ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey all you fabulous retro kiddies! Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s meow this ho-ho holiday season! We’ve got cult holiday flicks to Halloween in December to a whole ‘lotta honky-tonk, blues and rock n roll! If you’re lookin’ for a thrill, get off that couch, put on your dancin’ shoes and live la vida Retro!

Monday, November 30

Get possessed with a gargantuan love of art at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s screening of Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s documentary, PEGGY GUGGENHEIMM: ART ADDICT (2015) [see our Retro Review here]! Put on your dancin’ shoes and make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Gene Kelly’s SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) at 10:30am! The Plaza Theater screens Brian De Palma’s SCARFACE (1983) and Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984), running through Dec. 3! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! 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 taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, December 1

Get your rock ‘n’ soul fix at The Earl with the Seratones and The Marrows! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema dishes out classic cinema with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic, VERTIGO (1958), screening in 35mm at 7pm! Rock out with We Were Promised Jet Packs at the Masquerade! Don’t shoot your eye out at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Bob Clark’s A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! TCM Presents their second screening of William Wyles’ classic, ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) in theatres across the Atlanta area at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; GTC Merchant’s Walk Stadium 12 in Marietta; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Punk on down to 529 for a night with Shocked Minds, Paint Fumes, Vacation and Bad Spell! Make your way to the Charles D. Switzer Public Library for their screening of Anthony Mann’s THE FAR COUNTRY (1955) at 12pm! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! 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, December 2

Get cosmic with a night of krautrock at the Masquerade with Nik Turner’s Hawkwind and Hedersleben! Get funky with the Lightning Orchestra Band at Aisle 5! Rock out with Song Missing Presents: Bohemiatlantan Rhapsody at the Village Theatre with performances based on the songs of Queen! Boogie on down to East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, held the first Wednesday of every month, promising an evening of swingin’ jazz and jive with the Savoy Kings! Get hellacious at The Plaza Theater with Kool Kat Ricky Hess’ award-winning web series, HORROR HOTEL’s Season 2 premiere! Get a second helping of Bob Clark’s A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) screening at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with the Martin Barre Band! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! 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, December 3

Croon on down to Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Michael Feinstein and his Sinatra Centennial Celebration with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra! Get weird this holiday season with RiffTrax Live 2015’s presentation of Barry Mahon’s SANTA & THE ICE CREAM BUNNY (1972) at theatres across Atlanta [Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; GTC Merchant’s Walk Stadium 12 in Marietta; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Rock out at The Earl with Starbenders, The Tip and Rad-Isaurus Rex! Get classically retro at the Shakespeare Tavern with their presentation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” running through Dec. 23! Funk it up with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Make your way to Suite Food Lounge for a night with Ken Ford and Karen Briggs! Rock out blues-style with The John Kadlecik Band (Dark Star Orchestra) at the Variety Playhouse! Bluegrass it up with Old Sea Brigade, Wyldernesse and Muleskinner MacQueen at the Red Light Café! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, December 4

The Red Light Café dishes out a weekend of indie rock ‘n’ pop with the International Pop Overthrow (IPO), running through Dec. 6! Rock on down for Day 1 with Scarlett Hill; Pelicans & Their Allies; Bruce Joyner & Atomic Clock; Paul Melancon & the New Insecurities; Kenny Howes & The Wow!; and The Shut-Ups! Surf into the holiday season with Nick Lowe’s Quality Holiday Revue and Los Straitjackets at the Variety Playhouse! Or make your way to Famous Pub for Ritual’s 3rd Annual Nightmare Before Christmas Party! Walk like a camel on down to The Star Bar for a night with Southern Culture on the Skids and The Woolly Bushmen! Rock on down to Stagga Lee’s Goodtime Emporium for Hermon Hitson’s Annual Jimi Hendrix Birthday Tribute! Get witchy and catch a broom down to Diesel Filling Station for the Hogwartz Pub Crawl! Get old-timey and folk it up at The Earl with The Deslondes, Cicada Rhythm and Pat Reedy & the Longtime Goners! Kool Kats The District Attorneys play their farewell show at Smith’s Olde Bar with Blue Blood and Tedo Stone! Rock out roots-style with Donna Hopkins and Ralph Roddenberry at the Crimson Moon Café! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for a screening of Henry Koster’s THE BISHOP’S WIFE (1947), running through Dec. 10! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire it up at Joey’s Bar & Grille in Douglasville! Groove on down to Aisle 5 for a night with Voodoo Visionary and Johnny Awesome! Rock out with The Spirit of Rush at Steve’s Live Music! Get funky under the dinosaurs with Lethal Rhythms at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Blues it up with Sweet & Salty at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! And as always, time-warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens 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 5

Rock out to Day 2 of the International Pop Overthrow (IPO) at the Red Light Café with Lloyd Rieves; Steve Baskin; Brent Daniel; Murray Attaway & Lee Flier; The Real Hooks; Dot 22; and The Sunset District! Or rock out holiday-style with the Brian Setzer Orchestra at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Wreck the halls during The L5P Annual Krampus Krawl with the Black Sheep Ensemble at 8pm! Or spend A Victorian Holiday at the Oakland Cemetery from 12-4pm, with carols, a reading of “The Night Before Christmas”, hot cocoa and more! Celebrate Gumby’s 60th Anniversary with an evening of your favorite episodes at The Center for Puppetry Arts, curated by Joe Clokey (son of Gumby creator, Art Clokey)! Stomp on down to the Variety Playhouse for the 7th Annual Y’all Tide Celebration with Have Gun, Will Travel; Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers; and The Whiskey Gentry! Get retro at Vintage Soiree’s “Duds for a Dollar” vintage clothing pop-up, from 11am-6pm! Get some funky soul at Aisle 5 with The Congress and The Jauntee! Skate on down to DooGallery for their 11th Annual Deck the Walls skate deck art show at 9pm! Funk it up with Cadillac Jones, Secondhand Swagger and Straw Polly at The Earl! Rock out folk-style with Michelle Malone at the Crimson Moon Café! Blues it up with Little G. Weevil at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Stomp on down to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Heather Luttrell! 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, December 6

Day 3 (and your last chance) of the International Pop Overthrow (IPO) rocks out with COLORadio; Misery Loves Chachi; Orange Hat; The Joe & Joe Show; What The…?; and The Soogs at the Red Light Café! ATL Collective presents Burl Ives’ “Have a Holly Jolly Christmas” at The Art Farm at Serenbe! Folk it up with Al Stewart at Terminal West! Make your way to Steve’s Live Music for their Holiday DivaPalooza! Boomers Gone Wild gets down at the Crimson Moon Café at 7pm! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Shakespeare Tavern presents Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” through Dec. 23!

The Alliance Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol”, running through Dec. 24!

Center for Puppetry Arts presents their annual puppet adaptation of Larry Roemer’s holiday classic RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964), sleighing through Dec. 27!

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.