ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Shake it up in ATLRetro This Week and check out all the shenanigans we’ve found just for you!

Monday, March 12

The Center for Puppetry Arts brings you puppets and science with their Atlanta Science Festival: Puppets + STEM = Science in Motion event! Get weird with a screening of Kool Kat Philip Gelatt’s THEY REMAIN (2018) at The Plaza Theater, through March 15! Folk it up with Keith Harkin at the Red Light Café! 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! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up at Blind Willies! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack as they dish out The Pork Bellys and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, March 13

Get saucy and let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Spring Fling event, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café, featuring Phoenix Midnight and Jadynn Starr! Make your way to the Fox Theatre for their presentation of A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER, running through March 18! Psyche rock it up with MGMT at The Roxy! Battle & Brew Brings you their Call for Art – 90s Art Show event! Or rock out folk-style with Alex Guthrie and Jacks River Band at City Winery! Get countrified with Stacia Watkins and Derrick Dove at Eddie’s Attic! Get your ‘80s new wave MTV synthpop fix with Electric Avenue at MadLife Stage & Studios! Synth-pop it up with Little Dragon at Terminal West! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willies gets the blues with the Redstone Ramblers! 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, March 14

The Star Bar dishes out a night of ‘70s street punk with Dirty Fences, Fast Eddie and Fixed Faces! Catch a screening of John Ford’s classic, THE QUIET MAN (1952) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Rock out with Pop Evil at the Buckhead Theatre! Get the rockin’ Texas blues with Los Lonely Boys and Lisa Morales at City Winery! Get doomed in Hell with a night of SepticFlesh, Dark Funeral, The Antichrist and Prime Mover at the Masquerade! WUSSY MAG presents 7pm and 10pm screenings of Bob Spiers’ SPICE WORLD (1997) at The Plaza Theater! Rock out with Portland’s Soft Kill and Choir Boy at The Earl! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Or blues it up with Blues Hearts 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 and Long Horn! Get down with The Crawdaddy’s at Blind Willies! 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 15

Videodrome and The Plaza Theater kick off their wickedly bizarre Plazadrome Cult Film Series with a screening of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s killer HAUSU (1977) at 9:30pm! Get rocked and old-school with Robin Trower and Eli Cook at Center Stage! Get folksy with Joshua Radin and William Fitzsimmons at City Winery! Sleaze on down to the Clermont Lounge for a night with the Parlyzers, Hot Wives and Piss Shy! Departure pays tribute to Journey at MadLife Stage & Studios! Get some soul with Angie Stone and more at the Variety Playhouse! Get down to The Earl for a night with Ben Trickey & Burnt Sky, W8ing4UFOs and US Prisms! Spend the night with Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Buckhead Theatre! Yee haw it up with Theo Katzman at Eddie’s Attic! Bluegrass it up with The Page Turners and Control Burn at the Red Light Café! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get groovy with The Knotty Boys and some killer island cocktails! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Blind Willies! 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 16

Get rocked with The Zombies at City Winery! Jessica Lea Mayfield dishes out a night of alt-country with T. Hardy Morris at The Earl! Get indie with Charlie Mars at Eddie’s Attic! The High Museum gets jazzy with Paul Stevens during their monthly Friday Jazz event! Night Fever pays tribute to The Bee Gees at MadLife Stage & Studios! Or make your way to the Red Clay Theatre as the Chi-Town Transit Authority pays tribute to Chicago! Get experimental with Deantoni Parks at the Red Light Café! Or cross the pond and make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with The Fab Four! Power pop on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for a night with Space Giants, The SOOGS and The Indicators! Get the rockin’ blues at The Vista Room as Randall Bramblett celebrates 70 years! Rock on down Janis Joplin-style for a night with Pearl & The Kozmic Blues at Venkman’s! Get the rockin’ blues with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willies! Get the blues with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! Courtney Daly & The Daly Grind dish out a night of classic soul 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 17

Get intergalactic as the Atlanta Science Festival hosts Kool Kat Shane Morton, a.k.a. ghost host with the most, Prof. Morte and his Silver Scream Spook Show’s special spooky SCIENCE version at The Plaza Theater with a screening of Jack Arnold’s horror/sci-fi classic IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953) at 1pm and 12am! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho Devilles at Irish Bred Pub in Douglasville! Orchestra Noir presents The Wakanda Fest at the Loft at Castleberry Hill! Spend the night with Tipsy in Chelsea and the Skylarks at Kavarna! Get some rock ‘n’ soul with Kitten Fontaine at Avondale Towne Cinema! Rumble on down to Big Tex in Decatur for a night with Kitty Rose & The Rattlers! Tribute dishes out a night of Allman Brothers favorites at City Winery! Get your Scottish folk fix with Jamie Laval at Crimson Moon Café! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Nameless Nameless (Nirvana tribute), Pretty Please and DeLorean! Funk it up with AJ Ghent and the Buddy O’Reilly Band at Eddie’s Attic! The Highlander rocks out with a night of tributes featuring The Kings of Queens (Ramones), The Cherry Bomb (Joan Jett) and more! Spend the night with Above & Beyond at The Roxy! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get down with Ozomatli at the Variety Playhouse! Jet Black Alley Cat rocks out at Vinyl with Natalie Claro! Catch a screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Jill Rock Jones delivers a musical tribute to Billie Holiday and Nina Simone at Venkman’s! Make your way to the Masquerade for a night with The Expanders! Blind Willies gets down with their St. Patty’s Party! Get down with Albert White and Chickens & Pigs at Northside Tavern! Get the blues with Willy 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 18

You won’t want to miss the Atlanta Science Festival’s celebration of the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus with a screening of James Whale’s BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935), followed by a discussion on science and ethics at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History at 4pm! Get to the rockin’ root of it all with Webb Wilder and Stevie Monce at Eddie’s Attic! Get retro and make your way to 97 Estoria for Georgia Vintage Goods’ Vintage & Handmade Pop-Up, from 12-6pm! Catch a screening of Billy Wilder’s classic, SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! TCM Big Screen Classics celebrates the 60th Anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO (1958) with screenings at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); 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); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! The Buckhead Theatre Celebrates David Bowie! Get your Americana fix with Wyatt Espalin at the Crimson Moon Café! Spend the night with the Noh-wave prog collective Yamantaka/Sonic Titan, CHEW and Shouldies at The Earl! Boogie down with Band X at Johnny’s Hideaway! Spend the night with Yacht Rock Revue UNPLUGGED at Venkman’s! 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

Make your way to Out Front Theatre Company for their performance of BUYER AND CELLAR, running through March 22!

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!

ABBA on down to the Aurora Theatre for their presentation of MAMMA MIA! Running through April 22!

The Horizon Theatre Company presents FREAKY FRIDAY: A NEW MUSICAL, through April 22!

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.