ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

This Week in Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s Meow! Come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve found for you! From honkytonk hootenannies to rockin’ garage, glam ‘n’ punk, we’ve got you covered!

Monday, March 14

Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Billy Wilder’s THE APARTMENT (1960) at 10:30am! Or catch a screening of Kent Jones’ documentary, HITCHOCK/TRUFFAUT (2015) at the Lefont Theatre at 7pm! Shake a tail feather on down to the Red Light Café for the Lending Love Burlesque & Variety Show! Sean Tyrrell dishes out a night of Irish folk at Steve’s Live Music! Get to the root of it all with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! 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!” Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with The Pork Bellies! 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! 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!

Tuesday, March 15

Rock on down to the Masquerade for a night in Hell with Le Butcherettes and The Dead Ships! Get criminal and hang out with the Dark Knight at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Leslie H. Martinson’s BATMAN (1966), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Punk out hillbilly style at the Drunken Unicorn with Larry & His Flask, The Great Perhaps and Agree and The Pure Heart! It’s a night of psych-rock at Smith’s Olde Bar with Black Pussy and Frick! Folk out with Gordon Lightfoot at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Or catch a screening John Ford’s THE QUIET MAN (1952) at the Decatur Library at 10am! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Chamomile & Whiskey, The Brookses and Hill Roberts! The Whiskey Gentry and Sara Rachele get down at The Earl! Kip Winger delivers a night of experimental classical and rock at Eddie’s Attic! Fatback Deluxe gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with Little G. Weevil at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, March 16

Get cinematic with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Agnes Varda’s CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! Spider Stacy (The Pogues) and the Lost Bayou Ramblers deliver “Poguetry in Motion: The Songs of The Pogues” at Terminal West! It’s a night of garage punk and rock ‘n’ roll at 529 with Hot Wives, Quiet Hollers, Fake Image and The Marrows! Get the rockin’ blues with Roy Lee Johnson at the Variety Playhouse! “Swing into Spring” at Steve’s Live Music with the Marlatov Cocktail Swingers! The Boohoo Ramblers dish out a night of Americana at Blind Willie’s! It’s your last chance to catch Leslie H. Martinson’s BATMAN (1966) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) screens Simon Wincer’s FREE WILLY (1993) at 7pm! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Control Burn! 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! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, March 17

Get lucky in Retro Atlanta tonight! Folk it up with Joan Baez at Atlanta Symphony Hall! 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! Eighties it up at the Masquerade with their Shamrocks & Sabres III: Masquerade 80s Night Reunion! Get old-timey at The Earl with The Darnell Boys, Old Salt Union and Max & Maggie! Rock on down to The Star Bar for their St. Pat’s Day Celebration with Horror Business (Misfit’s tribute); Nevermind (Nirvana tribute); and Devomatix (Devo tribute)! ATL Collective presents U2’s “The Joshua Tree” at Venkman’s! Alex & Todd bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café! It’s a British Invasion jam with Mark Michelson & Friends at Steve’s Live Music! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for their St. Pat’s Festival with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns! 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, March 18

Get funky folk-style at Avondale Towne Cinema with The Ain’t Sisters, the Donna Hopkins Band and Gibson Wilbanks! Croon on down to Venkman’s for a night with Joe Gransden & His Big Band celebrating 100 years of Sinatra! The Imperial OPA Circus dishes out a night of ballyhoo at 7 Stages with their Grand Cabaret! Make your way to the Red Light Café for a night with Migrant Worker, the Allen Thompson Band and Lindsay Rakers! Bluegrass it up with The Infamous Stringdusters and Nikki Bluhm & The Gramblers at the Variety Playhouse! Absynthe Makes the Art Garfunkel pays tribute to Simon & Garfunkel at Steve’s Live Music! Blue sit up with Damon Fowler at Blind Willie’s! Broadway’s Liz Callaway pays tribute with “The Carole King Songbook” at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Pop on down to Marietta and The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for the Rock, Pops and More Spring Concert and Symphony on the Square! The Wayward Souls dish out a night of dark Americana at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Blues it up with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! 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! 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, March 19

The Northside Tavern gets down with their annual 2-day benefit for Frank Edwards, Chicken Raid 2016, featuring a blues-filled line-up with (Day 1) Listen Hear, Scene of the Crime, Eddie Hinton, Tony Bryant (Juke Joint Rick), the Georgia Flood, Mateo & The Wayward Souls, The Sweet Heart Beets, Chickens & Pigs, Skye Paige, Essie Mae Brooks, Lola, Eddie Tigner, Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck, Atlanta Horns, Stoney Brooks, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, Albert White, Roy Lee Johnson, Frankie Lee, Sammy Blue and more! Test your Muppet knowledge at the Center For Puppetry Arts during their Jim Henson Trivia Night at 8pm! Get some ‘60s/’70s soul with Lee Fields & The Expressions at Terminal West! The Clermonts rock out at the Red Light Café! Gypsy jazz it up with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet at Steve’s Live Music! Make your way to The Earl for a night with Small Reactions, Through the Sparks, Black Linen and Flower! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Dixie Tavern! The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27! The Star Bar delivers a night of tributes with Rumours (Fleetwood Mac), The Dirty Doors (The Doors) and Refugee (Tom Petty)! The Atlanta Rollergirls get down with their March bouts featuring today’s double header at the Yaarab Shrine Center!  Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down with their 3rd Annual Dueling Pianos event! Blues it up with Selwyn Birchwood at Blind Willie’s! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at the Dallas Pub House! 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, March 20

TCM presents their Big Screen Classics 60th Anniversary screening of Cecil B. Demille’s epic , THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956) at 2pm/7pm in theatres across Atlanta [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium (Newnan)]! It’s your last chance to get down and dirty at the Northside Tavern’s Chicken Raid 2016, with Day 2 featuring Gospel Hour, the Radio Ramblers, the Blues Dude, Mandi Strachota, Shelton Powe, The Rockaholics, Essie Mae Brooks, Nate Nelson (The Entertainment Crackers), Haley Tarkenton, Freddie Vanderford & the Millbillies, Jontavious Willis, Robert Lee Coleman, Cool John Ferguson, Swami, Uncle Sugar and more! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) screens Simon Wincer’s FREE WILLY (1993) at 2pm!

Ongoing

Take a trip to 1793 Paris and catch Lauren Gunderson’s new play, “The Revolutionists” at 7 Stages, reigning terror through March 20! (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!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 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!

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.