ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey retro-lovin’ kiddies, it’s that time of year again! The big jolly fella may be spying to see if you’re naughty or nice, so show ‘em how good (or bad, we don’t mind!) you are by checking what ATLRetro has in store for you! It’s a week of holiday cheer, retro-style, so whether you’re hankerin’ for a good classic flick or are needing to get your retro rockin’ fix, come see what we’ve found for you! 

Monday, December 24

It’s your last chance to get down to the Fox Theatre’s special holiday treat, THE NUTCRACKER! Or catch the Alliance Theatre’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Cobb Energy Centre! 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! Make your way to Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Movie Tavern at Horizon Village (Suwannee) and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse (Sandy Springs) for a screening of Frank Capra’s classic, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! 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 25

We hope you have a rockin’ retro Christmas this year! For those of you wondering, ATLRetro is alive and hopping, so come on out and see what the jolly old fella has up his big red sleeve! Surf on down to The Earl for a night with Small Reactions, Warm Red and Low Valley Hearts! Get brutal and spend Christmas at The Highlander! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega! 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! 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 26

Catch a “non-ELF” holiday double feature with Risa Bramon Garcia’s 200 CIGARETTES (1999) and Kriv Stenders’ BOXING DAY (2007) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Or make your way to Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) screening of Bob Clark’s A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) at 7:15pm! Spend the night with Reverend Hylton and Americana it up at Eddie’s Attic! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! 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! Get down with Clark Ashton at Blind Willie’s! 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 27

Spend the night Beer & Lounging at the Clermont Lounge with The Buzzards of Fuzz, the Reverends and The Mystery Men?! Or make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with David Ryan Harris! Or get rocked at The Highlander with DJ Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! Rock on down to Madlife Stage & Studios for a night with Red Zeppelin! Funk it up New Orleans-style with the Wasted Potential Brass Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get angsty with the Dround Hounds at The Star Bar! Jazz it up with Chandra Currelley at Suite Food Lounge! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! 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! 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, December 28

Catch a screening of Rob Reiner’s WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (1989) at the The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Stomp down to City Winery for a night with Donna the Buffalo and Western Centuries! Get folksy with Ralph Roddenberry at the Crimson Moon Café! Smithsonian pays tribute to The Smiths at The Earl with JesusHoney! Rock out in Hell with Thunderstruck at the Masquerade! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café as the Queerly Beloved Revue presents Everything Queer for the New Year! Get down with Doom Flamingo at the Variety Playhouse! Folk rock it up at the Buckhead Theatre with Corey Smith and Levi Hummon! Jam out at the Tabernacle with Umphrey’s McGee! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! Get your oldies fix with The Way Back Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Northside Tavern gets down with Rib Shack Lady and the Atlanta Horns! Blues it up with George Hughley & 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 29

It’s tribute night at Smith’s Olde Bar so rock out with Jerome Newton & The Band Who Fell to Earth (David Bowie) and Lobsters of Rock (The B-52s)! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at The Alamo in Newnan! Get some soul with Anthony David at City Winery! Spend the night with Pat McGee and Callista Clark at Eddie’s Attic! Departure pays tribute to Journey at Madlife Stage & Studios! Or catch a Simon & Garfunkel tribute at Red Light Café with Absynthe Makes the Art Garfunkel! Jam out at the Tabernacle with Umphrey’s McGee! Dynagroove gets down at Tin Roof Cantina! Get down with Widespread Panic at the Fox Theatre! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! Folk rock it up at the Buckhead Theatre with Corey Smith and Levi Hummon! Get the blues with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Northside Tavern gets down with Rib Shack Lady and the Atlanta Horns!  St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Get down and dirty with Big Bill Morganfield at Blind Willie’s! 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 30

Garage rock it up with The Coathangers and Omni at The Earl! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for The Candybox Revue’s Burlesque Karaoke: New Year’s Eve Edition featuring Kool Kat Ursula Undress and more! You won’t want to miss the Center for Puppetry Arts’ final presentation of a holiday favorite classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER! Or make your way to the Horizon Theatre’s WAFFLE PALACE CHRISTMAS, or the Horizon Theatre’s presentation of MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS or the Synchronicity Theatre’s A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD! Get down with Widespread Panic at the Fox Theatre! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of John McTiernan’s DIE HARD (1988)! Get some soul with Anthony David at City Winery! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! Get the rockin’ blues with the Devon Allman Project and Duane Betts at the Buckhead Theatre! Get down with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam out at the Tabernacle with Umphrey’s McGee! Funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get the blues with The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

The Fox Theatre kicks off the holiday season with THE NUTCRACKER, through Dec. 24! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Alliance Theatre presents A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Cobb Energy Centre through Dec. 24! (LAST CHANCE!)

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

Horizon Theatre stages world premiere of WAFFLE PALACE CHRISTMAS, through Dec. 30! (LAST CHANCE!)

Horizon Theatre presents MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS through Dec. 30! (LAST CHANCE!)

Synchronicity Theatre presents A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, through Dec. 30! (LAST CHANCE!)

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.