ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Shake a tail feather in ATLRetro This Week and come see what we’ve dug up for you!

Monday, February 26

Get the old school blues with Rudy Currence at Eddie’s Attic! Atlanta musicians pay tribute to Jeff Porcaro at The Vista Room! Folk it up with Gordon Lightfoot at Atlanta Symphony Hall! 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!”  Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! 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 27

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema presents a special screening of Stanley Kubrick’s BARRY LYNDON (1977) at 7pm! Clown it up with Tape Face at Center Stage! Get saxy with Mindi Abair & The Boneshakers at City Winery! Spend the night with John Oates & The Good Road Band at Eddie’s Attic! Reggae rock it up with The Expendables, Through the Roots and more at the Masquerade! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, February 28

Avant-garde it up with Benjamin Clementine at the Variety Playhouse! The Star Bar brings you their Candle-Lit Wednesday featuring Smyth & Jones (The Locksmyth), Book Club and Blake Rainey! Get rootsy with Caroline Aiken at The Vista Room! The Barack & Michelle Obama Academy presents The Black History Museum at 6pm! Catch a screening of David Leland’s music documentary CONCERT FOR GEORGE (2003) at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema at 7pm! Or join the manhunt and catch a screening of Henry Hathaway’s TRUE GRIT (1969) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm!  Emory Cinematheque continues their “Black Lives on the Small Screen” series with a screening of Ava DuVernay’s documentary, 13th (2016) at 7:30pm! Universal Pictures Presents a screening of Jim Henson/Frank Oz’ THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal Mall of Georgia 20 Plus Imax (Buford); AMC Dine-In North Point Mall 12 (Alpharetta); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Spend the night with John Oates & The Good Road Band at Eddie’s Attic! Get your Americana fix with The Way Down Wanderers, The Barefoot Movement and Andy May at the Red Clay Theatre! Psyche rock it up with Noah Gallagher’s High Flying Birds at the Tabernacle! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Catch a screening of Michael Curtiz’ CASABLANCA (1942) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7pm during their SMG Classic Romance series! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Or blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up a night of acoustic 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 1

David J (Bauhaus/Love and Rockets) gets intimate with an acoustic set at Little Tree Art Studios with The Hot Place and James Hall! A night of hilarity invades The Plaza Theater as Cineprov screens/riffs Max Kleven’s BAIL OUT (1989), doors at 7:15pm! The Cadillac Three dish out a night of Southern Rock at the Buckhead Theatre! Get some soul with Jeff Bradshaw & Friends, featuring Algebra Blessett and Glenn Lewis at City Winery! Spend the night with the Julian Lage Trio at The Earl! Get countrified with Corb Lund at Eddie’s Attic! Rumours pay tribute to Fleetwood Mac at MadLife Stage & Studios in Woodstock! Metal core it up with Norma Jean, Greyhaven and more at the Masquerade! Get folksy with Brett Dennen and Dean Lewis at Terminal West! Rock out with Kevn Kinney at Venkman’s! The Band Benefield rocks out at the Clermont Lounge! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get swanky with Bogey & The Viceroy and some killer island cocktails! 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, March 2

The BadAsh Allstar Team celebrates 34 years of THIS IS SPINAL TAP and A MIGHTY WIND with a rockin’ Jam at Avondale Towne Cinema! Catch a screening of Masaaki Yuasa’s cult classic MIND GAME (2004) at The Plaza Theater at 7:20pm! Emory Arts presents a screening of Franchot Tone and John Goetz’ film adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s classic UNCLE VANYA (1958) at 6pm in White Hall 208! Make your way to the Buckhead Theatre for a night with Yacht Rock Revue! Get the blues with Tab Benoit’s Whiskey Bayou Records Revue at City Winery! Bluegrass it up with Circus No. 9 at the Crimson Moon Café! Spend the night with Stephen Kellogg at Eddie’s Attic! Bluegrass it up with Railroad Earth and Roosevelt Collier at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out at The Star Bar with Gas Hound, The Stir, The Fill-Ins and Bleach Garden! Get old-timey with The VaudeVillains at Kavarna! Get down with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at the Northside Tavern! Get down with The Rockaholics  at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Time-Warp it up 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 3

The Center for Puppetry Arts brings you “The Women of the Muppets” featuring Sonia Manzano (“Maria”/Sesame Street), Bonnie Erickson (designer/builder of Miss Piggy) and Fran Brill (first female puppeteer hired for Sesame Street)! Geek it up during the Atlanta Sci-Fi & Fantasy Expo at North Dekalb Mall, fulfilling your sci-fi fantasies through March 4! Get down to Atlantic Station for the Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival featuring live tunes by Trial By Fire (tribute to Journey), Slippery When Wet (tribute to Bon Jovi) and more! Universal Pictures Presents a screening of Jim Henson/Frank Oz’ THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal Mall of Georgia 20 Plus Imax (Buford); AMC Dine-In North Point Mall 12 (Alpharetta); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! The Dixie Dregs rock out at Center Stage! Folk it up with Over the Rhine at City Winery! Stomp on down to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with Roxie Watson! Rock out with The Band of Heathens at Eddie’s Attic! Railroad Earth and Roosevelt Collier deliver a bluegrassy encore at the Variety Playhouse! Rev it up at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with the Kentucky Head Hunters and The Side Burners! Catch an encore screening of Masaaki Yuasa’s cult classic MIND GAME (2004) at The Plaza Theater at 1pm! Folk rock it up with The Mulligan Brothers and Korby Lenker at the Red Clay Theatre! Latin Pop it up with Ricardo Montaner at The Roxy! Funk it up with the Wasted Potential Brass Band and Ross Pead at the Northside Tavern! Get the Dixie blues with Seminole Jackson at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, March 4

Rev it up at Park Tavern for the 3rd Annual Americana in the Park Festival featuring a rockin’ lineup with Kitty Rose & The Rattlers, Jackson County Line, Russ Still & The Moonshiners and Captain Trips & The Sunstroke Serenaders! Rock out with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Katy Guillen & The Girls and Grinder Nova at Smith’s Olde Bar! Croon on down to Venkman’s for Joe Gransden: Sinatra & Friends! Get some soul with Howard Hewett at City Winery! The Crimson Moon Café gets down with their Boomers Go Wild event!  Folk it up with The Honey Dew Drops and Griffin House at Eddie’s Attic! American Nightmare gets hardcore at the Masquerade!  Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for The Van Ella Bordella! Get criminal and familial with a screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s THE GODFATHER (1972) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Rock out with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

The Fox Theatre presents the RENT 20th Anniversary Tour, through Feb. 28! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Historic Oakland Cemetery offers free guided tours of African American Grounds, throughout Black History Month!

Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema, every Wednesday until March 28!

Learn some history with the Gwinnett Parks Foundation’s Historic Walking Tours every Saturday through April 21!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every firsts Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm! 

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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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.