ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

ATLRetro is the Kat’s meow this ho-ho holiday season! If you’re lookin’ for a thrill and the weather’s got you down, get off that couch, put on your dancin’ shoes and live La Vida Retro!

Monday, December 3

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! Jazz it up with Julie Dexter at City Winery! The Plaza Theater gets gory this holiday season with screenings of John Grissmer’s BLOOD RAGE (1987) through Dec. 6 and John Carpenter’s THE THING (1982) through Dec. 4! Or make your way to Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Marietta) screening of Frank Capra’s holiday classic, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) at 7pm! Get super with a 40th Anniversary screening of Richard Donner’s SUPERMAN (1978) at theaters 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); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! Indie folk it up with Kurt Vile & The Violators with Jessica Pratt at the Variety Playhouse! 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 as they dish out The Pork Bellys and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, December 4

The Robert Cray Band gets the blues at the Variety Playhouse! Spend the night with Deal Casino at the Masquerade! Spend the night with Warren G at City Winery! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Get countrified with Martina McBride at Atlanta Symphony Hall! 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 the blues with Andrew Black at Blind Willie’s! Johnny Cash Now pays tribute to the Man in Black at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, December 5

Get sinister as Claudio Simonetti’s GOBLIN performs Suspiria live at Aisle 5! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! Rock out with The Helio Sequence at the Drunken Unicorn! Holiday hilarity ensues at Cobb CineBistro with a screening of Jeremiah S. Chechik’s NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989) at 7pm! Or catch a screening of Jon Favreau’s ELF (2003) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! Or catch a 25th Anniversary screening of Nora Ephron’s SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993) at theaters across Atlanta at 4pm/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); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Spend the night with OKCello at City Winery! Get your Americana fix with The Talbott Brothers at Eddie’s Attic! Grunge it up with Smile Empty Soul at the Masquerade! Spend the night with Leslie Odom Jr. at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Kool Kat Quintron and Weather Warlock! Catch a holiday double feature with the “White Christmas” episode of BLACK MIRROR (2014) and Stanley Kubrick’s EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of George Seaton’s holiday classic MIRACLE ON 34th STREET (1947), or catch a screening at The Springs Cinema & Taphouse at 4:30pm/7pm! 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 The Wild Hares! Blind Willie’s jams out with The Cazanovas! 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, December 6

Atlanta’s favorite video store, Videodrome turns 20, so party it up at the Highland Inn Ballroom & Lounge at 7pm during their 20th Anniversary Party! Boogie on down to Out Front Theatre Company for The Ethel Merman Disco Christmas Spectacular, through Dec. 22! Holiday mischief ‘n’ magic ensues at The Plaza Theater as Cineprov riffs K. Gordon Murray’s SANTA CLAUS VS. THE DEVIL (1959) at 7:30pm! Make your way to 7 Stages for some Curious Holiday Encounters, through Dec. 9, featuring The Little Five Points Rockstar Orchestra (Xmas with the Devil) and so many more immersive artist/ensemble performances! Rock out at 529 with The Muckers and Twisty Cats! Or get down to Venkman’s for a night with Forever ’78! The Star Bar gets down with Fox Grin, Mammabear, Fantomen and Jonny & the Jumpmen! Catch a 25th Anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993) at theatres across Atlanta through Dec. 9 [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); AMC Northpoint Mall 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Phipps Plaza 14; and Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18]! Spend the night with Stephen Kellogg at City Winery! Make your way to The Earl for a night with Ben Trickey, Dang Dang Dang and Tag Team! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for Michelle Malone & The Hot Toddies Cool Yule Trio, Brian Fuller, Dylan Marlowe and Brendan Roberts! Bluegrass it up at Terminal West with Tyler Childers and T. Hardy Morris! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Kool Kat Quintron and Weather Warlock! Get jazzy with Four80East at Suite Food Lounge! Get down with The Suffers at the Tabernacle! 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! Blind Willie’s gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! 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, December 7

LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH! Help celebrate Videodrome’s 20th Anniversary with a special screening of David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME (1983) at The Plaza Theater at 9:45pm! JURASSIC QUEST invades Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center through Dec. 9! Jam out with moe. at the Buckhead Theatre! Get the blues with the Hughes Taylor Band at the Crimson Moon Café! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Sonia Leigh and Parker Millsap! Make your way to the High Museum for a night with OKCello! Madlife State & Studios delivers a night with ABBA Revisited! “Celtic Guitar God” Robin Bullock and Sue Richards get down at the Red Clay Theatre! Or get you Celtic folk fix with Celtic Thunder at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Swing by the Red Light Café for a night with Luxotica Lounge Cabaret! Bluegrass it up with Tyler Childers at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to Synchronicity Theatre for their production of A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, through Dec. 30! Rock out with Nameless Nameless (Nirvana tribute) and Stone Tribute Pilots at Venkman’s UNPLUGGED event! Northside Tavern gets the old-school blues with Albert White! Get the blues with Little G Weevil at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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, December 8

Make your way to Venkman’s for their Bottomless Mimosa Brunch featuring live bluegrass tunes with Dusty Roads! Catch a screening of Brian Henson’s THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992) at the Center for Puppetry Arts at 7pm! Have a little retro holiday cheer at Avondale Towne Cinema during The Rainmen’s Holiday Show with special guests Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers and more! Get bizarre and make your way to Sidebar for Ritual’s Burton Nightmare Bash! The Fox Theatre kicks off the holiday season with THE NUTCRACKER, through Dec. 24! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for a screening of Tim Burton’s BATMAN RETURNS (1992)! Jam out with moe. for a second night at the Buckhead Theatre! Get jazzy with Kenny Latimore at City Winery! Get down with Betsy Franck at the Crimson Moon Café! Get down to The Earl for a night with Sarah & The Safe Word, Blood on the Harp and Maggie Valley! Blues rock it up with Jacks River Band and Charlie Mars at Eddie’s Attic! Get rocked with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra at the Infinite Energy Center! The Regrettes rock out at the Masquerade! Get naught ‘n’ nerdy at the Red Light Café during The Fandom Nerdlesque’s Christmas with the Joker! Funk it up with AJ Ghent at Serenbe Inn! Get garage rocked at The Star Bar with K. Michelle Dubois, Tigers and Monkeys and DJ Full Metal Mustache! Twang on down to the Variety Playhouse for The Whiskey Gentry! Don’t shoot your eye out during screenings of Bob Clark’s A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) at theatres across Atlanta at 12pm [Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Spend the night with Anna Moon at Deep End! Tribute celebrates The Allman Brothers at the Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get sweet and lowdown with Sweet ‘n’ Salty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, December 9

The Plaza Theater unveils a very special treat with a screening of Victor Sjostrom’s THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (1921) with live accompaniment by the Fox Theatre’s organist Ken Double and the Mighty Allen Organ at 5pm! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Michael Curtiz’ WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/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); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Support our local artists and stuff your stockings with vintage goodies during Indie Craft Experience’s Holiday Market Spectacular at Yaarab Shriners at 11am! Or make your way to Battle & Brew’s Krampusnacht Holiday Market from 5-1opm! Start some new frightening holiday family traditions with Junkman’s Daughter’s Photos with Krampus event at 1pm! Get jazzy at Venkman’s during their Smooth Jazz 101.1FM Holiday Soiree! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Jon Favreau’s holiday classic ELF (2003) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or make your way to Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Marietta) screening of Chris Columbus’ holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) at 12pm! Swamp rock it up with JJ Grey at City Winery! Spend the night with Wyatt Espalin at the Crimson Moon Café! Get down with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Head on over to Terminal West for a night with JD McPherson and Eddie Angel’s Guitar Party! Prog rock it up with Steven Wilson at the Variety Playhouse! Blind Willie’s gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! 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 Aurora Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL through Dec. 22!

Boogie on down to Out Front Theatre Company for The Ethel Merman Disco Christmas Spectacular, 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 Fox Theatre kicks off the holiday season with THE NUTCRACKER, through Dec. 24!

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!

Horizon Theatre presents MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS through Dec. 30!

Synchronicity Theatre presents A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, 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.