ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

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Monday, April 4

Shimmy on down to Firefly Studio in Decatur for a night of Burly-Q shenanigans with the Atlanta School of Burlesque! Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library and catch a screening of Michael Curtiz’ CASABLANCA (1942) at 10:30am! Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! 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! The first Monday of every month is Vinyl Night at the Red Light Café, so come on out and make it funky! 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!

Tuesday, April 5

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gets bizarre and continues off their “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” film series with a screening of Peter Greenaway’s THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER (1990) at 7pm! Catch a screening of Joe Grant and Dick Heumer’s FANTASIA (1940) at the Stonecrest Library in Lithonia! Burly-Q it up with a night of Twirly Whirly Burly-Q dishin’ out a night of old New York at the Red Light Café, with special guest Sadie Hawkins! Rock out with Ace Frehley at the Variety Playhouse! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! Mandi Strachota gets the blues 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, April 6

Get cinematic and time travel with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Eric Rohmer’ LE RAYON VERT (1986) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! Rock out ‘70s Brit blues style with Robin Trower and Josh Taerk at the Variety Playhouse! Get folksy with Driftwood at Eddie’s Attic! 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! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Get the blues with Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with La Terza Classe! 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, April 7

Make your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts as the 40th Annual Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF) presents the Puppetry Shorts Block and reception, including entry into the Worlds of Puppets Museum featuring the Jim Henson Collection at 7pm! Experience some “fiercely independent” short films at SCADShow’s presentation of the Black Maria Film Festival! Boogie with Prince at the Fox Theatre during his “Piano and A Microphone” tour! Get to the root of it all with Dangermuffin at the Red Light Café! Get funky with Secondhand Swagger at Venkman’s! Yesterday and Today: The Interactive Beatles Experience invades The Georgia Ensemble Theatre through April 24! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva night of surf rock and rockabilly and tasty cocktails! Sweet Betty & The Shadows get down and dirty 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! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, April 8

Rev on down to The Star Bar for a night of rockin’ ‘billy shenanigans with The Blacktop Rockets during their CD release party (catch our Kool Kat article soon) with Rodeo Twister! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with They Might Be Giants! Hey you guys! SCADShow eighties it up with a screening of Richard Donner’s THE GOONIES (1985) at 3pm! Or hang out with the Goblin King as the Center for Puppetry Arts presents Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986) at 7pm! Blues it up with The Breeze Kings and Bonemeal Baker at Avondale Towne Cinema! Celebrate 77 years of Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at the Northside Tavern! Electric Avenue dishes out an ‘80s MTV Bowie experience at Park Tavern! Get funky with the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra at the Elliott Street Pub! The Tannahill Weavers deliver a night of traditional Scottish tunes at the Red Light Café! Blues it up with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get funky and rock out at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with The Georgia Flood! 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, April 9

Surf on down to Kavarna for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp! featuring King Pelican, Drop Dead Nasty and Genki Genki Panic! Or get rocked revival-style at The Star Bar with Tiger! Tiger!, The Woolly Bushmen and Deadly lo-fi! It’s a night of old-time jazz ‘n’ ragtime at Terminal West with Pokey Lafarge and The Cactus Blossoms! Get old-time and hell-bent at the Masquerade with Stevie Tombstone, Ralph White and I Want Whisky! Folk it up with Kool Kat Mary Fahl at the Red Clay Theatre! Kool Kats The Casket Creatures dish out a time warp blood bath at Mule Camp Tavern! The Highlander will be throwing one helluva 24th Anniversary Party! Get another chance to hang out with the Goblin King as the Center for Puppetry Arts presents Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986) at 4:30/7pm! Departure pays tribute to Journey at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Get some soul with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Roy Lee Johnson gets the blues at the Northside 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, April 10

Catch the 40th Annual ATLFF’s 30th Anniversary screening of Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986) at The Plaza Theater at 12:30pm! Or you’re your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts for their screening at 5pm! Rock out with the Melvins, Napalm Death and Melt Banana at the Masquerade! Gypsy jazz it up with Django Earnhardt at Venkman’s! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Charming Disaster and Joe McGuinness! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The 40th Annual Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF), runs through April 10! (LAST CHANCE!)

Yesterday and Today: The Interactive Beatles Experience invades The Georgia Ensemble Theatre through April 24!

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.