ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey all you Retro kiddies and blood-lusting miscreants! Get out and get spooked this week as Retro Atlanta gets gory, gussied up and ghostly in celebration of the most haunted and eerie time of the year! Retro Atlanta has everything your wicked little black heart could ever desire, from rockin’ tunes to nightmare-inducing flicks to horrifically exciting Halloween parties you won’t want to miss! So, come on out and haunt with the rest of us!

Monday, October 26

Start your week with a classic with LeFont Theatre’s screening of Orson Welles’ CITIZEN KANE (1941) at 7pm! Or make your way to The Plaza Theater for their killer screening of Gerald Kargl’s ANGST (1983), running through Oct. 29! Rock on down to Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Chris Cornell (Soundgarden)! Blind Willie’s delivers the blues with Fatback Deluxe! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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!’ Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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, October 27

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gets really retro and screens Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s THE RED SHOES (1948), during their “Midtown Cinema Classics” weekly event, at 7pm! Or get beastly and make your way to the Chamblee Library for a screening of Don Taylor’s film adaptation of H. G. Wells’ THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (1977) at 1pm. Rock out with heavy cello at The Earl with Rasputina! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! Celebrate the Atlanta Chamber Players’ 40th Anniversary Season at the Shakespeare Tavern! Cody Matlock delivers the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Bluegrass it up with the Elie Cohen Quartet at Steve’s Live Music! Or take a soulful trip down the yellow brick road to the Charles D. Switzer Library for their screening of Sidney Lumet’s THE WIZ (1978) at 12pm! Get your Steam Punk/neo-classical fix with Fable Cry, The Extraordinary Contraptions and Sarah and the Safe Word at Red Light Café! Get the blues with Cadillac Assembly at Blind Willie’s! Or get the blues with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a night of trivia and corndogs at Pallookaville, with their “Trivial Matters” event! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, October 28

Get old-timey and rock out at The Earl with Rrest, Book Club, Kool Kat Caleb & the Gents, Ben Trickey, Sydney Eloise & the Palms, Ian Fisher and The Quaildogs! TCM Presents a diabolical double feature with the English and Spanish versions of Tod Browning’s DRACULA (1931) at theatres across town at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; GTC Merchant’s Walk Stadium 12 in Marietta; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! The 9th Annual Atlanta Horror Film Festival kicks off at DooGallery featuring 70 independent horror films from across the world, and runs through Oct. 30! Catch a 50th Anniversary screening of George Cukor’s MY FAIR LADY (1964) at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema at 7pm! Babes in Toyland rock out at the Masquerade! Get satirical and make your way to The Plaza Theater for their screening of Mel Brooks’ classic, SPACEBALLS (1987), running through Nov. 6! Get the blues with the Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! Rory Block delivers a night of country blues at Red Light Café! Get your rhythm ‘n’ soul and rock ‘n’ roll fix with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Rock on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ 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 29

Rock out ‘70s post-punk style with Jowe Head (Swell Maps), Cole Alexander (Black Lips), Omni and Flight Mode USA at Eyedrum! Make your way to The Earl for a night with The Lonely Biscuits, Flower and Kaleigh Baker! Get haunted in Atlanta this week with screenings across town of John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN (1978) at 7:30pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Rock out with Black Linen at The Star Bar! Get old-timey with The Law Band, The Darnell Boys and Marshall Seese at Smith’s Olde Bar! Vinyl delivers a night of roots and Americana with Bronze Radio Return and The Roosevelts! Funk it up with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get jazzy with Ronnie Laws and Tom Browne at Suite Food Lounge! Bluegrass it up with Earth by Train and 22 Kings at the Red Light Café! Maria Muldaur dishes out a night of folk ‘n’ blues at Blind Willie’s! Blues Rendezvous gets the rockin’ blues at Steve’s Live Music! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva island party with The Mystery Men? and Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And get gothic at Mary’s during their Goth Nite Dance Party!

Friday, October 30

Spooky shenanigans ensue as Retro Atlanta kicks off Halloween weekend! ATL Collective raises the dead with their performance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” at Vinyl! Go, go Godzilla on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with the Blue Oyster Cult! Rock out retro-style with The B-52s during their “Halloween Scream” show at the Fox Theatre! Ghosts invade Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their 30th Anniversary screening of Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) at 7pm/9:30pm! Get hairy and hula on down to Trader Vic’s for their Werewolves of London & Pina Colada event! Or rattle your bones during Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX’s Fright Night Halloween Party, dripping with devilish drinks, costume contests and more! It’s Hell Night at The Star Bar, so come on down and rock out with BigFoot, Timmy James & the Blue Flames and Night Terrors! The Earl gets monstrously metal with their Halloween party featuring Wolf Eyes, Timmy’s Organism, Video and Uniform! Get ghastly and groove on down to Mary’s for their Hallo-Weenie Dance Party! UnionEAV hosts DooGallery’s Day of the Dead Art Show, featuring 20+ artists and life music with the Clibber Jones Ensemble, Misery Loves Chachi and more! Smith’s Olde Bar terrifies with their Howl ‘o’ Ween rockin’ tribute night featuring The Cherry Bomb (Joan Jett); Learning to Count (Ramones); and TNT (AC/DC)! Spook on down to Callanwolde Fine Arts Center for their “Halloween Night on Callanwolde Mountain” family-friendly party featuring trick-or-treating, live music with the Callanwolde Concert Band featuring Matthew Kaminski, costume contests and more! Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2015 Ghost Tours, spooking through Oct. 31! Tiptoe through the graves, make a few new spirited friends and hear the hallowed tales of some of their eternal residents! Atlantic Station screens Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) during their “Spooky Film Fest” at dusk! Catch Victor and Edward Halperin’s monstrous classic, WHITE ZOMBIE (1932) at The Plaza Theater! Stick around and Time-Warp it up with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975), featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight, with special Halloween treats! Or celebrate 40 years with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Jim Sharman’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at AMC Phipps Plaza at 10pm!

