ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Shake a tail feather in ATLRetro This Week!

Monday, September 3

Boogie down to Park Tavern for WRFG’s 33rd Annual Labor Day Blues BBQ featuring live tunes by John Nemeth, Jontavious Willis, Dr. Dixon, Mudbone Turner’s Blues Band and more! Rock out with X and Netherlands at the Masquerade! Bewitch it up in the land of Harry Potter at Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville) with screenings of Alfonso Cuaron’s HARRY POTTER & THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (2004) at 12:30pm, followed by a screening of Mike Newell’s HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE (2005) at 3:45pm! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! every Monday! Get scandalous and catch a screening of Matt Tyrnauer’s SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD (2017) at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, through Sept. 6 (check out our Retro Review here)! Grab your Precious and make your way to Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18 and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford) for Peter Jackson’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY [FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001); THE TWO TOWERS (2002); and THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003)], screening through Sept. 6! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! 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 as they dish out The Pork Bellys and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, September 4

Cash in Black pays tribute to Johnny Cash at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get rocked with The Yawpers, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and the Willow Walkers at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Spend the night with Sonia Leigh at Eddie’s Attic! 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! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, September 5

Emory Cinematheque kicks off their is new killer series, “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” with a  screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s THE LODGER (1927) at 7:30pm, with live musical accompaniment by film score composer Donald Sosin! Or get apocalyptic with a screening of George Miller’s MAD MAX 2: ROAD WARRIOR (1982) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21! Center Stage rocks out with PROG POWER USA XIX featuring Ross The Boss (The Dictators/Manowar), Gloryhammer, Nocturnal Rites and Voyager! Get the rockin’ blues with Joanne Shaw Taylor and JD Simo at City Winery! Spend the night with Chinua Hawk at Eddie’s Attic! Get psychedelic with Bazo Grey, Whiskey Tango and Tendril at The Star Bar! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of George Lucas’ AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Rock on down to The Highlander for their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get rocked with The Wild Hares at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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 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, September 6

Cineprov dishes out a night of MST3K-style laughs at The Plaza Theater as they screen/riff John Badham’s WARGAMES (1983) at 7:30pm! The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival presents E.A. Dupont’s THE ANCIENT LAW (1923) with a live musical score at the Woodruff Arts Center, at 7:30pm! Get rocked in Hell with Gene Loves Jezebel With Jay Ashton at the Masquerade! Spend the night with Liz Phair and Speedy Ortiz at the Variety Playhouse! Boogie on down to Firefly Studio Decatur for Down South Swing’s Level 1: 6 Count swing dance class! Get rocked with Forever ’78 at Venkman’s! Catch a screening of Satoshi Kon’s PERFECT BLUE (1997) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth); and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! Rock out PROG POWER USA XIX-style with Angra, Doro, Oceans of Slumber and Cellar Darling at Center Stage! Spend the night with Holly Bowling at City Winery! Funk it up with the Atlanta Funk Society at the High Museum! Get folksy with the Hope Griffin Duo and Molly Ruth at the Red Light Café! Or get countrified with the Randy Rogers Band and Parker McCollum at Terminal West! Get some soul with Liniker e os Caramelows at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, September 7

Get rocked with fifty years of MC5, with Man or Astro-Man? at the Variety Playhouse! Stomp on down to The Star Bar and raise a ruckus with the Anders Thomsen Trio, the Moonlight Mechanics and JJ & The Hustlers! Justin Howl along with the Atlanta Funk Society dish out a night of Muddy Waters & Other Blues Favorites at Venkman’s! Get garage rocked at The Earl with the Subsonics, the All Night Drug Prowling Wolves, Vincas, Spodee Boy, Fletcher C. Johnson and Country Westerns! Get your ragtime Dixieland fix with Trey Dahl & The Jugtime Ragband at the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre! Or rock on down to the Drunken Unicorn for a night with the Illiterates, The Vaginas, Paralyzer and SEX FARM! Spook on down to The Highlander as Nocturnia celebrates 25 years of darkness! Get down with Ouiser Boudreaux with The Earl Smith Strand Theatre’s screening of Herbert Ross’ STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989) at 8pm! Center Stage continues to rock out during PROG POWER USA XIX with Sons of Apollo, Redemption, Labyrinth, Bloodhound, Persefone and Manimal! Americana it up with Betsy Franck at the Crimson Moon Café! Get down with Jive Revival at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Jason Eady dishes out some Texas country tunes at Eddie’s Attic! Get geeky during The Fandom Nerdlesque’s CON CRASH event at the Red Light Café! Cross the pond to Smith’s Olde Bar for Abbey Road Live! Runaway Gin pays tribute to Phish at Terminal West! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins shakes it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at the Northside Tavern! 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, September 8

Get your rockin’ roots fix with Kool Kats Gringo Star during their album release party, with Tedo Stone and Chick Wallace at The Earl! Boogie down with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during his ‘80s New Wave Music Video Dance Party at Amsterdam Atlanta! Get some soul with Average White Band at City Winery! The Rainmen dish out some ‘60s and ‘70s rock ‘n’ roll at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get your classic rock fix with Five Eight and Adam Hood at Eddie’s Attic! Labyrinth rocks out at The Loft! Step into the Big Easy upstairs with the Rebirth Brass Band at Smith’s Olde Bar, or rock out with Space Giants downstairs! Get some rockin’ soul with Kitten Fontaine at Avondale Towne Cinema! Catch a screening of Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) at Venkman’s at 10am, later followed by The Coonhounds’ tribute to Tom Petty, and then Saved by the Band! Make your way to the Waffle House Museum for their 10th Anniversary Party featuring country legend and guest of honor, “Whisperin’ Bill” Anderson! Get rocked with more prog goodness during PROG POWER USA XIX at Center Stage with Tarja Tarunen, Alestorm, VUUR, Soen, Eclipse and Triosphere! Get the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get down with Ross Pead at the Northside Tavern! 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, September 9

Get your classic silent film fix at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre’s Silent Comedy Shorts event, featuring live organ accompaniment at 3pm! Jazz it up with Trio Deluxe during Venkman’s Bottomless Mimosa Brunch! Bewitch it up in the land of Harry Potter at theatres across Atlanta with a screening of Alfonso Cuaron’s HARRY POTTER & THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (2004) at 2pm, followed by a screening of Mike Newell’s HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE (2005) at 6pm [AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Phipps Plaza 14]! It’s a night of Texas country western at City Winery with Robert Earl Keen! Make your way to the Cobb Energy Center for a night with Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and Farhan Akhtar! Jason Eady dishes out some Texas country tunes at the Crimson Moon Café! Mandi Strachota gets the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Bluegrass it up with Blood on the Harp at Eddie’s Attic! TCM Big Screen Classics brings Robert Wise’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) to theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for 10,000 Pontiacs! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Rodger & Hammerstein’s THE KING AND I (1956) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first 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!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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.