ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Retro Atlanta is the bee’s knees this week and is chock full of rockin’ shenanigans, classic flicks on the big screen, a whole ‘lotta of honky-tonk, blues and rock n roll! 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, February 15

Kool Kat Amy Pike with Bonaventure Quartet get smokin’ with a night of Django Reinhardt-inspired gypsy jazz at Hot Jam Swings! Spend the day with Audrey Hepburn during the Aurora Theatre’s (Lawrenceville) screening of William Wyler’s ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, Lust to Love edition, at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! 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! Fire it up with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues 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, February 16

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema delivers their “Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road” series with a screening of TOKYO-GA (1985) at 7pm, with an intro and Q&A after the screening! Glam it up at the Red Light Café with the Bad Ash Allstar Team’s David Bowie Jam! The Decatur Library screens Delbert Mann’s classic MARTY (1955) at 10am. Or make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of the Mel Brooks’ BLAZING SADDLES (1974) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Get the blues with Little G. Weevil at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or get some soul with The Hollidays at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, February 17

Get cinematic with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s BREATHLESS (1960) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! Celebrate 30 years of Howard Deutch’s ‘80s classic, PRETTY IN PINK (1986), screening at several local theatres, including AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; Georgian Stadium in Newnan and Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee) at 2pm/7pm! Honkytonk on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Billy Joe Shaver! Or get your Dread Pirate Roberts fix at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at 7pm! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Sailing to Denver! The Electromatics deliver a night of Chicago and West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Or 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! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for your last chance to catch their screening of the Mel Brooks’ BLAZING SADDLES (1974) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! 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! Get the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, February 18

The Star Bar rocks out with Kool Kat Aileen Loy with Till Someone Loses an Eye, James Leg and The Bohannons! Get old-time and twenties it up at the Red Light Café with Frank Hamilton’s Folk School, The Georgia Crackers and Jeff Mosier! Nikki Hill and The Southern Ska Syndicate dish out a night of rockin’ ska ‘n’ soul at The Earl! Or get folksy at the Fox Theatre with Patty Griffin, Sara Watkins and Anais Mitchell! Rock out with Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band at Philips Arena! Get your garage rockin’ blues fix with Patrick Sweany, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and D.C. Rail at Smith’s Olde Bar! Stomp on down to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Steve Baskin! Catch a special screening of Edward Zwick’s GLORY (1989) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:30pm! Get the rockin’ blues with The 44s at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! 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, February 19

The Fox Theatre delivers the 12th Annual Atlanta Blues Festival featuring Lattimore, Sir Charles Jones, Theodis Ealey, Calvin Richardson, Lenny Williams and Terry Wright! You don’t have to take it, but make your way to The Plaza Theater anyway for their screening of Andrew Horn’s WE ARE TWISTED F*CKING SISTER! (2014), rocking through Feb. 25! Make your way to the The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their screening of Daniel Petrie’s classic, A RAISIN IN THE SUN (1931) at 8pm! Bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café with FrazierBand, Battlefield Collective and Kristina Murray! Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam rocks out at the Variety Playhouse! Film Love Atlanta (Kool Kat Andry Diztler) presents a screening of Jean Rouch’s JAGUAR (1967) at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center at 7pm! Or get your Pink Floyd and Grateful Dead fix with Cosmic Charlie at Aisle 5! It’s a night of art rock at The Earl with Pylon Reenactment Society and Dressy Bessy! Get folksy with Eliot Bronson and Caleb Caudle at Eddie’s Attic! Funk it up with Rough Draft at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! Or make your way to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Barry Richman! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so cha-cha under the dinosaurs with the Salsambo Dance Studio while sippin’ a few cocktails! Get saucy with Francine Reed at Blind Willie’s! Get a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move” at Venkman’s! The Stoneberrys pay a rockin’ tribute to the Rolling Stones at Avondale Towne Cinema! And as a special treat, time-warp it up at The Plaza Theater’s The Rocky Horror Time-Warp Prom with Lips Down on Dixie!

Saturday, February 20

Get your Stanley Kubrick fix as SCADShow screens his classic SPARTACUS (1960) at 7pm! Get your rockin’ art fix with Kool Kat Chris Hamer’s (Urbnpop) Drawn & Disorderly event featuring Morgan Wilson (Lux Nova Studio) and live music with Madre Padre at Red Brick Brewing Co.! Make your way to The Star Bar for a night with Blood on the Harp, Ex Wives, Cold Heart Canyon and Revenge Beach! Roll on by the Yaarab Shrine Center as the Atlanta Rollergirls get revved up with a double header at 4pm! Rock out with Agent Orange, In the Whale and El Capitan and the Band With No Name at The Earl! Boogie on down to Famous Pub for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s Nightvision Music Video Dance Night! Shake a tail feather on down to the Little Vinyl Lounge for their “Twistin’ in the Lounge” event and boogie the night away as Dusty Booze dishes out the weirdest and kookiest ‘50s/’60s rock ‘n’ roll! Emory Cinematheque presents episode 1-4 of Jacques Rivette and Suzanne Schiffman’s OUT 1 (1971) at 11am! Jazz it up new age style with Yanni at the Fox Theatre! Big Head Todd & the Monsters rock out at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out blues-style with Drivin’ ‘n’ Cryin’ and Thomas Wynn & the Believers at the 120 Tavern & Music Hall! Make your way to the Northside Tavern for a night with The Cazanovas! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Jazz it up at Venkman’s with their Bottomless Mimosa Brunch with The Hot Club of Atlanta! The Sledgehammers pay tribute to Peter Gabriel at Avondale Towne Cinema! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Dixie Tavern! 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, February 21

Get funky with Mother’s Finest and Von Grey at Terminal West! TCM presents John Huston’s THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) in theatres across Atlanta [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; Georgian Stadium in Newnan and Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee) at 2pm/7pm! Emory Cinematheque presents episode 5-8 of Jacques Rivette and Suzanne Schiffman’s OUT 1 (1971) at 2pm! Or get your final Dread Pirate Roberts fix at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at 2pm! Get folksy with Malcolm Holcombe and Nine Years Apart at the Red Light Café! Get the blues with Steve “The Blues Dude” at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Actors Express murders with their presentation of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” at 8pm, killing through Feb. 28!

MacGillivey Freeman’s 2013 documentary, NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE, commemorating the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary at the Fernbank Museum’s IMAX screens through June 16!

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

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

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!

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.