHRISTMAS, through Dec. 30!

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.