ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Atlanta is a rockin’ inferno of all things Retro this week! Come on out and see what we’ve found for you! We’ve got whatever your little vintage heart desires! So, Don’t be square, get out and get Retro!

Monday, February 22

Catch a screening of Robert Mulligan’s TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) at the Alpharetta Library! 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 at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! 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!’ Get some roots ‘n’ soul with Brandon Reeves 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 23

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema delivers their “Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road” series with a screening of PARIS, TEXAS (1984) at 7pm, with an intro and Q&A after the screening! Get folksy at the Red Light Café with Traveling Broke & Out of Gas, Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and The Boy Jones! Get ‘yer old time country fix with Jimmy Webb at Eddie’s Attic! Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL every last Tuesday of the month! Fatback Deluxe gets the blues 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 24

Get cinematic with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s MADE IN THE USA (1966) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! Catch a special screening of Edward Zwick’s GLORY (1989) at Cinefest, screening through Feb. 26! 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! Or make your way to the Decatur Library for their screening of Lasse Hallstrom’s CHOCOLAT (2000) at 6pm! “Swing into Spring” at Steve’s Live Music with the Marlatov Cocktail Swingers! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up folk-style with Peter Case at Eddie’s Attic! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with City Mouse! 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! 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 25

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents “The Frankenstein Symphony” featuring music from Mark Grey’s full-length opera, based on Mary Shelley’s novel at 8pm! The Star Bar rocks out with Shocked Minds, Bad Spell and Invasion! Get funky New Orleans-style with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! Party with the Past at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, once home to Charles Candler, and enjoy an evening of free history and cold beer at 6:30pm! Get smooth and rock on down to Venkman’s for a night with Yacht Rock Schooner! Get the rockin’ blues with Heather Luttrell at Blind Willie’s! 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 26

For those who prefer alternate history to reality and Victorian-era lifestyles and fantasy, travel back in time to the Weird Wild West-Themed AnachroCon 2016, a 3-day event celebrating historical reenactments, Steampunk, science-fiction, classic horror, literature, fashion and a cornucopia of indulgences! So, catch a train and head on over to the Atlanta Marriott Century Center, where you’ll catch informative panels discussing Steampunk as Victorian science-fiction, time travel, Gothic literature, vintage tales of terror (Lovecraft, Poe, Stoker), ghost stories and the classic monster flicks of Universal and Hammer and a vendors room chock full of goodies, including our pals at Horror in Clay (see our Shop Around feature here)! Steampunk it up at the Red Light Café during DJ Doctor Q’s ElectroSwing Atlanta KURIOS Salon at 8pm with Kool Kat Talloolah Love headlining!

Make your way to the Rialto Center for the Arts for their Johnny Mercer Celebration featuring Joe Gransden, Kathleen Bertrand and Marilyn Maye at 8pm! Eighties it up at Famous Pub during Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s PRETTY IN PINK: Atlanta’s Only 80s Music Video Dance Night! The Plaza Theater screens Mark Robson’s EARTHQUAKE! (1974)! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Motorheads! Rock out at The Star Bar during their tribute to Weezer featuring el scorcho, EL CHEAPO and Hyper Space! Get some soul with Gareth Asher & the Earthlings at Park Tavern! Shimmy on down and get your circus shenanigan fix at 7 Stages with The Imperial OPA’s Grand Cabaret & Variety Show! Or make your way to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Red Head Diamond! Get funky under the dinosaurs with The Mar-Tans at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Blues it up with the Nighthawks at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Harper & Midwest Kind deliver a night of Australian roots and blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Saved By the Band gets down at Venkman’s! The Natti Love Joys pay tribute to Bob Marley at the Crimson Moon Café! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!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, February 27

It’s day 2 of AnachroCon 2016, dishing out anything and everything Victorian, steampunk, the Weird Wild West and more! Shake a tail feather on down to The Star Bar for a night of ‘50s/’60s rock ‘n’ roll with Roxie Roz’ Burly Q Burlesque Show, featuring Candi LeCoeur, Kitty Capone, Mary Strawberry (see our Kool Kat interview soon!), Sadie Hawkins and music with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! Make your way to the EQ Nightclub for an homage to “The Art of HC. Warner”! Rock on down to the Fox Theatre for Experience Hendrix! Goth on down to the Famous Pub for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s COFFIN CLASSICs Goth and dark ‘80s music video night! Kurt Vile & the Violators rock out folk-style at the Variety Playhouse! The Rainmen deliver their Beatles Pepperland Benefit Jam at the Red Light Café! Put on those dancin’ shoes and get ready for a night of retro rock, Motown, funk, Big Band and more at The Basement for Electric Western’s Keep on Movin’ Rock and Soul Dance Party! Blues it up with Nick Nixon at Blind Willie’s! Marty Manous dishes out a night of rockin’ Brit blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Get folksy with Livingstone Taylor at Eddie’s Attic! Rumours pays tribute to Fleetwood Mac at Venkman’s! Rock out with Tribute at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with The Way Back Band! 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 28

Step right up folks! It’s day 3 and your last chance to experience the Victorian life and alternate history at AnachroCon 2016! Get the garage rockin’ blues with Low Cut Connie and Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah at The Earl! Booker T. Jones dishes out a night of soul and rock ‘n’ roll at Eddie’s Attic with two shows! Make your way to the High Museum for their Basquait – The Unknown Notebooks exhibit, running through May 29! 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! (LAST CHANCE!)

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.