Stomp on down to Grocery on Home for a night with Julia Haltigan! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Jazz it up with Elgin Wells at the Crimson Moon Café! Or blues it up with Tinsley Ellis at the Red Clay Theatre! Honkytonk on down to Terminal West for Whitey Morgan & the 78s! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles rev it up at Motorheads in McDonough! Folk it up with Shawn Phillips at Red Light Café! Steve’s Live Music gets the blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins! Or blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Travel back to 1910 Atlanta at the Alliance Theatre for their presentation of Pearl Cleage’s TELL ME MY DREAM, running every weekend through Nov. 8! And hear your favorite ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s favorites with the Way Back Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Saturday, October 31

IT IS FINALLY HERE! Get mischievous all you miscreants, spooks and ghouls! Pull out your ghastly costumes and get spooky and see what gory galas Retro Atlanta has in store for you! Get creepy and murderous at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with their screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s horror masterpiece, PSYCHO (1960) at 8pm! It’s a night of gothic chills at Atlanta Symphony Hall as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra delivers a night of Danny Elfman’s music from the films of Tim Burton at 8pm! Do the Monster Mash with DJ Evil Jet at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s Annual Halloween Bash! Denim Arcade (Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch) delivers a rockin’ ‘80s Halloween show at the Dallas Public House! The Arts Exchange spooks it up with their Halloween 2015 party! ATL Collective raises the dead with their second performance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” at Vinyl! Get psychotic and psychedelic at the Red Light Café with their Night of the Dead Halloween Party featuring gr8FLdude and Dead Affect! Make your way to My Parent’s Basement in Avondale Estates for their Halloween Comic Fest at 11am! Hop across the pond to Steve’s Live Music for a spooky night with The Lizardmen and Devomatix (Devo tribute)! Or party it up in Virginia Highlands with their Halloween Night in the Highlands event featuring costume constests and more! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns deliver their annual Halloween Bamboo Au Go Go Party with The Reverend & the Lady and Yoshito Kiyono at the Northside Tavern! Get your horror punk fix at The Star Bar with their 24th Anniversary Party & Halloween Bash featuring Horror Business, Pretty Vacant, Salad Days, Road to Ruin and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures! Pallookaville celebrates Halloween and two years of slingin’ corn dogs with their Ice Scream Ball & Halloweiener! The Basement dishes out forty thousand years of funk with their Keep on Movin’ Halloween Dance Party! It’s a night of Scary-oke! and costume contests at Mary’s Halloween night shindig! Jam it up with Honeywood during their Halloween show at the Crimson Moon Café! Smith’s Olde Bar rocks out for Halloween with Kool Kats Blackfoot Gypsies and a rockin’ Bowie tribute, PINUPS! Groove on down to the The Music Room for the Dangerfeel Newbies’ Soul of Jazz Halloween Jam! It’s “Hawgtoberfest” at Hottie Hawgs BBQ with Swami! Sci-fi it up during the Atlanta Sci-Fi Film Festival presented by The Multi-Cultural Sci-Fi Organization at the Fulton County Aviation Community Cultural Center from 1pm to 9pm! Get another chance to celebrate 40 years with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Jim Sharman’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at AMC Phipps Plaza at 10pm! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, November 1

Get your Rodgers & Hammerstein fix at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) with their 60th Anniversary screening of Fred Zinnemann’s classic, OKLAHOMA (1955) at 2pm/7pm! Jazz it up with Emile Worthy at Steve’s Live Music! Or get sinfully sultry at the Masquerade with the Suicide Girls’ Blackheart Burlesque! Get the Dixie blues with Seminole Jackson at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

“The Ghastly Dreadfuls: Raising Spirits” spooks at the Center for Puppetry Arts, through Oct. 31! (LAST CHANCE!)

Chambers of Horror Haunted House terrifies with their adults-only gore-fest and blood-splattering through Nov. 1! (LAST CHANCE!)

Netherworld Haunted House haunts every weekend through Nov. 1! (LAST CHANCE!)

Be the Headless Horseman’s next victim at Serenbe Playhouse’s chilling presentation of THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, haunting through Nov. 1! (LAST CHANCE!)

Travel back to 1910 Atlanta at the Alliance Theatre with their presentation of Pearl Cleage’s TELL ME MY DREAM, running every weekend through Nov. 8!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, every Tuesday!

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!

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.