ATLRetro

Monday, June 24

Northside Tavern hosts its weekly Blues Jam featuring blues and southern soul singer Lola Gulley. Enjoy your BBQ with a side of Dry White Toast at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack.

Tuesday, June 25

Experience the original Khan! in STAR TREK 2: THE WRATH OF KHAN at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern,  as the June retro cinema classic series of Classic Summer Blockbusters continues! Kool Kat Calu Cordeira mixes tiki libations during Mai Tai Tahitian Tuesday starting at 9 p.m. at the Dark Horse Tavern. Grab your horn and head over to Twain’s in Decatur for a Joe Gransden jazz jam session. Blues it down with Nathan Nelson & Entertainment Crackers at Northside Tavern. It’s blues Burning Time at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs hosts a weekly Bluegrass & Hootenanny Jam led by Jason Koornick & Hank Weisman. Ursula Undress teaches Beginner’s Burlesque at Studio Burlesque at 8:30 p.m

Wednesday, June 26

Horror fans will want to check out the Troma Film Festival which kicks off today at the Plaza Theatre. Get schooled by two of Atlanta’s burlesque finest, last week’s Kool Kat Katherine Lashe or Talloolah Love in Beginning Burlesque classes at Studio Burlesque. Old enough to feel Retro? It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. Danny “Mudcat” Dudeck brings the Piedmont blues to Northside Tavern, and the blues rain down in a Georgia Flood at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. Greet the day  with an 11:30 a.m. matinee  of STAR TREK 2: THE WRATH OF KHAN in Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Retro Cinema series this week!

Thursday, June 27

The Troma Film Festival grosses out audiences for a second day at the Plaza Theatre. Relax with a cocktail while listening to the groovy island sounds of Lloyd’s Rocksteady Revue at vintage tiki bar, Trader Vic’s. Go to Northside Tavern to hear the classic 50s Chicago-style blues of The Breeze Kings. Get on over to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack to hear the honkytonkin’ blues of  Chickenshack. It’s 80s/90s Retro Video Night with free drinks ’til 10 at The Shelter. The Diesel Calhoun Band take the stage at Red Light Cafe‘s weekly Bluegrass Thursday. If you didn’t get the chance to go to Studio Burlesque this week, you have another chance to try out Beginning Burlesque with Ursula Undress at 6:30 p.m. and enjoy live burlesque in the Performance Track Series at 9:30 p.m. And it’s your last chance to enjoy STAR TREK 2: THE WRATH OF KHAN at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern this week!

Friday, June 28

Country legend Merle Haggard  performs with Jamey Johnson at The Masquerade. The B-52s dance this mess around at The Atlanta Botanical Garden. Comedian Bill Cosby makes you feel like a kid again with his humor at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.The Serenata Band plays Latin jazz, samba and salsa in the Jazz on the Lawn series at Callanwolde. Epitome combines R&B rhythm with a jazz overtone under the dinosaurs at Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX. Jigsaw Johnson deliver down and dirty blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. Danny “Mudcat” Dudeck brings the Piedmont blues to Northside Tavern. Shriek Theatre Movie Night features old-school slasher cult classics FRIDAY THE 13TH and SLEEPAWAY CAMP at DooGallery starting at 8 p.m.

Saturday, June 29

Jeffrey Butzer and the Bicycle Eaters celebrate the release of their wonderfully quirky new album COLLAPSIBLE at the Goat Farm Arts Center. Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) serves up cocktails and modern design at its Mad Men Party, as it bids farewell to its EERO SAARINEN: A REPUTATION FOR INNOVATION which closes on June 30. Presented by Fat Cat Cabaret at Gatsby’s, Roaring ’20s-themed Volstead Nights – A Speakeasy Review  features lots of our favorite things – burlesque, cabaret, comedy, aerial silks, magic, hooping and more, followed by a dance. Special guests include Nashville-based magician John Pyka “Big Daddy Cool,” Atlanta aerial silks performer extraordinaire Persephone Phoenix, and Rebecca “HoopEssence” DeShon, a hula hoop mistress who also has been an ATLRetro Kool Kat of the Week. And Fat Cat Cabaret manager and performer Ruby Le Chatte is this week’s Kool Kat. The Earl. Come join Big Mike Geier and Tongo Hiti for a Polynesian Pirate Party, a family-friendly evening of tiki-inspired tunes at House of the Rock at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. The $10 suggested donation for adults includes libations and pirate-themed grub, and parking is free. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra plays John Lennon at Chastain Park Amphitheatre. Catch one of two shows of Michelle Malone: Banned at Eddie’s Attic.

What’s more Retro than corndogs? A slew of honktonk, roots and rock honor the quintessential carnie treat during The Family CornDog Music Celebration at The Family Dog, presented by AM 1690’s “The CornDog Power Hour” in conjunction with ATLanta and Goin’ South! Productions. Bands start at 3 p.m. and include Radio Birds, The Villain Family, FLAP, Blake Rainey & His Demons, David Marshall Railey, Jake Mason, Midnight Revival and Chickens and Pigs. Come meet  Corndog-eating world champ Dale Boone from The World League of Competitive Eating who will try to defend his record of 20 corndogs in 5 minutes. This special event kicks off the 17th year of of CORNDOGORAMA established in October, 1996 at Dottie’s. Blair Crimmins & the Hookers ragtime it up OTP at Swallow at the Hollow in Roswell. Danny “Mudcat” Dudeck brings the Piedmont blues to at Northside Tavern.  The Stooge Brothers fire up the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. The Yacht Rock Schooner  drops anchor at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre in Marietta. As usual, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, June 30

Today is your last chance to catch EERO SAARINEN: A REPUTATION FOR INNOVATION, a fascinating retrospective on the Finnish-born architect/designer who had such a big influence on modernist/futurist aesthetics at Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA). Cineprov  pokes fun at sci-fi blockbuster INDEPENDENCE DAY at The Plaza Theater. Snake Legs bring on the blues at Fatt Matt’s  Rib Shack. Have a honktonk brunch at Big Tex starting at noon. Get a spoonful of blues courtesy of Uncle Sugar at Northside Tavern. Boston-based Della Mae brings their high-energy roots/blue sound to Eddie’s Attic with special guest Gabriel Kelley.

Ongoing

Johannes Vermeer’s GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING visits The High Museum of Art, along with other Dutch masterpieces, through Sept. 29.

EXTREME MAMMALS from sabertooth tiger skulls and wooly mammoth fur to contemporary creatures such as the duck-billed platypus invade Fernbank Museum of Natural History through August 18.

Learn about  a different side to the third American president and Constitution author in the Really Retro special exhibition Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: How the Word is Passed Down at the Atlanta History Center through July 7.

Every Tuesday night, Wednesday morning and Thursday night is Retro Cinema at Movie Tavern.