ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Retro Atlanta 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 heat’s got you down, get off that couch, put on your dancin’ shoes and live la vida Retro!

Monday, August 8

Shake off the Monday blues with Blast-Off Burlesque’s Monday Night Games at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club! Sci-fi it up at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Michael Anderson’s classic, LOGAN’S RUN (1976), running through Aug. 11! Stomp on down to City Winery for a night with Heather Luttrell! Shimmy on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night of Cat’s Kittens Burlesque! Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Nicholas Ray’s REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955) at 10:30am! 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!”  Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Or get the blues with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! 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, August 9

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gets killer with The Coen Brothers’ MILLER’S CROSSING (1990) during its Cinema Classics Gangster Series at 7pm! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Marshall Crenshaw! Rock out with Kevn Kinney at City Winery! Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Back to School edition, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Get jazzy and shake a tail feather with Dr. Derriere and the Soggy Po’ Boys at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with Andrew Black! Rev it up with Rockabilly Kitty Rose 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! Let Kool Kat Rich Desantis honkytonk you up with his Honkytonk Extravaganza revvin’ it up every Tuesday at Bone Lick BBQ! 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, August 10

Get a fistful of Alice Cooper at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Rock out and boogie on down to 529 for a raucous night with Kool Kat Sen. Artie Mondello, Kenney & The Jets and Roadkill Debutante! The Atlanta Film Festival brings you one hellacious storm with their “Revenge of the Summer” series, screening Jan de Bont’s TWISTER (1996) at The Plaza Theater! Spend the night with Audrey Hepburn with a screening of Blake Edwards’ BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961) at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 7:30pm! Rock out with Uncle Van & the Buzzards of Fuzz, The Stir, Kool Kat Brooks Mason and The Georgia Flood and Ides of June at The Earl! Get some soul with Kool Kat Scott Glazer and his Mojo Dojo at Blind Willie’s! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Get the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! The Star Bar gets down with their Okie Dokie Karaoke, every Wednesday at 9pm! 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, August 11

Rock out with The Heaters, Black Linen, Deadly Lo-Fi and Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah at The Star Bar! Or get Rhythm & Soul with the Diamond Street Rhythm Machine downstairs in the Little Vinyl Lounge! Funk it up with Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band and Flow Tribe at Terminal West! Indie pop it up with Dressy Bessy, Chelsea Shag and The Skylarks at The Earl! Make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with Wyatt Espalin, Austin Coleman and Cody Marlowe! Bluegrass it up with the Georgia Mountain String Band, the West King String Band and Jesse Mariah at the Red Light Café! House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! Catch a free screening of John Landis’ THE THREE AMIGOS (1986) at Venkman’s at 8pm! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, August 12

Get your animation, horror, fantasy and sci-fi fix during this year’s three-day Something Wicked Film Fest, running through Aug. 14, in Lawrenceville, featuring film, panels, special guests and more! Rock out with Def Leppard, REO Speedwagon and Tesla at Lakewood Amphitheatre! Make your way to EyeDrum for the Panorama Ray Remembered Art Opening at 7pm! Get kinky with John Waters’ MULTIPLE MANIACS (1970) at The Plaza Theater, screening through Aug. 18! Get psychedelic with Frankie & The Witch Fingers and Little Rituals at 529! Get your flamenco fix with The Gipsy Kings at Chastain Park! Rev it up Russian style with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and The Russian Roulette Band and The Vaudevillians at the Red Light Café! Get down and dirty with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at Suburban Tap in Marietta! Get down with Heather Luttrell at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Make your way to The Star Bar for a night with the Woolly Bushmen, Elekibass, Bad Spell and more! Spend the night with Ruby the RabbitFoot at The Earl! Rock out with Patterson Hood at Eddie’s Attic! The Northside Tavern delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Eddie Tigner’s 90th Birthday Bash! Boogie under the dinosaurs with Lethal Rhythms at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! 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, August 13

It’s Day 2 of the Something Wicked Film Fest, and you won’t want to miss on all the sinister shenanigans, including a live recording of Kool Kat Jim Adams’ the MONSTER ATTACK PODCAST! The Wrecking Ball invades the Masquerade for two full days! Tonight’s rock ‘n’ roll platter of mischief includes L7, Drive Like Jehu, Deerhunter, The Bouncing Souls, The Joy Formidable, Juliette Lewis, Good Riddance, Femignome, Daddy Issues and more! Twang it up with Loretta Lynn at the Atlanta Botanical Garden at 8pm! Or stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Rodeo Twister, Gallows Bound and Brad Chocran! Take a trip down the yellow brick road to the Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their screening of Victor Fleming’s THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) at 3pm and 8pm! Rev it up in Cartersville for the Southern Devil H-D’s Rockabilly Rumble! The Star Bar dishes out a night of rockin’ ‘70s psyche with Kool Kat Adam McIntyre and The Pinx, The Nobility, Lucis Flux and Hot Ram! Get funky at City Winery with Here Come the Mummies! Blues it up with Ron Cooley & the Hard Times at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Sadie Hawkins presents The Men’s Room: Gentlemen, Quarterly at the Red Light Café! Sandra Hall & The Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Too Slim & The Tail Draggers at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at the Northside Tavern! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at the Wild Wing Café in Suwannee! Jam out 80s-style at Avondale Record Fair with BadAsh Allstar Team’s 80’s Jam! 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, August 14

Geek it up at the Atlanta Comic Convention at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center from 1-5pm! It’s Day 2 of The Wrecking Ball, so come on out for Quicksand, Dinosaur Jr., Burn, ExWhy and so much more! Make your way to City Winery for a night with Rickie Lee Jones! Put on your dancin’ shoes and make your way to the Crimson Moon Café because it’s Swing Dance Night! It’s Day 3 and your last chance to horror it up at the Something Wicked Film Fest! Get back to school with TCM’s Big Screen Classic screening of John Landis’ classic, NATIONAL LAMPOON’S ANIMAL HOUSE (1978) screening in theatres across the Atlanta at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), Perimeter Pointe 10; Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Blues it up with Steve “The Blues Dude” at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The People’s Blues of Richmond get down at Park Tavern! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Fox Theatre’s Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival runs through August 27! The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

Kool Kat Rich Desantis honkytonks you up with his Honkytonk Extravaganza revvin’ it up every Tuesday at Bone Lick BBQ!

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.