ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s shakin’ in ATLRetro This Week!

Monday, May 14

The Plaza Theater presents a screening of Samuel D. Pollard’s documentary, MAYNARD (2017) about the life and times of the first black mayor of Atlanta, through May 15! Get horrorfied and make your way to SCADShow for a screening of Jordan Peele’s Academy Award-winning film GET OUT (2017), preceded by a conversation with Gil Robertson, President of the African American Film Critics Association at 6pm! Rock out with Myles Kennedy at City Winery! Dragondeer gets the blues at the Masquerade with Foster and Ghost Moths! It’s a night of poppy classic R&B with Kimbra and Son Lux at Terminal West! Jazz it up with the Emerald Empire Band at The Vista Room! 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!” Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 15

Spend the night with Clay Harper (The Coolies) at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get a cappella with Naturally 7 at City Winery! Get rocked with Jonathan Davis at the Variety Playhouse! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents Leonard Bernstein’s 1956 Broadway show CANDIDE! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Bill Sheffield and Brandon Reeves get down at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 16

Spend the night with Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul at Center Stage! The Chi-Town Transit Authority pays tribute to Chicago at City Winery! Street punk it up at The Star Bar with Dogs in the Fight, Bottle of Smoke and The Breaks! Rock out with Primus and Mastadon at the Fox Theatre! Get jazzy withThe Filthy Six at the Elliott Street Pub! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Billy Wilder’s SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Or run for the hills with a screening of Robert Wise’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get sleazy and blues on down to The Earl for a night with Gunpowder Gray, Kool Kat Liza Colby and The Tip! Spend the night with The Rogue Tones and Cody Hagler at Eddie’s Attic! Catch a double feature of Danny DeVito’s MATILDA (1996) and Dario Argento’s SUSPIRIA (1977) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event at 10pm! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents Leonard Bernstein’s 1956 Broadway show CANDIDE! Spend the night with Liza Minnelli with a screening of Bob Fosse’s CABARET (1972) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:15pm! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down with their Blues Jam! Get the blues with Andrew Black at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! 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, May 17

Videodrome and The Plaza Theater sci-fi it up and get intergalactic with their Plazadrome Cult Film Series screening of Tobe Hooper’s LIFEFORCE (1985) at 10pm! Cabbagetown brings you a taste of the Redneck Underground with their Cabbagetown Concert Series #3 featuring Rodeo Twister and Sweatin’ Bullets! Jazz it up with Gina Breedlove at City Winery! Bluegrass it up with David Bromburg at Eddie’s Attic! Get heavy metal-style with Anvil, Shadowside and Metalfier at The Earl! Or rock out with Resident One, Lost in Society and Teen Agers at The Star Bar! Get filled with the Americana Soul of Noah Guthrie and the rockin’ blues with Joe Robinson at Venkman’s! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents Leonard Bernstein’s 1956 Broadway show CANDIDE! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and 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, May 18

Rev on down to Dixie Tavern in Marietta for a night with Hillbilly Casino and The Hi-Jivers! Neighbor Lady dishes out some classic country at 529! Get rootsy with Delta Moon at Eddie’s Attic! Jazz it up with Che Marshall at the High Museum! Broadway Duchess pays tribute to Steely Dan at MadLife Stage & Studios! Rock out with New Found Glory, Bayside, The Movielife, and William Ryan Key at the Masquerade! Dead Affect pay tribute to The Grateful Dead at Matilda’s Cottage in Alpharetta! Rock on down to The Star Bar for a night with Highriders, Illegal Drugs and Skin Jobs! Get psychedelic with Dr. Dog at the Tabernacle! Lo-fi it up with Guided By Voices at Terminal West! Get funky with Tank & The Bangas at the Variety Playhouse! It’s a night of ‘80s MTV-era synth pop with Electric Avenue at The Vista Room! Make your way to Venkman’s for their Heartbreak Hits of the ‘90s! BJ Wilbanks dishes out a night of Delta blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get bluesy with Grant Green, Jr. and the Cody Matlock Band at Northside Tavern! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Spend the night with Harvey Brindell 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, May 19

Get smooth yacht rock style and spend the night with Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! Stomp on down to The Star Bar for a night with Blood on the Harp, Soviet Shiksa, JesusHoney, and Damned Rivers! Make you way to the 16th Annual Kirkwood Spring Fling located at Branham Park, from 10am – 8pm! Start the day with a 5k, an artist’s market, vendors, tasty food and live tunes with Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers, Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley with The Southern Ska Syndicate, the Georgia Mountain String Band, Lola Cole, The Mar-Tans, Mausiki Scales & The Common Ground Collective, Troop Band, the Sea Lions and more! Or get your Tim Burton love on with Markster Con’s Atlanta Burton Bar Crawl beginning at 4pm at Diesel Filling Station! Sweet Lu Olutosin presents Nat King Cole: The Man, The Music, The Legacy at the Red Light Café! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents Leonard Bernstein’s 1956 Broadway show CANDIDE! Arts at Oakland presents Golden Hour! Oi Oi Oi on down to The Highlander for a night with Antagonizers ATL, DDC, Bastard Brigade, Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley with The Southern Ska Syndicate and Hang! Bluegrass it up with Chris Thile at the Fox Theatre! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at Guston’s Grill in Kennesaw! Or grunge on down to Amsterdam Atlanta for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s 90s Alternative Music Video Dance Party! Folk it up with Mason Jennings at City Winery! Garage rock it up with Tiger! Tiger! at Kavarna! Spend the night with Radford Windham at the Crimson Moon Café! Get retro-rocked with Tony Levitas & The Levitations at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or get smooth with Yacht Rock Schooner at MadLife Stage & Studios! Sweden’s Hammerfall rocks out with Flotsam and Jetsam at the Masquerade! The Northside Tavern gets the blues with Stoney Brooks, The Cazanovas, Eddie Tigner, Albert White, Bill Sheffield, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, The Vipers, the Magic Fred Blues Band and more! Forever Abbey Road pays tribute to The Beatles at the Red Clay Theatre! Voodoo Visionary funks it up at Terminal West! Get countrified with Truckstop Confidential and Russ Still & The Moonshiners at Tin Roof Cantina! Tribute dishes out a night of the Allman Brothers at The Vista Room! Get your ‘80s fix with ‘80s R Us at Wild Wing Café in Alpharetta! Venkman’s screens Disney’s THE LITTLE MERMAID (1989) during their Princess Brunch! The Jason Pastras Trio funks it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Spend the night with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 20

Catch a screening of William A. Wellman’s classic silent film WINGS (1927) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 3pm! Get old-timey and get down with Willie Nelson & Family, with Alison Krauss at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! Catch Studio Ghibli Fest 2018’s screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s PORCO ROSSO (1992) at theatres across Atlanta at 12:55pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Funk it up with New Orleans Suspects at City Winery! Diane Durrett & Soul Suga dish out some rockin’ soul at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out with Hank & Cupcakes at Park Tavern! Get funky with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents Leonard Bernstein’s 1956 Broadway show CANDIDE! Make your way to the Masquerade for a night with Pussy Riot! “As if” your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Amy Heckerling’s CLUELESS (1995) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get the rockin’ blues with Garrett Collins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents Leonard Bernstein’s 1956 Broadway show CANDIDE, through May 20! (LAST CHANCE!)

Noni’s Bar & Deli hosts their Cinema Paradiso film event, screening two films beginning at 10pm, through May 31!

Get really retro at the Georgia Renaissance Festival, jousting through June 4!

Emory Arts presents their exhibition The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation & the Counterculture, 1940-1975 in the Schatten Gallery, through June 17!

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.